a16z Podcast: Apple Gets Its Music Streaming and Gives News Another Try
Apple’s annual developer conference is cranking away in San Francisco, and a16z’s Benedict Evans examines the latest from the world’s most valuable company in this segment of the pod. Software is the ...
10 Juni 201526min
a16z Podcast: Apple Watch -- Looking for New Things Done in New Ways
Is the Apple Watch breaking new technological ground, or just another accessory for your iPhone? a16z’s Benedict Evans and Board Partner Steven Sinofsky describe their experience with the Apple Watch ...
5 Juni 201522min
The Cool Stuff Only Happens at Scale
Distributed computing frameworks like Hadoop and Spark have enabled processing of "big data" sets -- but that's not enough for modeling surprise/rare "black swan" or complex events. Just think of scen...
5 Juni 201521min
a16z Podcast: Tech Trends Changing Gaming
with Justin Bailey (@justinbailey12d), Herman Narula (@hermannarula), Tim Schafer (@timoflegend) and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) We know that the gaming industry -- in some ways like but in other ways unli...
4 Juni 201530min
a16z Podcast: For Google, Android is a Tactic and Cloud is a Strategy
Google is a vast machine learning company. If you think about it in those terms, says Benedict Evans, every product and feature Google builds is an expression of its machine learning expertise -- or a...
30 Maj 201528min
a16z Podcast: The Future of Entertainment and What David Petraeus and the Olsen Twins Can Teach Us
If there’s one business on planet earth that makes Silicon Valley look sober and level-headed it’s Hollywood, says Marc Andreessen. Hollywood and Silicon Valley meet in this segment of the pod which f...
25 Maj 201519min
a16z Podcast: Finding and Hiring for (Expectations) Fit on Both Sides
"Fit" is this squishy idea that a person, role, and company are a perfect match. But how do you tease out expectations and motivations from both sides of the hiring equation -- candidates and founding...
22 Maj 201528min
a16z Podcast: Hiring is Hard -- Here’s How to Do it Right
LinkedIn may seem like a gift both for job seekers and hirers, but it's not enough. When (and how) should your company develop a process to attract -- and close -- the best people? In this segment of ...
21 Maj 201520min
