a16z Podcast: Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis
"We throw around words like 'crisis' very easily, but this is a global crisis, and it is of historic proportions," says current U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken about the refugee crisis (fo...
16 Dec 201634min
a16z Podcast: Produce or Perish! (What We Eat)
Nature is the ultimate complex system, of course — but with today’s technology, it’s now provided us with an “incredible toolkit” of different molecules that material scientists can treat like Legos t...
14 Dec 201635min
a16z Podcast: The Internet Is Your Movement
Clearly disruption plays out not just in business but also in politics. Whether it was the Scottish national party, recent election campaigns, or local school boards, people grew and organized communi...
9 Dec 201622min
a16z Podcast: Health Data -- A Feedback Loop for Humanity
"We live in a world where we use millions of variables to predict which ad you're going to click on. Whether or not you deserve to get a loan. What movie you might watch next. But when it comes to our...
5 Dec 201630min
a16z Podcast: Knowledge Builds Technology and Technology Builds Knowledge -- with Joel Mokyr
The Industrial Revolution (and period between 1500-1700) was an unprecedented age of technology and economic progress — not unlike today’s, in fact — where we took “quantum leaps” forward in tech by t...
27 Nov 201636min
a16z Podcast: Drones for Delivery in Healthcare
“If we have instant delivery for our burgers,” says Zipline CEO and co-founder Keller Rinaudo, “we should have it for our medicine.” So while some people debate whether drone delivery for burritos, b...
23 Nov 201621min
a16z Podcast: Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'
You’ve heard the numbers or some statistic like this: By the year 2050, we’ll need to feed 9.7 billion humans on the planet. Our current production and meat-making methods -- growing crops to feed to ...
23 Nov 201625min
a16z Podcast: The Business of Creativity -- Pixar CFO, IPO, and Beyond!
You've heard a version of this story before: Steve Jobs calls some executive out of the blue to come work for him. Only this time the story turns out great ... and the company wasn't Apple. This episo...
9 Nov 201629min
