Building Products for Power Users
As more digital natives have entered the workplace, they have brought with them the expectation that their software should both be a joy to use and allow them to be power users. That is, users who con...
24 Juni 202023min
Journal Club: Building a Better Chloroplast
In this episode of the a16z bio Journal Club, bio deal team partner Judy Savitskaya and Lauren Richardson discuss research that aims to enhance the efficiency of photosynthesis and carbon fixation. Th...
21 Juni 202020min
Real Estate in a Pandemic: Renters and Landlords (Part 2)
This episode is the second in a two-part series that examines the pandemic’s impact on real estate. Part 1 focused on prospective home buyers, sellers, and existing homeowners. This episode, Part 2, a...
17 Juni 202031min
Real Estate in a Pandemic: Homeowners and Buyers (Part 1)
This episode is the first in a two-part series that examines the pandemic’s impact on real estate. Part 1 focuses on prospective home buyers, sellers, and existing homeowners. Part 2 (streaming on 6/1...
16 Juni 202024min
World’s Largest Supercomputer v. Biology’s Toughest Problems
Proteins are molecular machines that must first assemble themselves to function. But how does a protein, which is produced as a linear string of amino acids, assume the complex three-dimensional struc...
14 Juni 202032min
The Return of Home-based Healthcare
The way we deliver healthcare has changed enormously over the last century, shifting from house calls by doctors to your own to institutionalized settings like hospitals and clinics. But now that tren...
12 Juni 202026min
The Future of Primary Care
Primary care was meant to be the front door to the healthcare system, but in some ways never set up for success to begin with. We need a new operating system for primary care—one with a different, dee...
11 Juni 202030min
All about Section 230: What It Does and Doesn't Say
We cover the tricky but important topic of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The 1996 law has been in the headlines a lot recently, in the context of Twitter, the president’s tweets, and ...
9 Juni 202040min
