The Fintech Opportunity for Students and Gen Z
This week, student loans are back in the news, with the administration's announcement of a plan to forgive student loan debt for certain kinds of borrowers. Outside of the specific policies, though, s...
26 Aug 202230min
How to Make Better Decisions
Can you get better at decision-making with practice? Many founders, investors, and builders must make many critical decisions, big and small, every day, and improving the quality of your decision-maki...
19 Aug 202245min
Learning from Open Source Communities
What can we learn from the evolution of open source communities and how might they be applied to online communities and the creator economy today? Author Nadia Asparouhova joins host Sonal Choksi to t...
11 Aug 202247min
The Art and Science of Moderating Discussions
Whether it’s moderating a live panel discussion, managing your (virtual) All Hands meeting, or even guiding a cross-functional team to a decision in an important meeting, mastering the art of helping ...
4 Aug 20221h 3min
Tiktok's Algorithm and Creativity Network Effects
What does the success of TikTok's algorithmically-driven product tell us about the future of creators and the creator economy, product design, and innovation within video?In this cross-over archive ep...
27 Juli 202238min
From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
In this episode from December 2018, Hennessy, currently the chairman of Alphabet as well as Turing Award-winning computer scientist, joins a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen, a16z general partner Martin ...
21 Juli 202255min
Crisis Communications 101
In this hallway-style conversation with a16z's Margit Wennmachers, longtime operating partner for Marketing, and Kim Milosevich, CMO for a16z crypto, open up the black box of crisis communications wit...
13 Juli 202234min
All About Synthetic Biology
Over the last 20 years, the idea of “designing biology” has gone from science fiction to just science, as the field of synthetic biology has exploded, with applications from therapeutics to manufactur...
6 Juli 202236min
