a16z Podcast: From Data Warehouses to Data Lakes
From the silver age of on-prem software companies like SAP and Siebel Systems to the golden age of enterprise software-as-a-service, we're now seeing an explosion of data. All types, all sizes, and al...
22 Sep 201628min
a16z Podcast: Welcome to the New Era of Commerce
Just as "social networking" is a bland term that doesn't really capture the layers of what happens underneath (and on top of) social networking platforms, "crowdfunding" is a broader phenomenon than w...
18 Sep 201627min
a16z Podcast: Apple and the Case of Invisible But Audible Innovation
"Apple isn't just a tech company; it's a tastemaker." Remember the iconic ads of dancing silhouettes in black, with only the headphone wires visible in white? They were a critical part of the larger b...
13 Sep 201633min
a16z Podcast: Sleep!
Sleep, productivity, and creatively are intimately linked, for better and for worse. And "we are living under a collective delusion that burnout is the way to succeed," observes Arianna Huffington, au...
6 Sep 201628min
a16z Podcast: All About Microservices
"Incremental change may be good theory, but in practice you have to have a big enough stick to hit everybody with to make everything move at once". So shares Adrian Cockcroft, who helped lead Netflix'...
31 Aug 201627min
a16z Podcast: It's Complicated
For better or worse, most of the computing systems that run much of our lives (whether invisibly or visibly) have become increasingly complex -- they're not fully engineered; they're almost grown. And...
30 Aug 201618min
a16z Podcast: Ethereum, App Coins, and Beyond
Bitcoin quickly made its way from a whitepaper to a production network, which is pretty amazing when you think about it. But its scripting/ programming language was initially, intentionally, limited ...
28 Aug 201650min
a16z Podcast: Pricing Free
Now that we know to price and plan early, price high -- especially for category-creating or "pre-chasm" businesses -- how do we handle freemium models? While free to premium is a great way to get bott...
19 Aug 201632min
