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a16z Podcast

The a16z Podcast is the go-to place for discussions about innovation as technology changes the way we all work, live, and play. The show aims to help make sense of it all: for builders, for the tech curious, for anyone seeking to understand the future.

We do this through in-depth yet accessible conversations with the best technology experts: startup founders, top company leaders, researchers and academics, and renowned book authors.

The a16z Podcast regularly tops industry charts and has been featured on countless best-of lists. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts.

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Featured Episodes

Textiles as Tech, Science, Math, Culture, or Civilization

Virginia Postrel and Sonal Chokshi

AI, WebRTC, Crypto, and Full Stack Startups

Elad Gil, Sep Kamvar, and Chris Dixon

Feedback Loops — Company Culture, Change, and DevOps

Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Sonal Chokshi
Latest Episodes

Do Revenue and Margins Still Matter in AI?

David George, and Harry Stebbings

The Crime Crisis In America and How Technology Fixes It

Erik Torenberg, Garrett Langley, and Ben Horowitz

Ryo Lu (Cursor): AI Turns Designers to Developers

Jennifer Li, Ryo Lu, and Erik Torenberg

AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift

Benedict Evans, and Erik Torenberg

How the Best CEOs Delegate

Jonathan Swanson, and Erik Torenberg

The $3 Trillion AI Coding Opportunity

Yoko Li, and Guido Appenzeller

The 80-Year Bet: Why Naveen Rao Is Rebuilding the Computer from Scratch

Matt Bornstein, and Naveen Rao

What Comes After ChatGPT? The Mother of ImageNet Predicts The Future

Justin Johnson, Alessio Fanelli, Swyx, and Fei-Fei Li

How AI Created the Fastest Product Cycle in History

Ollie Forsyth, and Anish Acharya

Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)

David Haber, Erik Torenberg, and Alex Rampell

How To Lead | Ben Horowitz on My First Million

Shaan Puri, Sam Parr, and Ben Horowitz

The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About

Russ Fradin, and Alex Rampell

How OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning

Sherwin Wu, and Martin Casado

Ben Horowitz: Why Open Source AI Will Determine America's Future

Costis Maglaras, and Ben Horowitz

The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm

Marc Andreessen, Margit Wennmachers, and Ben Horowitz

How Marc Andreessen Actually Uses AI

Mark Halperin, and Marc Andreessen

The 2045 Superintelligence Timeline: Epoch AI’s Data-Driven Forecast

Yafah Edelman, David Owen, Erik Torenberg, and Marco Mascorro

Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner

Alex Rampell, Vlad Tenev, and Erik Torenberg

Can Community Banks Survive the Next SVB? | ModernFi CEO Paolo Bertolotti and Former Comptroller Gene Ludwig

Gene Ludwig, Paolo Bertolotti, and David Haber

Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We’re Fixing It)

Erik Torenberg, David Ulevitch, Katherine Boyle, Marc Andreessen, and Ben Horowitz

Emmett Shear on Building AI That Actually Cares: Beyond Control and Steering

Emmett Shear, Séb Krier, and Erik Torenberg

Can America Win The AI Biotech Race Against China? | Lada Nuzhna & Elliot Hershberg

Lada Nuzhna, and Elliot Hershberg

The Frontier of Spatial Intelligence with Fei-Fei Li

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Rocket Companies CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis

Varun Krishna, Alex Rampell, and Erik Torenberg

Grant Lee: Building Gamma’s AI Presentation Company to 100 Million Users

Grant Lee, Sarah Wang, and Olivia Moore

Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI

Michael Truell, and Martin Casado

a16z's State of Crypto: The $4 Trillion Milestone and What's Next'

Eddy Lazzarin, Robert Hackett, and Daren Matsuoka

Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?

Adam D’Angelo, Amjad Masad, and Erik Torenberg

Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan: How AI Will Cure All Disease

Dr. Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg, Vineeta Agarwala, Ben Horowitz, and Erik Torenberg

Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software

Eugenia Kuyda, Anish Acharya, and Erik Torenberg

ElevenLabs CEO: Why Voice is the Next AI Interface

Mati Staniszewski, and Jennifer Li

David Sacks: AI, Crypto, China, Dems, and SF

David Sacks, Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, and Erik Torenberg

Why Speed, Not Size, Will Define the Next War

Gary Steele, and Horacio Rozanski

Beyond Chatbots: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on AI's Future

Ben Horowitz, Erik Torenberg, and Marc Andreessen

"Is there an AI bubble?” Gavin Baker and David George

Gavin Baker, and David George

Building the Real-World Infrastructure for AI, with Google, Cisco & a16z

Amin Vahdat, Jeetu Patel, and Raghu Raghuram

Google DeepMind Developers: How Nano Banana Was Made

Oliver Wang, Nicole Brichtova, Guido Appenzeller, and Yoko Li

Raghu Raghuram: AI, Robotics, and the Rebirth of Infrastructure

David George, Raghu Raghuram, Ben Horowitz, and Martin Casado

Marc Andreessen: How Movies Explain America

Marc Andreeseen, Erik Torenberg, and Katherine Boyle

Marc Andreessen and Amjad Masad: English As the New Programming Language

Amjad Masad, Marc Andreessen, and Erik Torenberg

Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code

Kevin Rose, and Anish Acharya

How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure

Augusto Marietti, and Martin Casado

Reid Hoffman on AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Humanity

Reid Hoffman, Alex Rampell, and Erik Torenberg

Marc Andreessen on the State of Film and Hollywood

Marc Andreessen, Katherine Boyle, and Erik Torenberg

Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE

Keith Rabois, Alex Rampell, and Erik Torenberg

Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a Billion-Dollar Business

Erik Torenberg, Ali Ghodsi, and Ben Horowitz

Is AI Slowing Down? Nathan Labenz Says We're Asking the Wrong Question

Nathan Labenz, and Erik Torenberg

Columbia CS Professor: Why LLMs Can’t Discover New Science

Vishal Misra, Martin Casado, and Erik Torenberg

Monitoring the Situation #3: Who Is Nick Land?

Zach Dell, Katherine Boyle, Eddy Lazzarin, Erin Price-Wright, and Erik Torenberg

Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire

Sam Altman, Ben Horowitz, and Erik Torenberg

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