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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

Building Substack: Reinventing Culture through Subscriptions

Chris Best, and Andrew Chen

Crypto Trends for 2025: Stablecoins, App Stores, UX, and More

Sam Broner, Joachim Neu, Daren Matsuoka, Steph Smith, Sonal Chokshi, Robert Hackett, Maggie Hsu, and Chris Lyons

Super Staffing Healthcare, Codifying Compliance, & Scaling Services

Steph Smith, Julie Yoo, Angela Strange, and Joe Schmidt

The Race for AI—Search, National Infrastructure, & On-Device AI

Anjney Midha, Jennifer Li, and Alex Immerman

Jobs of the Future, Harnessing Earth Observation, & Gaming Tech Advances

Erin Price-Wright, Millen Anand, Troy Kirwin, and Steph Smith

Scaling Shopify: Tobias Lütke and Ben Horowitz on Building a Global Giant

Tobias Lütke, and Ben Horowitz

How AI is Transforming Labor Markets

angela strange, david haber, steph smith, and Alex Rampell

Fixing Education in America: What's Stopping Us?

Steph Smith, Anna Edwards, Anurupa Ganguly, Chris Bennett, and Jeff Jordan

Prediction Markets and Beyond

Sonal Chokshi, Alex Taborrok, and Scott Duke Kominers

Death of a Salesforce: Why AI Will Transform Sales

Steph Smith, Joe Schmidt, and Marc Andrusko

The Longevity Imperative: Redefining the Way We Age

Steph Smith, Vijay Pande, and Andrew Scott

Rebuilding America's Industrial Backbone

Steph Smith, Chris Power, Jordan Black, Bryon Hargis, and Oliver Hsu

Autonomy Across Air, Land, and Sea

Macario Namie, Vijaysai Patnaik, Erin Price-Wright, and Peter Bowman-Davis

State of Crypto 2024: Builder Energy, U.S. Election, Stablecoins, AI, More

Robert Hackett, Eddy Lazzarin, and Daren Matsuoka

Tesla's Road Ahead: The Bitter Lesson in Robotics

Steph Smith, Anjney Midha, and Erin Price-Wright

The Story of Apple Pay with Jennifer Bailey

Jennifer Bailey, Steph Smith, and Alex Rampell

Building a Thriving AI Ecosystem with Lisa Su

Lisa Su, and Bob Swan

The Deepfake Dilemma: The Technology, Policy, and Economy

Vijay Balasubramaniyan, and Martin Casado

A Big Week in Tech: NotebookLM, OpenAI’s Speech API, & Custom Audio

Anish Acharya, olivia moore, Steph Smith, and Bryan Kim

From Swipe to Scale: How Tinder Became #1

Sean Rad, and Andrew Chen

Human Data is Key to AI: Alex Wang from Scale AI

Steph Smith, Sarah Wang, David George, and Alexandr Wang

The Frontier of Spatial Intelligence with Fei-Fei Li

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Apple’s Big Reveals, OpenAI’s Multi-Step Models, and Firefly Does Video

Steph Smith, Justine Moore, and Olivia Moore

Grand Challenges in Healthcare AI

Steph Smith, Vijay Pande, and Julie Yoo

Governing democracy, the internet, and boardrooms

Noah Feldman, Andrew Hall, and Robert Hackett

It’s Time to Build in Healthcare

Steph Smith, Daisy Wolf, and Vijay Pande

Latin America: A Tech Powerhouse?

Steph Smith, Dileep Thazhmon, Santiago Suarez, Gabriel Vasquez, and Angela Strange

The SSN Breach: What Now?

Steph Smith, Naftali Harris, and Joel de la Garza

Building Innovation Hubs: The UK & Beyond

Steph Smith, Sonal Chokshi, and Matt Clifford

The Olympics of Talent: France's Tech Boom

Antoine Marti, Roxanne Varza, and Bryan Kim

Building the World's Most Trusted Driver

steph smith, Sarah Wang, David George, and Dimitri Dolgov

From AI to Instant Replay: The Technology Behind the Olympics

Charlie Ebersol, and steph smith

When AI Meets Art

Anish Acharya, Justine Moore, Ammaar Reshi, Justin Maier, Maxfield Hulker, Diego Rodriguez, Victor Perez, Mohammad Norouzi, Conor Durkan, Hang Chu, and Steph Smith

Founders Playbook: Lessons from Riot, Discord, & More

Steph Smith, Steven Snow, Michael Chow, Eros Resmini, Jonathan Lai, and Andrew Chen

Transitioning From Gymnast to Investor with Aly Raisman

Aly Raisman, Daisy Wolf, and Julie Yoo

Live at Tech Week: Delivering AI Products to Millions

Steph Smith, Gaurav Misra, Carles Reina, and Laura Burkhauser

Marc Andreessen on Building Netscape & the Birth of the Browser

Steph Smith, Marc Andreessen, and Ben Horowitz

The Art of Technology, The Technology of Art

Steph Smith, Sonal Chokshi, and Simon Denny

Cybersecurity's Past, Present, and AI-Driven Future

Andrej Safundzic, Kevin Tian, Joel de la Garza, Feross Aboukhadijeh, and Travis McPeak

The Science and Supply of GLP-1s

Steph Smith, Brooke Boyarsky Pratt, and Vineeta Agarwala

The State of AI with Marc & Ben

Steph Smith, Marc Andreessen, and Ben Horowitz

Predicting Revenue in Usage-based Pricing

Dan Burrill, Travis Ferber, and Mark Regan

California's Senate Bill 1047: What You Need to Know

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The GenAI 100: The Apps that Stick

Steph Smith, Olivia Moore, and Bryan Kim

Finding a Single Source of AI Truth With Marty Chavez From Sixth Street

Marty Chavez, Steph Smith, and David Haber

A Big Week in AI: GPT-4o & Gemini Find Their Voice

Steph Smith, Bryan Kim, and Justine Moore

Remaking the UI for AI

Anjney Midha, Derrick Harris, and Steph Smith

How Discord Became a Developer Platform

Steph Smith, jason citron, and Anjney Midha

Securing the Black Box: OpenAI, Anthropic, and GDM Discuss

Jason Clinton, Vijay Bolina, Matt Knight, and Joel de la Garza

Can AI Advance Science? DeepMind's VP of Science Weighs In

Pushmeet Kohli, Steph Smith, and Vijay Pande

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