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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

Marc Andreessen on the State of Film and Hollywood

Erik Torenberg, Katherine Boyle, and Marc Andreessen

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

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

Sam Altman, Erik Torenberg, and Ben Horowitz

How to Build a Real Estate Marketplace - Kaz Nejatian, Opendoor CEO

Kaz Nejatian, and Alex Rampell

Can the US Beat China’s Engineering State?

Dan Wang, and Steven Sinofsky

Monitoring the Situation #2: Alana Newhouse

Alana Newhouse, Erik Torenberg, and Katherine Boyle

Software is Eating Labor

Alex Rampell

The Ben & Marc Show: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?

Marc Andreessen, Erik Torenberg, Ben Horowitz, Chris Power, and Brian Schimpf

Cheeky Pint: Marc Andreessen, John Collison & Charlie Songhurst on Tech’s Big Questions

John Collison, Charlie Songhurst, and Marc Andreessen

Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture

Liam Fedus, Ekin Dogus Cubuk, Periodic Labs, and Anjney Midha

Meta CMO: How Advertising Works Under the Hood

Alex Schultz, and Antonio García Martínez

The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1

Eddie Lazzarin, Katherine Boyle, and Erik Torenberg

From Vibe Coding to Vibe Researching: OpenAI’s Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki

Jakub Pachocki, Mark Chen, Sarah Wang, and Anjney Midha

Software finally eats services - Aaron Levie

Martin Casado, Aaron Levie, Erik Torenberg, and Steven Sinofsky

America's Autism Crisis and How AI Can Fix Science with NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya

Dr. Bhattacharya, Scientific Research, Public health, grants, funding, Autism Research, Drug Discovery, Vineeta Agarwala, Erik Torenberg, and Jorge Conde

Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China

Guido Appenzeller, Dylan Patel, and Sarah Wang

Charlie Kirk and the Rise of Political Violence

Konstantin Kisin, Bari Weiss, and Katherine Boyle

The Death of Search: How Shopping Will Work In The Age of AI

Justine Moore, and Alex Rampell

How OpenAI Built Its Coding Agent

Alexander Embiricos, and Anjney Midha

Faster Science, Better Drugs

Jorge Conde, Patrick Hsu, and Erik Torenberg

Ben Horowitz: Why Hesitation is a CEO’s Worst Enemy

Ben Horowitz, and Lenny Rachitsky

Inside the $13T Mortgage Machine

Tim Mayopoulos, Andrew Wang, Mike Yu, and Angela Strange

Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products

Anish Acharya, and Chris Dixon

Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics

Erik Torenberg, and Mark Cuban

The Little Tech Agenda for AI

Matt Perault, Collin McCune, and Erik Torenberg

Building APIs for Developers and AI Agents

Alex Rattray, and Jennifer Li

How to Be Free: Shaka Senghor, Oprah Winfrey, Ben Horowitz

Oprah Winfrey, Shaka Senghor, and Ben Horowitz

Is Non-Consensus Investing Overrated?

Leo Polovets, and Martin Casado

Jack Altman & Martin Casado on the Future of VC

martin casado, and jack altman

Chris Best of Substack on the Future of Media

Andrew Chen, Katherine Boyle, Erik Torenberg, and Chris Best

Katherine Boyle on Shawn Ryan

Shawn Ryan, and Katherine Boyle

Monopolies vs Oligopolies in AI

Harry Stebbings, and Martin Casado

The Top 100 Most Used AI Apps in 2025

Justine Moore, and Olivia Moore

Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future

Martin Casado, Aaron Levie, Steven Sinofsky, and Erik Torenberg

Ben Horowitz on How a16z Was Built

Ben Horowitz, and Erik Torenberg

AI and Accelerationism with Marc Andreessen

James Ellis, and Marc Andreessen

Can AI Fix Housing and Healthcare Affordability?

Tony Stoyanov, ai, artificial intelligence, housing, automation, healthcare, regulation, Erik Torenberg, and Alex Immerman

Oren Cass & Noah Smith Debate the True Impact of Tariffs

Oren Cass, Noah Smith, and Erik Torenberg

Dylan Patel: GPT-5, NVIDIA, Intel, Meta, Apple

Dylan Patel, Erin Price-Wright, Erik Torenberg, and Guido Appenzeller

Google DeepMind Lead Researchers on Genie 3 & the Future of World-Building

Jack Parker-Holder, Shlomi Fruchter, Marco Mascorro, Justine Moore, and Anjney Midha

The State of American AI Policy: From ‘Pause AI’ to ‘Build’

Martin Casado, Erik Torenberg, and Anjney Midha

H20s to China + 15% with Chris Miller and Lennart Heim

Chris Miller, and Lennart Heim

Grok, Genie 3, GPT-5 & the Rise of Vibe Coding

Justine Moore, and Olivia Moore

Alex Danco on Speechwriting, Blogging, and Giving Founders Power

Alex Danco, John Coogan, and Jordi Hays

Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of AI, Tech, & the Global World Order

Steven Sinofsky, Balaji Srinivasan, and Erik Torenberg

Marc Andreessen: Why Perfect Products Become Obsolete

TBPN, Marc Andreessen, Jordi Hays, and John Coogan

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