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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

Inside the Department of Defense and its Vision for the Future

Steph Smith, Sharon Weinberger, and Kathleen Hicks

Politics & the Future of Tech with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz

Steph Smith, Ben Horowitz, and Marc Andreessen

The Real Price of Healthcare with Mark Cuban

Steph Smith, David Ulevitch, and Mark Cuban

Devoting Your Life to Reinventing a Broken System

Steph Smith, Vijay Pande, Todd Park, and Ed Park

Bringing AI to the Masses with Adam D’Angelo

Steph Smith, Adam D'Angelo, and David George

A Nuclear Comeback: Are New Reactors the Answer?

Steph Smith, David Ulevitch, Kathryn Huff, and Doug Bernauer

Intelligence in the Age of AI with new CTO of the CIA

Derrick Harris, Nand Mulchandani, and Martin Casado

From Silicon Valley to the Pentagon: The Future of Defense Innovation

Steph Smith, Katherine Boyle, Doug Beck, Brandon Tseng, and Brian Schimpf

What is American Dynamism?

Steph Smith, Katherine Huff, Nand Mulchandani, Doug Beck, Mitch Lee, Ian Cinnamon, Doug Bernauer, Chris Bennett, Mike Slagh, Rahul Sidhu, and Wyatt Smith

The Quest for True Signal: How Zynga Spotted Mobile

Mark Pincus, and Josh Lu

Beyond Uncanny Valley: Breaking Down Sora

Anjney Midha, and Stefano Ermon

Fraying Wires: The Decentralization of the Electric Grid

Ryan EcEntush, and Steph Smith

Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities with Marc and Ben

Steph Smith, Marc Andreessen, and Ben Horowitz

Read Write Own: A New Era

Steph Smith, Chris Dixon, Robert Hackett, and Sonal Chokshi

The What, Who, and When with IPOs

Steph Smith, Sonal Chokshi, Jeff Jordan, and J.D. Moriarty

Jobs of the Future

Steph Smith, Kai Roemmelt, and Lisa Gevelber

Introducing Raising Health: Fireside Chat with Sean Duffy

Steph Smith, Vijay Pande, and Sean Duffy

Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter with Marc & Ben

Steph Smith, Marc Andreessen, and Ben Horowitz

Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public Safety

Steph Smith, David Ulevitch, Garrett Langley, and Sheriff McMahill

DNA's Potential to Store the World's Data

Steph Smith, and Vijay Pande

A Year of Unlocks: 2023 In AI, Healthcare, Housing, and More

Steph Smith

The Future of Longevity with Tony Robbins

Ben Horowitz, Marc Andreessen, and Tony Robbins

2024 Big Ideas: Developer Influence, Maritime Upgrades, and New Video Intelligence

Steph Smith, Angela Strange, Grant Gregory, and Kimberly Tan

Text to Video: The Next Leap in AI Generation

Andreas Blattmann, Robin Rombach, and Anjney Midha

2024 Big Ideas: Voice-First Apps, AI Moats, Never-Ending Games, and Anime Takes Off

Steph Smith, Anish Acharya, Alex Immerman, Jonathan Lai, and Robin Guo

Safety in Numbers: Keeping AI Open

Anjney Midha, and Arthur Mensch

2024 Big Ideas: Miracle Drugs, Programmable Medicine, and AI Interpretability

Steph Smith, Julie Yoo, Jorge Conde, and Anjney Midha

The Quest for AGI: Q*, Self-Play, and Synthetic Data

Steph Smith, and Anjney Midha

Financial Freedom, Company Building, More with David Marcus

Sonal Chokshi, and David Marcus

When Business is Battle: Inside the Boardrooms of the CEOs that Survived the Storm

Steph Smith, Ben Horowitz, Ariel Cohen, Todd McKinnon, and David Ulevitch

The Worlds She Sees with Godmother of AI, Fei-Fei Li

Steph Smith, Fei Fei Li, and Vijay Pande

From Sims to Sapiens: Crafting Reality with Code

Steph Smith, Martin Casado, and Joon Park

Fintech Fuels Global Payments

Joe Schmidt, Gabriel Vasquez, and Angela Strange

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz

Ben Horowitz, and Marc Andreessen

A New Era of VR: From the Court to the Classroom

Steph Smith, Paul Katsen, and Anurupa Ganguly

When Will AI Hit the Enterprise? Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi Discuss

Steph Smith, Ben Horowitz, and Ali Ghodsi

When AI and Genomics Collide

Steph Smith, Vijay Pande, and Daphne Koller

AI Revolution: Disruption, Alignment, and Opportunity

Steph Smith, Martin Casado, Mira Murati, Noam Shazeer, Dylan Field, David Baszucki, and Dario Amodei

AI Revolution: Top Lessons from OpenAI, Anthropic, CharacterAI, & More

Steph Smith, Martin Casado, Dario Amodei, Noam Shazeer, Mira Murati, and David Baszucki

Engineering Rapidly Reusable Rockets

Steph Smith, and Andy Lapsa

The Evolution of the Satellite Economy

Steph Smith, and John Gedmark

AI x Crypto

Sonal Chokshi, Dan Boneh, and Ali Yahya

Salary Transparency: Clarity or Chaos?

Steph Smith, Shannon Schiltz, and Brandon Cherry

A True Second Brain

Steph Smith, Nate Eliason, Dennis Xu, and Kevin Moody

Wartime vs Peacetime: Ben Horowitz on Leadership

Steph Smith, Ben Horowitz, and Jorge Conde

From Big Bang to James Webb: Exploring Space with Nobel Laureate John Mather

Steph Smith, and John Mather

Classroom 2050: Unleashing AI, XR, Gaming

Steph Smith, Anurupa Ganguly, Sal Khan, Allison Matthews, and Romy Drucker

The True Cost of Compute

Steph Smith, and Guido Appenzeller

Chasing Silicon: The Race for GPUs

Steph Smith, and Guido Appenzeller

AI Hardware, Explained

Steph Smith, and Guido Appenzeller

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