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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

The Art and Science of Podcasting

Steph Smith, Sriram Krishnan, and Aarthi Ramamurthy

Unlocking Creativity with Prompt Engineering

Steph Smith, and Guy Parsons

Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy with Palmer Luckey

Steph Smith, and Palmer Luckey

The Robot Lawyer Resistance

Steph Smith, Joshua Browder, and consumer rights

The Challenge of Replicating Reality

Steph Smith, and Steve Zhao

The 1000x Developer

steph smith, and amjad masad

The State of Apps

steph smith, and olivia moore

Disrupting the World’s Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann

Steph Smith, David Ulevitch, Marc Andreessen, and Adam Neumann

Healthspan, Lifespan, and the Biology of Aging

Kristen Fortney, and Vijay Pande

2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 2)

Steph Smith, Anish Acharya, Angela Strange, Michelle Volz, Ryan McEntush, Vijay Pande, and Julie Yoo

2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)

Steph Smith, Connie Chan, Anne Lee Skates, Jack Soslow, Doug McCracken, Sarah Wang, and Sumeet Singh

The Human Behind the Genius

steph smith, steve wozniak, alex fielding, and moriba jah

Building for Tomorrow

steph smith, and jason feifer

Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower

marc andreessen, and vijay pande

Creators, Creativity, and Technology with Bob Iger

steph smith, sonal chokshi, bob iger, and chris dixon

Best Clips of 2022

Steph Smith, Das Rush, Steve Wozniak, Chris Power, Ryan Petersen, Marc Andreessen, Balaji Srinivasan, Karen Cheng, v, Dr. Moriba Jah, Alex Fielding, and Neal Stephenson

Pay Without Borders with Deel, GitLab, and Safetywing

Steph Smith, Alex Bouaziz, Sondre Rasch, and Darren Murph

Carbon Solutions Now and Next: From Biomass to Mineralization

Steph Smith, Peter Reinhardt, Laura Lammers, and Karan Khimji

Ben Horowitz and Brian Armstrong on Building and Overcoming the Hard Things

Steph Smith, Sonal Chokshi, Ben Horowitz, and Brian Armstrong

Building a Marketplace for Carbon

Brennan Spellacy, and Steph Smith

The Economics of Carbon Removal with Nan Ransohoff

Steph Smith, and Nan Ransohoff

Ryan Petersen on Rearchitecting the Supply Chain

Das Rush, Steph Smith, and Ryan Petersen

Neal Stephenson on The Future of the Metaverse

Steph Smith, and Neal Stephenson

The Factory of the Future with Chris Power

Steph Smith, and Chris Power

Balaji Srinivasan on The Network State

Steph Smith, and Balaji Srinivasan

Why Technology Still Matters with Marc Andreessen

Steph Smith, and Marc Andreessen

AI and the Creator Economy with Karen X Cheng

Steph Smith, and Karen X Cheng

The Data Highway Above with Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah

Steph Smith, Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah

The a16z Podcast Returns

Steph Smith

Is a Fun, Therapeutic Game Possible?

Jon Lai, Olivia Webb, and Vijay Pande

Cycles of Computing, Now and Next

Chris Dixon, and Kevin Rose

The Future of Audio

Gustav Söderström, Sonal Chokshi, and Connie Chan

Culture as Code

Ben Horowitz, and Sonal Chokshi

On Mentorship and Leadership

Ken Coleman, Michel Feaster, and Ben Horowitz

Cloud Wars, Company Wars, and Innovating Through Change

Michael Dell, Martin Casado, Marc Andreessen, and Sonal Chokshi

How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit

Jyoti Bansal, Satish Talluri, Peter Levine, and Sonal Chokshi

The Fintech Opportunity for Students and Gen Z

Amira Yahyaoui, Seema Amble, Lauren Murrow, and Anish Acharya

How to Make Better Decisions

Jeff Jordan, and Annie Duke

Learning from Open Source Communities

Nadia Asparouhova, and Sonal Chokshi

The Art and Science of Moderating Discussions

Sonal Chokshi, and Matt Abrahams

Tiktok's Algorithm and Creativity Network Effects

Eugene Wei, and Sonal Chokshi

From Research to Startup, There and Back Again

John Hennessy, Marc Andreessen, Martin Casado, and Sonal Chokshi

Crisis Communications 101

Kim Milosevich, Margit Wennmachers, and Sonal Chokshi

All About Synthetic Biology

James J. Collins, Vijay Pande, and Hanne Winarsky

Mining the Data for Cobalt

Kurt House, John Thompson, Connie Chan, and Hanne Winarsky

Applying AI in B2B

Peter Lauten, Oleg Rogynskyy, and Das Rush

More from Less: The Environment, Capitalism, and Technology

Andrew McAfee, Sonal Chokshi, and Marc Andreessen

Blockchains, crypto, & web3: Connections, models, more

Tim Roughgarden, Chris Dixon, Ali Yahya, and Sonal Chokshi

Crypto, an Oral Essay

Chris Dixon, Zoran Basich, Jesse Walden, Linda Xie, Ali Yahya, Arianna Simpson, Alex Pruden, Scott Kupor, Sonal Chokshi, Eddy Lazzarin, and Dan Boneh

Stories of Startup Survival Mode

Jason Rosenthal, Ben Horowitz, and Sonal Chokshi

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