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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

Startups & Defense: Katherine Boyle on TBPN

Katherine Boyle, Jordi Hays, and John Coogan

Do You Really Know Your ICP? Why It Matters and How to Find Out

Joe Morrissey, Michael King, Mark Regan, and Emma Janaskie

The Software Crisis Behind America's Infrastructure

Steph Smith, Phillip Buckendorf, Lieutenant General Leonard J Kosinski, and Leila Hay

What Comes After Mobile? Meta’s Andrew Bosworth on AI and Consumer Tech

David George, Andrew Bosworth, and Steph Smith

The Dual-Use Founder: Vets Now Building For America

Steph Smith, John Doyle, David Tuttle, Grant Jordan, and Matt Shortal

The Future of Drone Warfare

Ryan Tseng, Adam Bry, Matt Cronin, and Steph Smith

How to Build with the Department of Defense

Alex Miller, Justin Fanelli, and Leila Hay

The Top 100 GenAI Products, Ranked and Explained

Steph Smith, Olivia Moore, and Anish Acharya

Jensen Huang and Arthur Mensch on Winning the Global AI Race

Jensen Huang, Arthur Mensch, and Anjney Midha

Why AI Voice Feels More Human Than Ever

Anish Acharya, Olivia Moore, and Steph Smith

From Thesis to Meme to Fund: Building American Dynamism

Steph Smith, David Ulevitch, and Katherine Boyle

What Founders Get Wrong About Scaling – With Carta’s CEO

Josh Lu, Henry Ward, and Steph Smith

Creativity vs Control: Where AI Fits in the Creative Toolbox

Scott Belsky, Troy Kirwin, and Steph Smith

Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto

Steph Smith, Chris Dixon, and David George

The Critical Technology in Finding Critical Materials

Mfikeyi Makayi, George Gilchrist, Tom Hunt, Connie Chan, and Steph Smith

DeepSeek: America’s Sputnik Moment for AI?

Steph Smith, Martin Casado, and Steven Sinofsky

Ben Horowitz Sharing History with Dr. Clarence Jones, MLK's Speechwriter

Ben Horowitz, Dr. Clarence Jones, Megan Holston Alexander, and Steph Smith

How AI Is Changing Warfare with Brian Schimpf, CEO of Anduril

David George, and Brian Schimpf

RIP to RPA: How AI Makes Operations Work

Kimberly Tan, and Steph Smith

Marc Andreessen: Can Tech Finally Fix Healthcare?

Marc Andreessen, Vijay Pande, and Julie Yoo

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

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