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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

What Comes After ChatGPT? The Mother of ImageNet Predicts The Future

Justin Johnson, Alessio Fanelli, Swyx, and Fei-Fei Li

How AI Created the Fastest Product Cycle in History

Ollie Forsyth, and Anish Acharya

Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)

Erik Torenberg, Alex Rampell, and David Haber

How To Lead | Ben Horowitz on My First Million

Shaan Puri, Sam Parr, and Ben Horowitz

The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About

Russ Fradin, and Alex Rampell

How OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning

Sherwin Wu, and Martin Casado

Ben Horowitz: Why Open Source AI Will Determine America's Future

Costis Maglaras, and Ben Horowitz

The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm

Margit Wennmachers, Marc Andreessen, and Ben Horowitz

How Marc Andreessen Actually Uses AI

Mark Halperin, and Marc Andreessen

The 2045 Superintelligence Timeline: Epoch AI’s Data-Driven Forecast

Yafah Edelman, David Owen, Marco Mascorro, and Erik Torenberg

Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner

Vlad Tenev, Alex Rampell, and Erik Torenberg

Can Community Banks Survive the Next SVB? | ModernFi CEO Paolo Bertolotti and Former Comptroller Gene Ludwig

Gene Ludwig, Paolo Bertolotti, and David Haber

Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We’re Fixing It)

Erik Torenberg, Ben Horowitz, Marc Andreessen, Katherine Boyle, and David Ulevitch

Emmett Shear on Building AI That Actually Cares: Beyond Control and Steering

Emmett Shear, Séb Krier, and Erik Torenberg

Can America Win The AI Biotech Race Against China? | Lada Nuzhna & Elliot Hershberg

Lada Nuzhna, and Elliot Hershberg

The Frontier of Spatial Intelligence with Fei-Fei Li

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Rocket Companies CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis

Varun Krishna, Erik Torenberg, and Alex Rampell

Grant Lee: Building Gamma’s AI Presentation Company to 100 Million Users

Grant Lee, Olivia Moore, and Sarah Wang

Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI

Michael Truell, and Martin Casado

a16z's State of Crypto: The $4 Trillion Milestone and What's Next'

Daren Matsuoka, Robert Hackett, and Eddy Lazzarin

Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?

Adam D’Angelo, Erik Torenberg, and Amjad Masad

Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan: How AI Will Cure All Disease

Dr. Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg, Ben Horowitz, Erik Torenberg, and Vineeta Agarwala

Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software

Eugenia Kuyda, Anish Acharya, and Erik Torenberg

ElevenLabs CEO: Why Voice is the Next AI Interface

Mati Staniszewski, and Jennifer Li

David Sacks: AI, Crypto, China, Dems, and SF

David Sacks, Marc Andreessen, Erik Torenberg, and Ben Horowitz

Why Speed, Not Size, Will Define the Next War

Gary Steele, and Horacio Rozanski

Beyond Chatbots: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on AI's Future

Marc Andreessen, Erik Torenberg, and Ben Horowitz

"Is there an AI bubble?” Gavin Baker and David George

Gavin Baker, and David George

Building the Real-World Infrastructure for AI, with Google, Cisco & a16z

Amin Vahdat, Raghu Raghuram, and Jeetu Patel

Google DeepMind Developers: How Nano Banana Was Made

Oliver Wang, Nicole Brichtova, Yoko Li, and Guido Appenzeller

Raghu Raghuram: AI, Robotics, and the Rebirth of Infrastructure

David George, Martin Casado, Raghu Raghuram, and Ben Horowitz

Marc Andreessen: How Movies Explain America

Marc Andreeseen, Erik Torenberg, and Katherine Boyle

Marc Andreessen and Amjad Masad: English As the New Programming Language

Amjad Masad, Marc Andreessen, and Erik Torenberg

Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code

Kevin Rose, and Anish Acharya

How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure

Augusto Marietti, and Martin Casado

Reid Hoffman on AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Humanity

Reid Hoffman, Alex Rampell, and Erik Torenberg

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, Ben Horowitz, and Ali Ghodsi

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, Eddy Lazzarin, Katherine Boyle, and Erik Torenberg

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?

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

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

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