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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

Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

Theo Jaffee, and Steven Sinofsky

Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Olivia Moore, Luis Paarup, Pablo Palafox, and Anish Acharya

Why $1B Exits are Dead

David George, and David Clark

Stablecoins, AI Agents, and The Future of Global Banking

Angela Strange, and Dileep Thazhmon

Marc Rowan on Private Markets, Software Repricing, and Capital Allocation

David Haber, and Marc Rowan

Robin Hanson on Prediction Markets, Gambling, and the Future of Forecasting

Theo Jaffee, Sophia Puccini, and Robin Hanson

Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

Jack Farley, Max Wiethe, and Ara Kharazian

Hugging Face's Clem Delangue on Open Source AI and the LLM Bubble | MTS Live

Theo Jaffee, Sofia Puccini, and Clément Delangue

How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

Fareed Mosavat, and Rahul Vohra

Marc Andreessen on AI, California, and the Future of America | Joe Rogan

Marc Andreessen, and Joe Rogan

Rebuilding The American Shipyard

Erin Price-Wright, Michael Duffey, and Dino Mavrookas

The Plan to Make American Crime Obsolete

David Ulevitch, Col. Jeffrey Glover, and Rahul Sidhu

Vitalik Buterin on Human Agency in the AI Era

Vitalik Buterin, Sophia Dew, and Binji Pande

Ben Horowitz - "Your ONLY job is Right Product, Right Time"

Ben Horowitz

Energy, Minerals, and the Physical Stack Behind AI

Erin Price-Wright, Turner Caldwell, and Drew Baglino

Lloyd Blankfein on Risk, Crisis, and Leadership

David Haber, and Lloyd Blankfein

Marc Andreessen on Builder Culture in the Age of AI

Marc Andreessen, and Erik Torenberg

Ben Horowitz on the Next Technology Era

Ben Horowitz, and David Ulevitch

Crypto Fund 5: We Raised $2.2B. Here’s Why.

Chris Dixon, Ali Yahya, Eddy Lazzarin, Guy Wuollet, and Robert Hackett

The New Space Race: NASA, Artemis, and the Race to the Moon

Morgan Brennan, and Jared Isaacman

Building Blackstone, Backing Costco, with Tony James

David Haber, and Tony James

Sarah Rogers: Free Speech, AI Diplomacy, and What America Owes Its Allies

Katherine Boyle, and Sarah B. Rogers

Balaji and Taylor Lorenz on AI and Media

Theo Jaffee, Balaji Srinivasan, and Taylor Lorenz

Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

Elena Burger, and Joe Schmidt

The Shift in Global Drug Development

Theo Jaffee, Gabriel Dickinson, and Cremieux

John and Patrick Collison on Stripe's Growth, Agent Commerce, and the Future of Software

Patrick Collison, John Collison, Jordi Hays, and John Coogan

Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

Ben Horowitz, and Anjney Midha

AI Inside the Enterprise

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

Martin Shkreli on AI, Pharma, and What Actually Matters

Erik Torenberg, and Martin Shkreli

Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Erik Torenberg, Theo Jaffee, and Balaji Srinivasan

Marc Andreessen: Monitoring the Situation and the Future of Media

Marc Andreessen, Erik Torenberg, and Theo Jaffee

Rethinking Git for the Age of Coding Agents with GitHub Cofounder Scott Chacon

Matt Bornstein, and Scott Chacon

Network Effects, AI Costs, and the Future of Consumer Investing with Anish Acharya on The Kevin Rose Show

Anish Acharya, and Kevin Rose

The System Behind Self-Driving: Waymo’s Dmitri Dolgov

John Collison, and Dmitri Dolgov

Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll

Erik Torenberg, Anish Acharya, and signüll

Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

Jack Neel, and Amjad Masad

Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software

Ben Horowitz, and Alex Rampell

Building Agents at Home: Parenting, Work, and Benevolent Neglect

Sarah Wang, Katherine Boyle, and Jesse Genet

What Running Windows at Microsoft Taught Steven Sinofsky About Apple

Steven Sinofsky, and Theo Jaffee

Who Controls AI Acceleration? Vitalik Buterin and Guillaume Verdon Debate

Eddy Lazzarin, Shaw Walters, Guillaume Verdon, and Vitalik Buterin

The Agent Era: Building Software Beyond Chat with Box CEO Aaron Levie

Erik Torenberg, Martin Casado, Steve Sinofsky, Aaron Levie, workforce, and talent

Balaji on Why AI Raises the Cost of Verification

Erik Torenberg, and Balaji Srinivasan

Peter Yang on Small Teams, Coding Agents, and Why Human Ambition Has No Ceiling

Anish Acharya, and Peter Yang

Marc Andreessen on AI Winters and Agent Breakthroughs

Marc Andreessen, and Swyx (Shawn Wang

Alex Blania on Proof of Human and Building World's Identity Network

Ben Horowitz, Erik Torenberg, and Alex Blania

What Happens When a Public Company Goes All In on AI

David Haber, and Owen Jennings

How Radiant and Heron Are Rethinking Power Generation and Delivery

Erik Torenberg, Erin Price-Wright, Drew Baglino, and Doug Bernauer

Marc Andreessen on Evaluating Founders and AI's Consumer Surplus

Marc Andreessen, and Harry Stebbings

The SpaceX and Tesla Playbook for Hard Tech Startups

Erin Price-Wright, Chandler Luzsicza, and Turner Caldwell

Security, Resilience, and the Future of Mobile Infrastructure

David Ulevitch, John Doyle, and Justin Fanelli

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