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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

Balaji & Benedict Evans: When Tech Breaks Industries

Benedict Evans, and Balaji Srinivasan

Why This Isn't the Dot-Com Bubble | Martin Casado on WSJ's BOLD NAMES

Christopher Mims, Martin Casado, and Tim Higgins

Why America’s Health Crisis Is an Incentive Problem

Justin Mares, and Erik Torenberg

Palmer Luckey on Hardware, Building, and the Next Frontiers of Innovation

Palmer Luckey, and Chris Dixon

David Solomon & Ben Horowitz on Building Organizational Resilience & Navigating Macro Uncertainty

Ben Horowitz, David Haber, and David Solomon

“Anyone Can Code Now” - Netlify CEO Talks AI Agents

Martin Casado, Erik Torenberg, and Matt Biilmann

Marc Andreessen on Why This Is the Most Important Moment in Tech History

Lenny Rachitsky, and Marc Andreessen

Ben Horowitz and Balaji Srinivasan on Netscape and Network States

Balaji Srinivasan, and Ben Horowitz

Healthcare 2026: AI Doctors, GLP-1s, and Insurance Defection

Nikhil Krishnan, and Jay Rughani

The Hidden Economics Powering AI

David George, and Jen Kha

How Mintlify Is Rebuilding Documentation for Coding Agents

Han Wang, Hahnbee Lee, Yoko Li, and Jennifer Li

Inferact: Building the Infrastructure That Runs Modern AI

Matt Bornstein, Woosuk Kwon, and Simon Mo

Martin Casado on the Demand Forces Behind AI

Patrick Moorhead, Daniel Newman, and Martin Casado

From Code Search to AI Agents: Inside Sourcegraph's Transformation with CTO Beyang Liu

Martin Casado, Guido Appenzeller, and Beyang Liu

The AI Opportunity That Goes Beyond Models

Jen Kha, Anish Acharya, David Haber, and Alex Rampell

How Foundation Models Evolved: A PhD Journey Through AI's Breakthrough Era

Martin Casado, and Omar Khattab

Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger

Marc Andreessen, Erik Torenberg, Packy McCormick, and Ben Horowitz

Alex Rampell on TBPN: Revenge, Redemption, and Founder Drive

John Coogan, Jordi Hays, and Alex Rampell

Ben Horowitz on Investing in AI: AI Bubbles, Economic Impact, and VC Acceleration

Jen Kha, and Ben Horowitz

Alex Rampell on Venture at Scale and Founder Incentives

Harry Stebbings, and Alex Rampell

Ben Horowitz on TBPN: Three Decades with Marc and Building for the Long Game

John Coogan, Ben Horowitz, and Jordi Hays

Ben Horowitz on Raising a New Fund and How Venture Firms Scale

Jack Altman, and Ben Horowitz

Keycard: 2026 is the Year of Agents

Ian Livingstone, and Joel de la Garza

Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI

Jen Kha, and Marc Andreessen

Figma’s Dylan Field on the Future of Design

Jack Altman, and Dylan Field

AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado

Martin Casado, and Marc Andreessen

Wartime vs Peacetime: Ben Horowitz on Leadership

Ben Horowitz, and Jorge Conde

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz

Ben Horowitz, and Marc Andreessen

The Inside Story of Growth Investing at a16z

David George, and Harry Stebbings

Why a16z's Martin Casado Believes the AI Boom Still Has Years to Run

Martin Casado, and Mario Gabriele

Where Does Consumer AI Stand at the End of 2025?

Justine Moore, Anish Acharya, Bryan Kim, and Olivia Moore

Big Ideas 2026: New Infrastructure Primitives

Guy Willette, James da Costa, and Oliver Shu

Big Ideas 2026: Physical AI and the Industrial Stack

Zabie Elmgren, Will Bitsky, Erin Price-Wright, and Ryan McEntush

Big Ideas 2026: Voice Agents and High-Stakes Trust

Bryan Kim, Julie Yoo, and Olivia Moore

Big Ideas 2026: The Enterprise Orchestration Layer

Alex Immerman, Seema Amble, Angela Strange, and David Haber

Big Ideas 2026: The Agentic Interface

Stephanie Zhang, Marc Andrusko, Sarah Wang, and Erik Torenberg

The Rise, Fall & Reset of The Fintech Industry

Erik Torenberg, Zach Perret, and David Haber

Do Revenue and Margins Still Matter in AI?

Harry Stebbings, and David George

The Crime Crisis In America and How Technology Fixes It

Ben Horowitz, Erik Torenberg, and Garrett Langley

Ryo Lu (Cursor): AI Turns Designers to Developers

Ryo Lu, Jennifer Li, and Erik Torenberg

AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift

Benedict Evans, and Erik Torenberg

How the Best CEOs Delegate

Jonathan Swanson, and Erik Torenberg

The $3 Trillion AI Coding Opportunity

Guido Appenzeller, and Yoko Li

The 80-Year Bet: Why Naveen Rao Is Rebuilding the Computer from Scratch

Matt Bornstein, and Naveen Rao

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

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