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Companies, Networks, Crowds

Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Frank Chen, and Sonal Chokshi

How do companies make tradeoffs in designing products between humans and machines? How do we plan for the future without falling for the "fatal conceit"?

Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)

Sonal Chokshi, James Watters, and Martin Casado

Open source is real, and it's here to stay. So how then do companies build a viable business model on top of open source?

Build Your Personal Brand

Alex Constantinople, Margit Wennmachers, and Hanne Winarsky

Margit Wennmachers of a16z and Outcast CEO Alex Constantinople, both longtime communications veterans, demystify what it takes to build a personal brand.

Brains, Bodies, Minds … and Techno-Religions

Yuval Harari, Kyle Russell, and Sonal Chokshi

What happens when our body parts no longer have to be physically co-located? What's possible, probable, pressing when man becomes god, or merges with machines?

The Business of Creativity — Pixar CFO, IPO, and Beyond

Sonal Chokshi and Lawrence Levy

From the business of creativity to corporate culture, former Pixar CFO Lawrence Levy shares his story.

All About Microservices

Adrian Cockcroft, Frank Chen, and Martin Casado

How do the trends of microservices, containers, devops, cloud, as-a-service/ on-demand, serverless, etc., change the future of computing and even work?

Pricing, Pricing, Pricing

Mark Cranney, Martin Casado, and Scott Kupor

How should startups go about raising prices — or more specifically, creating value — for their products?

The Meaning of Emoji

Fred Benenson, Jennifer 8. Lee, and Sonal Chokshi

This podcast is about emoji, but it's also really about how innovation really comes about and where emoji fits in the taxonomy of social communication.

Software Programs the World

Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Scott Kupor, and Sonal Chokshi

This episode covers distributed systems and the one piece of advice that all founders should know from a management perspective.

When Humanity Meets AI

Sonal Chokshi, Fei-Fei Li, and Frank Chen

Who has the advantage in artificial intelligence — big companies, startups, or academia? What happens as AI moves from its "in vitro" to its "in vivo" phase?