Lumos CEO Andrej Safundizc explains why companies that use SaaS wisely have a competitive advantage over those that blindly consume it.

The Basecamp and HEY founder discusses the power of short-term thinking, his framework for startup longevity, and the key thing he looks for when hiring remote.

A GPT-3-like AI model for science would accelerate innovation and improve reproducibility. Creating it will require us to unlock scientific publications.

No code, SaaS, APIs have led to faster yet more heterogeneous systems: developers work in rainforests, not planned gardens.

The way to improve search is not to mimic Google, but instead to build boutique search engines that index, curate, and organize things in new ways.

Isovalent co-founder and Cilium creator Thomas Graf discusses the state of cloud native networking and where the future of enterprise Kubernetes lies.

In a world where software is no longer sold, but rather adopted, community isn't just part of go-to-market; it's a distinct competency: go-to-community.

Technical literacy matters because a lot of people work at companies that sell software. And everybody works at companies that use software.

The world watched when a container ship blocked the Suez Canal. Amid a frenzy of global trade demand, the world’s shipping infrastructure is starting to break.

Building and running a startup is exhausting. Okta co-founder Frederic Kerrest explains why all founders need to stay mentally, emotionally, and physically fit.

How startups and smaller entities can take advantage of large foundation models, like GPT-3 and BERT, to kickstart their AI and machine learning efforts.

Computational genomics pioneer Jimmy Lin explains what many machine learning-focused biotech companies and get wrong about hiring, data, and communication.

Modern software’s uniformity has fueled a craving for more interesting, personalized, opinionated tools — turning inanimate pixels into something with soul.

Smart equity management strategies for employees with RSUs or stock options, a future-forward vision for companies, and a wish-list for builders.

Daphne Koller explains why some fail the academia-to-biotech transition and identifies what we'll need for AlphaFold-level successes across biology and biotech.

The right kind of bubble brings together the right group of people at the right time — it's a coordinating mechanism that can do a surprising amount of good.

Shared lab space, collaborative projects, DAO-funded research, and other signs of big structural change in this traditionally centralized industry.

Takeaways from 30 successful marketplaces—including Uber, Airbnb, and Tinder—on when, where, and how to grow.

Sprig founder and CEO Ryan Glasgow explains why the key to building successful products is understanding your users and what they want.

The author of Instagram's original ranking algorithm explains how social platforms pick content for users and why sharing more experiments could improve trust.

The complexity of wildfires – causes, contributing factors, data – leaves a lot of room for snap judgments and no clear answers, so what can we do?

New economic research supports a shift from the pursuit of longevity at all costs to a focus on healthspan: more healthy time over the duration of one’s life.

Are creator platforms enabling the 99 percent to chase their childhood dreams? Or are they helping the stars of the 0.1 percent expand their wealth?

Players are discovering new ways to monetize, whether by building original game worlds, selling in-game goods on the blockchain, or engaging new streamer tools.

Esports are pioneering the future of sports engagement. But to succeed, they need to stop chasing the NBA and NFL and become diverse entertainment companies.

Fivetran CEO George Fraser discusses the lack of software libraries for SQL, and how enabling them through a platform like dbt could change data analysis.

Danny Ryan details the path forward for scalability and explains the possibility of stateless Ethereum, while sharing how the Merge will affect future upgrades.

When 40 percent of workers are considering quitting, management that opts for empty arguments and handy-wavy phrases will bleed top talent to the competition.

To harness the untapped power of subtraction in the future, we need to understand why we haven’t embraced it in the past.

Our narrow view of “kidtech”—games and shows, ad infinitum—is a missed opportunity. There’s room for an audio-visual browser that's purpose-built for kids.

AI-created models of the brain are emerging that have applications in art, advertising, and health. Adoption of AR and BCI will further enhance model utility.

What does it mean to be productive? In a post-pandemic world, we need multidimensional measures to understand worker productivity.

If the music business can revise its draconian approach to copyright, modding, and UGC, it will empower tech startups to do for audio what TikTok did for video.

In the rush to build frictionless payment features, the actual pitch—"here's why you should pay and here's what you're getting"—is too often an afterthought.

Negative engineering is the time-consuming and sometimes frustrating work that engineers undertake to ensure the success of their primary objectives.

While many founders are eager to invest in community, they often don't know what they’ll need to know to build one the right way.

As enterprises grow their AI footprints, they must pay attention to data quality and real-world conditions to ensure what works in the lab works in production.

Technologies such as avatars and digital wallets are unbundling our digital identities and rebundling them in new ways.

With a software-first approach, we can improve transparency, automate tedious processes, and in some cases, even avoid the need for costly lawyers altogether.

Commercetools CEO Dirk Hoerig explains headless commerce and microservices, and why we'll see innovation in AR, in-car, and B2B commerce.

A Slack chat to talk about CC0, commercial rights for NFTs, and the future of intellectual property in web3.

Today, we’re releasing transcripts from some of our most popular episodes of the a16z Podcast here on Future.com, our new media site exploring the technologies driving the future, as told by the people building it.

Widely accessible design tools like Figma and Canva force experienced designers to adopt new roles: project manager, systems architect, and user advocate.

Here's what the tech founder reads, follows, watches, and listens to — in his own words.

If the goal of go-to-market is value capture, the goal of go-to-community (GTC) is value creation that turns users into advocates. Here's where to focus.

A Q&A with founder Fred Lalonde on building for Gen Z, unbundling luxury travel, motivations for social behavior, and more.

Sales enablement — the use of people, processes, and tech to improve sales productivity — is key for a well-oiled, agile, and high-performing sales machine.

Jeremy Howard of fast.ai discusses the impacts of deep learning and AI now being accessible to people without PhDs in those spaces.

Hand-wringing over the latest New Thing isn't unique. In fact, it tends to follow a predictable, four-step cycle fueled by politicians, scientists, and media.