Here are just some of the most provocative, thought-provoking, and popular a16z Podcasts from 2015 … thanks to our guests — and to all of *you* who made our podcasts popular by listening to them, sharing them, writing episodes up, and even writing about them! Thank you.
1. The Internet Is His Religion
2. What Comes After the Smartphone?
3. Beyond Lean Startups
4. The Best Way to Be Smart … Is to Not Be Stupid
5. When Software Eats Cars
6. When Bio Meets Computer Science
7. The Marketplace Rules
9. Blockchain vs/and Bitcoin
10. Holy Non Sequitor Batman, What Disruption Theory Is … and Isn’t
Editors’ Picks…
…Michael’s picks:
11. A Podcast about Podcasts
12. Talking Robots and Humans with NYT’s John Markoff
13. These Girls Code
…Sonal’s picks:
14. Artificial Intelligence and the ‘Space of Possible Minds’
15. It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It: When Language Meets Big Data
16. Layering Tech and Culture in Iran
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