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a16z Podcast
The a16z Show discusses tech and culture trends, news, and the future – especially as ‘software eats the world’. It features industry experts, business leaders, and other interesting thinkers and voices from around the world. This show is produced by Andreessen Horowitz (aka “a16z”), a Silicon Valle...
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AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
AI is reshaping the tech landscape, but a big question remains: is this just another platform shift, or something closer to electricity or computing i...
How the Best CEOs Delegate
Jonathan Swanson has built two rare successes: Thumbtack, the home-services marketplace, and Athena, the fast-growing platform that pairs ambitious pe...
The $3 Trillion AI Coding Opportunity
Originally published on the a16z Infra podcast. We're resurfacing it here for our main feed audience.
AI coding is already actively changing how...
The 80-Year Bet: Why Naveen Rao Is Rebuilding the Computer from Scratch
Naveen Rao is cofounder and CEO of Unconventional AI, an AI chip startup building analog computing systems designed specifically for intelligence. Pre...
What Comes After ChatGPT? The Mother of ImageNet Predicts The Future
Fei-Fei Li is a Stanford professor, co-director of Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and co-founder of World Labs. She cr...
The Psychology Every Founder Needs Right Now | a16z GP Reveals Secrets to Success
Recently, a16z General Partner Anish Acharya joined Ollie Forsyth on NEW ECONOMIES. They talked about why consumer tech is surging again, how AI is en...
Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)
a16z General Partners David Haber, Alex Rampell, and Erik Torenberg discuss why 19 out of 20 AI startups building the same thing will die - and why th...
How To Lead | Ben Horowitz on My First Million
A16Z co-founder Ben Horowitz joins Shaan Puri and Sam Parr on My First Million to talk about how to be a great leader.
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The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
Russ Fradin sold his first company for $300M. He’s back in the arena with Larridin, helping companies measure just how successful their AI actually is...
How OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning
In this episode, a16z GP Martin Casado sits down with Sherwin Wu, Head of Engineering for the OpenAI Platform, to break down how OpenAI organizes its...
Ben Horowitz: Why Open Source AI Will Determine America's Future
Ben Horowitz reveals why the US already lost the AI culture war to China—and it wasn't the technology that failed. While Biden's team played Manhattan...
The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz sit down with Margit Wennmachers—the woman who turned two unknown entrepreneurs with $300 million and zero investing...
How Marc Andreessen Actually Uses AI
Half a billion people can access the world’s best AI on their phone. So why are most using it to write emails while only some are using it to build em...
The 2045 Superintelligence Timeline: Epoch AI’s Data-Driven Forecast
Epoch AI researchers reveal why Anthropic might beat everyone to the first gigawatt datacenter, why AI could solve the Riemann hypothesis in 5 years,...
Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
Vlad Tenev built Robinhood by breaking every rule Wall Street wrote: zero commissions when competitors charged $10, mobile-first when "serious" invest...
Can Community Banks Survive the Next SVB? | ModernFi CEO Paolo Bertolotti and Former Comptroller Gene Ludwig
The former bank regulator who invented deposit networks just revealed why SVB's collapse was inevitable—and why the solution that could have saved the...
Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We’re Fixing It)
Palmer Luckey got fired from Meta for backing the wrong candidate—now he's the hero saving American defense, and that shift tells you everything about...
Emmett Shear on Building AI That Actually Cares: Beyond Control and Steering
Emmett Shear, founder of Twitch and former OpenAI interim CEO, challenges the fundamental assumptions driving AGI development. In this conversation wi...
The Brutal Truth About Biotech: Why $2B Per Drug Is Killing Innovation
Two venture capitalists dissect why biotech burns billions while China runs trials in weeks—and why the next Genentech won't look anything like the la...
The Frontier of Spatial Intelligence with Fei-Fei Li
Fei-Fei Li and Justin Johnson are pioneers in AI. While the world has only recently witnessed a surge in consumer AI, they have long been laying the g...
Rocket Mortgage CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis
The Empire State Building took 110 days to build—today, changing a window would take two years.
Alex Rampell (a16z) and Varun Krishna (Rocket C...
Grant Lee: Building Gamma’s AI Presentation Company to 100 Million Users
Grant Lee was told Gamma was "the worst idea ever heard" by an investor who hung up mid-Zoom—yet he built it to 100 million users and $100M ARR withou...
Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
When four MIT grads decided to build a code editor while everyone else was building AI agents, they created the fastest-growing developer tool ever bu...
a16z's State of Crypto: The $4 Trillion Milestone and What's Next'
The regulatory environment has completely inverted. Stablecoins are now a top 20 holder of US treasuries. Every major bank wants in. In a16z Crypto's...
Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?
Adam D’Angelo (Quora/Poe) thinks we're 5 years from automating remote work. Amjad Masad (Replit) thinks we're brute-forcing intelligence without under...
Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan: How AI Will Cure All Disease
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg join a16z’s Ben Horowitz, Erik Torenberg, and Vineeta Agarwala to share how the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is build...
Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
Eugenia Kuyda, CEO of Wabi and AI pioneer behind Replika, joins Erik, Anish, and Justine to reveal how personal software will transform from a develop...
ElevenLabs CEO: Why Voice is the Next AI Interface
ElevenLabs CEO and co‑founder Mati Staniszewski joins Jennifer Li to explain how the team ships research‑grade AI at lightning speed—from text‑to‑spee...
David Sacks: AI, Crypto, China, Dems, and SF
David Sacks, White House AI and Crypto Czar, joins Marc, Ben, and Erik to explore what's really happening inside the Trump administration's AI and cry...
Why Speed, Not Size, Will Define the Next War
As global tensions rise, AI and autonomy are transforming how nations prepare for conflict.
In this episode, Horacio Rozanski, CEO of Booz Allen...
Beyond Chatbots: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on AI's Future
In this closing keynote from a16z’s Runtime conference, General Partner Erik Torenberg speaks with our firm’s cofounders, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horo...
"Is there an AI bubble?” Gavin Baker and David George
In this conversation from a16z’s Runtime conference, Gavin Baker, Managing Partner and CIO of Atreides Management, joins David George, General Partner...
Building the Real-World Infrastructure for AI, with Google, Cisco & a16z
AI isn’t just changing software, it’s causing the biggest buildout of physical infrastructure in modern history.
In this episode, Raghu Raghuram...
Google DeepMind Developers: How Nano Banana Was Made
Google DeepMind’s new image model Nano Banana took the internet by storm.
In this episode, we sit down with Principal Scientist Oliver Wang and...
Raghu Raghuram: AI, Robotics, and the Rebirth of Infrastructure
From Netscape to VMware, Raghu Raghuram has been at the center of nearly every major inflection point in enterprise technology.
In this episode,...
Marc Andreessen: How Movies Explain America
In this episode of Monitoring the Situation, Marc Andreessen, Katherine Boyle, and Erik Torenberg dive into the movies that best explain America, from...
Marc Andreessen and Amjad Masad: English As the New Programming Language
Amjad Masad, founder and CEO of Replit, joins a16z’s Marc Andreessen and Erik Torenberg to discuss the new world of AI agents, the future of programmi...
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code
In this episode, a16z's Anish Acharya joins Kevin Rose for an in-depth, fast-paced conversation on the rebirth of consumer technology, and how AI is r...
How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
Augusto Marietti, CEO and cofounder of Kong, has one of the most remarkable founder stories in Silicon Valley history.
In this conversation with...
Reid Hoffman on AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Humanity
Reid Hoffman has been at the center of every major tech shift, from co-founding LinkedIn and helping build PayPal to investing early in OpenAI. In thi...