a16z Podcast

  • The Reputation Graph of Silicon Valley | Introducing Cosign

    a16z’s Erik Torenberg sits down with Josh Elman, Olivia Moore, and David Booth to introduce Cosign, a new product built around professional reputation and the people, companies, and products you’re willing to put your name…


  • The Case Against an AI Pause | Eddy Lazzarin

    a16z crypto General Partner Eddy Lazzarin joins Theo Jaffee on MTS to debate the increasingly prominent calls to slow AI development and whether the current safety conversation is conflating very different kinds of risk. Eddy…


  • Amjad Masad on Rethinking College for the AI Era

    Erik Torenberg sits down with Replit founder and CEO Amjad Masad and Horowitz and Andreessen Academy co-founder and CEO Gagan Biyani to ask what education should look like for a generation growing up with AI.…


  • Why a16z is Building a New School for the AI Era | Ben Horowitz

    Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg sit down with Gagan Biyani to introduce the Horowitz and Andreessen Academy and discuss a bigger question: what should education look like when AI is rapidly changing the skills people…


  • AI Safety Language Is Destroying the Debate | Steven Sinofsky

    a16z Board Partner and former Microsoft Windows president Steven Sinofsky joins Theo Jaffee and Sofia Puccini on MTS to argue that the language we use to describe AI failures is making it harder to understand…


  • Nas, Grandmaster Caz, Steve Stoute & Ben Horowitz on Paying Hip-Hop’s Pioneers Their Due

    Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg sit down with Nas, Grandmaster Caz, and Steve Stoute for a conversation about the Paid in Full Foundation and its mission to recognize and support the pioneers who built hip-hop.…


  • What Makes a Consumer AI Product Stick? | Josh Elman

    a16z Partner Josh Elman joins Ollie Forsyth on New Economies to discuss the next wave of consumer AI and what separates a product people try once from one that becomes part of their everyday lives.…


  • Databricks CEO on AI Pacing, Cyber Risk, and the Enterprise

    Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi joins a16z General Partners Martin Casado and Sarah Wang for a conversation about AI risk, recursive self-improvement, cybersecurity, and what’s actually holding back enterprise adoption. Ali argues that today’s…


  • The Next Frontier of AI Video Is Control

    a16z General Partner Jennifer Li sits down with fal co-founder Gorkem Yurtseven and Head of Engineering Batuhan Taskaya to discuss what changes when generative video becomes fast enough to run in real time. They unpack…


  • The AI-Native CRM

    a16z’s Alex Rampell and Joe Schmidt sit down with Lightfield co-founder and CEO Keith Peiris to discuss what it takes to rethink the CRM for an AI-native world, and the unusual pivot that got him…


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