a16z Podcast

  • Marc Andreessen on AI Winters and Agent Breakthroughs

    This episode originally aired on the Latent Space Podcast. swyx and Alessio Fanelli speak with Marc Andreessen about the arc of AI from its origins in 1943 to today’s breakthroughs in reasoning, coding agents, and…


  • Alex Blania on Proof of Human and Building World’s Identity Network

    a16z’s Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg speak with Alex Blania, cofounder and CEO of Tools for Humanity, World, and cofounder of Merge Labs. World is building the largest real human network, a proof-of-human layer for…


  • What Happens When a Public Company Goes All In on AI

    David Haber speaks with Owen Jennings, executive officer and business lead at Block, about how the company rebuilt itself around AI agents, small squads, and internal tools like Goose and Builder Bot after restructuring more…


  • How Radiant and Heron Are Rethinking Power Generation and Delivery

    a16z general partners Erin Price-Wright and Erik Torenberg speak with Doug Bernauer, founder and CEO of Radiant, and Drew Baglino, founder and CEO of Heron, about rebuilding American energy infrastructure. They discuss portable micro nuclear…


  • Marc Andreessen on Evaluating Founders and AI’s Consumer Surplus

    This episode originally aired on The Twenty Minute VC with Harry Stebbings. Marc Andreessen explains why learning from past investment mistakes can be a trap, shares his framework for evaluating founder greatness through IQ, courage,…


  • The SpaceX and Tesla Playbook for Hard Tech Startups

    Erin Price-Wright speaks with Chandler Luzsicza, founder and CEO of Galadyne, and Turner Caldwell, cofounder and CEO of Mariana Minerals, about what they actually learned building Starship and Tesla’s lithium refinery, and how those lessons…


  • Security, Resilience, and the Future of Mobile Infrastructure

    David Ulevitch speaks with Justin Fanelli, CTO of the Navy, and John Doyle, founder and CEO at Cape, about how the Navy is transforming its approach to technology adoption, from running bootcamps for program managers…


  • Submarines and the Future of Defense Manufacturing

    David Ulevitch speaks with Chris Power, founder and CEO at Hadrian, and Vice Admiral Robert Gaucher, the Pentagon’s first direct reporting portfolio manager for submarines, at the opening of Hadrian’s Factory Four in Cherokee, Alabama.…


  • The Missing Power Layer of Modern Warfare

    Erin Price-Wright speaks with Adam Warmoth, founder and CEO of Chariot Defense, and Alex Miller, CTO of the U.S. Army, about the power crisis at the heart of modern military operations. As the battlefield becomes…


  • Why Every Satellite Needs Earth | Northwood CEO on a16z

    Bridgit Mendler, Co-founder and CEO of Northwood, joins a16z’s Erik Torenberg to discuss the critical but overlooked bottleneck in space: ground infrastructure. Northwood is building the systems that connect satellites back to Earth, enabling faster,…


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