a16z Podcast

  • The Holy Grail of Social + Fintech

    The intersection of social and finance—as well as shifting attitudes around what we share about money online—have given way to an ambitious new wave of financial products. While revealing one’s financial information was once considered…

  • On Fear and Leadership: Product to Sales CTOs & CEOs

    There’s a few ontologies for describing the phases leaders — and their startups — go through, whether it’s product-sales-etc. or pioneer to settler. In any case, as companies evolve, so must the leaders — but…

  • On Food As Medicine (A Holiday Snack)

    What happens if we treat food as a medicine in the healthcare system: How, where, and who (pays)? What role can technology play in increasing access, distribution, and more?  General partner Julie Yoo talks with…

  • Crypto Creators: On Art Galleries to ‘Tokenized’ Collectibles

    This episode features Q&As with two artists who are exploring crypto-powered auction sites and marketplaces – this is part of our ongoing series on the creator economy. The big picture is that emerging “tokenization” models,…

  • What to Know about Those Vaccines

    A vaccine for COVID seems to be (almost) here… or is it? What’s hype/ what’s real beyond the headlines (and beyond the press release), when it comes to the announcement last week from Pfizer and…

  • The Social Serendipity of Cloud Gaming

    True cloud-native games—those exclusive to and solely playable within the cloud—are poised to revolutionize gameplay and unlock new avenues of hyper-personalized storytelling and socializing. It’s a vision that, though steadily advancing, is still in its…

  • The Great Data Debate

    Lakes v. warehouses, analytics v. AI/ML, SQL v. everything else… As the technical capabilities of data lakes and data warehouses converge, are the separate tools and teams that run AI/ML and analytics converging as well?…

  • How to Moderate Talks, Panels, Meetings, More (Virtual and Beyond!)

    How to moderate good, productive discussions and navigate tricky conversations is top of mind — whether doing a panel, conducting a live event, presenting a talk (or hosting a podcast), managing (and even just participating…

  • Textiles as Tech, Science, Math, Culture… or Civilization

    “The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they’re indistinguishable from it.” That quote from computer scientist Mark Weiser is from a 1991 paper where…

  • Data Alone Is Not Enough: The Evolution of Data Architectures

    Data, data, data – it’s long been a buzzword in the industry, whether big data, streaming data, data analytics, data science, even AI & machine learning — but data alone is not enough: it takes…