a16z Podcast

  • 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…

  • Designing for, Marketing to, and Partnering With Gen Z

    Gen Z—those born between 1995 and 2010—now makes up 35 percent of the population and represent $143 billion dollars in spending power. This episode is all about how brands can better understand, collaborate with, and…

  • The Present Future of Audio: Talk, Music, Video, Interactivity

    We’ve already talked a lot about podcasting, both evolution of the industry as well as the form, but where are we going with the future of audio, more broadly? Can we borrow from the present…

  • Tracking the Trends: AI, WebRTC, Crypto, and Full Stack Startups

    Today’s episode is a conversation about four big trends in the tech world. Any one of these trends would be notable on its own, but we cover all four in this hallway-style chat, as a16z…

  • How to Decide, Convey vs. Convince, & More

    It seems like investors are especially obsessed with the psychology of decision making — high stakes, after all — but all kinds of decisions, whether in life or business — like dating, product management, what…

  • Fintech for Gen Z and Millennials

    Millennials and Gen Z have been hard-hit by the one-two punch of the 2008 and 2020 financial crises. That experience has radically shaped their approach to finances and their mindset around credit and debt. This…