a16z Podcast

  • Reining in Complexity: Data Science & Future of AI/ML Businesses

    There is no spoon. Or rather, “There is no such thing as ‘data’, there’s just frozen models”, argues Peter Wang, the co-founder and CEO of Anaconda — who also created the PyData conferences and grew…

  • Online Learning and the Ed Tech Debate

    This episode is all about education and technology, a topic that’s especially top of mind this week as students in much of the country return to school—virtually. The intersection of learning and technology has been…

  • On Vaccines and Vaccinology, in COVID and Beyond

    WHEN are we going to have a COVID-19 vaccine, and how the heck are we going from (what’s been traditionally been up to) 12 years or so of vaccine development compressed into 12 months or…

  • Turning Open Source Developers Into Superfans

    In this episode, we continue our community series with a recent discussion that applies to many kinds of community building. Today’s topic: How do you create a platform that people not only use, but tell…

  • Journal Club: Slaying the Sleeper Cells of Aging with CAR T

    CAR T therapy is a groundbreaking medicine that uses engineered T cells to attack cancer. But CAR T cells (that is, chimeric antigen receptor T cells) can be programmed to recognize a huge range of…

  • Working, Making, Creating in Public… and Private

    We’re living in an unprecedented era of online collaboration, coordination, and creation. All kinds of people are coming together — whether in an open source project or company, an R&D initiative, a department in a…

  • GPT-3: What’s Hype, What’s Real on the Latest in AI

    In this episode — cross posted from our 16 Minutes show feed — we cover all the buzz around GPT-3, the pre-trained machine learning model from OpenAI that’s optimized to do a variety of natural-language…

  • Taking the Pulse on Medical Device Security

    Many don’t realize we even need to think about the possibility of security hacks when it comes to things like pacemakers, insulin pumps, and more. But when bits and bytes meet flesh and blood, security…

  • Journal Club: A New Path to Antibiotic Resistance

    Ever since the discovery of antibiotics, microbiologists have worried about and studied how bacteria acquire resistance to these drugs. Adding to the complexity of this problem is the fact that it is not always clear…

  • Cybercrime, Incorporated

    A dive into the sociological, operational, and tactical realities of this murky underworld, Lusthaus and de la Garza discuss who the players are, what they are motivated by, and specialize in—as well as how basic…