a16z Podcast

  • Amazon Narratives: Memos, Working Backwards from Release, More

    When you hear stories about Amazon’s “invention machine” — which led to a company with not just one or two products but several successful diverse lines of business — we often hear about things like:…

  • Anatomy of the SolarWinds Hack: Who What Where When How

    In this special “3x”-long episode of our (otherwise shortform) news analysis show 16 Minutes — past such 2-3X explainer episodes have covered section 230, Tiktok, GPT-3, the opioid crisis, more — we cover the SolarWinds…

  • Psychedelics: Striking a Balance Between Benefits and Side Effects

    In recent years, there’s been a shift in how we think about psychedelics – from drugs of abuse and recreation, to powerful drugs for treating neuropsychiatric conditions such as depression, addiction, and PTSD.   But…

  • Developers as Creatives

    The rise of developers — as buyers, as influencers, as a creative class — is a direct result of “software eating the world”, and of key shifts in IT from on-prem to cloud & SaaS…

  • Section 230: Everything You Need to Know — Tweets, Free Speech, Beyond

    All about section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — in what Wired senior writer (and host of the Get Wired podcast) described as “one of the clearest-but-still-nuanced explainers I’ve heard – worth listening to”. …

  • Baumol’s Cost Disease, in Healthcare… and Where We Go Next

    If software’s eating the world — and more specifically, bringing costs down and increasing productivity through entire industries — why have some industries, like healthcare, been so resistant? And what could the future look like…

  • Words of 2020! (and Metaphors, and Interfaces of the Year)

    “In a year that left us speechless, 2020 has been filled with new words unlike any other”… so it’s unprecedented that for the first time, the Oxford English Dictionary did NOT name a word of…

  • The Machine That Made the Vaccine: Company, Platform, Innovation

    In this special episode of Bio Eats World — which aired right after the FDA authorized Moderna’s mRNA vaccine for emergency use — Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel tells the story of not just the vaccine’s…

  • The PPP Omnibus: Eminent Domain, Fraud, and Fintech

    This episode features two relevant but previously recorded episodes, discussing the relevance of the Paycheck Protection Program (or PPP) from the Small Business Administration and the role of government stimulus/ pandemic relief for the economy…

  • 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…

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