a16z Podcast

  • Security When the Workforce Goes Remote

    We are in the midst of a rapid and unprecedented shift to remote work. What does it mean for security when the airgap between work and life is gone? How prepared are organizations? And what…


  • The Delivery-Optimized Future of Food

    The spike in online ordering and food delivery—a trend that’s particularly relevant now—is evidence of how tech is fundamentally changing how and what we eat. Is this the end of the traditional restaurant experience as…


  • Remote Work and Our New Reality

    We discuss the rise of remote work amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, and the platforms powering our newly homebound workforce (and student body) including creative use cases for video conferencing and streaming.


  • When Medicine Goes Virtual

    We’re at a moment where we are now seeing medicine go virtual faster, and at a scale that it has never done before. In this conversation,  a16z bio general partners Vijay Pande and Julie Yoo, who come from the worlds…


  • Labs for Diagnostics: Then, Now, and Next

    A lot’s going on in the world of healthcare right now, and one topic that’s especially relevant is how diagnostic labs work. In this episode with Dave King, Executive Chairman of Lab Corp (one of…


  • How a16z’s Crypto Startup School Went Remote

    On February 21, Andreessen Horowitz kicked off its very first Crypto Startup School, with 45 students from around the U.S. and three countries gathering to learn how to build crypto projects. But just two weeks…


  • When Fintech Meets Social

    The last financial crisis prompted many consumers to reassess their banking expectations—none more so than millennials and Gen-Z-ers. While revealing one’s financial information was once considered taboo, now consumers are more apt than ever to…


  • Innovation Through Software Development and IT

    One of the recurring themes we talk about a lot on the a16z Podcast is how software changes organizations, and vice versa… More broadly: it’s really about how companies of all kinds innovate with the…


  • The Open Source CIO

    In 2014, in “Why There Will Never Be Another Red Hat,” Peter Levine argued that Red Hat’s open source business model of commercializing support and services was highly difficult to replicate. Instead, he predicted the…


  • Novel Coronavirus Updates: How Healthcare System, Tests Work; More

    This episode covers the following — since our previous deep-dive on the novel coronavirus outbreak — including: practical implications for the U.S. healthcare system given how it works today, and where we might go in…