a16z Podcast

  • Metrics and Mindsets for Retention & Engagement

    It’s “Marketplaces Week” for us at a16z, thanks to our consumer team releasing a new index of the next industry-defining marketplaces, the Marketplace 100.   But what happens as such marketplaces and other platforms evolve…

  • Tough Love, Global Diplomacy, and Lessons on Leadership

    Susan shares how she learned to leverage the characteristics of her personality early in her career as assistant secretary of state [2:05] One of the important conversations Susan had with a mentor that changed the…

  • Building the First CAR T Company

    with @OzAzamTmunity1, @JorgeCondeBio, and @omnivorousread CAR T therapy, the groundbreaking new medicines that uses engineered T-cells to attack cancer, has been so effective in childhood leukemias that we believe it may actually be a potential…

  • Rebel Talent

    When we think about rebellious behavior in the context of organizations and companies, we tend to think of rebels as trouble-makers, rabble-rousers; in other words, people who make decisions and processes more difficult because they…

  • All about the Coronavirus

    This episode of 16 Minutes on the news from a16z is all about the recent coronavirus outbreak — or rather, a new type of coronavirus called 2019-nCoV for 2019 novel coronavirus. Since it’s an ongoing…

  • The Truth about 1000 True Fans + Pricing Our Attention

    The idea of “1000 true fans” — first proposed by Kevin Kelly in 2008 and later updated for Tools of Titans — argued that to be a successful creator, you don’t need millions of customers…

  • Writers Writing, Readers Reading, Creators Creating

    We’ve been financing good writing with bad advertising — and “attention monsters” (to quote Craig Mod) for way too long. So what happens when the technology for creators finally falls into place? We’re finally starting…

  • What’s Next for the Internet?

    How can we evolve the web for a better future? Has the web become a mature platform — or are we still in the early days of knowing what it can do and what role…

  • Controlling AI

    AI can do a lot of specific tasks as well as, or even better than, humans can — for example, it can more accurately classify images, more efficiently process mail, and more logically manipulate a…

  • Food, Drugs, and Tech—100 Years of Public Health

    The federal agency known as the FDA, or the Food and Drug Administration, was born over 100 years ago—at the turn of the industrial revolution, in a time of enormous upheaval and change, and rapidly…