a16z Podcast

  • Crypto Security and the New Web3 Mindsets for Users

    Today’s episode is all about crypto security — that is, the new mindsets and the new strategies for storing crypto assets safely while also allowing holders control and access. As a reminder, none of the…

  • Cloud Wars and Company Wars: Play Nice But Win

    There are lots of challenges in being public while trying to innovate, and limits to being a private company as well; but it’s rare to see a company go public then private then back to…

  • Uncontrolled Spread: Science, Policy, Institutions, Infrastructure

    There’s no question technology played a huge role in the recent/current pandemic, including especially in the plug-and-play engineering and incredibly fast development behind the mRNA vaccines… But is there an even bigger role for the…

  • Systems Leadership for Disruptors and Incumbents

    There’s been a false dichotomy in technology and management lore over the past decade, between “brain” and “brawn”, digital and physical, independence and interdependence, software culture versus industrial culture… or so observes Stanford Graduate School…

  • NFT Use Cases, Today and Tomorrow

    Recently, a16z and the Stanford Center for Blockchain Research hosted the NFT Virtual Summit, which brought together leading thinkers and builders on the topic of NFTs, or non-fungible tokens — these tokens are enabling new…

  • Man, Mosquito, Malaria Vaccine

    Playing out against the backdrop of a global pandemic (including recent massive surges in regions around the world) is the news that came out a week ago that a candidate “malaria vaccine becomes first to…

  • Crypto, an Oral Essay

    This is a special episode of the a16z podcast — it’s an audio history, told through the voices of the a16z crypto team, about what crypto is, how it really works, and why it matters.…

  • On Monetizing Community with Patreon Cofounder Sam Yam

    It’s clear from the growth of Patreon, Substack, TikTok, Clubhouse and many more that the power of the Creator Economy continues to build. These platforms share one thing in common: They all enable independent creators to…

  • The Creator Economy: NFTs and Beyond

    In today’s episode of the a16z Podcast, we’re talking about the Creator Economy, and how NFTs (but not just NFTS!) are making it possible for artists, musicians, videogamers, game developers, and writers to create entirely…

  • All about NFTs

    This episode is all about NFTs. It seems like nothing has caught on and spread into mainstream interest like NFTs, where one hears everything from “I’ve never seen anything like this before” to “is this…

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