a16z Podcast

  • 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…

  • 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…

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