a16z Podcast

  • How Transparent Pricing Drives Healthcare Change

    Dr. Marty Makary—surgical oncologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and health policy and innovation expert—has long been a passionate advocate for transparent pricing in the healthcare system. We don’t talk enough (or really…

  • Preserving Digital History: How to Close the Web’s ‘Memory Hole’

    More than 98% of the information on the web is lost within 20 years, and huge gaps exist in our digital and cultural history. Zoran Basich and Alex Pruden of a16z talk to Brewster Kahle…

  • Alex Honnold on Human Performance (part 2) – Climbing and Entrepreneurship

    In part 1 of our series on human performance, we looked at the limits of human potential in climbing and other sports – and how we push those limits through technology and training. In this…

  • Alex Honnold on Human Performance (part 1) – Where’s the Limit?

    Is there a limit to what humans can do? And if so, how do you know when you’ve reached it? Welcome to part one of a two-part series on human performance with professional rock climber…

  • Why We Shouldn’t Fear AI in Healthcare

    “Why We Shouldn’t Fear the ‘Black Box’ of AI (in Healthcare and Everywhere)” by Vijay Pande. First published in the New York Times, January 2018.  You can also find and share this article at a16z.com/aidoctor

  • When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China

    “When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China” by Connie Chan. First published August 2015.  You can also find and share this essay at a16z.com/mobilefirstchina

  • Every Company Is a Fintech Company

    “Why Every Company Will Be a Fintech Company — The Next Era of Financial Services and the ‘AWS Phase’ for Fintech” by Angela Strange. You can also find and share this essay at a16z.com/fintecheverywhere  …

  • Read-Alouds, Continued

    Today we’re continuing a series we started a while ago of read-alouds (for more context on the why and why now check out episode #500 on how we podcast!). The first was episode #544 in…

  • Journal Club: Revisiting Eroom’s Law

    Eroom’s Law is Moore’s Law spelled backwards. It’s a term that was coined in a Nature Reviews Drug Discovery article by researchers at Sanford Bernstein and describes the exponential decrease in biopharma research and development…

  • Preventing Pandemics with Genomic Epidemiology

    The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the visibility of scientists and the scientific process to the broader public; suddenly, scientists working on virology and infectious disease dynamics have seen their public profiles rapidly expand. One such…

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