a16z Podcast

  • Dwarkesh and Ilya Sutskever on What Comes After Scaling

    AI models feel smarter than their real-world impact. They ace benchmarks, yet still struggle with reliability, strange bugs, and shallow generalization. Why is there such a gap between what they can do on paper and…

  • AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift

    AI is reshaping the tech landscape, but a big question remains: is this just another platform shift, or something closer to electricity or computing in scale and impact? Some industries may be transformed. Others may…

  • How the Best CEOs Delegate

    Jonathan Swanson has built two rare successes: Thumbtack, the home-services marketplace, and Athena, the fast-growing platform that pairs ambitious people with world-class personal assistants. Today he runs a 4,000-person company, invests on the side, and…

  • The $3 Trillion AI Coding Opportunity

    Originally published on the a16z Infra podcast. We’re resurfacing it here for our main feed audience. AI coding is already actively changing how software gets built. a16z Infra Partners Yoko Li and Guido Appenzeller break…

  • The 80-Year Bet: Why Naveen Rao Is Rebuilding the Computer from Scratch

    Naveen Rao is cofounder and CEO of Unconventional AI, an AI chip startup building analog computing systems designed specifically for intelligence. Previously, Naveen led AI at Databricks and founded two successful companies: Mosaic (cloud computing)…

  • What Comes After ChatGPT? The Mother of ImageNet Predicts The Future

    Fei-Fei Li is a Stanford professor, co-director of Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and co-founder of World Labs. She created ImageNet, the dataset that sparked the deep learning revolution. Justin Johnson is her former…

  • The Psychology Every Founder Needs Right Now | a16z GP Reveals Secrets to Success

    Recently, a16z General Partner Anish Acharya joined Ollie Forsyth on NEW ECONOMIES. They talked about why consumer tech is surging again, how AI is enabling 100M-user products at unprecedented speed, and what founders need to…

  • Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They’ve Changed)

    a16z General Partners David Haber, Alex Rampell, and Erik Torenberg discuss why 19 out of 20 AI startups building the same thing will die – and why the survivor might charge $20,000 for what used…

  • How To Lead | Ben Horowitz on My First Million

    A16Z co-founder Ben Horowitz joins Shaan Puri and Sam Parr on My First Million to talk about how to be a great leader. Resources: Follow Ben on X: https://x.com/bhorowitz Follow Shaan on X: https://x.com/ShaanVP Follow…

  • The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One’s Talking About

    Russ Fradin sold his first company for $300M. He’s back in the arena with Larridin, helping companies measure just how successful their AI actually is. In this episode, Russ sits down with a16z General Partner…

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