a16z Podcast

  • Ben Horowitz and Travis Kalanick on Building Again

    Ben Horowitz, Travis Kalanick, and Erik Torenberg take the stage at Atoms’ launch event for a candid fireside conversation about entrepreneurship, company building, and why Kalanick believes the next industrial revolution will be powered by…

  • The Two Ways to Sell AI: Lighthouse or Landgrab?

    Elena Burger is joined by a16z’s Andy McCall and Joe Schmidt to break down two very different ways AI startups can go to market: the lighthouse and the landgrab. Should founders win a handful of…

  • Garry Tan on Taste, Agents and Founder Ambition

    Anish Acharya is joined by Garry Tan, President and CEO of Y Combinator, for a conversation about how AI is rewriting the startup playbook, why founders should be more ambitious than ever, and what two…

  • The CISO Playbook for AI Agents | Datadog

    a16z’s Joel De La Garza is joined by Emilio Escobar, Chief Information Security Officer at Datadog, to discuss what it takes to secure a company where nearly every employee is using AI and more than…

  • The Self-Improving Company | Kavak’s AI Playbook

    Angela Strange and Gabriel Vasquez are joined by Alejandro Maza Ayala, Chief Product & AI Officer at Kavak, to unpack how the Latin American used-car marketplace rebuilt itself around AI agents, with 96% of customer…

  • The Reality of AI-Powered Cyberattacks | Truffle Security & Socket

    Joel De La Garza is joined by Dylan Ayrey, co-founder and CEO of Truffle Security, and Feross Aboukhadijeh, founder and CEO of Socket, to discuss one of the biggest shifts happening in cybersecurity: AI models…

  • The Engine Powering Open-Source AI

    Elena Burger and Matt Bornstein are joined by Simon Mo, co-founder and CEO of Inferact, the open-source inference engine powering many of today’s most advanced AI applications. Together, they explore how open-source AI evolved from…

  • Three Startups Reinventing Critical Infrastructure

    This week, a16z American Dynamism Films premiered three short documentaries highlighting companies tackling some of America’s biggest industrial challenges: Ulysses, Mariana Materials, and Radiant. Before watching those films, we’re revisiting conversations with the founders behind…

  • OpenAI’s Joshua Achiam: Did We Already Reach AGI?

    Theo Jaffee is joined by Joshua Achiam, Chief Futurist at OpenAI, for a conversation on AI cybersecurity, frontier model capabilities, and why he believes society may have already crossed the threshold into an AGI-era without…

  • Ruby Thelot on Internet Culture, AI, and the Future of Taste

    Sophia Dew and Sofia Puccini are joined by Ruby Thelot, designer, artist, cyberethnographer, professor at NYU, and founder of 13101401, for a wide-ranging conversation about internet culture, AI, digital communities, and how technology is reshaping…

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