In this episode from February 2017, a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz and Jason Rosenthal, former Lytro CEO (now Vice President, Subscription Services, at Google) ...
In this episode from February 2021, early Amazon execs Colin Bryar and Bill Carr — in conversation with a16z’s Sonal Chokshi — go beyond the ...
Gross margins–which are essentially a company’s revenue from products and services minus the costs to deliver those products and services to customers–are one ...
This week, we have a special crossover episode from June 2021: Joel Beasley, host of the Modern CTO podcast, interviews a16z general partner David Ulevitch ...
In this wide-ranging conversation from April 2019, a16z’s Frank Chen sits down with Ken Kocienda, a longtime software engineer and designer at Apple from 2001 ...
In this re-run from September 2018, Benedict Evans and Steven Sinofsky talk all about Tesla — and more broadly, the nature of disruption overall. How ...
In this episode from September 2020, originally recorded for the Commonwealth Club of California, Netflix CEO and co-founder Reed Hasting talks about his new ...
After achieving product-market fit and starting to gain users, how do startups then avoid the “leaky bucket” problem of losing users as quickly as ...
Once known as “growth hacking”, the concept of Growth has now evolved into an entire discipline that spans marketing, product management, user experience, and ...
Over a decade after the idea of “big data” was first born, data has become the central nervous system for decision-making in organizations of all sizes. ...
In the face of great uncertainty, how do you make decisions? Can you really apply the lessons of the past to the present and the future, to navigate seemingly ...
In his book (and podcast), Brian McCullough chronicles the history and evolution of the internet — from college kids in a basement and the dot-com boom, ...
original episode notes and transcript here: https://future.a16z.com/podcasts/textiles-technology-science-math-cultures-civilization/ Longtime podcast ...
original episode notes and transcript here: https://future.a16z.com/podcasts/innovating-in-bets/ Longtime podcast showrunner (2014-2022), primary host, and ...
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Welcome to the a16z podcast. Today we’re talking about the mindsets and frameworks founders should know about when navigating the mergers and acquisitions or ...
Innovation in the data center has been constrained by the traditional model of suppliers providing fixed-function chips that limit how much the biggest data ...
What are network effects? How do you cold start and get your first users? Atomic networks and why minimum viable community is more important than minimum ...
Given all the activity and interest recently around crypto and web3, as well as in upcoming holidays and art events, we’re re-running our episode all about ...
In today’s episode we’re talking about an emerging model of gaming called play to earn, in which players can make actual money based on how much time and ...
