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 ...

We’ve been financing good writing with bad advertising — and “attention monsters” (to quote Craig Mod) for way too long. So what ...

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 ...

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 ...

The federal agency known as the FDA, or the Food and Drug Administration, was born over 100 years ago—at the turn of the industrial revolution, in a time of ...

How does the world’s largest producer of medicines in terms of volume balance the science and the business of innovation? How does an enterprise at such vast ...

This is a turn of the decade (and January-themed) look backward/ look forward into personal genomics, given recent and past retrospective and prospective ...

Many skeptics thought the internet would never reach mass adoption, but today it’s shaping global culture, is integral to our lives — and it’s just ...

When innovation and capital go global, so do restrictions on trade, foreign investment, and more. Over the past couple years, U.S. policymakers have expanded ...

A bold proposal: You go to college for free, then pay back the school after graduation—but only if you get a job in your field of study and make a high enough ...

Hollywood and Silicon Valley seem so different, but are more alike than we think. What challenges do tech startup founders and other creative founders — ...

As part of a new series where we will share select a16z partner appearances on other podcasts with our audience here, this episode is cross-posted from the new ...

We’ve covered a lot of the strategic financing milestones for startups seeking to build a sustainable and enduring business — from mindsets for startup ...

There are some common tropes that can kill your company culture — whether it’s that corporate values can be weaponized; “fake it til you make ...

This podcast rerun — first recorded over two and a half years ago, now being rerun as one of our evergreen classics on the tails of the world’s ...

“Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon”, diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld once observed — and that ...

“Hi everyone, welcome to the a16z Podcast…” … and welcome to our 500th episode, where, for the first time, we reveal behind-the-scenes ...

Many technical founders, academics, and other experts often believe that great products — or great ideas! — sell themselves, without any extra ...

The games industry is in the midst of a tectonic shift. Powered by platform convergence, games-as-a-service, and user-generated content, modern video ...

Consumer software may have adopted and incorporated AI ahead of enterprise software, where the data is more proprietary, and the market is a few thousand ...