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a16z Podcast
The a16z Show discusses tech and culture trends, news, and the future – especially as ‘software eats the world’. It features industry experts, business leaders, and other interesting thinkers and voices from around the world. This show is produced by Andreessen Horowitz (aka “a16z”), a Silicon Valle...
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Wartime vs Peacetime: Ben Horowitz on Leadership
In this exclusive conversation from a16z’s Bio and Health BUILD Summit, founding partner Ben Horowitz sits down with general partner Jorge Conde. Orig...
The Techno-Optimist Manifesto with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
Originally aired in October 2023, this episode centers on Marc Andreessen’s essay The Techno-Optimist Manifesto, which lays out his vision for the fut...
The Inside Story of Growth Investing at a16z
This episode is a special replay of David George’s conversation with Harry Stebbings on 20VC. David is a General Partner on a16z’s growth team, and in...
Why a16z's Martin Casado Believes the AI Boom Still Has Years to Run
This episode is a special replay from The Generalist Podcast, featuring a conversation with a16z General Partner Martin Casado. Martin has lived throu...
Where Does Consumer AI Stand at the End of 2025?
As 2025 comes to a close, consumer AI is entering a new phase. A small number of products now dominate everyday use, multimodal models have unlocked e...
Big Ideas 2026: New Infrastructure Primitives
New infrastructure primitives are creating entirely new rails for building.
In this episode of Big Ideas 2026, we explore three foundational shi...
Big Ideas 2026: Physical AI and the Industrial Stack
AI is moving into the physical economy.
In this episode of Big Ideas 2026, we explore what changes when AI leaves the screen and becomes part of...
Big Ideas 2026: Voice Agents and High-Stakes Trust
Voice is becoming one of the fastest paths for AI to do real work, especially in regulated environments where accuracy and compliance matter. In this...
Big Ideas 2026: The Enterprise Orchestration Layer
AI is becoming the orchestration layer inside the enterprise.
In this episode of Big Ideas 2026, we explore the shift from isolated AI copilots...
Big Ideas 2026: The Agentic Interface
AI is moving from chat to action.
In this episode of Big Ideas 2026, we unpack three shifts shaping what comes next for AI products. The change...
The Rise, Fall & Reset of The Fintech Industry
Fintech went from a full-blown surge to a near standstill in just two years. At its peak, about 25 percent of all venture dollars were pouring into th...
Do Revenue and Margins Still Matter in AI?
In this episode, we’re sharing a conversation with David George, General Partner at a16z on the firm’s growth investing team. David has been involved...
The Crime Crisis In America and How Technology Fixes It
What if America tried to eliminate crime instead of just reacting to it? Not with slogans, but with staffing, technology, and strategy scaled to the p...
Ryo Lu (Cursor): AI Turns Designers to Developers
Ryo Lu spent years watching his designs die in meetings. Then he discovered the tool that lets designers ship code at the speed of thought: Cursor, th...
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 generalizatio...
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 i...
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 pe...
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...
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. Pre...
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 cr...
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 en...
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 th...
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.
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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...
How OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning
In this episode, a16z GP Martin Casado sits down with Sherwin Wu, Head of Engineering for the OpenAI Platform, to break down how OpenAI organizes its...
Ben Horowitz: Why Open Source AI Will Determine America's Future
Ben Horowitz reveals why the US already lost the AI culture war to China—and it wasn't the technology that failed. While Biden's team played Manhattan...
The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz sit down with Margit Wennmachers—the woman who turned two unknown entrepreneurs with $300 million and zero investing...
How Marc Andreessen Actually Uses AI
Half a billion people can access the world’s best AI on their phone. So why are most using it to write emails while only some are using it to build em...
The 2045 Superintelligence Timeline: Epoch AI’s Data-Driven Forecast
Epoch AI researchers reveal why Anthropic might beat everyone to the first gigawatt datacenter, why AI could solve the Riemann hypothesis in 5 years,...
Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
Vlad Tenev built Robinhood by breaking every rule Wall Street wrote: zero commissions when competitors charged $10, mobile-first when "serious" invest...
Can Community Banks Survive the Next SVB? | ModernFi CEO Paolo Bertolotti and Former Comptroller Gene Ludwig
The former bank regulator who invented deposit networks just revealed why SVB's collapse was inevitable—and why the solution that could have saved the...
Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We’re Fixing It)
Palmer Luckey got fired from Meta for backing the wrong candidate—now he's the hero saving American defense, and that shift tells you everything about...
Emmett Shear on Building AI That Actually Cares: Beyond Control and Steering
Emmett Shear, founder of Twitch and former OpenAI interim CEO, challenges the fundamental assumptions driving AGI development. In this conversation wi...
The Brutal Truth About Biotech: Why $2B Per Drug Is Killing Innovation
Two venture capitalists dissect why biotech burns billions while China runs trials in weeks—and why the next Genentech won't look anything like the la...
The Frontier of Spatial Intelligence with Fei-Fei Li
Fei-Fei Li and Justin Johnson are pioneers in AI. While the world has only recently witnessed a surge in consumer AI, they have long been laying the g...
Rocket Mortgage CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis
The Empire State Building took 110 days to build—today, changing a window would take two years.
Alex Rampell (a16z) and Varun Krishna (Rocket C...
Grant Lee: Building Gamma’s AI Presentation Company to 100 Million Users
Grant Lee was told Gamma was "the worst idea ever heard" by an investor who hung up mid-Zoom—yet he built it to 100 million users and $100M ARR withou...
Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
When four MIT grads decided to build a code editor while everyone else was building AI agents, they created the fastest-growing developer tool ever bu...
a16z's State of Crypto: The $4 Trillion Milestone and What's Next'
The regulatory environment has completely inverted. Stablecoins are now a top 20 holder of US treasuries. Every major bank wants in. In a16z Crypto's...
Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?
Adam D’Angelo (Quora/Poe) thinks we're 5 years from automating remote work. Amjad Masad (Replit) thinks we're brute-forcing intelligence without under...