This year marked the beginning of our animated shorts and ongoing “mini-MOOCs“, now on YouTube — subscribe at https://www.youtube.com/c/a16zvideos. Thank you for watching, and thank you to our patient presenters for helping make them (and special thanks to our behind-the-scenes animators and video editors Kyle and Erin!). Look forward to more videos in the new year; in the meantime, here are some of our most popular ones from 2017…

1. 10 Year Futures (vs. What’s Happening Now)

2. Decrypting Crypto: From Bitcoin and Blockchain to the ICO

3. A Brief History of Credit Cards (or What Happens When You Swipe)

4. AI: What’s Working, What’s Not

5. When Machine Learning Becomes AI

Editors’ Picks…

…Hanne’s pick:

…Sonal’s pick: