Welcome to the
a16z Podcast
As technology changes everything—not just in Silicon Valley or in traditional “tech” companies but across all industries—it’s also changing the way we all work, live, eat, learn, and play. Our network of shows aims to help make sense of it all: for builders, for the tech curious, for anyone seeking to understand the future, now.
Reviews
2024 Big Ideas: Miracle Drugs, Programmable Medicine, and AI Interpretability
By Julie Yoo, Jorge Conde, Anjney Midha, and Stephanie Smith
2024 Big Ideas: Miracle Drugs, Programmable Medicine, and AI Interpretability
By Julie Yoo, Jorge Conde, Anjney Midha, and Stephanie Smith
2024 Big Ideas: Voice-First Apps, AI Moats, Never-Ending Games, and Anime Takes Off
By Anish Acharya, Alex Immerman, Jonathan Lai, Robin Guo, and Stephanie Smith
2024 Big Ideas: Developer Influence, Maritime Upgrades, and New Video Intelligence
By Angela Strange, Kimberly Tan, Grant Gregory, and Stephanie Smith
All episodes
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Game On: Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
By Steph Smith, Marc Andreessen, and Andrew Chen -
Inside the Department of Defense and its Vision for the Future
By Steph Smith, Sharon Weinberger, and Kathleen Hicks -
Politics & the Future of Tech with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
By Steph Smith, Ben Horowitz, and Marc Andreessen -
The Real Price of Healthcare with Mark Cuban
By Steph Smith, David Ulevitch, and Mark Cuban -
Devoting Your Life to Reinventing a Broken System
By Steph Smith, Vijay Pande, Todd Park, and Ed Park -
Bringing AI to the Masses with Adam D’Angelo
By Steph Smith, Adam D'Angelo, and David George -
A Nuclear Comeback: Are New Reactors the Answer?
By Steph Smith, David Ulevitch, Kathryn Huff, and Doug Bernauer -
Intelligence in the Age of AI with new CTO of the CIA
By Derrick Harris, Martin Casado, and Nand Mulchandani -
From Silicon Valley to the Pentagon: The Future of Defense Innovation
By Steph Smith, Katherine Boyle, Doug Beck, Brandon Tseng, and Brian Schimpf -
What is American Dynamism?
By Steph Smith, Katherine Huff, Nand Mulchandani, Doug Beck, Mitch Lee, Ian Cinnamon, Doug Bernauer, Chris Bennett, Mike Slagh, Rahul Sidhu, and Wyatt Smith -
The Quest for True Signal: How Zynga Spotted Mobile
By Mark Pincus and Josh Lu -
Beyond Uncanny Valley: Breaking Down Sora
By Anjney Midha and Stefano Ermon -
Fraying Wires: The Decentralization of the Electric Grid
By Ryan EcEntush and Steph Smith -
Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities with Marc and Ben
By Steph Smith, Marc Andreessen, and Ben Horowitz -
Read Write Own: A New Era
By Steph Smith, Chris Dixon, Robert Hackett, and Sonal Chokshi -
The What, Who, and When with IPOs
By Steph Smith, Sonal Chokshi, Jeff Jordan, and J.D. Moriarty -
Jobs of the Future
By Steph Smith, Kai Roemmelt, and Lisa Gevelber -
Introducing Raising Health: Fireside Chat with Sean Duffy
By Steph Smith, Vijay Pande, and Sean Duffy -
Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter with Marc & Ben
By Steph Smith, Marc Andreessen, and Ben Horowitz -
Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public Safety
By Steph Smith, David Ulevitch, Garrett Langley, and Sheriff McMahill -
DNA's Potential to Store the World's Data
By Steph Smith and Vijay Pande -
A Year of Unlocks: 2023 In AI, Healthcare, Housing, and More
By Steph Smith -
The Future of Longevity with Tony Robbins
By Ben Horowitz, Marc Andreessen, and Tony Robbins -
2024 Big Ideas: Developer Influence, Maritime Upgrades, and New Video Intelligence
By Steph Smith, Angela Strange, Grant Gregory, and Kimberly Tan -
Text to Video: The Next Leap in AI Generation
By Andreas Blattmann, Robin Rombach, and Anjney Midha -
2024 Big Ideas: Voice-First Apps, AI Moats, Never-Ending Games, and Anime Takes Off
By Steph Smith, Anish Acharya, Alex Immerman, Jonathan Lai, and Robin Guo -
Safety in Numbers: Keeping AI Open
By Anjney Midha and Arthur Mensch -
2024 Big Ideas: Miracle Drugs, Programmable Medicine, and AI Interpretability
By Steph Smith, Julie Yoo, Jorge Conde, and Anjney Midha -
The Quest for AGI: Q*, Self-Play, and Synthetic Data
By Steph Smith and Anjney Midha -
Financial Freedom, Company Building, More with David Marcus
By Sonal Chokshi and David Marcus -
When Business is Battle: Inside the Boardrooms of the CEOs that Survived the Storm
By Steph Smith, Ben Horowitz, Ariel Cohen, Todd McKinnon, and David Ulevitch -
The Worlds She Sees with Godmother of AI, Fei-Fei Li
By Steph Smith, Fei Fei Li, and Vijay Pande -
From Sims to Sapiens: Crafting Reality with Code
By Steph Smith, Martin Casado, and Joon Park -
Fintech Fuels Global Payments
By Joe Schmidt, Gabriel Vasquez, and Angela Strange -
The Techno-Optimist Manifesto with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
By Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen -
A New Era of VR: From the Court to the Classroom
By Steph Smith, Paul Katsen, and Anurupa Ganguly -
When Will AI Hit the Enterprise? Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi Discuss
By Steph Smith, Ben Horowitz, and Ali Ghodsi -
When AI and Genomics Collide
By Steph Smith, Vijay Pande, and Daphne Koller -
AI Revolution: Disruption, Alignment, and Opportunity
By Steph Smith, Martin Casado, Mira Murati, Noam Shazeer, Dylan Field, David Baszucki, and Dario Amodei -
AI Revolution: Top Lessons from OpenAI, Anthropic, CharacterAI, & More
By Steph Smith, Martin Casado, Dario Amodei, Noam Shazeer, Mira Murati, and David Baszucki -
Engineering Rapidly Reusable Rockets
By Steph Smith and Andy Lapsa -
The Evolution of the Satellite Economy
By Steph Smith and John Gedmark -
AI x Crypto
By Sonal Chokshi, Dan Boneh, and Ali Yahya -
Salary Transparency: Clarity or Chaos?
By Steph Smith, Shannon Schiltz, and Brandon Cherry -
A True Second Brain
By Steph Smith, Nate Eliason, Dennis Xu, and Kevin Moody -
Wartime vs Peacetime: Ben Horowitz on Leadership
By Steph Smith, Ben Horowitz, and Jorge Conde -
From Big Bang to James Webb: Exploring Space with Nobel Laureate John Mather
By Steph Smith and John Mather -
Classroom 2050: Unleashing AI, XR, Gaming
By Steph Smith, Anurupa Ganguly, Sal Khan, Allison Matthews, and Romy Drucker -
The True Cost of Compute
By Steph Smith and Guido Appenzeller -
Chasing Silicon: The Race for GPUs
By Steph Smith and Guido Appenzeller
