More About Derrick
Derrick Harris is an editor at a16z, managing the content workflow across the Infra and American Dynamism teams.
He joined from VMware, where he managed editorial and content for the cloud-native Tanzu business unit. Prior to that, he managed various content marketing functions, among other things, at a handful of early-stage, growth-stage, and publicly traded enterprise software companies. Derrick began his career as a journalist, most notably at Gigaom, where he covered the burgeoning fields of cloud computing, (big) data, and AI.
Derrick has a B.A. in print journalism, and a J.D. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is an unabashed metalhead, a semi-avid reader, and still trains in muay thai.
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a16z Infra partners Guido Appenzeller, Matt Bornstein, and Yoko Li discuss and debate one of the tech industry's buzziest words right now: AI agents.
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A 2024 highlight reel from the AI + a16z podcast, featuring insights, advice, and experiences from building AI companies.
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Decagon CEO Jesse Zhang and a16z's Kimberly Tan discuss how LLMs are reshaping customer support and how AI agents enable a disruptive pricing model.
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a16z General Partner Anjney Midha discusses the Nobel Prizes awarded to AI researchers, and how work dating back decades led to today's AI-powered world.
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Oxygen is an a16z program that helps AI startup founders navigate their compute challenges and access the GPUs and other resources they require.
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Ambience cofounder Nikhil Buduma discusses how to build vertical applications with AI models, including in health care, and why tech expertise isn't enough.
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Vijay Pande, PhD, founding partner of a16z Bio + Health, joins Derrick Harris, host of the AI + a16z podcast.
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MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani discusses DuckDB's spiking popularity as the era of big data wanes, as well as the nexus of SQL and LLMs.
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Vijay Pande walks us through two decades of applying software engineering and AI to biotech and health care — from Folding@Home through AlphaFold and more.
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