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  • Bio Eats World: The Fundamental Principles of Reality
    Frank Wilczek, Lauren Richardson, and Hanne Winarsky

    What are the fundamental principles that govern the physical world around us, and how did we get to them? In this episode of Bio Eats World, hosts Hanne Winarsky and Lauren Richardson talk to Nobel prize-winning physicis...

  • Bio Eats World: The Cost Disease in Healthcare
    Marc Andreessen and Vijay Pande

    How come things like healthcare, education, and housing get more and more expensive, but things like socks, shoes, and electronics all get cheaper and cheaper? In this episode of Bio Eats World, a16z founder and internet...

  • 16 Minutes #46: Apple Silicon — A Long Game, Changing the Game
    Steven Sinofsky and Sonal Chokshi

    We cover the latest coming out of Apple’s event last week, where they announced the first new lineups of devices based on Apple Silicon M1 chips, which officially came out today. And since there’s already plenty of analysis on performance, benchmarks, and more, we cover the big picture: Apple’s moving away from Intel chips, and to their own chips (that run on the Arm instruction set); what does it all mean?

  • Textiles as Tech, Science, Math, Culture… or Civilization
    Virginia Postrel and Sonal Chokshi

    The story of textiles IS the story, history, and evolution of technology and science (across all kinds of fields, from biology to chemistry); of commerce (as well as management, measurement, machines); but most of all, of civilization (vs. just culture) itself. That's what Virginia Postrel's new book, The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World is all about. But it is in fact a story of innovation, of human ingenuity... which is also the theme of the a16z Podcast.

  • What We Can’t Reveal We Can’t Heal
    Terry Brown, Shaka Senghor, and Ben Horowitz

    Given recent events around George Floyd and far beyond, this special episode of the a16z Podcast features Shaka Senghor, a leading advocate for criminal justice reform (and bestselling author), and Terry Brown, a former...

  • 16 Minutes on the News #32: Section 230, Content Moderation, Free Speech, the Internet
    Mike Masnick and Sonal Chokshi

    In this special "2x" episode (#32) of our news show 16 Minutes -- where we quickly cover the headlines and tech trends, offering analysis, frameworks, explainers, and more -- we cover the tricky but important topic of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The 1996 law has been in the headlines a lot recently, in the context of Twitter, the president's tweets, and an executive order put out by the White House just this week on quote- "preventing online censorship". All of this is playing out against the broader, more profound cultural context and events around the death of George Floyd in Minnesota and beyond, and ongoing old-new debates around content moderation on social media.

  • The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape
    Marc Andreessen and Mike Maples jr

    In this special guest hosted episode -- cross-posted from the new show Starting Greatness (featuring interviews with startup builders before they were successful, hosted by Mike Maples jr) -- Marc Andreessen shares some rare, behind-the-scenes details of his story from 0 to 1... from the University of Illinois and Mosaic to Netscape.

  • Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future
    Marc Andreessen and Kevin Kelly

    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 the beginning. In this conversation from our 2019 innovati...

  • The Stories and Code of Culture Change
    Ben Horowitz and Sonal Chokshi

    In any company, even the seemingly smallest behaviors will influence your culture, while the loudest proclamations won't.

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  • Bio Eats World: The Fundamental Principles of Reality
    Frank Wilczek, Lauren Richardson, and Hanne Winarsky

    What are the fundamental principles that govern the physical world around us, and how did we get to them? In this episode of Bio Eats World, hosts Hanne Winarsky and Lauren Richardson talk to Nobel prize-winning physicis...

  • Bio Eats World: The Cost Disease in Healthcare
    Marc Andreessen and Vijay Pande

    How come things like healthcare, education, and housing get more and more expensive, but things like socks, shoes, and electronics all get cheaper and cheaper? In this episode of Bio Eats World, a16z founder and internet...

  • 16 Minutes #46: Apple Silicon — A Long Game, Changing the Game
    Steven Sinofsky and Sonal Chokshi

    We cover the latest coming out of Apple’s event last week, where they announced the first new lineups of devices based on Apple Silicon M1 chips, which officially came out today. And since there’s already plenty of analysis on performance, benchmarks, and more, we cover the big picture: Apple’s moving away from Intel chips, and to their own chips (that run on the Arm instruction set); what does it all mean?

  • Textiles as Tech, Science, Math, Culture… or Civilization
    Virginia Postrel and Sonal Chokshi

    The story of textiles IS the story, history, and evolution of technology and science (across all kinds of fields, from biology to chemistry); of commerce (as well as management, measurement, machines); but most of all, of civilization (vs. just culture) itself. That's what Virginia Postrel's new book, The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World is all about. But it is in fact a story of innovation, of human ingenuity... which is also the theme of the a16z Podcast.

  • What We Can’t Reveal We Can’t Heal
    Terry Brown, Shaka Senghor, and Ben Horowitz

    Given recent events around George Floyd and far beyond, this special episode of the a16z Podcast features Shaka Senghor, a leading advocate for criminal justice reform (and bestselling author), and Terry Brown, a former...

  • 16 Minutes on the News #32: Section 230, Content Moderation, Free Speech, the Internet
    Mike Masnick and Sonal Chokshi

    In this special "2x" episode (#32) of our news show 16 Minutes -- where we quickly cover the headlines and tech trends, offering analysis, frameworks, explainers, and more -- we cover the tricky but important topic of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The 1996 law has been in the headlines a lot recently, in the context of Twitter, the president's tweets, and an executive order put out by the White House just this week on quote- "preventing online censorship". All of this is playing out against the broader, more profound cultural context and events around the death of George Floyd in Minnesota and beyond, and ongoing old-new debates around content moderation on social media.

  • The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape
    Marc Andreessen and Mike Maples jr

    In this special guest hosted episode -- cross-posted from the new show Starting Greatness (featuring interviews with startup builders before they were successful, hosted by Mike Maples jr) -- Marc Andreessen shares some rare, behind-the-scenes details of his story from 0 to 1... from the University of Illinois and Mosaic to Netscape.

  • The Stories and Code of Culture Change
    Ben Horowitz and Sonal Chokshi

    In any company, even the seemingly smallest behaviors will influence your culture, while the loudest proclamations won't.

  • 16 Minutes on the News #11: CRISPR — Policy, Platform, Trials
    Jorge Conde, Andy Tran, and Sonal Chokshi

    This is the 11th episode of 16 Minutes, a weekly show where we quickly cover the top headlines of the week, the a16z Podcast way: why are these topics in the news; what’s real, what’s hype -- from our vantage point in tech. This week, we do a 20-ish minute deep-dive on CRISPR, to tease apart the FUD from the facts given a bunch of recent news (not research!) around the gene-editing platform.

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