In this episode of Bio Eats World, a16z founder and internet pioneer Marc Andreessen and general partner Jorge Conde zoom out to discuss the large scale societal effects of the current pandemic on society, healthcare, bi...

The combination of cloud, social, and mobile took gaming beyond a small base of just console- and PC-gamers to a massive player base. But the underlying business model — the concept of “free-to-play”, b...

There are many reasons why we’re in an “A.I. spring” after multiple “A.I. winters” — but how then do we tease apart what’s real vs. what’s hype when it comes to the (legitimate!) e...

There have been a number of new device announcements this past month — from Google’s new Pixel phone (the first time they made their own phone on the hardware side as well) to more recently, Apple’s announceme...

The most recent Oculus Connect event (the third and largest yet) has been lauded as bringing us closer than ever to the future promised for virtual reality or VR. There have been many hardware moves by many players, ...

Why does the cost of education and healthcare services continue to rise rapidly, while the cost of goods rise much more slowly? According to economics theory, wages rise when there’s greater productivity; but a rise wi...

In a follow-up to one of our most popular podcast episodes that originally aired in April 2017, a16z crypto general partner Chris Dixon returns to talk with Olaf Carlson-Wee of Polychain Capital in a free-wheeling conver...

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There’s an “the s-curve” to the life cycle of much technology innovation, and a16z partner Benedict Evans explains what it is and why it’s important. For example, personal computers, the internet, and...

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