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The a16z Podcast discusses tech and culture trends, news, and the future -- especially as ‘software eats the world’. It features industry experts, business leaders, and other interesting thinkers and voices from around the world. This podcast is produced by Andreessen Horowitz…
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- 01How Does Bending Spoons Use Debt Without Risking the Company?How Bending Spoons Built a $20 Billion Compounder | Luca Ferrari
- 02When Is Optimization a Better Bet Than Invention?How Bending Spoons Built a $20 Billion Compounder | Luca Ferrari
- 03How Does Bending Spoons Improve the Companies It Buys?How Bending Spoons Built a $20 Billion Compounder | Luca Ferrari
- 04How Much of Bending Spoons Code Is Written by AI?How Bending Spoons Built a $20 Billion Compounder | Luca Ferrari
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- 07Is AI Really a Threat to SaaS Companies?How Bending Spoons Built a $20 Billion Compounder | Luca Ferrari
- 08Why Do Founders Avoid a 100x or Nothing Bet?How Bending Spoons Built a $20 Billion Compounder | Luca Ferrari
- 09Why Does Bending Spoons Optimize Free Cash Flow?How Bending Spoons Built a $20 Billion Compounder | Luca Ferrari
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- Cloud Wars, Company Wars, and Innovating Through Change
- How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit
- The Fintech Opportunity for Students and Gen Z
- How to Make Better Decisions
- Learning from Open Source Communities
- The Art and Science of Moderating Discussions
- Tiktok's Algorithm and Creativity Network Effects
- From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
- Crisis Communications 101
- All About Synthetic Biology
- Mining the Data for Cobalt
- Applying AI in B2B
- More from Less: The Environment, Capitalism, and Technology
- Blockchains, crypto, & web3: Connections, models, more
- Crypto, an Oral Essay
- Stories of Startup Survival Mode
- Innovating While Scaling: Lessons from Amazon
- When Gross Margins Matter
- The Founder to Investor Journey
- Inside Apple Software Design
- Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
- Designing a Culture of Reinvention
- The Basics of Growth Marketing: Engagement & Retention
- The Basics of Growth Marketing: User Acquisition
- The Great Data Debate
- Principles for Work and Life
- How the Internet Happened
- Technologies & Threads Through the Fabric of Our Lives
- Innovating and Deciding, for Companies and People
- Geo-engineering and the Power of Narrative
- M&A, Before and After: What Founders Need to Know
- How 'Hyperscalers' are Innovating — and Competing — in the Data Center
- Kickstarting Network Effects
- NFTs, Explained
- Play-to-Earn Gaming and How Work is Evolving in Web3
- On container ships, supply chains, and the physical world
- Crypto Security and the New Web3 Mindsets for Users
- Cloud Wars and Company Wars: Play Nice but Win
- Uncontrolled Spread: Science, Policy, Institutions, Infrastructure
- Systems Leadership for Disruptors and Incumbents
- NFT Use Cases, Today and Tomorrow
- Man, Mosquito, Malaria Vaccine
- Crypto, an Oral Essay
- On Monetizing Community with Patreon Cofounder Sam Yam
- The Creator Economy: NFTs and Beyond
- All about NFTs
- The Next Wave of Marketplace Startups
- The Third Vaccine, and Vaccine Choice
- Companies & Culture: What You Do Is Who You Are
- Boss Talk
- All About Ransomware
- One on One with Marc and Ben
- Amazon Narratives: Memos, Working Backwards from Release, More
- Anatomy of the SolarWinds Hack: Who What Where When How
- Psychedelics: Striking a Balance Between Benefits and Side Effects
- Developers as Creatives
- Section 230: Everything You Need to Know -- Tweets, Free Speech, Beyond
- Baumol's Cost Disease, in Healthcare... and Where We Go Next
- Words of 2020! (and Metaphors, and Interfaces of the Year)
- The Machine That Made the Vaccine: Company, Platform, Innovation
- The PPP Omnibus: Eminent Domain, Fraud, and Fintech
- The Holy Grail of Social + Fintech
- On Fear and Leadership: Product to Sales CTOs & CEOs
- On Food as Medicine (a Holiday Snack)
- Crypto for Creators: From Art Galleries to 'Tokenized' Collectibles
- What to Know about Those Vaccines
- Cloud Gaming: The Progress and the Mind-Bending Promise
- The Great Data Debate
- How to Moderate
- Textiles as Tech, Science, Math, Culture... or Civilization
- Data Alone Is Not Enough: the Evolution of Data Architectures
- Designing for, Marketing to, and Partnering With Gen Z
- The Present Future of Audio: Talk, Music, Video, Interactivity
- Tracking the Trends: AI, WebRTC, Crypto, and Full Stack Startups
- How to Decide, Convey vs. Convince, & More
- Fintech for Gen Z and Millennials
- Degrading Drugs for Problem Proteins: Journal Club now on Bio Eats World (ep 2)
- The Biology of Aging: Introducing Bio Eats World (ep 1)
- TikTok & Beyond: The Algorithm Question, The Future of Product
- The New Fan Club: Creators, Fans, and the Power of Markets (& Crypto)
- So You Want to Launch a Newsletter: Tips From Substack Writers
- Designing a Culture of Reinvention
- The Myths of Heroes in Entrepreneurship -- with Guy Raz
- The Myths and Question of Education
- COVID Relief and Fraud: Willful Deceit or Design Defect?
- Measuring & Managing Community Orgs, Developer Relations and Beyond
- Reining in Complexity: Data Science & Future of AI/ML Businesses
- Online Learning and the Ed Tech Debate
- On Vaccines and Vaccinology, in COVID and Beyond
- Turning Open Source Developers Into Superfans
- Journal Club: Slaying the Sleeper Cells of Aging with CAR T
- Working, Making, Creating in Public... and Private
- GPT-3: What's Hype, What's Real on the Latest in AI
- Taking the Pulse on Medical Device Security
- Journal Club: a New Path to Antibiotic Resistance
- Cybercrime, Incorporated
- How Transparent Pricing Drives Healthcare Change
- Preserving Digital History: How to Close the Web's 'Memory Hole'
- Alex Honnold on Human Performance (part 2) – Climbing and Entrepreneurship
- Alex Honnold on Human Performance (part 1) – Where's the Limit?
- Why We Shouldn’t Fear AI in Healthcare
- When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China
- Every Company Is a Fintech Company
- Read-Alouds, Continued
- Journal Club: Revisiting Eroom's Law
- Preventing Pandemics with Genomic Epidemiology
- Journal Club: Therapeutic Video Game on Trial
- Gross Margins, Early to Late: What They Do (and Don't) Tell You
- Building Products for Power Users
- Journal Club: Building a Better Chloroplast
- Real Estate in a Pandemic: Renters and Landlords (Part 2)
- Real Estate in a Pandemic: Homeowners and Buyers (Part 1)
- World’s Largest Supercomputer v. Biology’s Toughest Problems
- The Return of Home-based Healthcare
- The Future of Primary Care
- All about Section 230: What It Does and Doesn't Say
- What We Can't Reveal We Can't Heal
- SaaS Go-to-Upmarket
- New Fan Engagement Models for Athletes and Influencers
- Don't Call it a Brain in a Dish!
- Pandemics: Early Detection, Networks, Spreaders
- Podcasting and the Future of Audio
- Growth in Turbulent Times
- Journal Club: Using CRISPR to Prevent Coronavirus and Influenza Infection
- What's Next in Gaming
- Undruggable Drugs
- The Next Generation of Cultural Influencers in Tech
- The Chief Security Officer in (and out of) a Crisis
- Journal Club: Finding New Antibiotics with Machine Learning, What Coronavirus Structures Tell Us
- Introducing Journal Club
- What the Narrow Waist of the Internet Means for Innovation Today
- IT'S TIME TO BUILD
- Introducing Read Alouds
- The Passion Economy: Redefining Work
- When Bad Policy = Bad Business Models = Bad Public Health
- Moving to Remote Development (and Work)
- Virtual Oncology
- The Story of Schizophrenia
- Navigating the Numbers
- Gaming and Live-Streaming: Connecting While Distancing
- The Hustlers's Guide to Suing the Man
- The Hustler's Guide to Taking Care of Old Folks
- The Hustler's Guide to Nursing Jobs
- Hustlin' Tech, Round Two
- Security When the Workforce Goes Remote
- Is This the End of Eating Out?
- Remote Work and Our New Virtual, Live-Streaming Reality
- When Medicine Goes Virtual
- Labs for Diagnostics: Then, Now, and Next
- How a16z's Crypto Startup School Went Remote
- Drowning in Debt, Eager to Share: When Fintech Meets Social
- Innovation Through Software Development and IT
- The Open Source CIO
- Novel Coronavirus Updates: Healthcare System, Tests Work; More
- Metrics and Mindsets for Retention & Engagement
- Tough Love, Global Diplomacy, and Lessons on Leadership
- Building the First CAR T Company
- Rebel Talent
- All about the Coronavirus
- The Truth about a 1000 True Fans (and Our Attention)!
- Writers Writing, Readers Reading, Creators Creating
- What's Next for the Internet?
- Controlling AI
- Food, Drugs, and Tech—100 Years of Public Health
- On Pharma Trends and Big Company Innovation
- Personal Genomics: Where Are We, Really?
- Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future
- What to Know about CFIUS
- Are ISAs the Solution to Student Debt?
- Shonda Rhimes on How to Create Stories (and Products) People Want
- The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape
- a16z Podcast: Direct Listings, Myths and Facts
- The Stories and Code of Culture Change
- Of Container Ships, Supply Chains, and Retail
- Nursing Today, From the Bedside and Beyond
- How We Podcast
- Brand Building Ideas… and People
- Come for the Games, Stay for the Party
- AI in B2B
- Free Software and Open Source Business
- Of Emojis and Innovation
- The Environment, Capitalism, Technology
- 16 Minutes on the News #10: Amazon to Deliver Healthcare, Oculus & VR/AR, Google Quantum Supremacy?
- New Business Models for Gaming, Collaboration, Creativity
- 16 Minutes on the News #9: All the Recent Phone Hacks
- a16z Podcast: The Biology of Pain
- 16 Minutes on the News #8: Apple Camera, Services; Wearables - Where are We
- a16z Podcast: How to Pay for Healthcare Based on Health
- The Hustler's Guide to the Hair Business
- The Hustler's Guide to Preschool
- Introducing Hustlin' Tech
- a16z Podcast: Making Culture, Making Influence -- Dapper Dan!
- a16z Podcast: From the Internet's Past to the Future of Crypto
- a16z Podcast: What to Know about FedRAMP
- 16 Minutes on the News #7: Apple Card, BEC Scams Federal Indictment
- a16z Podcast: Software has eaten the world...and healthcare is next
- 16 Minutes on the News #6: Health Claims, Corporate Breaches
- 16 Minutes on the News #5: Fed Real-time Payments, Death of Retail
- 16 Minutes on the News: the Opioid Crisis
- 16 Minutes on the News: Fortnite, Esports, Gaming, and Entertainment
- 16 Minutes on the News: Mobile Malware, Drug Pricing
- a16z Podcast: The Search for the Secret Metal that Powers All Our Devices
- 16 Minutes on the News This Week: Neuralink & Brain Interfaces, TikTok, FaceApp, iHeartRadio
- a16z Podcast: How To Get The Most From Your Board
- a16z Podcast: How To Raise Money From A Venture Investor
- a16z Podcast: How To Understand And Choose A Venture Investor
- a16z Podcast: Beyond Zero Sum, Again
- a16z Podcast: Beyond Software, to Talent and Culture
- a16z Podcast: Beyond Software Eating the World
- a16z Podcast: Beyond Disruption Theory
- a16z Podcast: Entrepreneurs, Then and Now
- a16z Podcast: Damage-free Genome Editing -- Next in CRISPR
- a16z Podcast: Stories from the Frontlines of Synthetic Fraud
- a16z Podcast: The History and Future of Machine Learning
- a16z Podcast: The Politics of Technology
- a16z Podcast: AI and Your Doctor, Today and Tomorrow
- a16z Podcast: Deep Learning for the Life Sciences
- a16z Podcast: The Power of Restorative Justice
- a16z Podcast: The Economics of Expensive Medicines
- a16z Podcast: Collectively Driving Change
- a16z Podcast: What Time Is It? From Technical to Product to Sales CEO
- a16z Podcast: Five Open Problems Toward Building a Blockchain Computer
- a16z Podcast: A Guide to Making Data-Based Decisions in Health, Parenting... and Life
- a16z Podcast: Innovating in Bets
- a16z Podcast: Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing
- a16z Podcast: The Future Of Decision-Making—3 Startup Opportunities
- a16z Podcast: So You Wanna Build a Software Company in Healthcare?
- a16z Podcast: Inside Apple Software Design
- a16z Podcast: Fintech for Startups and Incumbents
- a16z Podcast: A Podcast About Podcasting
- a16z Podcast: How Many Taps in the Apple (Plus) Tree?
- a16z Podcast: Incenting Innovation Inside, Loonshots to Moonshots
- a16z Podcast: For the Billions of Creatives Out There
- a16z Podcast: Lessons Learned from Chinese Education Startups
- a16z Podcast: What's in the Water at the George Church Lab?
- a16z Podcast: Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- a16z Podcast: Gaming Goes Mainstream
- a16z Podcast: Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
- a16z Podcast: To All the Robots I've Loved Before
- a16z Podcast: Cryptonetworks as Emerging Economies (Done Right?)
- a16z Podcast: Voting, Security, and Governance in Blockchains and Cryptonetworks
- a16z Podcast: Product-Market SALES Fit (What Comes First?)
- a16z Podcast: Stories and Lessons in Enterprise Sales
- a16z Podcast: Finding Go-to-Market Fit in the Enterprise
- a16z Podcast: Connecting Hearts, Bodies, and Networks to Cure Cancer
- a16z Podcast: The Business of Cybercrime
- a16z Podcast: Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond
- a16z Podcast: Dark Data in Healthcare
- a16z Podcast: The Science and Business of Innovative Medicines
- a16z Podcast: All About Synthetic Biology
- a16z Podcast: What’s Next for Marketplace Startups (Hint: Services)
- a16z Podcast: Talent, Tech Trends, and Culture -- with Ben, Marc, and Tyler Cowen
- a16z Podcast: How the Internet Happened
- a16z Podcast: The Infrastructure of Total Health
- a16z Podcast: All About Stablecoins
- a16z Podcast: Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
- a16z Podcast: On Marrying Entertainment and Technology
- a16z Podcast: The IQ and EQ of Robots
- a16z Podcast: Ancient Dreams of Technology, Gods & Robots
- a16z Podcast: M&A and Innovation, Inside Out
- a16z Podcast: Automation + Work, Human + Machine
- a16z Podcast: Eyeballs on the Game
- a16z Podcast: From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
- a16z Podcast: How to Manage a PR Agency
- a16z Podcast: New Upstarts in an Old Industry
- a16z Podcast: Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- a16z Podcast: Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
- a16z Podcast: What's at the Core of the Latest Apple Announcement?
- a16z Podcast: Seeing into the Future -- Making Decisions, Telling Stories
- a16z Podcast: The Case Study of Dollar General and Surviving (Thriving!) Retail
- a16z Podcast: When Organic Growth Goes Enterprise
- a16z Podcast: Crypto and the Evolution of Open Source
- a16z Podcast: The Basics of Growth 2 -- Engagement & Retention
- a16z Podcast: The Basics of Growth 1 -- User Acquisition
- a16z Podcast: Earned Secrets
- a16z Podcast: Cryptonetworks and Cities -- Analogies
- a16z Podcast: Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks
- a16z Podcast: High Growth in Companies (and Tech)
- a16z Podcast: The Regulatory Landscape for Crypto
- a16z Podcast: Building Companies in Crypto, from People to Code
- a16z Podcast: Decentralization and Crypto, the Big Picture
- a16z Podcast: The Scientific Revolution of Ancient DNA
- a16z Podcast: On Mentors and Mentees
- a16z Podcast: Beyond Zero-Sum Thinking in the Game of Tech... and Life
- a16z Podcast: All Things Compensation
- a16z Podcast: Construction Under Tech -- The Build
- a16z Podcast: Construction Under Tech -- Info Flows
- a16z Podcast: The End (and Beginning) of Programming
- a16z Podcast: The Hard Things about Security
- a16z Podcast: Autonomy in Service
- a16z Podcast: When Journalism Goes Global
- a16z Podcast: B2B2C
- a16z Podcast: Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
- a16z Podcast: The Oral History Of TrialPay — Obstacles and Opportunities in Payments
- a16z Podcast: Shifting Risk Mindsets, From Tech to Bio
- a16z Podcast: The Case Against Education, From Signaling to Rainbow's End
- a16z Podcast: Breaking Into Bio
- a16z Podcast: Principles and Algorithms for Work and Life
- a16z Podcast: On Recent Consolidation in the Healthcare Industry
- a16z Podcast: Players and Paths for Healthcare Startups
- a16z Podcast: When (and How) Biology Becomes Engineering
- a16z Podcast: What to Know about GDPR
- a16z Podcast: Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps
- a16z Podcast: From Teaching Leadership to Being a Leader
- a16z Podcast: Improv'ing Leadership
- a16z Podcast: On Morals and Meaning in Products, Business, and Life
- a16z Podcast: How to Live Longer and Better
- a16z Podcast: The API Economy -- The Why, What, and How
- a16z Podcast: Containing the Monolith -- From Microservices to DevOps
- a16z Podcast: Space -- the Near Frontier
- a16z Podcast: The State of Security
- a16z Podcast: Creating a Category, from Pricing to Positioning
- a16z Podcast: The Self-Flying Camera
- a16z Podcast: The Internet of Taste, Streaming Content to Culture
- a16z Podcast: The Business of Continual Change
- a16z Podcast: How Technology Is Changing Investing
- a16z Podcast: Data, Insight, and the Customer Experience
- a16z Podcast: The Evolution of Payments
- a16z Podcast: When Is VR's iPhone Moment?
- a16z Podcast: All about Bike Sharing
- a16z Podcast: Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?
- a16z Podcast: Beyond CES: Connected Home Devices, Voice, and More
- a16z Podcast: Mental Models for Understanding Crypto Tokens
- a16z Podcast: Reinventing Food
- a16z Podcast: Revisiting the Gene
- a16z Podcast: Community and Culture, Online
- a16z Podcast: Fintech for the People
- a16z Podcast: Trends in Cryptocurrencies
- a16z Podcast: The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- a16z Podcast: Of Governors and Mayors, and Tech Policy
- a16z Podcast: Taking the Pulse on Bio
- a16z Podcast: Scaling Healthcare
- a16z Podcast: Market Shifts
- a16z Podcast: On Data and Data Scientists in the Age of AI
- a16z Podcast: AI, from 'Toy' Problems to Practical Application
- a16z Podcast: The Rise of the CCO
- a16z Podcast: How Founders Hire a VP of Product
- a16z Podcast: Putting AI in Medicine, in Practice
- a16z Podcast: The Why Behind the Weird
- a16z Podcast: Revenge of the Algorithms (Over Data)... Go! No?
- a16z Podcast: Platforming the Future
- a16z Podcast: A New Lab Rises
- a16z Podcast: Mindsets for Engineering Biology
- a16z Podcast: Why Crypto Tokens Matter
- a16z Podcast: The Case Study of Lyft and Local Governments
- a16z Podcast: Exploding the Map
- a16z Podcast: Getting Applications Into People's Hands
- a16z Podcast: The Asshole Survival Guide
- a16z Podcast: Adjusting to Trade... and Innovation
- a16z Podcast: The Macro and Micro of Parenting
- a16z Podcast: Competing Against Luck
- a16z Podcast: Engineering Intent
- a16z Podcast: A Society Under Construction - Modernizing Infrastructure
- a16z Podcast: Cash, Growth, and CEO ❤️ CFO
- a16z Podcast: The Taxonomy of Collective Knowledge
- a16z Podcast: Centers of Power, War, and History
- a16z Podcast: The Strategies and Tactics of Big
- a16z Podcast: Independents on the Board
- a16z Podcast: From Mind at Play to Making the Information Age
- a16z Podcast: The Curious Case of the OpenTable IPO
- a16z Podcast: Making a (Really) Wild Geo-Engineering Idea Real
- a16z Podcast: Addiction vs Popularity in the Age of Virality
- a16z Podcast: The Golden Era of Productivity, Retail, and Supply Chains
- a16z Podcast: The Cloud Atlas to Real Quantum Computing
- a16z Podcast: Companies, Networks, Crowds
- a16z Podcast: Lobbying Tech
- a16z Podcast: Cybersecurity in the Boardroom vs. the Situation Room
- a16z Podcast: Changing the Conversation about Cybersecurity
- a16z Podcast: Taking the ‘Cyber’ Out of Cybersecurity
- a16z Podcast: Taking the Measure of Tech in Policy -- with Kamala Harris
- a16z Podcast: Modernizing Government Services, From Food Stamps to Foster Care
- a16z Podcast: The Law (and Tech) of Warfare
- a16z Podcast: The Living Museum
- a16z Podcast: Giving and Getting Feedback -- for Bosses and Employees
- a16z Podcast: What Technology Wants, Needs, Does
- a16z Podcast: Tech Policy and the Courts
- a16z Podcast: The Blockchain, in Congress
- a16z Podcast: For Your Ears Only
- a16z Podcast: From Jobs to Flying Cars
- a16z Podcast: Quantum Computing, Now and Next
- a16z Podcast: Boards, from Both Sides of the Table
- a16z Podcast: On Wearables, Quantified Self, and Biohacking
- a16z Podcast: The Rise of the Digital 'Pill'
- a16z Podcast: QR. AR. VR.
- a16z Podcast: The Science Of Extending Life
- a16z Podcast: Crisis Communications
- a16z Podcast: Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
- a16z Podcast: The Changing Culture of Open Source
- a16z Podcast: Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols
- a16z Podcast: Eyes in the Sky
- a16z Podcast: From Hidden Figure to Sonic BOOM
- a16z Podcast: The Storage Renaissance
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