The a16z Show 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 show is produced by Andreessen Horowitz (aka “a16z”), a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. Multiple episodes are released every week; visit a16z.com for more details and to sign up for our newsletters and other content as well!
This podcast episode features David Haber from a16z interviewing Gene Ludwig, former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, and Paolo Bertolotti, CEO of ModernFi, about the challenges and opportunities within the American banking system. The discussion begins with the SVB crisis, highlighting the role of technology in exace...
The a16z Podcast episode features a discussion on "American Dynamism," a concept focused on rebuilding America's industrial base through investments in areas like defense tech, energy, manufacturing, and infrastructure. Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Katherine Boyle, and David Ulevitch explore the historical disconnect...
The podcast features Emmett Shear, co-founder of Twitch and now working on AI alignment at Softmax, along with Seb Krier from Google DeepMind, discussing AI alignment with host Erik Torenberg. Emmett introduces the concept of "organic alignment," emphasizing it as an ongoing process of learning and adaptation rather th...
In this a16z Podcast episode, Lada Nuzhna and Elliot Hershberg discuss the biotech industry's paradox: exploding technology amid collapsing business. They explore challenges like increasing regulation, high drug approval costs, and the rise of Chinese biotech. The conversation covers potential solutions such as AI in d...
In this episode of the a16z Podcast, Erik Torenberg replays a conversation with Fei-Fei Li and Justin Johnson, co-founders of World Labs, and a16z general partner Martin Casado, discussing spatial intelligence and its importance for achieving true AI. They explore the evolution of AI, from ImageNet to generative models...
The podcast features Erik Torenberg, Alex Rampell, and Varun Krishna discussing the challenges and potential solutions to the decreasing rate of homeownership among younger people. They attribute this issue to asset price inflation, the increasing difficulty of building new homes due to regulations and NIMBYism, and cu...
In this episode of the a16z Podcast, Grant Lee, co-founder and CEO of Gamma, discusses the journey of building Gamma into a successful AI-driven presentation tool. He recounts early fundraising challenges, including a brutal pitch rejection, and emphasizes the importance of product-led growth and focusing on word-of-mo...
Michael Truell, CEO of Cursor, discusses the company's origins, pivoting from a 3D company to focusing on AI coding tools, and the strategic decisions that fueled its rapid growth. Truell emphasizes the importance of focus, initially building a better product within the VS Code ecosystem before expanding into multi-pro...
In this episode of the Web3 with a16z podcast, Robert Hackett hosts Daren Matsuoka and Eddy Lazzarin from a16z Crypto to discuss the findings of their 2025 State of Crypto Report. The discussion covers crypto's mainstream adoption, the increasing importance of stablecoins, and institutional interest in crypto. They exp...
This podcast features a discussion between Adam D'Angelo, Amjad Masad, and a host about the current state and future of AI, particularly LLMs. Adam expresses optimism about the rapid progress in AI, while Amjad is more cautious, emphasizing the brute force nature of current AI development and its potential negative imp...
In this episode of the a16z Podcast, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg discuss the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's (CZI) mission to cure, prevent, and manage all diseases by the end of the century through basic science and tool development. They share insights into their focus on building shared tools and datasets, the C...
In this episode of the a16z Podcast, Eugenia Kuyda, the founder of Replika and Wabi, discusses the evolution of AI interfaces and her vision for the future of personal software. Kuyda reflects on her early work in AI, the limitations of current chatbot interfaces, and the potential for mini-apps to revolutionize how pe...
In this interview, Mati Staniszewski, co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, discusses the company's approach to maintaining speed and quality in product development, balancing research with product launches, and building a global, distributed team. Mati shares insights on fostering collaboration with the creative industry,...
In this a16z Podcast episode, David Sacks, Marc Andreessen, and Ben Horowitz discuss the global race for technological and economic leadership, focusing on AI and crypto. They analyze the Trump administration's policy approaches to AI and crypto, contrasting them with those of the Biden administration and Europe. The c...
In this episode of the a16z Podcast, host Erik Torenberg interviews Horacio Rozanski, CEO of Booz Allen Hamilton, and Gary Steele, CEO of Shield AI, about the reshaping of America's defense strategy through technology and partnerships. The discussion covers America's readiness to defend Taiwan, the importance of autono...
In this a16z podcast episode, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz discuss the current state of AI, addressing questions about the limitations of LLMs in creative genius and original thought, and comparing AI capabilities to human intelligence. They explore whether AI can truly achieve conceptual breakthroughs or if it pri...
David George from a16z and Gavin Baker from Atreides Management discuss the state of AI, addressing whether it's in a bubble by comparing it to the internet bubble of 2000, noting the key difference of "dark fiber" versus the current high utilization of GPUs. They explore AI's impact on capital allocation, infrastructu...
The podcast features a discussion with Amin Vahdat from Google, Jeetu Patel from Cisco, and Raghu Raghuram from a16z, focusing on the infrastructure build-out required to support large-scale AI. They explore the unprecedented scale of the current AI boom, comparing it to the internet's early days but noting it's potent...
In this episode of the A16Z podcast, Oliver Wang and Nicole Brichtova from Google DeepMind discuss Gemini 2.5 image, also known as Nano Banana. They delve into the model's architecture, its integration of image generation and editing within Gemini's multimodal framework, and the challenges of achieving character consis...
In this episode of the a16z Podcast, a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz and general partners Martin Casado and David George interview Raghu Raghuram, a16z's newest managing director and general partner, about building and scaling enterprise software across multiple platform shifts, drawing lessons from Netscape and VMware. T...
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