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!
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Nas, Grandmaster Caz, Steve Stoute & Ben Horowitz on Paying Hip-Hop’s Pioneers Their Due
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Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg sit down with Nas, Grandmaster Caz, and Steve Stoute for a conversation about the Paid in Full Foundation and its mission to recognize and
Sep 20 57 min
What Makes a Consumer AI Product Stick? | Josh Elman
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a16z Partner Josh Elman joins Ollie Forsyth on New Economies to discuss the next wave of consumer AI and what separates a product people try once from one that becomes pa
Sep 19 1 h 00 min
Databricks CEO on AI Pacing, Cyber Risk, and the Enterprise
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Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi joins a16z General Partners Martin Casado and Sarah Wang for a conversation about AI risk, recursive self-improvement, cybersecur
Sep 18 1 h 08 min
The Next Frontier of AI Video Is Control
a16z General Partner Jennifer Li sits down with fal co-founder Gorkem Yurtseven and Head of Engineering Batuhan Taskaya to discuss what changes when generative video beco
Sep 17 39 min
The AI-Native CRM
a16z’s Alex Rampell and Joe Schmidt sit down with Lightfield co-founder and CEO Keith Peiris to discuss what it takes to rethink the CRM for an AI-native world, and the u
Sep 16 52 min
The Age of Body Futurism | Ruby Justice Thelot
Elena Burger sits down with academic and cyber ethnographer Ruby Justice Thelot to explore the increasingly blurry line between internet culture and the real world, and h
Sep 15 42 min
Greg Brockman on Why OpenAI Says We’re Entering the AGI Era
Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg sit down with OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman to discuss why he believes AI has entered a new phase, what OpenAI’s latest mo
Sep 14 51 min
World Models, Robotics, and the Future of 3D AI
World Labs co-founder Justin Johnson joins MTS hosts Theo Jaffee and Sofia Puccini to discuss Atlas, World Labs’ latest world model, and the broader case for AI systems t
Sep 13 23 min
Why Companies Are Becoming a Series of Loops | Anish Acharya on Lenny’s Podcast
a16z General Partner Anish Acharya joins Lenny Rachitsky on Lenny’s Podcast to discuss why fears of an AI-driven “permanent underclass” may be misplaced, how AI is changi
Sep 12 1 h 18 min
What It Takes to Build a Startup | Andrew Chen & Matt Perault
a16z’s Matt Perault sits down with General Partner and Speedrun lead Andrew Chen on the a16z AI Policy Brief to explore what “Little Tech” actually looks like at the earl
Sep 11 38 min
How AI Is Rewriting the Power Law of Venture Capital
a16z’s Jen Kha and David George sit down with Accolade Partners’ Aram Verdiyan to discuss how AI is changing the power law of technology investing, why the largest compan
Sep 10 49 min
Who Grades the AI Models? | Ben Horowitz & Rayan Krishnan
a16z’s Erik Torenberg, Ben Horowitz, and Jennifer Li sit down with Vals founder and CEO Rayan Krishnan to discuss one of AI’s increasingly difficult problems: how do you
Sep 9 39 min
OpenAI Researchers on the Future of Mathematical Reasoning
a16z Infra Partner Lisha Li sits down with OpenAI mathematicians Mehtaab Sawhney and Mark Sellke to discuss how quickly AI’s mathematical capabilities are advancing, what
Sep 8 1 h 05 min
Can Open Source Keep AI Power From Concentrating?
MTS host Sophia Dew visits the Open Source AI Summit in San Francisco to ask researchers and founders across the AI stack a central question: can open source prevent AI p
Sep 7 8 min
Your AI Doctor Is Coming | Julie Yoo
a16z General Partner Julie Yoo joins MTS host Sophia Dew to explain why she believes healthcare could benefit more from AI than almost any other industry, and why decades
Sep 6 27 min
Aaron Levie on Why Open AI Wins
Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie joins MTS hosts Theo Jaffee and Sofia Puccini to make the case for open-weight AI, unpack the economics of open versus closed models, a
Sep 5 31 min
Fei Fei Li: The Race to Build World Models For AI
World Labs co-founders Fei-Fei Li, Justin Johnson, and Ben Mildenhall join a16z General Partner Martin Casado to discuss Atlas, their latest world model, and what it reve
Sep 4 44 min
The $100B Niches Hiding Inside Payments
Erik Torenberg is joined by a16z General Partner Alex Rampell and Affirm Co-Founder and CEO Max Levchin for a conversation on 25 years of fintech, from the early days of
Sep 3 1 h 00 min
Inside Moderna’s Personalized Cancer Vaccine
a16z General Partner Jorge Conde sits down with Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel to discuss a major milestone for mRNA technology: positive Phase 3 results from Moderna and Me
Sep 2 40 min
Daniel Litt: The Mathematician's Guide to AI
a16z’s Lisha Li sits down with Daniel Litt, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto, to unpack AI's rapid progress in mathematics, what today's fr
Sep 1 1 h 03 min
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This podcast is a must-listen for its insightful discussions at the crossroads of technology, business, and culture. Steph is a super engaging host, and they have a diverse range of industry expert guests that make complex topics accessible and fascinating for all.
Rios111 · Jan 2024
Enjoy many episodes and range of topics, speakers and perspectives shared. Good mix of tech , impact and eye on future! Also enjoy hear the founders on some shows
SRam5 · Nov 2023
Excellent interview with Joon Park, thank you, your team at a16z is setting up a very important link between human behavior and generative AI, digital/interpretive behavioral modeling and other types of large language processing designs to close the gap between the vast complexity of neurobiological processes that leads to specific behavioral expressions and codifying and encapsulating that in a generative AI system, looking forward to more of those types of episodes that also address specific behavior such as violence and anger and aggression to highlight research teams around the world working on better understanding of how to intervene and treat aggressive behavior in order to create more peaceful individual and societal behavior.
Sheldon1818 · Nov 2023
A16Z often has great tech related guests and fairly good interviewers, but sometimes the audio quality is horrible. For example, the recent Balaji episode from April 22nd is unlistenable.
Alex kahn · Apr 2026
Used to be a great podcast for insights on innovation, holistic disruptive thinking, and actual innovation. After a number of departures 2 or so years ago, everything has gone sideways. Has gone from a must listen to actively being counter productive to listen to. Such a shame. And such a waste that they’ve gone so far off the rails.
StudytheWorld · Jul 2024
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