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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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- Every Day Is Zero Day | Wiz CTO Ami Luttwak · 46 Min. · Folge 1258AI isn’t just helping defenders find vulnerabilities. It’s giving attackers the speed and expertise to exploit them faster than many companies can respond. Wiz co-founder and CTO…
- The Next Era of Games: Mods, Agents, and Infinite Worlds · 46 Min. · Folge 1257AI is collapsing the distance between an idea and a playable game. What happens when almost anyone can build one? In this episode, a16z General Partners Anish Acharya and…
- What the Internet Boom Teaches Us About the AI Buildout | Mike Volpi · 57 Min. · Folge 1256The internet boom built bandwidth. The AI boom is building intelligence. Mike Volpi, who helped shape Cisco’s strategy during the internet buildout, asks what that era can teach…
- HubSpot’s Co-Founder on Finding Your Next Startup Idea · 59 Min. · Folge 1255As frontier AI labs expand into applications, where should startups build? a16z Partner Joe Schmidt joins HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah to explore why the software…
- Scott Kupor on Building a16z and Rebuilding the Federal Workforce · 57 Min. · Folge 1254Scott Kupor helped build a16z from three people into a firm with hundreds of employees. Now, as Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, he’s applying some of the…
- The Health Interventions Actually Worth Your Time | Justin Mares · 26 Min. · Folge 1253Health advice has become an endless stream of supplements, diets, wearables, and biohacks. Which interventions are actually worth your time? Truemed CEO Justin Mares argues that…
- Mark Hyman’s Guide to Living Longer and Staying Strong · 31 Min. · Folge 1252What actually matters if you want to stay healthy as you age? Dr. Mark Hyman argues it isn’t the most extreme longevity intervention. It’s the small investments you make every…
- Inside Salesforce’s $100 Billion M&A Playbook | John Somorjai · 49 Min. · Folge 1251What makes a startup worth acquiring when software has never been easier to build? Salesforce’s John Somorjai says the answer goes well beyond technology: the best acquisitions…
- The New CFO: How AI Is Rewriting the Finance Function | Figma CFO Praveer Melwani · 51 Min. · Folge 1250AI is moving finance from reconciling what happened last month to helping decide what the business should do next. Figma CFO Praveer Melwani argues that the best finance teams…
- The New AI Agents That Shop, Plan, and Gossip · 51 Min. · Folge 1249Will we have one AI assistant that does everything, or an entire network of agents that know different parts of our lives? David Pawlan, creator of Assistant Benchmark, returns…
- Andrew Huberman’s Three Rules for Better Health and Focus · 49 Min. · Folge 1248If you could do only three things for your health, what should they be? Andrew Huberman’s answer is surprisingly straightforward: get bright light shortly after waking…
- The Robots Already Working in American Factories | Tutor Intelligence · 46 Min. · Folge 1247What does it take to build robots that can actually work in factories and warehouses? Tutor Intelligence CEO Josh Gruenstein argues robotics is a systems problem spanning AI…
- How Bending Spoons Built a $20 Billion Compounder | Luca Ferrari · 44 Min. · Folge 1246Can relentless optimization create as much value as breakthrough invention? Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari argues that radical innovation can produce extraordinary outcomes, but…
- Can AI Fix Professional Networking? | Inside Cosign · 25 Min. · Folge 1245What if finding your next job, co-founder, or collaborator depended less on a resume and more on who is willing to vouch for you? Cosign is building a professional network around…
- Why AI Could Turn Small Law Firms Into Billion-Dollar Businesses · 53 Min. · Folge 1244What happens when AI makes legal work cheap enough to take cases lawyers couldn't afford to touch before? Eve CEO Jay Madheswaran argues that AI won't just cut costs for law…
- The Startups Rebuilding American Industry | The AD50 · 50 Min. · Folge 1243America’s defense, energy, manufacturing, and robotics booms are increasingly becoming one story: the rebuilding of the country’s industrial base. This year’s AD50 highlights the…
- Mark Cuban on Why AI Could Turn Solo Founders Into Trillionaires · 1 Std. 1 Min. · Folge 1242Mark Cuban thinks AI could transform healthcare, but it won’t fix opaque prices and broken incentives on its own. His starting point for employers: run every benefits contract…
- Reinventing School for the AI Era | Joe Liemandt, Gagan Biyani & Erik Torenberg · 57 Min. · Folge 1241What should school look like if AI can help students learn dramatically faster? Alpha School founder Joe Liemandt argues the answer isn’t to fill the extra time with more…
- OpenAI: When AI Agents Use Computers Faster Than You · 45 Min. · Folge 1240AI agents are approaching a point where they can use computers faster than expert humans, turning the user interface itself into a universal way for AI to interact with software…
- The New Startup Playbook | Box CEO Aaron Levie · 34 Min. · Folge 1239Can a 10-person startup outperform a company with hundreds of employees? Box CEO Aaron Levie argues AI agents are giving small teams a level of leverage that simply wasn't…
- What It Takes to Win as a Founder | Ben Horowitz · 42 Min. · Folge 1238What does it take to build a company when AI is changing the rules this quickly? Ben Horowitz argues that technology may make companies easier to start, but the hardest parts of…
- Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on the $220 Billion AI Buildout · 1 Std. 1 Min. · Folge 1236Amazon expects to spend roughly $220 billion in CapEx in 2026, yet CEO Andy Jassy says the company is still leaving meaningful AI demand on the table.** He believes the buildout…
- The Frontier Ideas a16z Wants to Fund | Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz & Chris Dixon · 1 Std. 1 Min. · Folge 1237a16z is expanding a16z crypto into a16z Frontier, a broader mandate to back founders building at the edges of what's possible. Chris Dixon joins Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz…
- The Missing Infrastructure for AI Agents: Documents | Reducto’s Adit Abraham · 38 Min. · Folge 1235AI agents can reason over enormous amounts of information, but much of the world’s actual work is still trapped in PDFs, spreadsheets, scans, and other formats that models…
- What Happens When Everyone Has a Health Expert in Their Pocket? | OpenAI’s Karan Singhal · 56 Min. · Folge 1234More than 300 million people use ChatGPT for health and wellness questions each week. OpenAI’s Karan Singhal thinks that’s only the beginning: the longer-term goal is AI that can…
- What Happens When Al Agents Can Spend Your Money? · 1 Std. 2 Min. · Folge 1233Why hasn't AI transformed everyday work as quickly as coding? Town CEO Jean-Denis Greze argues the bottleneck isn't intelligence, but making AI useful to people who don't have…
- Why Real-World AI Is Harder Than the Benchmark | EliseAI’s Mario Martone · 24 Min. · Folge 1232What changes when an AI mistake doesn’t just hurt a benchmark score, but affects someone’s housing or healthcare? EliseAI Head of Applied Research Mario Martone argues that…
- Why AI Could Finally Fix Healthcare Access | Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz · 35 Min. · Folge 1231Why is booking a doctor's appointment still so difficult, and can AI finally change that? Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz argues that the real problem isn't finding doctors, but…
- AI Can Write the Code. Can It Run the System? | Grepr CEO Jad Naous · 1 Std. 0 Min. · Folge 1230a16z General Partner Martin Casado sits down with Grepr CEO Jad Naous to ask what comes after AI learns to write code: can it also debug and operate the systems that code…
- When AI Agents Start Spending Your Money | Alex Rampell & Terry Angelos · 51 Min. · Folge 1229a16z General Partner Alex Rampell sits down with VGS Executive Board Member, Terry Angelos, to unpack what happens to payments when AI agents go from recommending what to buy to…
- Can Open Models Keep Up With the AI Frontier? | Nathan Lambert · 60 Min. · Folge 1228a16z Partner Lisha Li sits down with AI researcher and Trillium founder Nathan Lambert to ask how durable the gap really is between frontier AI labs and open models. Nathan…
- Can AI Break Cryptography? What the Experts Actually Think · 42 Min. · Folge 1227Could AI break the cryptography protecting everything from crypto wallets and banking to private messages? Recent advances in AI-driven mathematical research have sparked new…
- The Race to Recursive Self-Improving AI · 33 Min. · Folge 1226a16z General Partner Martin Casado sits down with MakerMaker.AI co-founders Dhaval Adjodah and Owen He to unpack recursive self-improvement, or RSI, and separate the increasingly…
- Nick Bostrom: How Should We Navigate Superintelligence? · 54 Min. · Folge 1225Nick Bostrom joins Theo Jaffee and Sofia Puccini on MTS to revisit the ideas about superintelligence and existential risk that he helped bring into the mainstream, now that…
- What Makes a Great Entrepreneur? | Ben Horowitz on Vintage x Vintage · 52 Min. · Folge 1224a16z co-founder and General Partner Ben Horowitz joins James Norman on the inaugural episode of Vintage x Vintage for a conversation spanning entrepreneurship, investing…
- Chips, Memory, and Power | Pat Gelsinger · 54 Min. · Folge 1223a16z's Raghu Raghuram and Guido Appenzeller sit down with Playground Global General Partner and former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger to discuss the next wave of semiconductor…
- Building the Cloud for an Agentic World | AWS CEO Matt Garman · 56 Min. · Folge 1222a16z’s Raghu Raghuram sits down with AWS CEO Matt Garman to discuss how AI is reshaping the cloud, from the needs of AI-native startups to infrastructure increasingly designed…
- How Valon Rebuilt a $13 Trillion Industry From Scratch · 41 Min. · Folge 1221a16z General Partner Angela Strange sits down with Valon’s Andrew Wang and Linda Du to unpack what it takes to rebuild the infrastructure underneath a $13 trillion mortgage…
- Building Defense for the Agentic Era: Kevin Mandia · 49 Min. · Folge 1220a16z General Partner David George sits down with Armadin founder and CEO Kevin Mandia to discuss what happens to cybersecurity when attackers can operate at machine speed. After…
- The Top 100 Consumer AI Apps: Who’s Actually Paying? · 51 Min. · Folge 1219a16z Editorial Partner Elena Burger sits down with investing partners Olivia Moore and Josh Elman to unpack the seventh edition of a16z’s Top 100 Consumer AI Apps, including a…
- David George & Jack Altman on AI, Autonomy, and the Next $25 Trillion · 55 Min. · Folge 1218a16z General Partner David George joins Jack Altman on Uncapped to make the case that many of the biggest debates in AI are framed the wrong way. Frontier models or open source?…
- Beyond the God Model | Alex Atallah & Amjad Masad · 48 Min. · Folge 1217A16z’s Erik Torenberg sits down with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah and Replit founder and CEO Amjad Masad to discuss why the future of AI may look less like one all-purpose model and…
- Why AI Agents Can Beat the Incumbents · 60 Min. · Folge 1216a16z’s Seema Amble and Elena Burger sit down with Lio co-founder and CEO Vladimir Keil to ask where AI-native startups have an advantage when incumbent software companies already…
- Rebuilding the Internet for Privacy | Barrett Lyon on DoxxNet · 45 Min. · Folge 1215a16z’s Joel de la Garza sits down with DoxxNet founder Barrett Lyon to discuss what it would take to rebuild the internet around privacy, direct communication, and less…
- The $1 Trillion AI Buildout | State of Markets · 54 Min. · Folge 1214a16z’s David George, Sarah Wang, Alex Immerman, and Santiago Rodriguez unpack 25 key charts from the latest State of Markets presentation, from the scale of the AI infrastructure…
- The Personal Agent Race Is Here | Anish Acharya & David Pawlan · 51 Min. · Folge 1213a16z General Partner Anish Acharya sits down with Assistant Benchmark creator David Pawlan to unpack the sudden explosion of personal AI agents and what it will take for one to…
- AI Can Write Code. Why Isn’t Software Better? · 43 Min. · Folge 1212a16z’s Ben Horowitz and Martin Casado sit down with TypeSafe AI founder Diogo Almeida to ask a simple question: AI has become remarkably capable, so where is all the automation?…
- Building a Team at AI Speed | Harvey’s Maggie Landers · 48 Min. · Folge 1211a16z’s Katie Kirsch sits down with Harvey VP of Talent Maggie Landers to discuss what happens inside a company growing at AI speed, and how you preserve culture while adding more…
- Aaron Levie, Steven Sinofsky & Martin Casado: How Do You Secure a World of AI Agents? · 56 Min. · Folge 1210Erik Torenberg sits down with Box CEO Aaron Levie, and a16z’s Martin Casado, and Steven Sinofsky to debate how the AI industry should think about safety, security, and regulation…
- The Reputation Graph of Silicon Valley | Introducing Cosign · 50 Min. · Folge 1208a16z’s Erik Torenberg sits down with Josh Elman, Olivia Moore, and David Booth to introduce Cosign, a new product built around professional reputation and the people, companies…
