Results for "A16Z"

Why a16z Launched the Machine Age Fund | Jen Kha

The a16z Show· Jen Kha· Aug 30, 2026

a16z Managing Partner and Head of Global Partnerships Jen Kha joins MTS hosts Theo Jaffee and Sophia Dew to discuss a16z's Machine Age Fund and the investment thesis behind rebuilding the physical infrastructure that pow…

20VC: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI | Do Margins Matter Anymore | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead Today? | Who Wins the Dev Market: Cursor or Claude Code | Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble with Anish Acharya @ a16z

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch· Feb 9, 2026

Anish Acharya is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he leads consumer and fintech investing at Series A. He serves on the boards of standout portfolio companies including Deel, Mosaic, Clutch, Titan, …

20VC: a16z's $15BN Fundraise with Alex Rampell | The Best Companies Have Hostages Not Customers | The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers and Labour | Mid-Sized Funds with Die and The Future of Venture Capital

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch· Jan 12, 2026

Alex Rampell is a General Partner at Andressen Horowitz, where he leads their $1.7BN apps fund. Just last week, a16z announced they had raised $15BN for their latest funds, over 20% of all capital raised by venture firms…

What It Takes to Build a Startup | Andrew Chen & Matt Perault

The a16z Show· Sep 11, 2026

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 earliest stages, and why the realities of building a t…

How Global Networks Are Reshaping Startup Success

The a16z Show· Aug 20, 2026

Elena Burger is joined by a16z’s Angela Strange and Gabriel Vasquez to discuss the rise of the "borderless founder": entrepreneurs who bring the networks and insights of their home markets together with the talent, capit…

AI Inside the Enterprise

The a16z Show· Apr 24, 2026

Steven Sinofsky, board partner at a16z, Aaron Levie, CEO of Box, and Martin Casado, general partner at a16z, discuss the reality of AI inside enterprises. They cover the gap between Silicon Valley and the rest of the wor…

Martin Shkreli on AI, Pharma, and What Actually Matters

The a16z Show· Apr 23, 2026

Erik Torenberg speaks with Martin Shkreli, American investor and businessman, about how he sees the AI landscape, from OpenAI to Anthropic, and what actually matters beyond the hype. They also talk through the future of …

Marc Andreessen introspects on The Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"

Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast· Apr 3, 2026

Fresh off raising a monster $15B, Marc Andreessen has lived through multiple computing platform shifts firsthand, from Mosaic and Netscape to cofounding A16z. In this episode, Marc joins swyx and Alessio in a16z’s legend…

American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle)

Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Jun 6, 2022

We sit down with a16z General Partner Katherine Boyle to discuss investing in “American Dynamism”, why it’s so important and why now is the right time to pursue it. Katherine has a fascinating background, beginning her c…

Rebuilding the Internet for Privacy | Barrett Lyon on DoxxNet

The a16z Show· Oct 1, 2026

a16z’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 dependence on centralized intermediaries.Barrett ex…

The Reputation Graph of Silicon Valley | Introducing Cosign

The a16z Show· Introducing Cosign· Sep 25, 2026

a16z’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, and products you’re willing to put your na…

Inside Moderna’s Personalized Cancer Vaccine

The a16z Show· Sep 2, 2026

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 Merck’s individualized treatment for melanoma, after…

How Whatnot Built a Global Marketplace

The a16z Show· Aug 19, 2026

a16z General Partner David George is joined by Grant LaFontaine, co-founder of Whatnot, to unpack how a marketplace that started with collectibles evolved into one of the world's leading live shopping platforms. Grant tr…

Three Startups Reinventing Critical Infrastructure

The a16z Show· Aug 5, 2026

This week, a16z American Dynamism Films premiered three short documentaries highlighting companies tackling some of America's biggest industrial challenges: Ulysses, Mariana Materials, and Radiant. Before watching those …

How Bitcoin Rewired a Classic Computer Science Problem

The a16z Show· Jul 10, 2026

We're excited to share a special feed drop from The a16z Crypto Show. In the first episode of First Principles: The Scientific Roots of Blockchain Technology, Tim Roughgarden and Ittai Abraham trace the decades of comput…

What’s Next for Consumer AI? | Josh Elman Joins a16z

The a16z Show· Jun 23, 2026

Anish Acharya sits down with Josh Elman to discuss the future of consumer technology and Josh's decision to join a16z. Over the past two decades, Elman has helped shape some of the most important consumer technology prod…

Marc Andreessen: Monitoring the Situation and the Future of Media

The a16z Show· Marc Andreessen· Apr 21, 2026

Erik Torenberg and Theo Jaffee speak with Marc Andreessen, cofounder and general partner at a16z, about the launch of Monitoring the Situation (MTS), a new, always-on media network on X. They discuss the rise of the “cur…

Bitter Lessons in Venture vs Growth: Anthropic vs OpenAI, Noam Shazeer, World Labs, Thinking Machines, Cursor, ASIC Economics — Martin Casado & Sarah Wang of a16z

Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast· Feb 19, 2026

Tickets for AIEi Miami and AIE Europe are live, with first wave speakers announced!From pioneering software-defined networking to backing many of the most aggressive AI model companies of this cycle, Martin Casado and Sa…

Beyond the God Model | Alex Atallah & Amjad Masad

The a16z Show· Oct 3, 2026

A16z’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 more like an ecosystem of specialized mod…

Why AI Agents Can Beat the Incumbents

The a16z Show· Oct 2, 2026

a16z’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 own the customer, the data, and the syste…

The $1 Trillion AI Buildout | State of Markets

The a16z Show· Sep 30, 2026

a16z’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 buildout to what adoption looks like insi…

The Personal Agent Race Is Here | Anish Acharya & David Pawlan

The a16z Show· Sep 29, 2026

a16z 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 become part of everyday life.David has been…

AI Can Write Code. Why Isn’t Software Better?

The a16z Show· Sep 28, 2026

a16z’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?Diogo argues that coding agents may help us…

Building a Team at AI Speed | Harvey’s Maggie Landers

The a16z Show· Sep 27, 2026

a16z’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 than 1,000 employees in a year.Maggie exp…

Aaron Levie, Steven Sinofsky & Martin Casado: How Do You Secure a World of AI Agents?

The a16z Show· Sep 26, 2026

Erik 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 as increasingly capable agents move into …

The Case Against an AI Pause | Eddy Lazzarin

The a16z Show· Eddy Lazzarin· Sep 24, 2026

a16z crypto General Partner Eddy Lazzarin joins Theo Jaffee on MTS to debate the increasingly prominent calls to slow AI development and whether the current safety conversation is conflating very different kinds of risk.…

AI Safety Language Is Destroying the Debate | Steven Sinofsky

The a16z Show· Steven Sinofsky· Sep 21, 2026

a16z Board Partner and former Microsoft Windows president Steven Sinofsky joins Theo Jaffee and Sofia Puccini on MTS to argue that the language we use to describe AI failures is making it harder to understand what’s actu…

What Makes a Consumer AI Product Stick? | Josh Elman

The a16z Show· Josh Elman· Sep 19, 2026

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 part of their everyday lives.Josh argues that gettin…

Databricks CEO on AI Pacing, Cyber Risk, and the Enterprise

The a16z Show· Sep 18, 2026

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, cybersecurity, and what’s actually holding back enterprise a…

The Next Frontier of AI Video Is Control

The a16z Show· Sep 17, 2026

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 becomes fast enough to run in real time.They unpack th…

The AI-Native CRM

The a16z Show· Sep 16, 2026

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 unusual pivot that got him there.Keith previously b…

Why Companies Are Becoming a Series of Loops | Anish Acharya on Lenny’s Podcast

The a16z Show· Sep 12, 2026

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 changing the way companies operate, and why the opportun…

How AI Is Rewriting the Power Law of Venture Capital

The a16z Show· Sep 10, 2026

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 companies can compound advantages in ways that weren’t p…

Who Grades the AI Models? | Ben Horowitz & Rayan Krishnan

The a16z Show· Sep 9, 2026

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 actually measure whether a model is getting better…

OpenAI Researchers on the Future of Mathematical Reasoning

The a16z Show· Sep 8, 2026

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 recent results reveal about model reasoning, and …

Your AI Doctor Is Coming | Julie Yoo

The a16z Show· Julie Yoo· Sep 6, 2026

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 of slow technology adoption may actually give hea…

Fei Fei Li: The Race to Build World Models For AI

The a16z Show· Fei Fei Li· Sep 4, 2026

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 reveals about the pursuit of spatial intelligence.At t…

The $100B Niches Hiding Inside Payments

The a16z Show· Sep 3, 2026

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 digital payments to the origins of Affirm and the …

Daniel Litt: The Mathematician's Guide to AI

The a16z Show· Daniel Litt· Sep 1, 2026

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 frontier models can actually do, and what they're st…

Gavin Baker: Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply

The a16z Show· Gavin Baker· Aug 31, 2026

a16z’s David George sits down with Gavin Baker to unpack the state of the AI boom, why demand for intelligence may still be dramatically underestimated, and why the outcome doesn't necessarily have to be winner-take-all.…

The Infrastructure Behind the Machine Age

The a16z Show· Aug 28, 2026

Ben Horowitz, Martin Casado, Raghu Raghuram, and Erik Torenberg discuss the launch of a16z's new Machine Age Fund and the infrastructure buildout behind AI, from chips, memory, and networking to power, cooling, and data …

Inside Cursor: The Anatomy of a Generational Startup

The a16z Show· Inside Cursor· Aug 27, 2026

a16z General Partners Martin Casado, Sarah Wang, and Matt Bornstein unpack the story of Cursor: how a small, product-obsessed team entered one of the most competitive markets in technology, took on incumbents with seemin…

The New Economics of AI | Martin Casado & Steven Sinofsky

The a16z Show· Aug 25, 2026

a16z General Partners Martin Casado and Erik Torenberg are joined by Board Partner Steven Sinofsky to explore what recent breakthroughs in AI and mathematics tell us about where the technology is headed, and whether some…

Dario Defends Himself, Datacenter Panic, AI Doomer Trap, Senate Toss-Up

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg· Aug 21, 2026

(00:00) Besties are back! (00:13) Dario's two-part essay: regulatory capture, doomerism, and the data center backlash (10:25) FINRA for AI vs. MPAA for AI: SROs, thinking tokens, and the "DMV for AI" (30:12) Is an open s…

How Microsoft Is Securing the Agentic Enterprise | Aaron Zollman

The a16z Show· Aaron Zollman· Aug 21, 2026

a16z's Joel De La Garza is joined by Aaron Zollman, Deputy CISO at Microsoft Gaming, to discuss how security teams can embrace AI agents without losing control. Aaron shares Microsoft's experience with OpenClaw, from the…

How Do You Defend Against AI That Can Hack?

The a16z Show· Aug 18, 2026

a16z's Joel De La Garza is joined by Nick Warner of Neo and Max Pollard of Cotool to discuss what happens when cybersecurity tools built to defend against humans and malware suddenly have to contend with AI agents. As fr…

Stripe’s AI Strategy: Build More, Not Less

The a16z Show· Aug 17, 2026

a16z General Partner David George is joined by Will Gaybrick, President of Product & Business at Stripe, to discuss how AI is changing the way Stripe builds products, organizes teams, and thinks about the future of inter…

The Two Ways to Sell AI: Lighthouse or Landgrab?

The a16z Show· Aug 13, 2026

Elena Burger is joined by a16z's Andy McCall and Joe Schmidt to break down two very different ways AI startups can go to market: the lighthouse and the landgrab. Should founders win a handful of marquee customers whose c…