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a16z Podcast
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 Valle...
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Marc Andreessen on Why This Is the Most Important Moment in Tech History
Recently, Marc Andreessen joined Lenny Rachitsky on Lenny's Podcast. They talked about why 2025 may be the most significant year in tech history, how...
Ben Horowitz and Balaji Srinivasan on Netscape and Network States
Can a country be built from the internet up? Not as a metaphor or an online community, but as a system that replaces institutions we usually think of...
Healthcare 2026: AI Doctors, GLP-1s, and Insurance Defection
Out-of-Pocket is a healthcare education company founded by Nikhil Krishnan that helps people understand how healthcare works and how to navigate it in...
The Hidden Economics Powering AI
In this episode, Jen Kha, Head of Investor Relations, and David George, General Partner, discuss how late-stage private markets are evolving as AI res...
How Mintlify Is Rebuilding Documentation for Coding Agents
Mintlify is a documentation platform built by cofounders Han Wang and Hahnbee Lee to help teams create and maintain developer docs. In this episode, A...
Inferact: Building the Infrastructure That Runs Modern AI
Inferact is a new AI infrastructure company founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM. Its mission is to build a universal, open-source inf...
Martin Casado on the Demand Forces Behind AI
In this feed drop from The Six Five Pod, a16z General Partner Martin Casado discusses how AI is changing infrastructure, software, and enterprise purc...
From Code Search to AI Agents: Inside Sourcegraph's Transformation with CTO Beyang Liu
Sourcegraph's CTO just revealed why 90% of his code now comes from agents—and why the Chinese models powering America's AI future should terrify Washi...
The AI Opportunity That Goes Beyond Models
The a16z AI Apps team outlines how they are thinking about the AI application cycle and why they believe it represents the largest and fastest product...
How Foundation Models Evolved: A PhD Journey Through AI's Breakthrough Era
The Stanford PhD who built DSPy thought he was just creating better prompts—until he realized he'd accidentally invented a new paradigm that makes LLM...
Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger
a16z cofounders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz join a16z general partner Erik Torenberg and Not Boring founder Packy McCormick for a conversation on...
Alex Rampell on TBPN: Revenge, Redemption, and Founder Drive
a16z General Partner Alex Rampell joined the Technology Brothers Podcast Network following the announcement of Andreessen Horowitz’s new fund to discu...
Ben Horowitz on Investing in AI: AI Bubbles, Economic Impact, and VC Acceleration
AI is changing how companies are built and how venture firms operate, forcing faster decisions, clearer judgment, and new ways of working.
In th...
Alex Rampell on Venture at Scale and Founder Incentives
This episode is a special feed drop from The Twenty Minute VC, featuring a conversation between Harry Stebbings and a16z General Partner Alex Rampell....
Ben Horowitz on TBPN: Three Decades with Marc and Building for the Long Game
Following the announcement of a16z’s new fund, Andreessen Horowitz cofounder and general partner Ben Horowitz joined TBPN to discuss how Andreessen Ho...
Ben Horowitz on Raising a New Fund and How Venture Firms Scale
In this feed drop from Uncapped, Jack Altman sits down with a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz to unpack the founding bet behind Andreessen Horowitz. VC sho...
Keycard: 2026 is the Year of Agents
In 2025, we saw the first glimpses of true AI agents. In 2026, every company will be rushing to get them into production, and they’ll need companies l...
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
a16z co-founder and General Partner Marc Andreessen joins an AMA-style conversation to explain why AI is the largest technology shift he has experienc...
Figma’s Dylan Field on the Future of Design
Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma, a design software company that went public in July 2025. Founded in 2012, Figma transformed how people...
AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
Originally published in June 2023, this conversation features a16z cofounder Marc Andreessen following the release of his nearly 7,000-word essay argu...
Wartime vs Peacetime: Ben Horowitz on Leadership
In this exclusive conversation from a16z’s Bio and Health BUILD Summit, founding partner Ben Horowitz sits down with general partner Jorge Conde. Orig...
The Techno-Optimist Manifesto with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
Originally aired in October 2023, this episode centers on Marc Andreessen’s essay The Techno-Optimist Manifesto, which lays out his vision for the fut...
The Inside Story of Growth Investing at a16z
This episode is a special replay of David George’s conversation with Harry Stebbings on 20VC. David is a General Partner on a16z’s growth team, and in...
Why a16z's Martin Casado Believes the AI Boom Still Has Years to Run
This episode is a special replay from The Generalist Podcast, featuring a conversation with a16z General Partner Martin Casado. Martin has lived throu...
Where Does Consumer AI Stand at the End of 2025?
As 2025 comes to a close, consumer AI is entering a new phase. A small number of products now dominate everyday use, multimodal models have unlocked e...
Big Ideas 2026: New Infrastructure Primitives
New infrastructure primitives are creating entirely new rails for building.
In this episode of Big Ideas 2026, we explore three foundational shi...
Big Ideas 2026: Physical AI and the Industrial Stack
AI is moving into the physical economy.
In this episode of Big Ideas 2026, we explore what changes when AI leaves the screen and becomes part of...
Big Ideas 2026: Voice Agents and High-Stakes Trust
Voice is becoming one of the fastest paths for AI to do real work, especially in regulated environments where accuracy and compliance matter. In this...
Big Ideas 2026: The Enterprise Orchestration Layer
AI is becoming the orchestration layer inside the enterprise.
In this episode of Big Ideas 2026, we explore the shift from isolated AI copilots...
Big Ideas 2026: The Agentic Interface
AI is moving from chat to action.
In this episode of Big Ideas 2026, we unpack three shifts shaping what comes next for AI products. The change...
The Rise, Fall & Reset of The Fintech Industry
Fintech went from a full-blown surge to a near standstill in just two years. At its peak, about 25 percent of all venture dollars were pouring into th...
Do Revenue and Margins Still Matter in AI?
In this episode, we’re sharing a conversation with David George, General Partner at a16z on the firm’s growth investing team. David has been involved...
The Crime Crisis In America and How Technology Fixes It
What if America tried to eliminate crime instead of just reacting to it? Not with slogans, but with staffing, technology, and strategy scaled to the p...
Ryo Lu (Cursor): AI Turns Designers to Developers
Ryo Lu spent years watching his designs die in meetings. Then he discovered the tool that lets designers ship code at the speed of thought: Cursor, th...
Dwarkesh and Ilya Sutskever on What Comes After Scaling
AI models feel smarter than their real-world impact. They ace benchmarks, yet still struggle with reliability, strange bugs, and shallow generalizatio...
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
AI is reshaping the tech landscape, but a big question remains: is this just another platform shift, or something closer to electricity or computing i...
How the Best CEOs Delegate
Jonathan Swanson has built two rare successes: Thumbtack, the home-services marketplace, and Athena, the fast-growing platform that pairs ambitious pe...
The $3 Trillion AI Coding Opportunity
Originally published on the a16z Infra podcast. We're resurfacing it here for our main feed audience.
AI coding is already actively changing how...
The 80-Year Bet: Why Naveen Rao Is Rebuilding the Computer from Scratch
Naveen Rao is cofounder and CEO of Unconventional AI, an AI chip startup building analog computing systems designed specifically for intelligence. Pre...
What Comes After ChatGPT? The Mother of ImageNet Predicts The Future
Fei-Fei Li is a Stanford professor, co-director of Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and co-founder of World Labs. She cr...