a16z Podcast

Marc Andreessen on AI Winters and Agent Breakthroughs

<p>This episode originally aired on the Latent Space Podcast. swyx and Alessio Fanelli speak with Marc Andreessen about the arc of AI from its origins in 1943 to today's breakthroughs …

Apr 03, 2026 · 1h 17m

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Alex Blania on Proof of Human and Building World's Identity Network

<p>a16z's Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg speak with Alex Blania, cofounder and CEO of Tools for Humanity, World, and cofounder of Merge Labs. World is building the largest real human …

Apr 02, 2026 · 42m

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What Happens When a Public Company Goes All In on AI

<p>David Haber speaks with Owen Jennings, executive officer and business lead at Block, about how the company rebuilt itself around AI agents, small squads, and internal tools like Goose and …

Apr 01, 2026 · 27m

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How Radiant and Heron Are Rethinking Power Generation and Delivery

<p>a16z general partners Erin Price-Wright and Erik Torenberg speak with Doug Bernauer, founder and CEO of Radiant, and Drew Baglino, founder and CEO of Heron, about rebuilding American energy infrastructure. …

Mar 31, 2026 · 49m

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Marc Andreessen on Evaluating Founders and AI's Consumer Surplus

<p>This episode originally aired on The Twenty Minute VC with Harry Stebbings. Marc Andreessen explains why learning from past investment mistakes can be a trap, shares his framework for evaluating …

Mar 30, 2026 · 1h 7m

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The SpaceX and Tesla Playbook for Hard Tech Startups

<p>Erin Price-Wright speaks with Chandler Luzsicza, founder and CEO of Galadyne, and Turner Caldwell, cofounder and CEO of Mariana Minerals, about what they actually learned building Starship and Tesla's lithium …

Mar 27, 2026 · 50m

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Security, Resilience, and the Future of Mobile Infrastructure

<p>David Ulevitch speaks with Justin Fanelli, CTO of the Navy, and John Doyle, founder and CEO at Cape, about how the Navy is transforming its approach to technology adoption, from …

Mar 26, 2026 · 41m

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Submarines and the Future of Defense Manufacturing

<p>David Ulevitch speaks with Chris Power, founder and CEO at Hadrian, and Vice Admiral Robert Gaucher, the Pentagon's first direct reporting portfolio manager for submarines, at the opening of Hadrian's …

Mar 25, 2026 · 23m

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The Missing Power Layer of Modern Warfare

<p>Erin Price-Wright speaks with Adam Warmoth, founder and CEO of Chariot Defense, and Alex Miller, CTO of the U.S. Army, about the power crisis at the heart of modern military …

Mar 24, 2026 · 50m

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Why Every Satellite Needs Earth | Northwood CEO on a16z

<p>Bridgit Mendler, Co-founder and CEO of Northwood, joins a16z’s Erik Torenberg to discuss the critical but overlooked bottleneck in space: ground infrastructure. Northwood is building the systems that connect satellites …

Mar 23, 2026 · 40m

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Inside Palantir: Building Software That Matters with Shyam Sankar

<p>In this conversation, Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer at Palantir Technologies, discusses his new book Mobilize, his commission in the U.S. Army, and why he believes the most important thing …

Mar 20, 2026 · 54m

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AI Just Gave You Superpowers — Now What?

<p>A new paper, “Some Simple Economics of AGI,” is making the rounds—Web3 with a16z we sat down with author Christian Catalini (MIT Crypto Economics Lab) and Eddy Lazzarin (CTO of …

Mar 19, 2026 · 1h 6m

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AI, Supply Chains, and the Future of Economic Power

<p>Erik Torenberg sits down with Jacob Helberg to discuss AI, manufacturing, supply chains, and the new geopolitics of technology. Drawing on themes from Helberg’s book The Wires of War, they …

Mar 18, 2026 · 37m

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What's Missing Between LLMs and AGI - Vishal Misra & Martin Casado

<p>Vishal Misra returns to explain his latest research on how LLMs actually work under the hood. He walks through experiments showing that transformers update their predictions in a precise, mathematically …

Mar 17, 2026 · 47m

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AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore

<p>In this episode, originally aired on Big Technology Podcast, Olivia Moore discusses whether AI startups can compete with the big chatbots, why American sentiment toward AI is so negative, and …

Mar 16, 2026 · 56m

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Marc Andreessen on the Mindset of Great Founders — with David Senra

<p>Marc Andreessen joins David Senra for a conversation about entrepreneurship, history, and what drives some of the world’s most ambitious builders.</p> <p>In this conversation with David, Marc reflects on patterns …

Mar 15, 2026 · 1h 49m

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Emil Michael: Iran, Anthropic and the Future of AI at the Pentagon

<p>This conversation with Emil Michael, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering and acting director of the Defense Innovation Unit, was recorded at the a16z American Dynamism Summit in Washington, …

Mar 13, 2026 · 27m

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp on the Zero-Sum AI Race

<p>This conversation with Alex Karp, cofounder and CEO of Palantir, was recorded at the a16z American Dynamism Summit in Washington, D.C. Karp discusses the role of technology in modern warfare, …

Mar 12, 2026 · 32m

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What It Takes to Clear a Million Crimes a Year with Flock Safety's CEO

<p>In this episode, previously aired on Cheeky Pint, Garrett Langley describes how a stolen gun in his Atlanta neighborhood led him to build Flock Safety, now deployed in more than …

Mar 11, 2026 · 1h 46m

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The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps

<p>Anish Acharya speaks with Olivia Moore about the latest edition of the a16z Top 100 AI Apps report. They cover why ChatGPT is still 30 times bigger than Claude on …

Mar 10, 2026 · 40m

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Andrew Huberman: Peptides, Sleep Tech, and the End of Obesity

<p>Daisy Wolf speaks with Dr. Andrew Huberman, professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford University and host of the Huberman Lab podcast. They discuss how the pandemic sparked a consumer …

Mar 09, 2026 · 51m

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Atlassian CEO on the SaaS Apocalypse, AI Agents & What Comes Next

<p>Alex Rampell and Erik Torenberg speak with Mike Cannon-Brookes, cofounder and CEO of Atlassian, about how to make sense of the SaaS selloff, why not all software companies face the …

Mar 06, 2026 · 55m

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Ben Thompson: Anthropic, the Pentagon, and the Limits of Private Power

<p>In this conversation, previously aired on TBPN, John Coogan and Jordi Hays speak with Ben Thompson, founder of Stratechery, about his essay "Anthropic and Alignment" and the broader collision between …

Mar 05, 2026 · 36m

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Deploying AI in Healthcare

<p>a16z general partner Julie Yoo talks with Nikhil Buduma, CEO and cofounder of Ambience Healthcare, to discuss how AI is transforming clinical workflows. They cover the early days of deep …

Mar 04, 2026 · 49m

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Ben Horowitz On What Makes a Great Founder

<p>On the show Long Strange Trip, Sequoia Capital partner Brian Halligan speaks with a16z’s Ben Horowitz about what separates great founder CEOs from everyone else. Ben explains why first-time founders …

Mar 03, 2026 · 50m

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Chris Dixon: From Quant Trading to Building a16z Crypto

<p>In this feed drop from the Internet History Podcast, host Brian McCullough speaks with Chris Dixon, general partner at a16z, about his path from 1980s hobbyist programmer to one of …

Mar 02, 2026 · 59m

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