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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 …

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Episodes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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