a16z Podcast: Good Bubbles, Bad Bubbles -- and Where Unicorns Come from
Venture capital and investing in startups is the (modern) classic case of decision making under uncertainty. As new players and sources of capital enter the market, however, how do we hedge against th...
11 Touko 201535min
a16z Podcast: Making Security More Useable
The days of cramming security down employees’ throats or sending out best-practices advice emails are over. “You have to make security more useable,” says Pindrop CEO and co-founder Vijay Balasubraman...
8 Touko 201530min
a16z Podcast: Barbarians at the Gate -- How to Think About Enterprise Security Today
Enterprises large and small run their applications and infrastructure at a whole new level of agility and speed. But unfortunately, security doesn’t like speed. “The faster you go, the harder it is to...
7 Touko 201525min
a16z Podcast: Making Sense of Big Data, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
"Machine learning is to big data as human learning is to life experience," says Christopher Nguyen, the co-founder and CEO of big data intelligence company Adatao. Sure, but then, what IS big data? (e...
1 Touko 201527min
a16z Podcast: Software and Overcoming the Randomness of Birthplace
If your income can flow from any place on the globe, and you can earn your money on the Internet, the question for individuals and startup teams alike increasingly is: where do I go? In the tech indus...
30 Huhti 201535min
a16z Podcast: Getting Security Right Isn’t as Hard as You Think (But the Effort Never Ends)
The paradox of security is we pretty much know what we are supposed to do most of the time -- but we don’t do it. If you examine all the recent high profile attacks, somebody in the organization knew ...
29 Huhti 201528min
a16z Podcast: Government, Startups, & Innovation -- with U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter
Silicon Valley and the U.S. Department of Defense have had a long history of partnership -- including the government funding R&D that was commercialized by major companies and is now used by people ev...
25 Huhti 201515min
a16z Podcast: How One Startup Went from Being Banned by Regulators to Being Open for Business
When (now) two-year-old startup Zenefits was banned in Utah because it offered its HR management software for free, CEO and co-founder Parker Conrad felt upset, anxious, and scared. Especially because...
24 Huhti 201517min
