When Fintech Meets Social
The last financial crisis prompted many consumers to reassess their banking expectations—none more so than millennials and Gen-Z-ers. While revealing one's financial information was once considered ta...
12 Maalis 202023min
Innovation Through Software Development and IT
One of the recurring themes we talk about a lot on the a16z Podcast is how software changes organizations, and vice versa... More broadly: it’s really about how companies of all kinds innovate with th...
6 Maalis 202045min
The Open Source CIO
In 2014, in "Why There Will Never Be Another Red Hat," Peter Levine argued that Red Hat’s open source business model of commercializing support and services was highly difficult to replicate. Instead,...
28 Helmi 202020min
Novel Coronavirus Updates: How Healthcare System, Tests Work; More
This episode covers the following -- since our previous deep-dive on the novel coronavirus outbreak -- including:practical implications for the U.S. healthcare system given how it works today, and whe...
27 Helmi 202021min
Metrics and Mindsets for Retention & Engagement
It's "Marketplaces Week" for us at a16z, thanks to our consumer team releasing a new index of the next industry-defining marketplaces, the Marketplace 100. But what happens as such marketplaces and o...
20 Helmi 202033min
Tough Love, Global Diplomacy, and Lessons on Leadership
Susan shares how she learned to leverage the characteristics of her personality early in her career as assistant secretary of state [2:05]One of the important conversations Susan had with a mentor tha...
14 Helmi 202050min
Building the First CAR T Company
with @OzAzamTmunity1, @JorgeCondeBio, and @omnivorousreadCAR T therapy, the groundbreaking new medicines that uses engineered T-cells to attack cancer, has been so effective in childhood leukemias tha...
7 Helmi 202028min
Rebel Talent
When we think about rebellious behavior in the context of organizations and companies, we tend to think of rebels as trouble-makers, rabble-rousers; in other words, people who make decisions and proce...
4 Helmi 202033min
