a16z Podcast: A Conversation With the Inventor of Spark
One of the most active and fastest growing open source big data cluster computing projects is Apache Spark, which was originally developed at U.C. Berkeley's AMPLab and is now used by internet giants ...
24 Jun 201519min
a16z Podcast: Investing in Communities
Investing to make a return both financial AND societal isn't new, but the opportunities to reach and build businesses in communities that have been underserved by tech are larger than ever. One exampl...
22 Jun 201524min
a16z Podcast: The Rise of the Quasi-IPO
"This time is different." But it's always different! So what's going on now in the public markets? Why does this even matter? For one thing, tech markets have grown significantly. And one big reason i...
17 Jun 201529min
a16z Podcast: Location, Location, Location -- and Mobile
Pick your metaphor: Smartphones are "remote controls" for the physical world, or perhaps, as Steve Cheney argues, they're "cursors for the physical world". Either way, it's clear that the age of mobil...
11 Jun 201522min
a16z Podcast: Dealing with Corporate Dealmakers -- When to Talk to Corp Dev
Every meeting a busy founder takes is time away from building the company. So it’s understandable why engaging corporate development groups is believed to be a waste of time, unless you’re selling you...
10 Jun 201522min
a16z Podcast: Apple Gets Its Music Streaming and Gives News Another Try
Apple’s annual developer conference is cranking away in San Francisco, and a16z’s Benedict Evans examines the latest from the world’s most valuable company in this segment of the pod. Software is the ...
10 Jun 201526min
a16z Podcast: Apple Watch -- Looking for New Things Done in New Ways
Is the Apple Watch breaking new technological ground, or just another accessory for your iPhone? a16z’s Benedict Evans and Board Partner Steven Sinofsky describe their experience with the Apple Watch ...
5 Jun 201522min
The Cool Stuff Only Happens at Scale
Distributed computing frameworks like Hadoop and Spark have enabled processing of "big data" sets -- but that's not enough for modeling surprise/rare "black swan" or complex events. Just think of scen...
5 Jun 201521min
