a16z Podcast: When Bio Meets Computer Science
Biology startups have been around for a long time. But the world has changed since that first wave of bio startups, and especially more recently, due to the "peace dividends of the smartphone wars". S...
26 Jul 201541min
a16z Podcast: Big Data Goes Really Big
Big Data is evolving. It’s moving from the sole domain of the high priests of data science, to something that practically every organization -- big and small -- and every group within that organizatio...
24 Jul 201526min
a16z Podcast: Innovation and Regulation -- What Happens When Policy Lags Behind Technology?
Regulation always lags behind technology, but by 80-plus years?! U.S. Representatives Fred Upton and Greg Walden -- of the Energy and Commerce Committee including the subcommittee on Communications an...
22 Jul 201517min
a16z Podcast: It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It -- When Language Meets Big Data
When most people think of big data they think of numbers, but it turns out that a lot of big data -- a lot of the output of our work and activity as humans in fact -- is in the form of words. So what ...
16 Jul 201534min
a16z Podcast: Bitcoin's Growing Pains -- and Possibilities
Bitcoin has had more than its share of drama. There is, of course, the mystery surrounding its anonymous founder (or perhaps, founders) Satoshi Nakamoto. More recently, there's been a battle over whet...
10 Jul 201521min
a16z Podcast: The Changing Relationship Between Tech and Government
Just a few years ago if you were mayor of Washington D.C. –- or any other city -- you didn’t have to wrap your head around the likes of Airbnb, Lyft, and other companies in the fast-growing 'sharing e...
10 Jul 201517min
a16z Podcast: Latinos and the Tech Economy -- U.S. Reps. Sanchez and Gallego Talk Bridging the Gaps
There is a gap between the technology industry and the fastest growing portion of today’s workforce and the workforce of the future: Latinos -- argue U.S. Representatives Loretta Sanchez (California) ...
9 Jul 201524min
a16z Podcast: Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
In this special international edition of the a16z Podcast, Mohsen Malayeri, co-founder of Avatech -- one of the more prominent startup accelerators in Iran among many (much like Y Combinator in the U....
1 Jul 201542min
