Podcast
The a16z Show
Andreessen Horowitz
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 details and to sign up for our newsletters and other content as well!
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EPISODES
- 01
Jun 6, 2026 · 49m E1119
Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk
Sarah Wang speaks with Exa cofounder and CEO Will Bryk about building search infrastructure for the AI era. The conversation covers Exa’s origins, why tradit...
- 02
Jun 5, 2026 · 50m E1118
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data
Martin Casado speaks with George Fraser, cofounder and CEO of Fivetran, about the future of data infrastructure in the age of AI. The conversation covers Fiv...
- 03
Jun 4, 2026 · 1h 2m E1117
AI Eats the World? A Reality Check with Benedict Evans
Erik Torenberg speaks with tech analyst Benedict Evans about the current state of AI, what has changed over the past year, and which questions remain unanswe...
- 04
Jun 3, 2026 · 55m E1115
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
Theo Jaffee and Sophia Puccini speak with Balaji Srinivasan and Steven Glinert about the shifting balance of power between nations, networks, and technology....
- 05
Jun 2, 2026 · 29m E1116
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing
Theo Jaffee speaks with Steven Sinofsky about Apple’s 50th anniversary and the evolution of personal computing over the last four decades. Drawing on his exp...
- 06
Jun 1, 2026 · 46m E1114
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations
Anish Acharya and Olivia Moore speak with Pablo Palafox and Luis Paarup about the challenges of deploying AI agents in operationally complex industries. The...
- 07
May 29, 2026 · 33m E1113
Why $1B Exits are Dead
David George, General Partner at a16z, and David Clark, CIO at VenCap, discuss how AI is reshaping venture capital and the technology industry itself. They e...
- 08
May 28, 2026 · 37m E1112
Stablecoins, AI Agents, and The Future of Global Banking
Angela Strange speaks with Dileep Thazhmon, founder and CEO of Jeeves, about building a global financial operating system for enterprises across Latin Americ...
- 09
May 27, 2026 · 56m E1111
Marc Rowan on Private Markets, Software Repricing, and Capital Allocation
In 1990, Marc Rowan walked out of Drexel with his belongings in a cardboard box. Within a year, Apollo was managing $6 billion. David Haber speaks with Marc...
- 10
May 26, 2026 · 27m E1110
Robin Hanson on Prediction Markets, Gambling, and the Future of Forecasting
Theo Jaffee and Sophia Puccini speak with economist Robin Hanson about prediction markets, gambling, and why he believes speculative markets are one of the m...
- 11
May 25, 2026 · 40m E1109
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet
Originally aired on MTS segment, Monetary Matters, Jack Farley and Max Wiethe speak with Ara Kharazian, Lead Economist at Ramp, about what real business spen...
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May 22, 2026 · 15m E1108
Hugging Face's Clem Delangue on Open Source AI and the LLM Bubble | MTS Live
Clem Delangue joins MTS to discuss the global open-source AI landscape, the current large language model bubble, and the future of consumer robotics. Origina...
- 13
May 21, 2026 · 55m E1107
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email
Rahul Vorra is the founder and CEO of Superhuman, the premium email client for power users. He previously built the Gmail plug-in Reportive and sold it to Li...
- 14
May 20, 2026 · 3h 4m E1106
Marc Andreessen on AI, California, and the Future of America | Joe Rogan
Marc Andreessen joins Joe Rogan for a conversation on AI, politics, technology, and the future of American society. They discuss how artificial intelligence...
- 15
May 19, 2026 · 12m E1105
Rebuilding The American Shipyard
Erin Price-Wright speaks with Michael Duffey and Dino Mavrookas about what it will take to rebuild the American defense industrial base for a new era of comp...
- 16
May 18, 2026 · 11m E1104
The Plan to Make American Crime Obsolete
David Ulevitch speaks with Col. Jeffrey Glover and Rahul Sidhu about how AI, drones, and sensor networks are reshaping public safety and what it takes to bri...
- 17
May 15, 2026 · 26m E1103
Vitalik Buterin on Human Agency in the AI Era
Sophia Dew and Binji Pande speak with Vitalik Buterin about technology, human agency, and how the internet is changing the way people think, build, and relat...
- 18
May 14, 2026 · 18m E1102
Ben Horowitz - "Your ONLY job is Right Product, Right Time"
Ben Horowitz shares lessons from building and scaling companies, drawing on his experience as a founder and CEO. He explains why a founder’s primary responsi...
- 19
May 13, 2026 · 24m E1101
Energy, Minerals, and the Physical Stack Behind AI
Erin Price-Wright speaks with Turner Caldwell and Drew Baglino about what it will take to close America's critical minerals gap and modernize the power infra...
- 20
May 12, 2026 · 1h 12m E1100
Lloyd Blankfein on Risk, Crisis, and Leadership
David Haber speaks with Lloyd Blankfein, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, about leadership, risk, and navigating moments of extreme uncertainty. Drawing on his e...
- 21
May 11, 2026 · 1h 4m E1099
Marc Andreessen on Builder Culture in the Age of AI
Erik Torenberg speaks with Marc Andreessen about the state of AI, media, and the broader cultural and economic shifts shaping the internet. They discuss how...
- 22
May 8, 2026 · 29m E1098
Ben Horowitz on the Next Technology Era
David Ulevitch speaks with Ben Horowitz about what it means to lead the technology industry at scale, and the responsibilities that come with it. Following t...
- 23
May 7, 2026 · 1h 2m E1097
Crypto Fund 5: We Raised $2.2B. Here’s Why.
Robert Hackett speaks with the general partners at a16z crypto about the launch of their fifth crypto fund and the current state of the industry. They reflec...
- 24
May 6, 2026 · 29m E1096
The New Space Race: NASA, Artemis, and the Race to the Moon
Morgan Brennan speaks with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman about the next phase of American space exploration and the urgency behind returning to the moon....
- 25
May 5, 2026 · 1h 23m E1095
Building Blackstone, Backing Costco, with Tony James
David Haber speaks with Tony James about building enduring firms across multiple eras of finance. From joining DLJ when it was a subscale firm to helping gro...
- 26
May 4, 2026 · 24m E1094
Sarah Rogers: Free Speech, AI Diplomacy, and What America Owes Its Allies
Katherine Boyle speaks with Sarah Rogers, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy, about the intersection of AI, free speech, and global information systems. Th...
- 27
May 1, 2026 · 51m E1093
Balaji and Taylor Lorenz on AI and Media
Theo Jaffee speaks with Balaji Srinivasan and Taylor Lorenz about how AI is reshaping media, trust, and online communication. Building on prior public disagr...
- 28
Apr 30, 2026 · 29m E1092
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software
Elena Burger speaks with Joe Schmidt, partner on the enterprise team at a16z, about the future of enterprise software in the age of AI. Using Workday as a ca...
- 29
Apr 29, 2026 · 57m E1091
The Shift in Global Drug Development
Theo Jaffee and Gabriel Dickinson speak with Cremieux about China’s rapid rise to the top of global clinical trial output. They discuss the regulatory reform...
- 30
Apr 28, 2026 · 20m E1090
John and Patrick Collison on Stripe's Growth, Agent Commerce, and the Future of Software
This interview with Stripe cofounders John and Patrick Collison originally aired on TBPN. They discuss Stripe's 34% growth and new employee tender offer, how...
- 31
Apr 27, 2026 · 1h 10m E1089
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI
Anjney Midha, founder of AMP PBC, speaks with Ben Horowitz, cofounder of a16z, about how venture capital changed from a small, relationship-driven business i...
- 32
Apr 24, 2026 · 1h E1088
AI Inside the Enterprise
Steven Sinofsky, board partner at a16z, Aaron Levie, CEO of Box, and Martin Casado, general partner at a16z, discuss the reality of AI inside enterprises. Th...
- 33
Apr 23, 2026 · 48m E1087
Martin Shkreli on AI, Pharma, and What Actually Matters
Erik Torenberg speaks with Martin Shkreli, American investor and businessman, about how he sees the AI landscape, from OpenAI to Anthropic, and what actually...
- 34
Apr 22, 2026 · 2h 1m E1085
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct
Erik Torenberg and Theo Jaffee speak with Balaji Srinivasan, angel investor, entrepreneur, and author of The Network State, about how AI is transforming medi...
- 35
Apr 21, 2026 · 1h 7m E1084
Marc Andreessen: Monitoring the Situation and the Future of Media
Erik Torenberg and Theo Jaffee speak with Marc Andreessen, cofounder and general partner at a16z, about the launch of Monitoring the Situation (MTS), a new,...
- 36
Apr 20, 2026 · 47m E1083
Rethinking Git for the Age of Coding Agents with GitHub Cofounder Scott Chacon
Matt Bornstein speaks with Scott Chacon, cofounder of GitHub and CEO of GitButler, about why Git's user interface has barely changed since 2005, how GitButle...
- 37
Apr 19, 2026 · 58m E1082
Network Effects, AI Costs, and the Future of Consumer Investing with Anish Acharya on The Kevin Rose Show
This episode originally aired on The Kevin Rose Show. Kevin Rose speaks with Anish Acharya, general partner at a16z, about how AI is rewriting the rules of c...
- 38
Apr 17, 2026 · 1h 4m E1081
From Models to Mobility: Building Waymo with Dmitri Dolgov
Waymo is now delivering hundreds of thousands of fully autonomous rides each week — but getting there required more than better models. It meant building a c...
- 39
Apr 16, 2026 · 34m E1080
Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll
Erik Torenberg and Anish Acharya, general partners at a16z, speak with signüll about how technology reshapes culture, relationships, and the products we buil...
- 40
Apr 15, 2026 · 1h 39m E1075
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
Jack Neel speaks with Amjad Masad, CEO at Replit, about how AI is making it easier than ever to build and ship software without a technical background. They...
- 41
Apr 14, 2026 · 29m E1079
Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software
Recorded live at the a16z Fintech Connect conference in Deer Valley, Alex Rampell speaks with Ben Horowitz, cofounder and general partner at a16z, about how...
- 42
Apr 13, 2026 · 54m E1078
Building Agents at Home: Parenting, Work, and Benevolent Neglect
Katherine Boyle and Sarah Wang speak with Jesse Genet, a self-proclaimed startup founder and family builder, about building 11 AI agents while homeschooling...
- 43
Apr 10, 2026 · 31m E1077
What Running Windows at Microsoft Taught Steven Sinofsky About Apple
Theo Jaffee speaks with Steven Sinofsky, board partner at a16z and former president of the Windows division at Microsoft, about Apple's 50th anniversary, the...
- 44
Apr 9, 2026 · 1h 39m E1076
Who Controls AI Acceleration? Vitalik Buterin and Guillaume Verdon Debate
Eddy Lazzarin speaks with Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum, and Guillaume Verdon, founder and CEO of Extropic, about whether AI progress can or should be...
- 45
Apr 8, 2026 · 59m E1074
The Agent Era: Building Software Beyond Chat with Box CEO Aaron Levie
Erik Torenberg, Steve Sinofsky, and Martin Casado speak to Aaron Levie, CEO at Box, about what happens to enterprise software when agents become the primary...
- 46
Apr 7, 2026 · 1h 7m E1073
Balaji on Why AI Raises the Cost of Verification
a16z general partner Erik Torenberg speaks with Balaji Srinivasan, angel investor and entrepreneur, about why AI simultaneously reduces the cost of creation...
- 47
Apr 6, 2026 · 28m E1072
Peter Yang on Small Teams, Coding Agents, and Why Human Ambition Has No Ceiling
Anish Acharya speaks with Peter Yang, creator and product lead at Roblox, about how personal AI agents are replacing the apps we open every day, why coding a...
- 48
Apr 3, 2026 · 1h 17m E1071
Marc Andreessen on AI Winters and Agent Breakthroughs
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 t...
- 49
Apr 2, 2026 · 42m E1070
Alex Blania on Proof of Human and Building World's Identity Network
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...
- 50
Apr 1, 2026 · 27m E1069
What Happens When a Public Company Goes All In on AI
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...
- 51
Mar 31, 2026 · 49m E1068
How Radiant and Heron Are Rethinking Power Generation and Delivery
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,...
- 52
Mar 30, 2026 · 1h 7m E1067
Marc Andreessen on Evaluating Founders and AI's Consumer Surplus
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...
- 53
Mar 27, 2026 · 50m E1066
The SpaceX and Tesla Playbook for Hard Tech Startups
Erin Price-Wright speaks with Chandler Luzsicza, founder and CEO of Galadyne, and Turner Caldwell, cofounder and CEO of Mariana Minerals, about what they act...
- 54
Mar 26, 2026 · 41m E1065
Security, Resilience, and the Future of Mobile Infrastructure
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 techn...
- 55
Mar 25, 2026 · 23m E1064
Submarines and the Future of Defense Manufacturing
David Ulevitch speaks with Chris Power, founder and CEO at Hadrian, and Vice Admiral Robert Gaucher, the Pentagon's first direct reporting portfolio manager...
- 56
Mar 24, 2026 · 50m E1063
The Missing Power Layer of Modern Warfare
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...
- 57
Mar 23, 2026 · 40m E1062
Why Every Satellite Needs Earth | Northwood CEO on a16z
Bridgit Mendler, Co-founder and CEO of Northwood, joins a16z’s Erik Torenberg to discuss the critical but overlooked bottleneck in space: ground infrastructu...
- 58
Mar 20, 2026 · 54m E1061
Inside Palantir: Building Software That Matters with Shyam Sankar
In this conversation, Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer at Palantir Technologies, discusses his new book Mobilize, his commission in the U.S. Army, and...
- 59
Mar 19, 2026 · 1h 6m E1060
AI Just Gave You Superpowers — Now What?
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 Ed...
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Mar 18, 2026 · 37m E1059
AI, Supply Chains, and the Future of Economic Power
Erik Torenberg sits down with Jacob Helberg to discuss AI, manufacturing, supply chains, and the new geopolitics of technology. Drawing on themes from Helber...
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Mar 17, 2026 · 47m E1058
What's Missing Between LLMs and AGI - Vishal Misra & Martin Casado
Vishal Misra returns to explain his latest research on how LLMs actually work under the hood. He walks through experiments showing that transformers update t...
- 62
Mar 16, 2026 · 56m E1057
AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore
In this episode, originally aired on Big Technology Podcast, Olivia Moore discusses whether AI startups can compete with the big chatbots, why American senti...
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Mar 15, 2026 · 1h 49m E1056
Marc Andreessen on the Mindset of Great Founders — with David Senra
Marc Andreessen joins David Senra on the Founders podcast for a conversation about entrepreneurship, history, and what drives some of the world’s most ambiti...
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Mar 13, 2026 · 27m E1055
Emil Michael: Iran, Anthropic and the Future of AI at the Pentagon
This conversation with Emil Michael, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering and acting director of the Defense Innovation Unit, was recorded...
- 65
Mar 12, 2026 · 32m E1054
Palantir CEO Alex Karp on the Zero-Sum AI Race
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 rol...
- 66
Mar 11, 2026 · 1h 46m E1053
What It Takes to Clear a Million Crimes a Year with Flock Safety's CEO
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 d...
- 67
Mar 10, 2026 · 40m E1052
The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps
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 Clau...
- 68
Mar 9, 2026 · 51m E1051
Andrew Huberman: Peptides, Sleep Tech, and the End of Obesity
Daisy Wolf speaks with Dr. Andrew Huberman, professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford University and host of the Huberman Lab podcast. They dis...
- 69
Mar 6, 2026 · 55m E1050
Atlassian CEO on the SaaS Apocalypse, AI Agents & What Comes Next
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 soft...
- 70
Mar 5, 2026 · 36m E1048
Ben Thompson: Anthropic, the Pentagon, and the Limits of Private Power
In this conversation, previously aired on TBPN, John Coogan and Jordi Hays speak with Ben Thompson, founder of Stratechery, about his essay "Anthropic and Al...
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Mar 4, 2026 · 49m E1049
Ambience CEO Nikhil Buduma on AI in Clinical Workflows
a16z general partner Julie Yoo talks with Nikhil Buduma, CEO and cofounder of Ambience Healthcare, to discuss how AI is transforming clinical workflows. They...
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Mar 3, 2026 · 50m E1047
Ben Horowitz On What Makes a Great Founder
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 e...
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Mar 2, 2026 · 59m E1046
Chris Dixon: From Quant Trading to Building a16z Crypto
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 hobbyi...
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Feb 27, 2026 · 48m E1045
a16z's New Media Playbook
Erik Torenberg, Ben Horowitz, and Marc Andreessen discuss how the media landscape has fundamentally changed and what a16z is doing about it. They cover why o...
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Feb 26, 2026 · 47m E1044
When Giants Don’t Go Public: Inside the $5 Trillion Private Tech Market
Bloomberg's Odd Lots hosts Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway speak with David George, general partner at a16z and head of the firm's growth fund, about why $5...
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Feb 23, 2026 · 1h 48m E1043
Ben Horowitz: RSI, Crypto as AI Money, & Classified Physics
Moonshots host Peter Diamandis speaks with Ben Horowitz, cofounder and general partner at a16z, alongside regular cohosts Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin, and Dr....
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Feb 20, 2026 · 52m E1042
Patrick Collison on Stripe’s Early Choices, Smalltalk, and What Comes After Coding
Michael Truell, CEO of Cursor, sits down with Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe and an investor in Anysphere, to talk about Collison's history with Smalltalk a...
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Feb 19, 2026 · 57m E1041
Capital, Compute, and the Fight for AI Dominance
a16z's Martin Casado and Sarah Wang join Latent Space hosts Alessio Fanelli and Swyx to discuss what makes this AI investment cycle unlike anything in the hi...
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Feb 18, 2026 · 59m E1040
From Copilots to Agents: Rebuilding the Company Around AI
a16z's Angela Strange and Gabriel Vasquez speak with Carlos García Ottati, founder and CEO of Kavak, about building Latin America's largest online used car m...
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Feb 17, 2026 · 30m E1039
WSJ x a16z: The Next 25 Years of Defense Innovation
In this episode from WSJ Invest Live, Andy Serwer speaks with Katherine Boyle, general partner at a16z, about the American Dynamism practice she helped launc...