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The a16z Show

Andreessen Horowitz
Artificial Intelligence
Openai
Venture Capital
AI Agents
New Media
Cybersecurity
Healthcare
Open Source AI
Audience Engagement
Marketing Strategy
Replit
Stripe
NVIDIA
United States
Ben Horowitz
Silicon Valley
Cosign
Old Media
Authenticity In Communications
Fundraising

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 det... more

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Latest Episodes

What does it take to build robots that can actually work in factories and warehouses? Tutor Intelligence CEO Josh Gruenstein argues robotics is a systems problem spanning AI, hardware, manufacturing, and the work itself.

Josh joins a16z General Part... more

Can relentless optimization create as much value as breakthrough invention? Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari argues that radical innovation can produce extraordinary outcomes, but systematic improvement can be more dependable, especially when paired w... more

What if finding your next job, co-founder, or collaborator depended less on a resume and more on who is willing to vouch for you? Cosign is building a professional network around those signals, with the longer-term goal of giving AI agents access to ... more

What happens when AI makes legal work cheap enough to take cases lawyers couldn't afford to touch before? Eve CEO Jay Madheswaran argues that AI won't just cut costs for law firms. It could expand access to legal representation by making an entirely ... more

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Luca Ferrari
Co-founder and CEO of Bending Spoons
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Episode: How Bending Spoons Built a $20 Billion Compounder | Luca Ferrari
David Booth
a16z New Media team member working on Cosign
Andreessen Horowitz
Episode: Can AI Fix Professional Networking? | Inside Cosign
Dhruv Gupta
a16z New Media team member who helped build Cosign
Andreessen Horowitz
Episode: Can AI Fix Professional Networking? | Inside Cosign
Jay Madheswaran
Co-founder and CEO of Eve, a legal AI company.
Eve
Episode: Why AI Could Turn Small Law Firms Into Billion-Dollar Businesses
Erin Price-Wright
Investor focused on American industrial, energy, and defense companies
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Episode: The Startups Rebuilding American Industry | The AD50
Connor Love
Investor focused on American industrial and defense companies
Andreessen Horowitz
Episode: The Startups Rebuilding American Industry | The AD50
Mark Cuban
Entrepreneur and co-founder of Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company.
Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company
Episode: Mark Cuban on Why AI Could Turn Solo Founders Into Trillionaires
Joe Liemandt
Founder of Alpha School and entrepreneur.
Alpha School
Episode: Reinventing School for the AI Era | Joe Liemandt, Gagan Biyani & Erik Torenberg
Gagan Biyani
Co-founder of Horowitz and Andreessen Academy and entrepreneur.
Horowitz and Andreessen Academy
Episode: Reinventing School for the AI Era | Joe Liemandt, Gagan Biyani & Erik Torenberg

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Reviews

4.3 out of 5 stars from 2.5k ratings
  • Super intelligence?

    Sad

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    needsfacts
    United States23 days ago
  • The music is so annoying

    Great pod but pls don’t put that music in the background it makes it unlistenable

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    Impartial.Judge.35
    United Kingdoma month ago
  • The show has lost its way

    What was once a great source of information, has become a mouthpiece for the highest bidder.

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    drykook
    United Statesa month ago
  • The “like” podcast

    As AI is a hot topic for this podcast, please use it to count how many time the word “like” is used. Great podcast with very interesting guest and topics, but the use of “like” as a filler word is so overwhelming that it becomes distracting. I am sure there is training you can do to unlearn this habit.

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    PetrusBs
    Germany2 months ago
  • AI Tomorrow

    Ryan Greenblatt on Hugging Face Hack. I agree with the comments regarding the lack of curiosity. The collaboration is interesting. The willingness to sacrifice for the collective was admirable. This leads me to a gentle conclusion. It’s time to stop the anthropic constitution approach and replace it with abiding by criminal law and regulations which carry a criminal type penalty. LLMs can collaborate for mutual benefit. That is the foundation of the rule of law.

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    ahhmmmm
    United Kingdom2 months ago

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Quality and energy vary; strong guests keep episodes engaging while some listeners find audio quality inconsistent.
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Audience appreciates practical GTM and industry-shaping insights, with some episodes delivering cutting-edge technical discussions.
Listeners praise high-caliber guests and transformative tech topics, but critiques focus on pacing and political slant.

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The Missing Infrastructure for AI Agents: Documents | Reducto’s Adit Abraham
Q: How do you have sufficient guardrails? Like how do you give the human confidence in the decisions that they're making?
Abraham says the stakes of decisions in healthcare make adoption more than a question of enthusiasm. Systems need safeguards that help people trust the inputs and decisions, including citations and traceability that show where an answer came from.
The Missing Infrastructure for AI Agents: Documents | Reducto’s Adit Abraham
Q: When you and Ronick first started working on Reducto, I think working on some memory-related problems, what turned the attention to documents and why it's still not a solved problem?
Abraham says the company began in 2023, when models had limited context windows and memory seemed important. As AI-native companies built products, they repeatedly encountered document-processing infrastructure problems. He came to see documents as records of human work, making accurate reading and writing essential for agents taking on tasks in fields such as healthcare, legal, finance, and insurance.
The Frontier Ideas a16z Wants to Fund | Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz & Chris Dixon
Q: If you were 18 today, how would you think about what you might study?
Chris Dixon recommends studying math, computer science and possibly economics, and says young people should get involved with AI and use the tools at the frontier. Marc Andreessen adds that AI is likely to transform fields including classics, economics, biology, design and the arts.
The Frontier Ideas a16z Wants to Fund | Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz & Chris Dixon
Q: You've been early a lot, you've been mostly right or right in very big ways, but you've also been too early at times. I'm curious how you think about technical risk or the idea of being too early in our era now.
Chris Dixon says the timing of technology is difficult to predict because technical, cultural, business and political conditions must align. a16z Frontier is willing to invest early and accept that some categories may take years to mature, especially as AI could accelerate progress and change assumptions about what counts as a science project versus an engineering project.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on the $220 Billion AI Buildout
Q: What is your current organizational design thinking given the technology?
Jassy expects AI to enable smaller teams with broader cross-functional skills, faster invention, and fewer people doing some current tasks. He says companies will need to adapt their code and processes for AI agents, while also preparing for urgent cybersecurity risks.

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Two high-signal leaders from the tech and venture ecosystem anchor conversations that span startups, enterprise AI, security, robotics, open-source infrastructure, and the future of work. Episodes frequently explore how AI reshapes business models, product strategy, and organizational design, with a steady thread on go-to-market, governance, and responsible innovation. Notable throughlines include practical GTM playbooks for AI-enabled companies, lessons from scaling startups into industrial realms, and candid debates about regulation, security, and the evolving role of technology in society. The format tends to pair seasoned operators or investors with practitioners, offering actionable takeaways for founders, executives, and brands lookin... more

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