a16z Podcast Transcripts

OpenAI's Joshua Achiam: Did We Already Reach AGI?

Ruby Thelot on Internet Culture, AI, and the Future of Taste

Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon: What’s at Stake in Crypto Regulation

Decagon’s Playbook for Building Enterprise AI Applications

AI Micro Dramas, Generative Media, and the Future of Creativity

Fei-Fei Li on Spatial Intelligence and Robotics

Steven Sinofsky: AI Doesn't Need New Rules Yet

Ben Horowitz: The Fight Over Open Source AI

Sriram Krishnan on Open Source AI's Biggest Week Yet

Building the Physical AI Stack | Travis Kalanick on TBPN

Travis Kalanick Is Back | Building the Future of Industrial AI

Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | Applied Intuition

Hugging Face's CEO on Open Source AI, Model Routing, and the Future of Competition

Amjad Masad on Going Direct, Building Replit, and the Future of Software

Replay 2025: David Sacks on AI, Crypto, and America's Technology Future

Can Anyone Catch NVIDIA? | The Future of Chips and Infrastructure

Is AI a Bubble? | Gavin Baker on Data Centers, GPUs, and the AI Economy

Before Blockchains, There Was State Machine Replication

How Bitcoin Rewired a Classic Computer Science Problem

Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan: How AI Will Help Cure Disease

Adam Neumann: This Is How You Build Iconic Companies

Is Software Losing Its Head?

Don’t Follow Your Passion | Ben Horowitz’s Advice for New Graduates

Technology, Alliances, and American Leadership.

Outsmarting Uber: Why Bolt Wins in Europe

Rick Rubin on AI, Creativity, and The Way of Code

Building AI for Creators | Luma & Phota Labs

Beyond P(doom): Marc Andreessen - Betting on America

AI Is Crossing the Frontier of Human Knowledge | Kevin Weil

Marc Andreessen on AI, Technology, and the Future of Humanity

What Happens to Design After AI?

What’s Next for Consumer AI? | Josh Elman Joins a16z

Jake Paul & Anti Fund: From Creator to Investor

The New Rules of Media | Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz

The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

Jack Altman on Product-Market Fit

AI, Design, and the Power of Open Models

Samo Burja on Growth, Energy, and AI

Designing the Physical World with AI

Tyler Cowen & Alex Tabarrok on AI, Jobs, and Economic Growth

Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk

AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

AI Eats the World? A Reality Check with Benedict Evans

Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy

Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Why $1B Exits are Dead

Stablecoins, AI Agents, and The Future of Global Banking

Marc Rowan on Private Markets, Software Repricing, and Capital Allocation

Robin Hanson on Prediction Markets, Gambling, and the Future of Forecasting

Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

Hugging Face's Clem Delangue on Open Source AI and the LLM Bubble | MTS Live

How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

Marc Andreessen on AI, California, and the Future of America | Joe Rogan

Rebuilding The American Shipyard

The Plan to Make American Crime Obsolete

Vitalik Buterin on Human Agency in the AI Era

Ben Horowitz - "Your ONLY job is Right Product, Right Time"

Energy, Minerals, and the Physical Stack Behind AI

Lloyd Blankfein on Risk, Crisis, and Leadership

Marc Andreessen on Builder Culture in the Age of AI

Ben Horowitz on the Next Technology Era

Crypto Fund 5: We Raised $2.2B. Here’s Why.

The New Space Race: NASA, Artemis, and the Race to the Moon

Building Blackstone, Backing Costco, with Tony James

Sarah Rogers: Free Speech, AI Diplomacy, and What America Owes Its Allies

Balaji and Taylor Lorenz on AI and Media

Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

The Shift in Global Drug Development

John and Patrick Collison on Stripe's Growth, Agent Commerce, and the Future of Software

Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

AI Inside the Enterprise

Martin Shkreli on AI, Pharma, and What Actually Matters

Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Rethinking Git for the Age of Coding Agents with GitHub Cofounder Scott Chacon

The System Behind Self-Driving: Waymo’s Dmitri Dolgov

Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll

Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software

Building Agents at Home: Parenting, Work, and Benevolent Neglect

What Running Windows at Microsoft Taught Steven Sinofsky About Apple

Who Controls AI Acceleration? Vitalik Buterin and Guillaume Verdon Debate

The Agent Era: Building Software Beyond Chat with Box CEO Aaron Levie

Balaji on Why AI Raises the Cost of Verification

Marc Andreessen on AI Winters and Agent Breakthroughs

Alex Blania on Proof of Human and Building World's Identity Network

What Happens When a Public Company Goes All In on AI

How Radiant and Heron Are Rethinking Power Generation and Delivery

Marc Andreessen on Evaluating Founders and AI's Consumer Surplus

The SpaceX and Tesla Playbook for Hard Tech Startups

Security, Resilience, and the Future of Mobile Infrastructure

Submarines and the Future of Defense Manufacturing

The Missing Power Layer of Modern Warfare

Why Every Satellite Needs Earth | Northwood CEO on a16z

Inside Palantir: Building Software That Matters with Shyam Sankar

AI Just Gave You Superpowers — Now What?

What's Missing Between LLMs and AGI - Vishal Misra & Martin Casado

AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore

Marc Andreessen on the Mindset of Great Founders — with David Senra

Emil Michael: Iran, Anthropic and the Future of AI at the Pentagon

Palantir CEO Alex Karp on the Zero-Sum AI Race

What It Takes to Clear a Million Crimes a Year with Flock Safety's CEO

The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps

Andrew Huberman: Peptides, Sleep Tech, and the End of Obesity

Atlassian CEO on the SaaS Apocalypse, AI Agents & What Comes Next

Ben Thompson: Anthropic, the Pentagon, and the Limits of Private Power

Deploying AI in Healthcare

Ben Horowitz On What Makes a Great Founder

Chris Dixon: From Quant Trading to Building a16z Crypto

a16z's New Media Playbook

When Giants Don’t Go Public: Inside the $5 Trillion Private Tech Market

Ben Horowitz: RSI, Crypto as AI Money, & Classified Physics

Patrick Collison on Stripe’s Early Choices, Smalltalk, and What Comes After Coding

AI’s Capital Flywheel: Models, Money, and the Future of Power

From Copilots to Agents: Rebuilding the Company Around AI

WSJ x a16z: The Next 25 Years of Defense Innovation

Novartis CEO Vasant Narasimhan on Transforming a 250-Year-Old Company

Balaji and Dan Wang: The Engineering State vs Lawyerly State

Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI?

How Magic Johnson Built a Billion-Dollar Portfolio in 30 Years

Marc Andreessen: Who Runs the World’s AI?

The State of Markets

Balaji & Benedict Evans: When Tech Breaks Industries

Why This Isn't the Dot-Com Bubble | Martin Casado on WSJ's BOLD NAMES

Why America’s Health Crisis Is an Incentive Problem

Palmer Luckey on Hardware, Building, and the Next Frontiers of Innovation

David Solomon & Ben Horowitz on Building Organizational Resilience & Navigating Macro Uncertainty

“Anyone Can Code Now” - Netlify CEO Talks AI Agents

Marc Andreessen on Why This Is the Most Important Moment in Tech History

Ben Horowitz and Balaji Srinivasan on Netscape and Network States

Healthcare 2026: AI Doctors, GLP-1s, and Insurance Defection

The Hidden Economics Powering AI

How Mintlify Is Rebuilding Documentation for Coding Agents

Inferact: Building the Infrastructure That Runs Modern AI

Martin Casado on the Demand Forces Behind AI

From Code Search to AI Agents: Inside Sourcegraph's Transformation with CTO Beyang Liu

The AI Opportunity That Goes Beyond Models

How Foundation Models Evolved: A PhD Journey Through AI's Breakthrough Era

Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger

Alex Rampell on TBPN: Revenge, Redemption, and Founder Drive

Alex Rampell on Venture at Scale and Founder Incentives

Ben Horowitz on TBPN: Three Decades with Marc and Building for the Long Game

Ben Horowitz on Raising a New Fund and How Venture Firms Scale

Keycard: 2026 is the Year of Agents

Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI

Figma’s Dylan Field on the Future of Design

AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado

Wartime vs Peacetime: Ben Horowitz on Leadership

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz

The Inside Story of Growth Investing at a16z

Why a16z's Martin Casado Believes the AI Boom Still Has Years to Run

Where Does Consumer AI Stand at the End of 2025?

Big Ideas 2026: New Infrastructure Primitives

Big Ideas 2026: Physical AI and the Industrial Stack

Big Ideas 2026: The Enterprise Orchestration Layer

The Crime Crisis In America and How Technology Fixes It

Cheeky Pint: Marc Andreessen, John Collison & Charlie Songhurst on Tech’s Big Questions