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Date Title & Description Contributors
2024-12-20

  Jobs of the Future, Harnessing Earth Observation, & Gaming Tech Advances

As 2025 begins, industries are evolving at unprecedented speed: robots are revolutionizing manufacturing, terabytes of earth observation data are driving new possibilities, and gaming technology is transforming how we design, train, and innovate across...
  Erin Price-Wright, Millen Anand, Troy Kirwin, Steph Smith author
2024-12-16

  Scaling Shopify: Tobias Lütke and Ben Horowitz on Building a Global Giant

In this episode of Web3 with a16z, Shopify CEO and cofounder Tobias Lütke joins a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz for a conversation recorded live at the a16z crypto Founders Summit.Together, they explore what it takes to build a breakout startup in a compet...
  Tobias Lütke, Ben Horowitz author
2024-12-11

  How AI is Transforming Labor Markets

Did you know the U.S. nurse labor market is over $600 billion annually, but the dedicated software market for nurses is almost zero?In this episode General Partners Alex Rampell, David Haber, and Angela Strange discuss how AI is revolutionizing labor b...
  angela strange, david haber, steph smith, Alex Rampell author
2024-12-06

  Fixing Education in America: What's Stopping Us?

Over half of Americans live in childcare deserts, while 90% of brain development happens before the age of five. All the while, education and childcare remain among the most resistant sectors to technological change. Billions of dollars have been spent...
  Steph Smith, Anna Edwards, Anurupa Ganguly, Chris Bennett, Jeff Jordan author
2024-12-02

  Prediction Markets and Beyond

This episode was originally published on our sister podcast, web3 with a16z. If you’re excited about the next generation of the internet, check out the show: https://link.chtbl.com/hrr_h-XCWe've heard a lot about the premise and the promise of predicti...
  Sonal Chokshi, Alex Taborrok, Scott Duke Kominers author
2024-11-25

  Death of a Salesforce: Why AI Will Transform Sales

Sales is evolving. AI-native systems are replacing traditional CRM tools, capturing unstructured insights from emails, Slack, surveys, and more in real time. These systems automate early-stage tasks like prospecting and qualification, enabling sales te...
  Steph Smith, Joe Schmidt, Marc Andrusko author
2024-11-18

  The Longevity Imperative: Redefining the Way We Age

What if the biggest challenge of our time isn’t living longer, but living better? In this episode, we’re tackling one of humanity’s greatest accomplishments—and perhaps its most overlooked challenge: longevity. As more people live past 100, our systems...
  Steph Smith, Vijay Pande, Andrew Scott author
2024-11-11

  Rebuilding America's Industrial Backbone

America is a country of immense wealth, but our manufacturing infrastructure is struggling to keep pace.In this episode, we discuss the overlooked crisis of American manufacturing and what it means for our national resilience. a16z’s Oliver Hsu hosts a...
  Steph Smith, Chris Power, Jordan Black, Bryon Hargis, Oliver Hsu author
2024-11-04

  Autonomy Across Air, Land, and Sea

2024 has been a milestone year for autonomous tech. Waymo’s fully autonomous driver has surpassed 20 million miles, while FAA approvals now allow commercial drones to fly without visual observers, advancing air autonomy in unprecedented ways.In this sp...
  Macario Namie, Vijaysai Patnaik, Erin Price-Wright, Peter Bowman-Davis author
2024-10-29

  State of Crypto 2024: Builder Energy, U.S. Election, Stablecoins, AI, More

We take you behind the scenes of our newly released, annual State of Crypto Report — a16z crypto's analysis of the latest data and trends that have defined the industry in 2024. This year's report features some brand new insights, from estimating the n...
  Robert Hackett, Eddy Lazzarin, Daren Matsuoka author