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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
2024-10-24

  Tesla's Road Ahead: The Bitter Lesson in Robotics

What does Rich Sutton’s "Bitter Lesson" reveal about the decisions Tesla is making in its pursuit of autonomy?In this episode, we dive into Tesla’s recent "We, Robot" event, where they unveiled bold plans for the unsupervised full-self-driving Cybercab...
  Steph Smith, Anjney Midha, Erin Price-Wright author
2024-10-22

  The story of Apple Pay with Jennifer Bailey

In 2024, marking 10 years since its launch, Apple Pay now boasts hundreds of millions of consumers in 78 markets, at checkout on millions of websites and apps, in tens of millions of stores worldwide, and is supported by more than 11,000 bank and netwo...
  Jennifer Bailey, Alex Rampell, Steph Smith author
2024-10-17

  How to Build a Thriving AI Ecosystem with Lisa Su, CEO of AMD

Lisa Su has transformed AMD into a global leader in AI and high-performance computing.In this episode of the AI Revolution (AIR) series , Bob Swan, a16z Operating Partner and former CEO of Intel, sits down with Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, to discuss how her l...
  Lisa Su, Bob Swan author
2024-10-11

  The Deepfake Dilemma: The Technology, Policy, and Economy

Deepfakes—AI-generated fake videos and voices—have become a widespread concern across politics, social media, and more. As they become easier to create, the threat grows. But so do the tools to detect them.In this episode, Vijay Balasubramaniyan, cofou...
  Vijay Balasubramaniyan, Martin Casado author
2024-10-08

  A Big Week in Tech: NotebookLM, OpenAI’s Speech API, & Custom Audio

Last week was another big week in technology. Google’s NotebookLM introduced its Audio Overview feature, enabling users to create customizable podcasts in over 35 languages. OpenAI followed with their real-time speech-to-speech API, making voice integr...
  Anish Acharya, olivia moore, Steph Smith, Bryan Kim author
2024-10-03

  From Swipe to Scale: How Tinder Became #1

In 1995, just 2% of couples met online. Today, that number has surged to over 50%, making online dating the top way couples connect.In this episode, a16z General Partner Andrew Chen chats with Tinder founder Sean Rad about how he built an app that chan...
  Sean Rad, Andrew Chen author