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a16z Podcast
Steph Smith
At a Glance
a16z Podcast is hosted by Steph Smith covering Venture Capital, Geopolitics, AI Agents, and OpenAI. Notable guests include Katherine Boyle, Jensen Huang & Arthur Mensch (CEO, NVIDIA & CEO, Mistral AI), and Anish Acharya. Episodes span from Mar 2025 to Apr 2026.
91 episodes2198 total claims12 topics covered
91 episodes
How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer | Alex Blania on a16z
Apr 2, 2026
The proliferation of sophisticated AI agents and deepfakes is creating an urgent, global need for a reliable "Proof of Human" to distinguish real users from bots, a problem that current digital ide...
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How to Reorg After AI Changes Everything | Block's Owen Jennings on the a16z Show
Apr 1, 2026
Block executed a ~40% reduction in force, primarily driven by 10-100x productivity gains from new AI development tools, not just correcting for past overhiring.
The company believes the long-standi...
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Tesla and SpaceX Alumni on Elon Musk, Decision Velocity, and the Future of Hard Tech | a16z
Mar 27, 2026
Two former senior engineers from SpaceX and Tesla discuss applying the 'Elon Musk playbook' to their new hard-tech startups in missile propulsion (Galadai) and critical minerals (Mariana Minerals)....
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Inside The $100M Bet on the Future of Space | Northwood CEO on a16z
Mar 23, 2026
Inside Palantir: Building Software That Matters | Shyam Sankar on a16z
Mar 20, 2026
Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz on a16z’s New Media Strategy
Mar 18, 2026
Why Scale Will Not Solve AGI | Vishal Misra - The a16z Show
Mar 17, 2026
Emil Michael: The Department of War Is Moving Faster Than Silicon Valley on AI | The a16z Show
Mar 13, 2026
Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
Mar 10, 2026
Atlassian CEO on the SaaS Apocalypse, AI Agents & What Comes Next
Mar 6, 2026
AI Markets: Deep Dive with a16z's David George
Feb 9, 2026
How Truemed Is Incentivizing Americans to Invest in Prevention
Feb 4, 2026
Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Years
Feb 2, 2026
The Biggest Bottlenecks For AI: Energy & Cooling
Jan 26, 2026
The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
Jan 19, 2026
Ben Horowitz on Investing in AI: AI Bubbles, Economic Impact, and VC Acceleration
Jan 13, 2026
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
Jan 7, 2026
AI in 2026: 3 Predictions For What’s To Come (a16z Big Ideas)
Dec 31, 2025
Where does consumer AI stand at the end of 2025?
Dec 29, 2025
How AI Will Transform Fintech In 2026
Dec 19, 2025
“How We Can Eliminate Crime” | Ben Horowitz and Garrett Langley
Dec 17, 2025
The Renaissance of the American Factory | a16z 2026 Big Ideas
Dec 15, 2025
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
Dec 12, 2025
The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
Dec 10, 2025
The Chip That Could Unlock AGI.
Dec 8, 2025
Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)
Dec 3, 2025
The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
Dec 1, 2025
How OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning
Nov 28, 2025
The 2045 Superintelligence Timeline: Epoch AI’s Data-Driven Forecast
Nov 24, 2025
Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
Nov 19, 2025
Emmett Shear on Building AI That Actually Cares: Beyond Control and Steering
Nov 17, 2025
Rocket Companies CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis
Nov 12, 2025
Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?
Nov 7, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan: How AI Will Cure All Disease
Nov 6, 2025
Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
Nov 5, 2025
ElevenLabs CEO: Why Voice is the Next AI Interface
Nov 4, 2025
Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China
Nov 3, 2025
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on the State of AI
Oct 31, 2025
"Is there an AI bubble?” Gavin Baker and David George
Oct 30, 2025
Building the Real-World Infrastructure for AI, with Google, Cisco & a16z
Oct 29, 2025
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
Oct 23, 2025
How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
Oct 21, 2025
Is AI Slowing Down? Nathan Labenz Says We're Asking the Wrong Question
Oct 14, 2025
Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire
Oct 8, 2025
Opendoor CEO: Building the Amazon for Homes
Oct 7, 2025
The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
Oct 6, 2025
The Person Who Runs HR For 2 Million Federal Workers
Oct 2, 2025
Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture
Sep 30, 2025
The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
Sep 27, 2025
From Vibe Coding to Vibe Researching: OpenAI’s Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki
Sep 25, 2025
Taking Bold Bets: NIH and the Future of Biomedical Science
Sep 23, 2025
Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
Sep 22, 2025
The Death of Search: How Shopping Will Work In The Age of AI
Sep 17, 2025
Faster Science, Better Drugs
Sep 15, 2025
Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
Sep 9, 2025
The Little Tech Agenda for AI
Sep 8, 2025
Is Non-Consensus Investing Overrated?
Sep 4, 2025
Substack Cofounder on AI Slop Content & the Decline of Social Media
Sep 2, 2025
The Top 100 Most Used AI Apps in 2025
Aug 27, 2025
Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future
Aug 25, 2025
Can AI Fix Housing and Healthcare Affordability?
Aug 21, 2025
Oren Cass & Noah Smith Debate the True Impact of Tariffs
Aug 20, 2025
Dylan Patel on GPT-5’s Router Moment, GPUs vs TPUs, Monetization
Aug 18, 2025
Google DeepMind Lead Researchers on Genie 3 & the Future of World-Building
Aug 16, 2025
The Current Reality of American AI Policy: From ‘Pause AI’ to ‘Build’
Aug 15, 2025
GPT-5 and Agents Breakdown – w/ OpenAI Researchers Isa Fulford & Christina Kim
Aug 8, 2025
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
Aug 8, 2025
From the Dot-Com Crash to the AI Era: How Builders Survive Waves of Disruption
Aug 6, 2025
Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy
Aug 4, 2025
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
Aug 1, 2025
AI Content and the War for Your Attention
Jul 30, 2025
Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money
Jul 28, 2025
The U.S. Can’t Build AI Without These Materials
Jul 23, 2025
The Future of Software Development - Vibe Coding, Prompt Engineering & AI Assistants
Jul 21, 2025
America's Energy Problem: We Need A New Grid
Jul 16, 2025
Aaron Levie on AI's Enterprise Adoption
Jul 14, 2025
Crypto Experts Explain Stablecoins & the Future Financial System w/ Ali Yahya & Arianna Simpson
Jul 9, 2025
Former Microsoft Executive Explains Where We Are in the AI Cycle w/ Anish Acharya & Steven Sinofsky
Jun 27, 2025
Building Cluely: The Viral AI Startup that raised $15M in 10 Weeks w/ Roy Lee
Jun 25, 2025
Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
Jun 18, 2025
How Fei-Fei Li Is Rebuilding AI for the Real World
Jun 4, 2025
Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
Jun 2, 2025
7 More Healthy Years: What We Can Learn from Super Agers
May 27, 2025
Sovereign AI: Why Nations Are Building Their Own Models
May 24, 2025
The Software Crisis Behind America's Infrastructure
Apr 28, 2025
The Dual-Use Founder: Vets Now Building For America
Apr 21, 2025
Drone Warfare: The New Rules of Combat Are Here
Apr 11, 2025
Can the Military Move at Startup Speed? How the Army and Navy Are Rebuilding
Apr 2, 2025
The Top 100 GenAI Products, Ranked and Explained
Mar 26, 2025
Jensen Huang & Arthur Mensch: Why Every Nation Needs Its Own AI Strategy
Mar 20, 2025
Why American Dynamism Is Just Getting Started
Mar 17, 2025
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