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    "In this wide-ranging conversation about 'stuff' that took place at a16z's most...

    June 18, 2015

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    "Infrastructure. It powers everything from cities to computing, yet is sometime...

    February 24, 2016

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    "When the iPad first came out in 2010 there was chatter that went in two direct...

    April 28, 2016

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    "Love the term or hate it, the concept and reality of the "sharing economy" (or...

    June 16, 2016

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    "with Fei-Fei Li (@drfeifei), Frank Chen (@withfries2), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc...

    June 28, 2016

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    "Seemingly overnight, a single game -- Pokémon Go -- has taken people by storm....

    July 22, 2016

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    "From hardware and hardwires to smartphones and social, technology wants to con...

    August 1, 2016

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    "Bitcoin quickly made its way from a whitepaper to a production network, which ...

    August 28, 2016

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    ""Incremental change may be good theory, but in practice you have to have a big...

    August 31, 2016

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    "From the silver age of on-prem software companies like SAP and Siebel Systems ...

    September 22, 2016

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    "The most recent Oculus Connect event (the third and largest yet) has been laud...

    October 10, 2016

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    ""We live in a world where we use millions of variables to predict which ad you...

    December 5, 2016

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    "Clearly disruption plays out not just in business but also in politics. Whethe...

    December 9, 2016

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    ""We throw around words like 'crisis' very easily, but this is a global crisis,...

    December 16, 2016

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    "As people live longer, aging is more top of mind than ever. This is especially...

    December 27, 2016

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    "As companies expand out from the internet into the rest of the economy — the p...

    December 31, 2016

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    "What (on earth) does it take to get a signal to Pluto? Stanford senior scienti...

    January 1, 2017

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    "From the significance of Google DeepMind's AlphaGo wins to recent advances in ...

    January 11, 2017

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    "The largest asset class in the United States is owner-occupied real estate, ye...

    January 13, 2017

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    ""Mobile-first" (and now too AI-first) has been a mantra of sorts in design, bu...

    January 18, 2017

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    "How to think about tech policy and top-of-mind issues for the tech industry, g...

    January 21, 2017

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    "How to think about business policy and top-of-mind issues for the tech industr...

    January 21, 2017

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    "The building blocks for VR and AR are finally here -- but the content is just ...

    January 24, 2017

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    ""Punch above your weight" -- If there's one thing public relations (PR) should...

    January 26, 2017

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    "Once upon a time, Robert Stromberg got a phone call from "Jim" Cameron (aka Ja...

    January 27, 2017

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    "In the age of the internet -- where information is freely available online, an...

    February 1, 2017

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    "Thanks to freeways, cities became something to get through instead of somethin...

    February 8, 2017

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    "The modern enterprise holds all sorts of applications, devices, and workflow n...

    February 14, 2017

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    "The hardest thing about pivots (major shifts in company/product direction) isn...

    February 19, 2017

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    "It's been nearly 15 years since the Human Genome Project was completed. But "a...

    February 22, 2017

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    "Evolution and technology have allowed our human species to manipulate the phys...

    February 23, 2017

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    "Imagine, for a moment, an alternative universe: One where Netflix got disrupte...

    February 26, 2017

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    "Humans have always wanted to enhance themselves -- from getting nutrition just...

    February 28, 2017

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    "The irony of our systems working so well -- technological, corporate, and yes,...

    March 1, 2017

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    "In this episode of the a16z Podcast introduced by Vijay Pande (based on a pres...

    March 7, 2017

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    "Starbucks supposedly spends more on healthcare than it does on coffee beans. A...

    March 9, 2017

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    "Your brand, says head of a16z marketing and Outcast Agency co-founder Margit W...

    March 13, 2017

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    "A lot of machine learning startups initially feel a bit of “impostor syndrome”...

    March 17, 2017

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    "As we enter a new era of distributed computing -- and of big data, in the form...

    March 21, 2017

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    "An aerospace engineer who worked for NASA for over 40 years, Dr. Christine Dar...

    March 22, 2017

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    "In this episode of the a16z Podcast recorded at our inaugural Summit, Jonathan...

    March 25, 2017

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    "Most of us have probably heard of bitcoin and ethereum -- but did you know the...

    April 3, 2017

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    "The culture of open source has changed across generations, from previous ones ...

    April 8, 2017

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    "Here’s what we know about open source: Developers are the new buyers. Communit...

    April 11, 2017

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    "A crisis is an opportunity to change one's culture, to model scenarios and set...

    April 13, 2017

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    "Is it real or science fiction to dream of being able to treat… getting old? In...

    April 18, 2017

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    "In this hallway-style episode of the podcast, a16z partners Connie Chan and Ky...

    April 25, 2017

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    "The first thing that comes to mind when treating health problems is the need t...

    April 28, 2017

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    "It’s the end of the beginning — not the beginning of the end — for wearables, ...

    May 1, 2017

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    "A board veteran who has sat on both sides of the table, CEO of PagerDuty Jenni...

    May 11, 2017

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    "Moore's Law -- putting more and more transistors on a chip -- accelerated the ...

    May 13, 2017

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    "In this lively conversation -- from our recent annual tech and policy summit i...

    May 15, 2017

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    "When it comes to spycraft — or rather, “tradecraft,” as they say in the biz — ...

    May 18, 2017

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    "There’s an interesting paradox when it comes to the U.S. government and tech: ...

    May 20, 2017

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    "Discussions and headlines around tech policy tend to be dominated by what the ...

    May 22, 2017

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    "Turnabout is fair play: That's true in politics, and it's true at Andreessen H...

    May 23, 2017

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    "There's feedback and there's guidance; there's praise and there's criticism. A...

    May 26, 2017

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    "Every industry (for-profit, non-profit, government, private-sector) has been t...

    May 29, 2017

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    "When people think of modernizing government, they tend to think of new IT, of ...

    June 7, 2017

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    ""Slow down, cowboys" -- that's what Senator Kamala Harris (D-California) said ...

    June 9, 2017

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    "When individuals gain the abilities that only nation states once had, how do w...

    June 16, 2017

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    "Nearly every cybersecurity discussion/presentation follows this formula: We do...

    June 16, 2017

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    ""We're always fighting the last war" -- that's a phrase historians like to use...

    June 18, 2017

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    "What is lobbying, really? Is it “white", "heavy-set" men "playing golf" and ma...

    June 24, 2017

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    "Is a network -- whether a crowd or blockchain-based entity -- going to replace...

    June 29, 2017

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    "A funny thing happened on the way to quantum computing: Unlike other major shi...

    June 30, 2017

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    "This episode of the a16z Podcast takes us on a quick tour through the themes o...

    July 11, 2017

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    "In the age of virality, what does it actually mean to be popular? When does po...

    July 15, 2017

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    "Here’s what we know: There’s a pair (father and son) of Russian scientists try...

    July 18, 2017

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    "There are the things that you carefully plan when it comes to an IPO -- the wh...

    July 24, 2017

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    "with Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman, and Steven Sinofsky Modern technology owes much ...

    August 3, 2017

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    "with Anne Mitchell, Lars Dalgaard, and Scott Kupor"Orthogonal thinking" but "s...

    August 4, 2017

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    "What happens when companies grow exponentially in a short amount of time -- to...

    August 7, 2017

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    "with Graham Allison and Matthew Colford "When a rising power threatens to disp...

    August 11, 2017

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    "with Ben Horowitz, Scott Kupor, and Caroline Moon “The only unforgivable sin i...

    August 25, 2017

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    "What is "infrastructure" actually? In the 19th and 20th century, that usually ...

    August 25, 2017

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    "with Clayton Christensen, Marc Andreessen, and Steven Levy In business, mistak...

    September 2, 2017

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    ""Young hungry and scrappy" is how Hamilton described his country, and it's how...

    August 30, 2017

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    "We tend to talk about tech and parenting through devices and artifacts -- scre...

    September 5, 2017

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    "with Russ Roberts, Noah Smith, and Sonal Chokshi Beyond the overly simplistic ...

    September 10, 2017

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    "with Michael Dearing (@mcgd), Bob Sutton (@work_matters), and Hanne Tidnam (@o...

    September 13, 2017

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    "with Juan Benet and Chris Dixon The story of how innovation happens is a long ...

    September 15, 2017

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    "with Wei Luo, David Rumsey (@davidrumseymaps), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousre...

    September 16, 2017

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    "with David Mack, Joseph Okpaku, and Matt Spence How should startups engage wit...

    September 26, 2017

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    "with Chris Dixon and Fred Ehrsam We’ve already talked about why bitcoin matter...

    September 28, 2017

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    "Head of the largest bioengineering lab in the world, former chairman of the FD...

    October 6, 2017

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    "with Ion Stoica, Peter Levine, and Sonal Chokshi We’ve already talked quite a ...

    October 12, 2017

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    "with Tim O'Reilly and Benedict Evans In this hallway-style podcast conversatio...

    October 13, 2017

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    "with Frank Chen, Steven Sinofsky, and Sonal Chokshi There are many reasons why...

    October 23, 2017

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    "with Martin Casado, Alex Rampell, and Sonal Chokshi One of the trickiest thi...

    October 28, 2017

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    "Author and professor at George Mason University, Peter Leeson describes himsel...

    October 31, 2017

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    "with Brandon Ballinger (@bballinger), Mintu Turakhia (@leftbundle), Vijay Pan...

    November 3, 2017

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    "There's a new C-level role in town: the CCO, or Chief Customer Officer. This e...

    November 18, 2017

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    "When you have “a really hot, frothy space” like AI, even the most basic questi...

    December 2, 2017

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    "Data, data, everywhere, nor any drop to drink. Or so would say Coleridge, if h...

    December 5, 2017

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    "NASDAQ CEO Adena Friedman runs one of the world's largest financial services c...

    December 10, 2017

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    "No matter how grand a vision for a particular industry, disruption in practice...

    December 13, 2017

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    "No matter how grand a vision for a particular industry, disruption in practice...

    December 13, 2017

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    "with Lee Kleinman (@LeeForDallas), Joshua Schank (@joshuaschank), Andrew Savag...

    February 3, 2018

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    "As cars become more like iPhones and less like just, well, cars — everything c...

    January 31, 2018

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