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a16z Podcast

The a16z Show discusses tech and culture trends, news, and the future – especially as ‘software eats the world’. It features industry experts, business leaders, and other interesting thinkers and voices from around the world. This show is produced by Andreessen Horowitz (aka “a16z”), a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. Multiple episodes are released every week; visit a16z.com for more details and to sign up for our newsletters and other content as well!

Website ↗ Last published 1 November 2026 1,189 posts collected by Sputnik

Hosts

a16z Podcast is hosted by Erik Torenberg , Sonal Chokshi , Ben Horowitz , Marc Andreessen , Martin Casado , Vijay Pande , Chris Dixon , Hanne Tidnam , Steven Sinofsky , Benedict Evans , Alex Rampell and Jorge Conde .

Said on a16z Podcast

“Analytics and instincts are inputs. Data is an input. My instinct that something is off or this could be cool is an input. You want to get as many inputs as possible within reason. But I don't think there's ever any case in life where you should be deciding with anything other than logic and rationality. I don't think there's ever a good reason to say, 'we'll do this because I feel like it,' unless we're talking leisure, which is all about feeling a certain way.” — Luca Ferrari, a16z Podcast

Luca Ferrari · 2026-11-01 Permalink → Listen →

“My startup before Bending Spoons, we worked at it for three years, and you know how we failed? It clearly wasn't working. We were trying to use AI way too early, to write diaries for people automatically. People weren't using it, certainly weren't paying for it. But we kept pushing, we raised a little extra money and pivoted and pivoted and pivoted.” — Luca Ferrari, a16z Podcast

Luca Ferrari · 2026-11-01 Permalink → Listen →

“If you take companies that at some point went bust, but hadn't had issues up to a certain point, and you asked them, they would all come across as very bullish about their usage of debt. It's not that people who went bust thought they would as they raised the debt. In most cases they thought they were fine and then things turned. So it's important to be paranoid when taking on any significant amount of debt.” — Luca Ferrari, a16z Podcast

Luca Ferrari · 2026-11-01 Permalink → Listen →

“We knew that we could do things differently to get a better valuation in the moment, do things that would please investors more. But we were very confident, and so far history has proven us right, that if we continue to optimize for the rate of compounding of free cash flows, in the long run those would be much higher than the other path. Even if the multiple were to turn out to be lower, ultimately the multiple is just one factor in a multiplication. If the other factor is 10 times bigger, rest assured, the overall result is going to be bigger too.” — Luca Ferrari, a16z Podcast

Luca Ferrari · 2026-11-01 Permalink → Listen →

“The value of data within new pools declines pretty rapidly. If today I write a new blog post on the internet, nobody's going to give me money for that. The first blog post they ever got access to, they would probably have paid $1,000 for. But now, zero, because incrementally it doesn't add anything to the corpus of knowledge you can use to train AI models. The first companies selling that maybe make a bunch of money, but I think over time that trends to zero as the returns from incremental training data deteriorate.” — Luca Ferrari, a16z Podcast

Luca Ferrari · 2026-11-01 Permalink → Listen →

“The reason they don't take some risks isn't because they got them wrong by 20%, but because they hate the median case. And they should. If you're a VC, you invest in, say, 50 companies, and you may want each of them to go 100 miles per hour against the wall, knowing the four or five who get through the narrow door will win 100x. But for an individual company, while the expected outcome would be better going 100 miles per hour, the median outcome would be massively worse. It could go from 'I end up with something' to 'I end up with nothing.' It's not irrational for these teams to protect against the downside, because they only have one life and one career.” — Luca Ferrari, a16z Podcast

Luca Ferrari · 2026-11-01 Permalink → Listen →

Luca Ferrari · 2026-11-01 Permalink → Listen →

“Customer support, for example… we pretty much 100% use either AI or, for the residual portion of the tickets, external vendors. And our customer support managers are more and more similar to a product manager trying to architect the ideal response process. … And then coding, of course, we were at 0% written by AI two years ago. We're now, last time I checked, at 94%. … No good company should be below 70 right now, in my view. There's no point.” — Luca Ferrari, a16z Podcast

Luca Ferrari · 2026-11-01 Permalink → Listen →

“A manufacturing technician is now able to use these tools to reprogram and reconfigure their manufacturing lines on the fly… Instead of calling a system integrator, and it takes three months and hundreds of thousands of dollars to reconfigure a line for a new setup, you can have a manufacturing engineer use Claude and do that in 20 minutes.” — Erin Price-Wright, a16z Podcast

Erin Price-Wright · 2026-10-29 Permalink → Listen →

“It's not one silver bullet that all of a sudden makes a factory or a mine perfect. It's actually 15 or 20 different things… AI will be a phenomenal tool that can be used in the physical world. The reality is, AI cannot turn a wrench yet. It will at some point, but we're far off that.” — Connor Love, a16z Podcast

Connor Love · 2026-10-29 Permalink → Listen →

“I mean, on networks right now, the inbox works the same way for Sam Altman as it does for me and for my 14-year-old little sister. And it probably shouldn't.” — Dhruv Gupta, a16z Podcast

Dhruv Gupta · 2026-10-31 Permalink → Listen →

“What defense used to do for this one law firm that we're working with is they would push out discovery request dates until a day before Thanksgiving or a major holiday, and then send discovery, because they knew the person would go on vacation and be stuck with the workload and wouldn't do a good job. Because it's such a repeated tactic, they created an agent on Eve to respond the same day. Next time this came through, they responded immediately with the responses, and the defense were like, what is going on?” — Jay Madheswaran, a16z Podcast

Jay Madheswaran · 2026-10-30 Permalink → Listen →

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Why AI Could Turn Small Law Firms Into Billion-Dollar Businesses

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29 Oct 2026

The Startups Rebuilding American Industry | The AD50

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Mark Cuban’s Plan to Make Healthcare Affordable

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With Joe Liemandt and Gagan Biyani
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With Ari Weinstein and James Sun
25 Oct 2026

The New Startup Playbook | Box CEO Aaron Levie

With Aaron Levie
24 Oct 2026

What It Takes to Win as a Founder | Ben Horowitz
23 Oct 2026

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on the $220 Billion AI Buildout

With Andy Jassy
22 Oct 2026

The Frontier Ideas a16z Wants to Fund | Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz & Chris Dixon
21 Oct 2026

The Missing Infrastructure for AI Agents: Documents | Reducto’s Adit Abraham

With Adit Abraham

Guests

Jesse Walden (9 episodes), Aaron Levie (9 episodes), Fei-Fei Li (8 episodes), Eddy Lazzarin (7 episodes), Raghu Raghuram (6 episodes), Justin Johnson (5 episodes), Tyler Cowen (5 episodes), Mark Cuban (4 episodes), Kristen Fortney (4 episodes), Turner Caldwell (4 episodes), D'Arcy Coolican (4 episodes), Shannon Schiltz (4 episodes), and 594 more.

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