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What a16z Says About Science
26 episodes about science
a16z is a venture capital firm that invests in software eating the world. Each week, we share videos on technology trend...
Key Insights on Science
"Mask up in between bites" on airplanes should have been the moment everyone realized COVID protocols were theater, not science - Adam
- Research proposal involves 25 cerebral palsy patients over five years to test replicability of the transformation method
- What to Make of a Life took Collins 12 years of research studying pairs of notable figures who faced similar 'cliff events' that forced life reconstruction
- Research shows perceived inequality drives political radicalization more than actual inequality, with social media amplifying wealth exposure effects
- Political efficacy research shows reducing polarization doesn't reduce violence support, but belief in democratic channels working does
- UBI proposals may backfire by confirming economic decline fears rather than addressing trajectory concerns, according to sacred values research
- OpenClaw research agent operates 24/7 to hunt for new AI use cases and categorize them as Primetime, Emerging, or Frontier
- AI models have crossed from creative parlor tricks into genuine reasoning, solving problems in medicine, law, and science that seemed impossible 18 months ago
Episodes
Before Blockchains, There Was State Machine Replication
Jake Paul & Anti Fund: From Creator to Investor
Designing the Physical World with AI
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email
Crypto Fund 5: We Raised $2.2B. Here’s Why.
The New Space Race: NASA, Artemis, and the Race to the Moon
The Shift in Global Drug Development
Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll
Building Agents at Home: Parenting, Work, and Benevolent Neglect
What Running Windows at Microsoft Taught Steven Sinofsky About Apple
Who Controls AI Acceleration? Vitalik Buterin and Guillaume Verdon Debate
Balaji on Why AI Raises the Cost of Verification
Marc Andreessen on AI Winters and Agent Breakthroughs
What's Missing Between LLMs and AGI - Vishal Misra & Martin Casado
Emil Michael: Iran, Anthropic and the Future of AI at the Pentagon
The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps
Andrew Huberman: Peptides, Sleep Tech, and the End of Obesity
Ambience CEO Nikhil Buduma on AI in Clinical Workflows
Ben Horowitz: RSI, Crypto as AI Money, & Classified Physics
Patrick Collison on Stripe’s Early Choices, Smalltalk, and What Comes After Coding
Novartis CEO Vasant Narasimhan on Transforming a 250-Year-Old Company
Why America’s Health Crisis Is an Incentive Problem
Marc Andreessen on Why This Is the Most Important Moment in Tech History
Ben Horowitz and Balaji Srinivasan on Netscape and Network States
Healthcare 2026: AI Doctors, GLP-1s, and Insurance Defection
The Hidden Economics Powering AI
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