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a16z crypto show

a16z crypto, Robert Hackett, Sonal Chokshi

The a16z crypto show explores how decentralized networks are reshaping money, ownership, and the architecture of the internet. We go beyond the hype to look at what’s actually working, what isn’t, and what comes next as crypto continues to go mainstream and blockchains become core infrastructure. Each episode features conversations with founders, engineers, economists, policymakers, and researchers building at the frontier of finance, payments, AI, and distributed systems. We cover stablecoins and

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00:40:54

Why blockchains need privacy for apps

a16z crypto show ·

2025/02/01

with @1HowardWu @SuccinctJT @rhhackettWelcome to web3 with a16z. Today’s show is all about privacy, why it matters, and how to achieve it technically onchain.It's fair to say that many blockchains today are quite… revealing. But that openness and transparency doesn’t work for everything — who would want anyone to have full-on X-Ray vision into your finances? That’s one reason why there’s been a growing appreciation for — and trend toward — more blockchain privacy. Our guest today argues that there

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01:00:03

How This Foodie Founder Is Revamping Restaurants

a16z crypto show ·

2025/01/24

with @benleventhal @AriannaSimpsonWelcome to web3 with a16z. How many of you are regulars at a favorite cafe, bar, or dinner spot? Probably a lot of you — but if you’re not, well, our guest today aims to make you one. This episode features Ben Leventhal — the founder and CEO of BlackBird, and formerly the founder of Resy and Eater. In it, he shares his journey as a serial entrepreneur in conversation with a16z crypto General Partner Arianna Simpson.Ben shares hard-won lessons learned in

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00:41:20

Social Media Secrets: How to Build Your Presence

a16z crypto show ·

2025/01/13

with @0xgaut @ishverduzco @rhhackettWelcome to web3 with a16z. Today we’re talking about how to make social media work for you, rather than overwhelming you.Whether you’re a startup founder, creator, avid doomscroller, or longtime lurker, this show has tips and tactics you can use to attract attention, build a following, and level up your online presence.In this episode, we cover what to do and what not to do, how much of your authentic self to bring to the table vs. merely playing to the

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00:36:46

Designing Beloved Brands

a16z crypto show ·

2024/12/30

Welcome to web3 with a16z. Today's episode is all about design, creativity, and taste-making. Our special guest is Jason Mayden, the chief design officer of Jordan Brand at Nike — that's Jordan as in former NBA superstar Michael Jordan. In his role, Mayden is responsible for the look and feel of iconic products, like Air Jordan sneakers and related apparel. In this episode, Mayden speaks with Chris Lyons, a16z crypto's president of web3 media, about the interdisciplinary nature of industrial design,

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00:40:05

Trends for 2025 (part 2): AI x Crypto - From Agents...

a16z crypto show ·

2024/12/21

with @carrawu @eddylazzarin @0xkarmacoma and @smc90 @rhhackettWelcome to our special end-of-year episodes -- which also look ahead to 2025 -- covering our annual Big Ideas lists, where various a16z crypto team members share what they are personally excited about. (You can see the firmwide list, also including all the trends of the crypto team, here.)This episode is part 2 of 2 -- but you don't have to listen to them in any particular order -- covering the intersection of crypto & AI:agents that

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00:33:52

Trends for 2025 (part 1): Stablecoins, App Stores,...

a16z crypto show ·

2024/12/20

with @sambroner @meigga @darenmatsuoka @jneu_net @chrislyons and @rhhackett @smc90Welcome to our special end-of-year episodes -- which also look ahead to 2025 -- covering our annual Big Ideas lists, where various a16z crypto team members share what they are personally excited about. (You can see the firmwide list, also including all the trends of the crypto team, here.)This episode is part 1 of 2 -- but you don't have to listen to them in any particular order -- covering the trends and themes

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01:48:05

Prediction Markets and Beyond

a16z crypto show ·

2024/11/22

with @atabarrok @skominers @smc90We've heard a lot about the premise and the promise of prediction markets for a long time, but they finally hit the main stage with the most recent election. So what worked (and didn't) this time? Are they better than pollsters, journalists, domain experts, superforecasters?So in this conversation, we tease apart the hype from the reality of prediction markets, from the recent election to market foundations... going more deeply into the how, why, and where these

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00:57:24

Government... By Lottery?

a16z crypto show ·

2024/11/02

with @baileyflan @ahall_research @rhhackettToday we’re dusting off an ancient practice that has become trendy once again: the old-but-new idea of “sortition,” or selecting representatives by lottery.Sortition was used in ancient Athenian democracy to elect public officials. It’s also been lately revived by tech companies like Meta and AI startups like OpenAI and Anthropic to tackle some of their thorniest policymaking challenges.Our guests today are experts on sortition, including Bailey Flanigan, a

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00:38:02

AI Bots & Memecoins

a16z crypto show ·

2024/10/26

with @pmarca @bhorowitzToday we’re running a special episode featuring a16z cofounders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz talking about AI bots and crypto. They discuss what happens when you mix postmodern theories and internet memes in an LLM. They also get into the sudden rise of a strange memecoin, the state of crypto regulation in the U.S., and more.This episode is a crossover from the Ben & Marc Show, which you can follow on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.See the original episode:How

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00:53:24

State of Crypto 2024: Builder Energy, U.S. Election,...

a16z crypto show ·

2024/10/18

with @DarenMatsuoka @eddylazzarin @rhhackettWelcome to web3 with a16z. Today we're taking 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 number of real crypto users globally, to understanding how much interest in crypto swing states may have ahead of the U.S. election. We also dig into infrastructure

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00:41:43

Bridges: Out of the Mess, Into the Meshnet (with...

a16z crypto show ·

2024/09/28

Welcome to web3 with a16z. Today we explore the messy secrets of blockchain bridges. These cross-chain connectors are the go-betweens in today's multichain world, but their short history has been a checkered one, with prominent projects succumbing to major hacks and other hijinks.So we've brought on one of the builders who knows this world best to help disentangle the messiness. That’s Bryan Pellegrino, cofounder and CEO of LayerZero Labs, maker of a popular blockchain interoperability protocol. In

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00:35:59

Games as Reality (with EVE Online)

a16z crypto show ·

2024/09/13

with @HilmarVeigar @eddylazzarinOur featured guest today is Hilmar Pétursson, the CEO of CCP Games, maker of EVE Online, a massive multiplayer online role playing game. In this episode, Pétursson shares his unique world view and game-making philosophy, as well as a deep dive into the technology and economic design of his sci-fi simulation. He also touches on how niche cults can break into mainstream culture, how slow databases can make for fun gameplay, and what to expect from EVE Frontier, a new

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01:16:54

How Blockchain Tech Advances Benefit Other Industries

a16z crypto show ·

2024/09/09

with Dan Boneh @tim_roughgarden @smc90In this special 50th episode of the web3 with a16z podcast, we discuss how work in the blockchains/ crypto space has led to advances in several important technologies — which can be (and are being) used by many other industries beyond crypto.Tim Roughgarden (a16z crypto Head of Research and professor at Columbia University) and Dan Boneh (a16z crypto Senior Research Advisor and professor at Stanford University) discuss these advances in conversation with Sonal

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01:02:17

Governance Attack!?

a16z crypto show ·

2024/08/15

with @ahall_research @eddylazzarin @0xShuel @smc90In this episode, we cover both recent events + evergreen governance questions in political systems: Specifically, we breakdown the recent Compound “governance attack”... as well as the broader topic of DAO governance and voting in general. We also discuss how to avoid, prevent, and respond to such governance attacks -- highlighting key differences between on-chain/ token-based/ digital voting systems vs. physical-world political systems around the

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00:57:20

Token Do's and Don'ts

a16z crypto show ·

2024/08/08

with @eddylazzarin @milesjennings @rhhackettToday’s episode covers all things tokens — that includes what tokens have to do with decentralized protocols, understanding the different types of tokens, and, of course, the Do's and Don'ts of designing and launching a token.Our guests are a16z crypto chief technology officer Eddy Lazzarin, as well as a16z crypto general counsel and head of decentralization Miles Jennings, the two of whom have advised many scores of projects on protocol design and

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00:44:45

Where Innovation Happens

a16z crypto show ·

2024/07/31

with @matthewclifford @smc90This special episode is all about regional innovation — at both a systems and people level.We cover what does and doesn’t work in making certain places become hubs of innovation and economic growth (aka “innovation ecosystems”). But we also discuss — going back and forth between the structural and individual — when to intervene for entrepreneurial talent; the nature of ambition, yearning, and finding one’s path; and more broadly, mindsets for navigating risk/reward and

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01:30:10

What, How, and Why We're Reading

a16z crypto show ·

2024/07/21

with @rhhackett @smc90 @stephbzinn @tim_orgIn this fun hallway-style conversation, a16z crypto's Sonal Chokshi, Robert Hackett, Tim Sullivan, and Stephanie Zinn discusses picks from our latest annual summer reading list, as well as evergreen/ Lindy picks that show up on our what-we're-reading lists again and again. We also share our top picks of all time. Throughout, we also discuss HOW we read — whether audiobooks count as reading or listening, graphic novels, read-alouds; on multiple modes of

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01:05:51

On Finding Product Market Fit — and Meaning

a16z crypto show ·

2024/06/25

with @jasonrosenthal @benrbnWelcome to web3 with a16z, a show about building the next generation of the internet.Our featured guest today is serial entrepreneur Ben Rubin, who previously built the viral livestreaming app Meerkat, and then the group video chat app Houseparty — acquired by Epic Games in 2019 — and who is now CEO and cofounder of Here Not There Labs, which is building a decentralized messaging protocol.Rubin spoke with Jason Rosenthal, head of a16z crypto's CSX startup accelerator

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01:35:40

Governing democracy, the internet, and boardrooms

a16z crypto show ·

2024/06/18

with @NoahRFeldman, @ahall_research, @rhhackettWelcome to web3 with a16z. I'm Robert Hackett and today we have a special episode about governance in many forms — from nation states to corporate boards to internet services and beyond.Our special guests are Noah Feldman, constitutional law scholar at Harvard who also architected the Meta oversight board (among many other things); he is also the author of several books. And our other special guest is Andy Hall, professor of political science at

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01:11:18

Pricing Strategy

a16z crypto show ·

2024/06/01

with @jasonrosenthal @skominers @meigga @rhhackettWelcome to web3 with a16z, I’m Robert Hackett and today, we discuss pricing strategy for startups — from traditional businesses to web2 to web3.Topics we cover include:unit economicsunderstanding consumer psychologyusing onchain data to inform pricing decisionsCommon mistakes and how to avoid themHow to navigate a pricing pivotAnd lessons from real world pricing case studies, including Tesla, Nvidia, and othersOur experts include a16z crypto's Maggie

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