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Andrew Huberman on Focus, Energy, and Performing at Your Best
a16z · with Andrew Huberman · Nov 03, 2026 · 19 recommendations

Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman joins the a16z show to walk through one full day of his routine, from morning light and training to supplements and sleep. He also shares his top habits for health and focus for founders.

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What iPhone Packaging Reveals About the Robotics Opportunity
a16z · with Josh Gruenstein · Nov 02, 2026 · 8 products mentioned

Tutor Intelligence CEO Josh Gruenstein talks with a16z about deploying general-purpose robots in US factories and warehouses, where even iPhone packaging is still done by hand, and why he thinks robotics must be built...

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Hip Hop’s Origin Story, Told by the Legends Who Lived It
a16z · with Kurtis Blow, Rev Run, Roxanne Shanté · Oct 31, 2026 · 2 recommendations

Kurtis Blow, Rev Run and Roxanne Shanté look back on hip hop's early days at a Paid in Full tribute to Blow, covering the Bronx of the 1970s, disco roots, and Blow's mentorship of a young Run.

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Why AI Could Turn Small Law Firms Into Billion-Dollar Businesses
a16z · with Jay Madheswaran · Oct 30, 2026 · 1 recommendation

a16z partner Alex Rampel talks with Jay Madheswaran, co-founder and CEO of Eve, about how AI can help plaintiff law firms take on far more clients by easing their labor shortage rather than cutting staff.

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How to Build the Next SpaceX or Tesla
a16z · with Erin Price-Wright, Connor Love · Oct 29, 2026 · 13 products mentioned

a16z partners Connor Love and Erin Price-Wright discuss their AD 50 list and argue that rebuilding America's industrial base, from mines to factories to end systems, can create some of the world's most valuable...

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Mark Cuban on Why AI Could Turn Solo Founders Into Trillionaires
a16z · with Mark Cuban · Oct 28, 2026 · 3 recommendations

Mark Cuban joins a16z to explain how Cost Plus Drugs and direct contracts aim to fix broken healthcare economics, and why he believes AI makes now the best time ever to be an entrepreneur.

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The AI School Kids Love More Than Vacation | Alpha School's Joe Liemandt
a16z · with Joe Liemandt, Gagan Biyani · Oct 27, 2026 · 2 recommendations

Alpha School principal Joe Liemandt talks with a16z and Gagan Biyani about rebuilding K-12 and college around AI tutoring, life skills and student motivation, aiming for schools kids love more than vacation.

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Why OpenAI Is Racing to Make Computer Use Superhuman
a16z · with Ari Weinstein, James Sun · Oct 26, 2026 · 3 recommendations

OpenAI's Ari Weinstein and James Sun join a16z to explain why computer-using agents are nearing superhuman speed, and how consumers and enterprises can safely hand real work to them.

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on the Infrastructure the AI Era Needs
a16z · with Andy Jassy · Oct 23, 2026 · 13 products mentioned

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy talks with a16z about Amazon's roughly $220 billion AI infrastructure build-out, its custom chips, why data center fears are overblown, and how AI will reshape teams, security and products.

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The Frontier Ideas a16z Wants to Fund Now | Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz & Chris Dixon
a16z · with Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz · Oct 22, 2026 · 17 products mentioned

Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz and Chris Dixon announce that a16z's crypto fund is expanding into a16z Frontier, and argue AI is giving founders such large new powers that the bigger risk is not being ambitious enough.

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Should You Trust ChatGPT With Your Health?
a16z · with Karan Singhal · Oct 20, 2026 · 11 products mentioned

a16z partner Jay Rugani talks with Karan Singhal, who leads health AI research at OpenAI, about how ChatGPT handles health questions, why trust matters, and how AI could support patients and clinicians without...

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Why a $1M Startup Wasn’t Worth Building in the Age of AI
a16z · with Jean-Denis Grèze · Oct 19, 2026 · 1 recommendation

Alex Rampell of a16z talks with Jean-Denis Grèze, CEO of Town, about dropping a working AI tax startup to build an AI assistant that runs on email and calendar, and how small apps can compete with AI labs.

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Why AI Can Write Code But Can’t Keep It Running (Yet)
a16z · with Jad Naous · Oct 16, 2026 · 3 recommendations

Jad Naous, CEO of Greer, talks with a16z about why AI can generate code well but struggles to manage how distributed systems actually behave at scale.

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Agentic Commerce: Why Your Wallet Is About to Change
a16z · with Terry Angelos · Oct 15, 2026 · 5 recommendations

Terry Angelos of VGS joins a16z to explain how AI agents making purchases on your behalf will reshape payments, fraud liability, and consumer trust.

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Can Open Models Keep Up With OpenAI and Anthropic? | Nathan Lambert
a16z · with Nathan Lambert · Oct 14, 2026 · 17 products mentioned

Nathan Lambert talks with a16z about whether open-source AI models can keep pace with labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, and what advantages each side actually holds.

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Recursive Self-Improvement and the Future of AI
a16z · with Dhaval Adjodah, Owen He · Oct 12, 2026 · 3 products mentioned

Dhaval Adjodah and Owen He from a16z explain recursive self-improvement in AI, where systems optimize themselves, and share how to measure whether gains are real.

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Former Intel CEO: Why This is the Best Time to Build Hardware
a16z · with Pat Gelsinger · Oct 09, 2026 · 2 products mentioned

Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger joins a16z to argue that AI tools have made chip design fast and cheap, while manufacturing, power, memory, and cooling are now the real bottlenecks.

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Building the Cloud for AI Agents | AWS CEO Matt Garman
a16z · with Matt Garman · Oct 08, 2026 · 2 recommendations

AWS CEO Matt Garman talks with a16z about how cloud infrastructure is being rebuilt for AI agents, covering GPU allocation, enterprise security, and the $220 billion capex plan.

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Building Cyber Defense for the Agentic Era
a16z · with Kevin Mandia · Oct 06, 2026 · 6 products mentioned

Kevin Mandia, founder of Mandiant and CEO of Armadin, talks with a16z about how AI is reshaping cybersecurity attack and defense, and what security leaders need to do about it.

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The Current State of Consumer AI
a16z · with Olivia Moore, Josh Elman · Oct 05, 2026 · 4 recommendations

a16z analysts Olivia Moore and Josh Elman break down their Top 100 Consumer AI Apps report, covering who is paying, how much, and where the biggest gaps are.