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!
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For more than a dozen years, the Stack Overflow Podcast has been exploring what it means to be a developer and how the art and practice of software programming is changing our world. From Rails to React, from Java to Node.js, we host important conversations and fascinating guests that will help you understand how technology is made and where it’s headed. Hosted by Ben Popper, Cassidy Williams, and Ceora Ford, the Stack Overflow Podcast is your home for all things code.
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Where startup founders raise millions and listeners can invest. Host Josh Muccio takes listeners behind closed-doors and into the room where deals are made. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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A weekly podcast show about Indian startups, entrepreneurs, and more! Hosted by Neil Patel & Friends
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Every day, Jason Calacanis and Molly Wood cover startups, technology, markets, media, crypto, and the all the hottest topics in business and tech. They also interview the world’s greatest founders, operators, investors and innovators.
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Every company has a story. Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies — and how you can apply them.
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The Ticket: Discover the Future of Customer Service, Support, and Experience, with Intercom
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On The Ticket, you'll hear Intercom's Customer Support team in conversation with the customer service leaders, renowned customer experience thinkers, and influential authors who are shaping the field of customer support. Follow The Ticket to get the weekly episodes and sign up for our twice-monthly newsletter bursting with all the insights, trends, tips, and assets your team needs to embrace the future of customer service. https://www.intercom.com/blog/newsletter 🏠 www.intercom.com
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Courtland and Channing Allen interview the ambitious indie hackers who are turning their ideas and side projects into profitable online businesses. Explore the latest strategies and tools founders are using to capitalize on new opportunities, escape the 9-to-5 grind, and create their own personal revenue-generating machines. The future is indie!
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Host Mike Maples Jr. from venture capital firm Floodgate offers lessons from the rare startup super performers — BEFORE they were successful. Pattern Breakers features interviews with some of Silicon Valley’s most legendary entrepreneurs and thought leaders, including Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Kreiger, business maverick Mark Cuban, and Shopify co-founder Tobi Lütke.
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Rocketship.FM brings you the latest and most important stories shaping the world of technology. From groundbreaking innovations to high-stakes corporate battles, we break down the news that matters—giving you the insights you need to stay informed in an ever-evolving tech landscape. Whether it's AI, big tech power plays, or the future of digital policy, we make sense of the headlines so you don’t have to. Rocketship.fm, produced in partnership with Evergreen Podcasts, has been featured in Fo ...
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The CodePen team talk about the ins and outs of running a web software business.
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Interested in building your own SaaS company? Follow the journey of Transistor.fm as they bootstrap a podcast hosting startup.
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The Reboot podcast showcases the heart and soul, the wins and losses, the ups and downs of startup leadership. On the show, Entrepreneurs, CEOs, and Startup Leaders discuss with Jerry Colonna the emotional and psychological challenges they face daily as leaders.
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The original podcast for bootstrapped and mostly bootstrapped startups, this show follow the stories of founders as they start, acquire, and grow SaaS companies. Hear when they fail, struggle, succeed, and take you with them through the tumultuous life of a SaaS founder. If you like Mixergy, This Week in Startups, or SaaStr, you’ll enjoy Startup for the Rest of Us.
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Brian Casel (@casjam) and Jordan Gal (@jordangal) share their raw and real behind-the-scenes of their entrepreneur journeys. From bootstrapping software startups to raising money to selling and exiting businesses, to growing teams and the emotional rollercoaster that is startup life. It's all here in Brian and Jordan's weekly(ish) updates.
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A weekly news show where your favorite Engadget editors tear themselves away from their crippling technology addiction, to discuss our collective crippling technology addiction.
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Start An Ecommerce Business, Become Your Own Boss And Spend More Time With Your Loved Ones
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Equity
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The intersection of technology, startups, and venture capital touches everything now. That’s why Equity, TechCrunch's flagship podcast, digs into the business of startups for entrepreneurs and enthusiasts alike. Every Wednesday and Friday, TechCrunch reporters keep you up-to-date on the world of business, technology, and venture capital. Equity is ranked the No.2 podcast in the Top 100 Venture Capital All time leaderboard on Goodpods—As well as No.17 for the Top 100 Finance All time chart an ...
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Hosted by Product School CEO Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, The Product Podcast drills deep into the minds of Chief Product Officers from Cisco, Lovable, Perplexity, Shopify and many more. We move beyond high-level theory to reveal how top executives actually lead in the age of AI. We dig deep into their real-world decision-making, strategic frameworks, and the operational playbooks used to build intelligent products. If you are a VP, Director, or CPO looking to drive innovation at scale, ...
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The Official SaaStr Podcast is the latest and greatest from the world of SaaStr, interviewing the most prominent operators and investors to discover their tips, tactics and strategies to attain success in the fiercely competitive world of SaaS. On the side of the operators, we center around getting from $0 to $100m ARR faster, what it takes to scale successfully and what are the core elements of hiring. As for the investors, we learn what metrics they hone in on when examining SaaS business, ...
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Get in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, politics, and society.
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Disrupting Japan gives you candid, in-depth insights from the startup founders, VCs, and leaders who are reshaping Japan.
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Streamlined Solopreneur: Tips to Help Small Business Owners Grow Without Burnout
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You started your business for freedom, not to be chained to your desk. I help small business owners grow without burning out through simple, powerful online automations. On Streamlined Solopreneur you'll get real-world strategies, smarter workflows, and practical tools to help you reclaim your time and actually enjoy the freedom you set out to create. Your host, Joe Casabona, is a seasoned technologist with over 25 years of experience. He's seen how the right systems can transform a business ...
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Open For Business is a branded podcast from eBay and Gimlet Creative, about building a business from the ground up.
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In-depth, one-on-one conversations with founders, CEOs, and makers. The journey, lessons learned, and the struggles. Let's do this! Host Adam Stacoviak dives deep into the trials, tribulations, successes, and failures of industry leading entrepreneurs, leaders, innovators, and visionaries.
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Serial entrepreneur, business coach and bestselling author, Chris Ducker brings you his own take on what it means to be a profitable personal brand entrepreneur in the 21st century. Covering everything from building the foundations of a powerful personal brand, to creating and launching online products and services to marketing yourself as the go-to leader and monetize your expertise, the Youpreneur Podcast just became your new favourite business podcast!
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Listen to select TechCrunch articles on startups coverage—who's raising, who's exiting, who's changing the world.
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The SaaS Podcast is the go-to resource for B2B SaaS founders and entrepreneurs who want to build, launch, and scale successful software businesses. Hosted by Omer Khan, we deliver honest, in-depth interviews with proven SaaS founders who share the specific strategies they used to generate recurring revenue and reach product-market fit. Whether you are bootstrapping a micro-SaaS, seeking venture capital funding, or scaling past $10M ARR, you will find actionable tactics here. We unpack the re ...
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Get a fly-on-the-wall perspective from 4 developers turned entrepreneurs, as they struggle with the business and learn lessons the hard way. This is the weekly mastermind group of the entreprogrammers - a no holds barred, unedited look at what it really takes to be an entrepreneur.
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Product Hunt Radio (PHR) is for the product geeks. Each week Ryan Hoover and Erik Torenberg are joined by founders, investors, and product people in the startup community & beyond to chat about products, technology, and the people who make them. Join us and visit Product Hunt (http://producthunt.com) to find the best new products, every day.
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The team at Stanford eCorner believes in the powerful combination of evidence and imagination. We share original stories from informed leaders in academia and industry that focus on innovation, startups, culture, and strategy. The goal: empower you to bring bold ideas to life. Stanford eCorner is led by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), the entrepreneurship center in Stanford University’s School of Engineering.
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Arvid Kahl talks about starting and bootstrapping businesses, how to build an audience, and how to build in public.
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Zero Knowledge is a podcast which goes deep into the tech that will power the emerging decentralised web and the community building this. Covering the latest in zero knowledge research and applications, the open web as well as future technologies and paradigms that promise to change the way we interact — and transact — with one another online. Zero Knowledge is hosted by Anna Rose Follow the show at @ZeroKnowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) or @AnnaRRose (https://twitter.com/Ann ...
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It takes audacity to start a company, grit to grow it, and community to survive the ordeal. From the Ground Up features frank and unfiltered conversations—with some of the most successful founders in the world—about navigating the role of the founder, the tips and tricks entrepreneurs need to know to be successful, and the secrets that nobody really tells you before you start a business.
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Curating & reposting the ~2 best podcasts per week from the likes of a16z, recode, Tim Ferriss, TED, etc. There are simply too many good podcasts out there, let us pick the best two each week for you. Copyright is owned by the publisher, not this podcast, audio is streamed directly from publisher's servers.
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Listen to select TechCrunch articles on startups coverage—who's raising, who's exiting, who's changing the world.
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Startup Grind is the world’s largest community of startups, founders, innovators, and creators. We bring like-minded yet diverse individuals together to connect, learn, teach, help, build, and belong. We do this daily through our local events, flagship conferences, startup program, partnerships, and online media + content - collectively reaching over 3.5 million individuals worldwide.
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Silicon Valley insider Kent Lindstrom explores the reality behind the Silicon Valley headlines as he sits down with the established venture capital and founder veterans and up-and-comers who are shaping the way we view the world online and beyond. Conversations include prominent venture capitalists and famous startup founders. Current hot topics: The state of the venture capital industry, AI startups, artificial general intelligence, venture capital investing in AI, and the societal risks of ...
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Named a top 27 business podcast by Fortune, upside examines startup investing outside of Silicon Valley. Every Wednesday, we speak with an early stage founder. We interview them as if we are angel investors considering the company as an investment opportunity. Each show has three segments: 1.) Intro: independent research of the company 2.) Interview: interview with the founder 3.) Debrief: breaking down the opportunity Sometimes, we share Coffee Chats interviewing venture capitalists, commun ...
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Hannah Prevett and Dominic O’Connell bring you one big business story you need to know every week. Uncovering the personalities, power plays, boardroom dramas and sheer ambition that drive the world of business, Hannah and Dominic get the inside story from the people who are in the room when the deal goes down - from start-ups to tech titans, market movers to City CEOs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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From the team behind the top-ranked Innovation Crush interview series, Masters of Craft explores the life and times and minds of some of the world's greatest thought leaders in business and beyond. Created and hosted by Chris Denson and Caleb Thorpe, the show serves up a giant helping of some of the best minds around the world, all with a heaping side of occasional bad jokes. Listen. Enjoy. Repeat.
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The Asia Startup Pulse Podcast, previously known as China Startup Pulse Podcast, is an original weekly podcast for anyone interested in understanding the innovation, business, and tech landscape in Asia. We bring the best of the Asian startup ecosystem, showcasing entrepreneurial stories, insights from thought leaders, and dissecting the strategies employed by tech giants. Backed by SOSV, Chinaccelerator, and Mobile Only Accelerator (MOX), we understand firsthand what it’s like to be an entr ...
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Discover the latest information on ’what’s hot’ in the digital world, best practices and big concepts for innovation, disruption and pivoting in the Silicon Valley. Features: Innovation | Cyber Risk & Security | Bitcoin & Blockchain | Cross - Border Business | Silicon Valley Insider airs AM 1220 KDOW and 860 AM KTRB The Answer in the Silicon Valley / San Francisco Bay Area.
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Gartner ThinkCast puts you at the intersection of business and technology with insights from the top experts on how to build a more successful organization, team and career in the Digital Era. Join us every other Tuesday to get your competitive advantage. View all Gartner ThinkCast episodes at https://www.gartner.com/en/podcasts/thinkcast
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Every company has a story. Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies — and how you can apply them.
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Founder’s Journey: Building a Startup from the Ground Up
Josh Pigford, Founder of Baremetrics
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A weekly podcast by Josh Pigford, founder of Baremetrics, on his journey growing a startup.
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Ripped from the pages of Adam Fisher's uncensored history of Silicon Valley, Valley of Genius features the hackers, founders, and freaks who made Silicon Valley boom, in their own words. Drawn from over 200 interviews with the brightest stars and hidden heroes of technology, Valley of Genius is required listening for history buffs, tech lovers, and anyone interested in the innovation, betrayal, and magic of Silicon Valley. Although the show is no longer in production, you can enjoy episodes ...
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The SaaS Podcast is the go-to resource for B2B SaaS founders and entrepreneurs who want to build, launch, and scale successful software businesses. Hosted by Omer Khan, we deliver honest, in-depth interviews with proven SaaS founders who share the specific strategies they used to generate recurring revenue and reach product-market fit. Whether you are bootstrapping a micro-SaaS, seeking venture capital funding, or scaling past $10M ARR, you will find actionable tactics here. We unpack the re ...
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This Much I Know is the podcast from Seedcamp, Europe’s seed fund. Tune into hear the inside story from startup founders, investors and leading tech voices: the people who’ve built businesses, scaled globally, failed fantastically and learnt massively. Seedcamp invests early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. Seedcamp provides the infrastructure to fast-track a founder’s vision and create value through immediate access to smart ...
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A weekly podcast focused on shipping small projects. Every week I'll take you on an adventure of launching a new project. You'll hear the launch stats, hurdles I had to overcome, and how you can learn from my mistakes.
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Ben Horowitz on Raising a New Fund and How Venture Firms Scale
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In this feed drop from Uncapped, Jack Altman sits down with a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz to unpack the founding bet behind Andreessen Horowitz. VC should be a better product for entrepreneurs, built on real operating experience, real networks, and real support. Ben shares how he and Marc Andreessen have worked together for 30 years, how they make d…
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431: Many Heads, Not Many Hats: The Founder's Identity Crisis
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We joke about founders wearing many hats, but that metaphor misses the point. It's not about swapping accessories—it's about growing entirely new heads, each with its own brain that thinks, speaks, and prioritizes differently. In this episode, I explore why the transition from consulting or agency work to software entrepreneurship is so disorientin…
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OpenAI acquiring the team behind Convogo; also, Data security startup Cyera hits $9B valuation 6 months
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OpenAI is acquiring the team behind executive coaching AI tool Convogo in an all-stock deal, adding to the firm's M&A spree. Plus, Cyera raised another $400 million just six months after its last huge round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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OpenAI acquiring the team behind Convogo; also, Data security startup Cyera hits $9B valuation 6 months
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OpenAI is acquiring the team behind executive coaching AI tool Convogo in an all-stock deal, adding to the firm's M&A spree. Plus, Cyera raised another $400 million just six months after its last huge round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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Benedicte and Benedikt tell us what they’ve been up to during the holidays and the first work week of 2026.By Benedikt Deicke, Benedicte Raae, and Brian Rhea
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Ryan is joined by Vanessa Lee, VP of Product at Shopify, to discuss how AI is a tech renaissance and how these new technologies are affecting the ecommerce world. They cover the development of Sidekick, their new tool, along with the general challenges of building AI tools, the importance of maintaining human oversight in AI, and what the future ho…
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Yes, LinkedIn banned AI agent startup Artisan, but now it’s back
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Several viral posts noticed that Artisan was banned. But the CEO tells us it wasn't for the reasons many thought. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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Yes, LinkedIn banned AI agent startup Artisan, but now it’s back
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Several viral posts noticed that Artisan was banned. But the CEO tells us it wasn't for the reasons many thought. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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The economy is sluggish, growth elusive, and unemployment is heading for 5% - 2026 looks tough for business. But, the FTSE 100 has broken 10,000 points for the first time, gold keeps on going up, and up in value - and still the AI bubble hasn’t burst. From Davos parties, to driverless cars, what's up, what’s down? And how do you prepare yourself fo…
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In 2025, we saw the first glimpses of true AI agents. In 2026, every company will be rushing to get them into production, and they’ll need companies like Keycard to manage fleets of agents. In this conversation, a16z Partner Joel de la Garza sits down with Keycard Cofounder and CEO Ian Livingstone to discuss the continuum from copilots to agents, t…
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How Quilt solved the heat pump’s biggest challenge
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Quilt's heat pumps are built containing a suite of sensors, which have delivered mountains of data that allow its engineers to wring added performance out of its systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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How Quilt solved the heat pump’s biggest challenge
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Quilt's heat pumps are built containing a suite of sensors, which have delivered mountains of data that allow its engineers to wring added performance out of its systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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CES 2026: A rocky year ahead of the PC industry
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We're halfway through CES 2026, and one of our biggest takeaways is that it's going to be a rough year for the PC industry. In this episode, Devindra chats with Engadget's Dan Cooper about Intel, AMD, NVIDIA and the sad state of the PC industry. We've got some new CPUs, but the volatile RAM market will likely make everything expensive this year. Al…
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Miro CEO on Leading AI Product Expansion Without Losing Focus | Andrey Khusid | E282
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In this episode, Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia interviews Andrey Khusid, Co-founder and CEO of Miro, the visual collaboration platform valued at an estimated $17 billion with over 100 million users. Andrey reveals how Miro transformed from a simple browser whiteboard into a central hub for innovation, serving 250,000 customers worldwide. He disc…
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Investing in the consumer AI products OpenAI ‘won’t want to kill’
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Vanessa Larco, partner at Premise and former partner at NEA, thinks 2026 will finally be the year of consumer AI. Larco, who's been investing in consumer and prosumer for years, thinks we're about to see a shift in how consumers spend time online, with AI powering “concierge-like” services. The question is, will legacy consumer products like WebMD …
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LMArena lands $1.7B valuation four months after launching its product; plus, Intel spinout Articul8 raises more than half of $70M round at $500M valuation
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LMArena, which started as a UC Berkeley research project, has raised about $250 million total and become a unicorn in about seven months. Also, Articul8's valuation for its current funding round marks a roughly fivefold increase since its Series A. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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LMArena lands $1.7B valuation four months after launching its product; plus, Intel spinout Articul8 raises more than half of $70M round at $500M valuation
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LMArena, which started as a UC Berkeley research project, has raised about $250 million total and become a unicorn in about seven months. Also, Articul8's valuation for its current funding round marks a roughly fivefold increase since its Series A. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
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a16z co-founder and General Partner Marc Andreessen joins an AMA-style conversation to explain why AI is the largest technology shift he has experienced, how the cost of intelligence is collapsing, and why the market still feels early despite rapid adoption. The discussion covers how falling model costs and fast capability gains are reshaping prici…
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SaaStr 836: The Step-By-Step Playbook for Building AI-Powered GTM Teams with Personio's CRO
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SaaStr 836: The Step-By-Step Playbook for Building AI-Powered GTM Teams with Personio's CRO Philip Lacor, CRO of Personio, shares his company's journey to building an AI-powered go-to-market motion, including 5 critical lessons learned and 4 real-world use cases delivering measurable results. In this podcast, Philip breaks down: ✅ The 5 lessons for…
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You need quality engineers to turn AI into ROI
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SPONSORED BY MONGODB Pete Johnson, Field CTO, Artificial Intelligence at MongoDB, joins the podcast to talk about a recent OpenAI paper on the impact that AI will have on jobs and overall GDP. Pete, who reads the papers (and datasets) so you don’t have to, says that looking at AI’s impact as a job killer is a flawed metric. Instead, he and Ryan tal…
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How World Cup champion Mario Götze built a parallel career as an angel investor
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Mario Götze will go down in soccer history as the player who scored the winning goal that made Germany the 2014 FIFA World Cup champion. But he is also an increasingly seasoned angel investor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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How World Cup champion Mario Götze built a parallel career as an angel investor
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Mario Götze will go down in soccer history as the player who scored the winning goal that made Germany the 2014 FIFA World Cup champion. But he is also an increasingly seasoned angel investor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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Gartner's CIO Agenda for 2026: The A.R.T. of Effective Execution
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As CIOs enter 2026, the pressure is on: Budgets are flat, headcount is tight, and yet expectations for growth, innovation, and AI adoption are soaring. How can technology leaders deliver impact when resources are constrained and the pace of change is relentless? In this episode of Gartner ThinkCast, Gartner expert Chris Howard walks through the lat…
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Figma’s Dylan Field on the Future of Design
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Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma, a design software company that went public in July 2025. Founded in 2012, Figma transformed how people design, prototype, and build products together. After a $20 billion acquisition attempt by Adobe collapsed in 2022 because of regulators, Dylan helped Figma rebound stronger than ever. Just three yea…
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Episode 814 | How to Beat a Venture-Backed Competitor (with Laura Roeder)
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What’s it take for a bootstrapped SaaS to beat a competitor with $10M in venture funding? In this episode, Rob Walling talks with Laura Roeder, founder of Paperbell, about how her lean, fully-bootstrapped team outlasted and outperformed a VC-funded rival. They discuss what the venture-backed company got wrong, how Paperbell focused on the right cus…
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Search engine bots crawled so AI bots could run
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Ryan hosts Akamai data scientist Robert Lester on the show to discuss how the growth of AI bots affects internet traffic, the ways these AI bots differ from the original search engine optimization ones, and why you might not want to mitigate AI bots on your websites. Episode notes: Akamai is a CDN, full-stack cloud computing, and cybersecurity comp…
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Episode 315 - Fabric November 2025 Feature Summary part 3
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This is episode 315 recorded on December 16th, 2025, where John & Jason talk about the Fabric November 2025 Feature Summary part 3 including updates to Data Warehouse, Real-Time Intelligence, and Data Factory.For show notes please visit www.bifocal.showBy John White & Jason Himmelstein
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What everyone gets wrong about branding in Japan
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Japan market entry is hard.Consumer tastes are different, business culture is different, and market needs can be radically different from those anywhere else. Entering the Japanese market is a challenge for even the strongest and best positioned brands.Today we sit down with Ernie Higa, the man behind two incredibly successful market entries, Domin…
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Teradar reveals its first terahertz-band vision sensor for cars
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The company is tapping the terahertz band of the electromagnetic spectrum to bring out the best qualities of more common lidar and radar sensors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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Teradar reveals its first terahertz-band vision sensor for cars
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The company is tapping the terahertz band of the electromagnetic spectrum to bring out the best qualities of more common lidar and radar sensors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
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Originally published in June 2023, this conversation features a16z cofounder Marc Andreessen following the release of his nearly 7,000-word essay arguing that AI does not threaten our humanity. In a wide-ranging discussion with a16z General Partner Martin Casado, Andreessen expands on why he believes AI can dramatically amplify human potential, why…
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Spenser Skates: How Perseverance Paid Off for Amplitude
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When Amplitude launched in 2012, the analytics market looked crowded, and the company spent more than a year struggling to find any traction. But co-founder and CEO Spenser Skates prioritized truth seeking over narratives. He studied the outcomes of past Y Combinator batches and noticed a simple rule: Most companies died before they even learned e…
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The Year of Digital Detox (2026 Yearly Theme)
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There comes a time in everyone’s life when they’ve consumed too much of something, and they find the very notion of consuming more sickening. This is the very basis for my yearly theme. 2025 was finally the year were I felt my overconsumption of technology was getting the best of me. So this year, my theme is digital detox. Read the full article he…
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620: Our 2026 Business Plan With Toni Herrbach
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In this episode, Toni and I break down our plan for 2026 and why it looks very different from this past year. Instead of chasing every new opportunity, we’re focusing on the few decisions that actually move the needle and the tradeoffs we’re making. What You’ll Learn Get The Lowdown On Our Goals For 2026 Toni’s Vision For Growth Steve Plan For The …
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Even as global crop prices fall, India’s Arya.ag is attracting investors
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Arya.ag, an Indian agritech company offering storage facilities near farms and offering lending services to hundreds of thousands of farmers, has drawn investor interest and remained profitable even as global crop prices continue to fall in a volatile commodities market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Even as global crop prices fall, India’s Arya.ag is attracting investors
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Arya.ag, an Indian agritech company offering storage facilities near farms and offering lending services to hundreds of thousands of farmers, has drawn investor interest and remained profitable even as global crop prices continue to fall in a volatile commodities market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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How AI is reshaping work and who gets to do it, according to Mercor's CEO
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy TechCrunch, Rebecca Bellan, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, Max Zeff, Theresa Loconsolo
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430: The Case Against Vendor Lock-In: Why Easy Exit Means Better Retention
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There's something strange about founders who built their entire business on open source software and open standards, then turn around and say you should lock customers in as hard as possible. I think that's a horrible practice—and counterintuitively, making it easy to leave actually makes people stay longer. Today I'm making the case for frictionle…
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Wartime vs Peacetime: Ben Horowitz on Leadership
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In this exclusive conversation from a16z’s Bio and Health BUILD Summit, founding partner Ben Horowitz sits down with general partner Jorge Conde. Originally released in August 2023, the episode covers everything from the inspiration behind Ben’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things and how the open internet was secured, to the difference between w…
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SaaStr 835: AI + B2B in 2026: Find the Tailwinds or Get Left Behind with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
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SaaStr 835: AI + B2B in 2026: Find the Tailwinds or Get Left Behind with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Software spend is set to hit record levels in 2026, but you're not getting any of it unless you change. SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin breaks down the paradox facing B2B companies right now: It's never been easier to scale to $100M (for…
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Ryan sits down with Tom Totenberg, head of release automation at LaunchDarkly, to discuss the perils of taking too many shortcuts in software development, how business pressures and AI code tools have contributed to dangerous corner cutting, and the importance of balancing speed with sustainability to maintain system integrity. Episode notes: Launc…
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An End of the Year (Beginning of the Year?) Update
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We're almost at the end of Christmas break and I decided to record a quick update on how it's going...plus test my new camera. Check out the (somewhat unflattering) video here: https://youtu.be/HvSTnzOP01g Get your free Time and Tools Self-Audit at https://streamlined.fm/impact ★ Support this podcast ★…
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‘College dropout’ has become the most coveted startup founder credential
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AI founders are increasingly using their "dropout" status as a credential during YC pitches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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‘College dropout’ has become the most coveted startup founder credential
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AI founders are increasingly using their "dropout" status as a credential during YC pitches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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The Techno-Optimist Manifesto with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
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Originally aired in October 2023, this episode centers on Marc Andreessen’s essay The Techno-Optimist Manifesto, which lays out his vision for the future of technology. The piece sparked widespread discussion across traditional and social media by challenging the prevailing pessimistic narrative around technology and arguing instead that it can be …
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British tech billionaire Mike Lynch died in August 2024, on board The Bayesian, his luxury superyacht, sunk by a freak storm as it was moored off Sicily. He’d been there with his family and closest associates to celebrate his acquittal of criminal fraud charges in the US. It was a tragic end to the story of a self-made business man - a man who was …
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Fizz CEO on why anonymous social is winning with Gen Z
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Fizz is betting that Gen Z is tired of performing their lives on Instagram and TikTok. What started as a pandemic-era group chat frustration has turned into the dominant social platform on college campuses across the US, focused on the 99% of life that doesn't make it into a highlight reel. Capturing the attention of a demographic typically glued t…
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The Inside Story of Growth Investing at a16z
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This episode is a special replay of David George’s conversation with Harry Stebbings on 20VC. David is a General Partner on a16z’s growth team, and in this discussion he breaks down how he thinks about breakout growth investing: why great business models are now table stakes, where real edge comes from non-consensus views on TAM, and how to underwr…
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My Favorite Tech, Apps, and Media of 2025
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It's one of my favorite episodes of the year: my Favorites of the year! I'll go through all of my favorite media and tech of the year, as well as some close runners up and honorable mentions. Links below! My Favorites of 2025 When is it Time to Switch Tools? Paper & Smoke Book: Fahrenheit 182 Runner-up: The Anxious Generation Honorable Mentions: Ne…
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CES 2026 preview: Micro RGB TVs, smart glasses and a weakened PC industry
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We’re gearing up for CES 2026! Engadget will be on the ground, once again, to dive into the latest TVs, wearables and other wild tech from the world’s biggest consumer electronics show. In this episode, we chat about some new products we expect to see, like MicroRGB LED TVs and AI devices, and peer into what’s ahead for the rest of 2026.…
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