https://youtu.be/RF5VIwDYIJk watch time: 23 minutes In his now annual state-of-innovation talk at the a16z Summit in November 2018, Andreessen Horowitz’ Benedict Evans walks through where we are no… | Continue reading
Open source software powers the world’s technology. In the past decade, there has been an inexorable adoption of open source in most aspects of computing. Without open source, Facebook, Google, Ama… | Continue reading
https://youtu.be/yiRCdMgkkFY watch time: 21 minutes On the surface, the story of cryptocurrencies has been a story about new financial opportunities -- whether it’s people betting on bitcoin, or ba… | Continue reading
Perhaps the single greatest early challenge faced by founders in early markets is going from product to sales -- specifically, a repeatable sales process. Occasionally, a product draws the market w… | Continue reading
The old approach startups took was to sell or license their new technology to incumbents. The new, “full stack” approach is to build a complete, end-to-end product or service that bypasses incumben… | Continue reading
Building a big business is a long journey, and inevitably there are some serious low periods mixed in with the highs. When Marc and Ben first met David Ulevitch in 2009, his company OpenDNS was in … | Continue reading
There's all sorts of interesting tech trends happening right now, including AI, VR/AR, self-driving cars and drones (as well as interesting stuff happening in verticals like healthcare and finance)… | Continue reading
1/ My experience is that most pitches go sideways because the investor is lead to believe there is more maturity in a company than their is. And then they leave unsatisfied because there wasn't suf… | Continue reading
I think the most under-hyped area of new technology right now is autonomous vehicles, particularly self-driving cars. In the 20th century, *non*-autonomous, human-driven cars not only gave people a… | Continue reading
BY BEN HOROWITZ A lot of people have been asking me what my upcoming book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, will be like. Here's a piece that I wrote for the book that did not make the cut. I stil… | Continue reading
As a former CEO and software engineer (Citrix, XenSource, VERITAS, etc.), board member of GitHub (recently acquired by Microsoft), and lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Busi… | Continue reading
As a former software engineer and CEO, I used to hold the “engineer-centric” view that sales is not a critical function in an organization. I believed that product excellence and market fit obviate… | Continue reading
Did you ever wonder why doctor offices ask for your social security number? They don’t want to keep your SSN, but it’s the primary “key” that identifies you to an insurance company. In computer sci… | Continue reading
[This blog post was originally published on All Things Digital on March 17, 2010.] Much has been written and said about the current economic downturn and the resulting lessons on how to run high-te… | Continue reading
Yo, the sun don’t shine forever But as long as it’s here then we might as well shine together —Sean “Diddy” Combs, “Victory” In the early days of the technology industry, there was no thought about… | Continue reading
Editor’s note: This article by now-a16z general partner Alex Rampell was originally published in 2012 in TechCrunch. The biggest ecommerce opportunity today involves taking offline services and of… | Continue reading
While important debates about the long-term impact of new technologies on jobs play out, I’ve had a front row seat to a set of companies where new technologies have immediately created new streams … | Continue reading
Power users drive some of the most successful companies -- people who love their product, are highly engaged, and contribute a ton of value to the network. In ecommerce marketplaces it’s power sell… | Continue reading
https://youtu.be/2dgdGWyJoK4 watch time: 21 minutes From the quest for digital money and history of bitcoin, to the emergence of ethereum and smart contracts, this presentation/video provides an in… | Continue reading
Editor's note: This interview with Marc Andreessen was edited and condensed for clarity from the original conversation, and appears in The High Growth Handbook on scaling companies from 10 to 10,00… | Continue reading
CEO of an enterprise company: it takes forever to close deals and I have to design for the corporate check-signer and not for end-users! I wish I could iterate and get customers more quickly! CEO o… | Continue reading
A few weeks ago, I was browsing non-fiction titles on the Kindle and came across Randy Pausch’s “The Last Lecture”. I guess I’d been avoiding it for a while as it sounded like it could get pretty m… | Continue reading
The rise of zero-sum thinking -- which has come snapping back recently -- slows and even halts progress, observes Marc Andreessen. Because you're then dividing up a smaller piece, adds Ben Horowitz… | Continue reading
If I knew what I knew in the past I would have been blacked out on your a** --Kanye West, Black Skinhead Because I am a prominent advocate for founders running their own companies,whenever a founde… | Continue reading
"The rules of the game are different in tech," argues -- and has long argued, despite his views not being accepted at first -- W. Brian Arthur, technologist-turned-economist who first truly describ… | Continue reading
Six years ago we invested an “eye-popping” $100 million into GitHub. This was not only a Series A investment and the first institutional money ever raised by the company, but it was also the larges… | Continue reading
Network effects. It’s one of the most important concepts for business in general and especially for tech businesses, as it’s the key dynamic behind many successful software-based companies. Underst… | Continue reading
Owning a home has long been a pillar of the American dream, but very few people fully understand the mortgage that powers it. How does a mortgage originated by a broker in California end up on the … | Continue reading
While the early signals of progress for traditional tech companies are fairly well known -- product, customers, revenue -- biotech companies operate under a very different timeline, metrics, and mi… | Continue reading
https://youtu.be/xd5EoVc3I_Y watch time: 18 minutes As the API or "application programming interface" becomes the primary interface for business (in much the same way physical storefronts gave way … | Continue reading
Whether you’re an academic seeking to move out of research and into industry, or simply interested in working at a bio startup, this episode of the a16z Podcast is for you. It covers everything fro… | Continue reading