a16z Podcast: All about Microservices
“Incremental change may be good theory, but in practice you have to have a big enough stick to hit everybody with to make everything move at once”. So shares Adrian Cockcroft, who helped lead Netflix’s...
View Articlea16z Podcast: Welcome to the New Era of Commerce
Just as “social networking” is a bland term that doesn’t really capture the layers of what happens underneath (and on top of) social networking platforms, “crowdfunding” is a broader phenomenon than...
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16 Observations on Livestreaming in China
From emoji and selfies-as-stickers to filters and the “Instagrammification of everything”, there’s a new era of social self-expression happening — enabled by always-accessible cameras on smartphones,...
View Articlea16z Podcast: Stickers! Filters! Memes! Livestreams!
From glittery reaction gifs modded by grandparents to rage faces on Reddit, stickers (gifs and other layered images) and emotive “biaoqing” have taken over messaging culture in China and beyond....
View Articlea16z Podcast: On the Genomics of Disease, From Science to Business
Once we sequenced the human genome, we’d know the cause of — and therefore be able to help cure — all diseases… Or so we thought. Turns out, 20,000 genes (and counting) didn’t really explain why...
View Articlea16z Podcast: So Where Are We on the ‘S-curve’ for PC Devices?
There have been a number of new device announcements this past month — from Google’s new Pixel phone (the first time they made their own phone on the hardware side as well) to more recently, Apple’s...
View Articlea16z Podcast: Old Food, New Tech —‘Clean Meat’
You’ve heard the numbers or some statistic like this: By the year 2050, we’ll need to feed 9.7 billion humans on the planet. Our current production and meat-making methods — growing crops to feed to...
View Articlea16z Podcast: Health Data — A Feedback Loop for Humanity
“We live in a world where we use millions of variables to predict which ad you’re going to click on. Whether or not you deserve to get a loan. What movie you might watch next. But when it comes to our...
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How Software Can Heal the Mental Health System
The U.S. mental health system is under tremendous strain. Depression is now the leading cause of disability in the U.S. One in four Americans suffered from a diagnosable mental disorder in the last...
View Articlea16z Podcast: Produce or Perish! (What We Eat)
Nature is the ultimate complex system, of course — but with today’s technology, it’s now provided us with an “incredible toolkit” of different molecules that material scientists can treat like Legos to...
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