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How Can Large Companies Innovate?
watch time: 20 minutes Expanding on the “good ideas that look like bad ideas” concept first outlined by Peter Thiel in Paul Graham and Chris Dixon (at Startup School 2013), Ben Horowitz (coming at...
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Missing Mobile: When to Give Up and What to Do After That
Tech culture is very fond of persistence, stubbornness, perseverance, and the idea that you should never give up. We're surrounded by stories of visionaries who were told they'd never succeed and went...
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Incumbents Don’t Go Away, But Their Products Become Less Relevant When...
Incumbents are still with us. The old part of their business didn't turn into software; they just missed out on all the cool new stuff. Meanwhile, tech companies managed to upend the music industry...
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a16z Podcast: Wall Street’s Most Hated Man
Mention Patrick Byrne, the founder and CEO of Overstock.com, and you’ll elicit a strong opinion. In 2004, one hedge fund manager labeled Byrne the most hated man on Wall Street — a label he wears...
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a16z Podcast: Slow-Tech Companies Navigating in a Fast-Tech World
It used to be the case for large, global organizations that innovation would simply arrive — brought every year or every quarter by the technology vendors they did business with. That slow moving,...
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a16z Podcast: How Big Companies Can Get the Most From Silicon Valley
There is a stream of the world’s largest companies coming to Silicon Valley looking for innovation. But how do they find it — and then — how do they bring it back home? a16z’s Elizabeth Weil joins...
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Making Sense of Dell + EMC + VMware
Dell recently announced an agreement to acquire EMC [NYSE: EMC] — and with it, control of VMware [NYSE: VMW] — in a deal valued at $67 billion at the time of the announcement. While analyses of the...
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a16z Podcast: Holy Non Sequiturs, Batman! — What Disruption Theory Is … and...
Disruption is such an overused buzzword. But the word itself does have meaning: As defined by the Oxford and Merriam-Webster dictionaries, it is a “disturbance…that interrupts an event, activity, or...
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a16z Podcast: Beyond Lean Startups
What began as a scientific approach to creating and managing startups has now become a worldwide movement for companies of all sizes — and for creating (or rather rediscovering) entrepreneurs in all...
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a16z Podcast: Quantum Computing
Quantum computing. The dream of the 1980s is alive in 2015. But this time is different, for a number of reasons. Who are the players, what are the stakes right now? What are the applications, beyond...
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a16z Podcast: Disruption in Business… and Life
It’s not incompetence, but competence, that causes companies to be disrupted. That applies to big companies and small, as well as people too. Or so argue Clayton Christensen and Marc Andreessen in...
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