Video•Nov 12, 2025
Rocket Mortgage CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis
Rocket Mortgage CEO Alex argues the housing crisis stems from wealth concentration among older owners, insufficient new construction, and asset‑price inflation, contrasting today with the post‑World War II Levittown model of mass‑built affordable homes. He blames regulatory hurdles and NIMBY opposition for limiting supply, while noting rising buyer expectations and higher mortgage rates exacerbate affordability gaps. Alex proposes leveraging modular construction, AI, robotics, and 3D‑printing to lower building costs and accelerate delivery. He also calls for a streamlined, real‑time mortgage qualification process to make buying as simple as everyday transactions, which could boost demand and temper prices.
By Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Video•Nov 11, 2025
Grant Lee: Building Gamma’s AI Presentation Company to 100 Million Users
Grant Lee co‑founded Gamma in 2020 to reinvent presentations by making visual storytelling effortless for non‑designers, eventually scaling the AI‑powered platform to roughly 100 million users and approaching $100 million in annual recurring revenue. Early investor pushback—citing the dominance of incumbents like...
By Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Social•Nov 10, 2025
Guy Wuollet Promoted to GP, Pioneering DePIN Vision
Today we are excited to announce that we are promoting Guy Wuollet (@guywuolletjr) to General Partner. We first met Guy in 2018 while he was studying computer science at Stanford, where he also rowed varsity crew. He initially joined the firm...
By Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Video•Nov 6, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan: How AI Will Cure All Disease
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan explained the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's long‑term strategy to accelerate basic science by building AI‑driven research tools, arguing that new shared platforms are the modern equivalent of the microscope or telescope for biology. They highlighted the...
By Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Video•Nov 5, 2025
Seeing The Future From AI Companions to Personal Software
In the interview, Jenna discusses the evolution from AI chatbots as simple command‑line tools to a new generation of personalized, visual "personal software" built on AI companions. She argues that current AI interfaces are limited to basic search and writing...
By Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Video•Nov 3, 2025
David Sacks: AI, Crypto, China, Dems, and SF
David Sacks argues that Europe views leadership as regulatory control, while the United States should provide clear, pro‑innovation rules for AI and crypto. He praises former President Trump’s pledge to make the U.S. a crypto capital by offering regulatory certainty...
By Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Video•Oct 31, 2025
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on the State of AI
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz argued that current large language models (LLMs) already approach human-like creativity and reasoning for most practical purposes, even if they may not replicate the rarest, generational-level breakthroughs. They emphasized that human innovation itself is largely...
By Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Video•Oct 28, 2025
Google DeepMind Developers: How Nano Banana Was Made
Google DeepMind's Nano Banana—an internal name for the Gemini 2.5 Flash image model—combines the high visual fidelity of DeepMind’s Imagine family with Gemini’s conversational, multimodal editing capabilities. Developers report striking zero‑shot personalization (one image yields convincing likenesses), rapid user adoption...
By Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Video•Oct 27, 2025
Raghu Raghuram: AI, Robotics, and the Rebirth of Infrastructure
From Netscape to VMware, Raghu Raghuram has been at the center of nearly every major inflection point in enterprise technology. In this episode, Raghu joins Ben Horowitz, Martin Casado and David George to reflect on the early internet wars with Microsoft,...
By Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Video•Oct 23, 2025
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
In a wide-ranging conversation, Marc Andreessen and Replit CEO Amjad Masad argue that recent advances in AI are bringing programming closer to natural language, with platforms like Replit aiming to remove setup and syntax as barriers so users can build...
By Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Social•Oct 22, 2025
Discussing State of Crypto Report on @Tbpn Today
I'll be on @tbpn today to talk about our State of Crypto report.
By Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Social•Oct 22, 2025
Crypto Matures in 2025: Institutions, Stablecoins, Regulation
We’re excited to share our 2025 State of Crypto report. This year’s story: the maturation of the crypto industry — with growing institutional adoption, the rise of stablecoins, better infrastructure, new consumer experiences, and long-awaited regulatory clarity. Read the full report →...
By Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Video•Oct 22, 2025
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code
In a conversational podcast, two former Google colleagues trace the invention of the “like” button to early asynchronous JavaScript and describe it as a social signal that feeds algorithms and shapes consumption. The hosts mix personal anecdotes—downing ketone shots for...
By Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Video•Oct 21, 2025
How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
Kong founder Augusto 'Auggie' Marietti recounts the company's scrappy origins as Mashape, describing seven years of struggle before rapid growth. He and co-founders moved from Milan to San Francisco on minimal funds and a 90-day tourist visa, raised a pivotal...
By Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Video•Oct 20, 2025
Reid Hoffman on AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Labor
Reid Hoffman frames AI investing around three buckets: obvious productivity plays (chatbots, coding assistants) that are crowded but still valuable; platform shifts that preserve fundamentals like network effects and enterprise integration; and Silicon Valley 'blind spots'—large, underinvested domains such as...
By Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Video•Oct 17, 2025
Marc Andreessen on the State of Film and Hollywood
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen argues that movies serve today as culture’s myths and enduring records, but he sees a recent quality and cultural-cohesion decline since about 2019. While celebrating modern technical and entertainment achievements (he cites action and other standout...
By Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Video•Oct 15, 2025
Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a Billion-Dollar Business
In a conversation about scaling Databricks, Ben Horowitz and CEO Ali Ghodsi recount the 2016 turning point when the company pivoted from relying on Apache Spark’s open‑source popularity to building differentiated commercial products and a stronger go‑to‑market. Ghodsi, an engineer‑turned‑CEO,...
By Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)