a16z Podcast: A Society Under Construction - Modernizing Infrastructure

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🗓️ 25 August 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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What is "infrastructure" actually? In the 19th and 20th century, that usually meant the transportation systems supporting roadways, airports, trains... but we don't even really know yet what it might potentially mean in the age of rapidly changing te...

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0:00.0	The content here is for informational purposes only, should not be taken as legal business, tax, or investment advice, or be used to evaluate any investment or security and is not directed at any investors or potential investors in any A16Z fund.
0:14.2	For more details, please see A16Z.com slash disclosures.
0:18.7	Hi and welcome to the A16Z podcast. I'm Hannah, and today's topic is modernizing infrastructure,
0:25.1	beginning with the almost existential question of what is infrastructure?
0:29.1	And more importantly, what does infrastructure look like in the age of changing technology like
0:33.3	drones and self-driving cars?
0:35.3	How do we think about modernizing not just the 19th century structures
0:38.5	we inherited, like roadways and airports and trains, but creating the 21st and 22nd century
0:44.6	infrastructure of the future? And finally, what does it mean to democratize and crowdsource
0:49.9	urban planning and public projects? This conversation is moderated by A16Z's policy team partner
0:55.7	Matthew Colford and includes Secretary Anthony Fox, former Secretary of Transportation under the Obama
1:01.2	administration, and also former mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Keller Renato, CEO of
1:06.7	Zipline, which provides to Rwanda and other governments the ability to do instant deliveries
1:12.0	like delivering blood at national scale using autonomous aircraft, and Jace Wilson, CEO of Neighborly,
1:18.1	which is reinventing the municipal bond and helping neighborhoods crowdsource funding for public projects.
1:23.3	Secretary Fox, when you were Secretary of Transportation, how did you even conceive of infrastructure?
1:28.3	A lot of people think about airports and roads and ports. What do you guys think of when you
1:34.1	think of infrastructure? I thought about infrastructure is the apparatus or apparatus
1:41.1	that are necessary to get people and things from one place to another. And, you know,
1:48.3	more broadly speaking, you can think of infrastructure as what it takes to achieve a certain
1:54.0	objective. You have energy infrastructure. You have financial services infrastructure. You have
1:58.6	internet infrastructure. In the broadest sense of the word,
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