a16z Podcast: Beyond Software Eating the World
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🗓️ 4 July 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The content here is for informational purposes only, should not be taken as legal business, tax, |
| 0:05.6 | or investment advice, or be used to evaluate any investment or security and is not directed |
| 0:10.3 | at any investors or potential investors in any A16Z fund. For more details, please see A16Z.com |
| 0:16.8 | slash disclosures. |
| 0:18.7 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to the A6 and Z podcast. I'm Sonal. So this week, to continue |
| 0:23.7 | our 10-year anniversary series since the founding of A6 and Z, we're actually resurfacing some of |
| 0:28.8 | our previous episodes featuring founders Mark Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. If you haven't heard the latest |
| 0:34.1 | episode with Stuart Butterfield turning the tables as the entrepreneur interviewing |
| 0:38.2 | them, please do check that out and other episodes in this series on our website at a6.z.com |
| 0:44.2 | slash 10. But this episode was recorded in 2016 on the five-year anniversary of Mark's Wall Street |
| 0:51.3 | Journal op-ed on why software is eating the world. And it features me and |
| 0:56.5 | Scott Cooper asking Mark and Ben about what's changed since and how software is now programming |
| 1:02.4 | the world. And we discuss everything from simulations to distributed systems to other key |
| 1:07.6 | computing shifts. Welcome, guys. Hey. |
| 1:11.1 | Hello. |
| 1:12.8 | Okay, so let's just kick things off. |
| 1:17.3 | One of the things that I want to understand is that it's been since Fund 1, which is what, |
| 1:18.6 | seven years ago? |
| 1:19.7 | Seven years ago. |
| 1:21.3 | A lot's changed in seven years. |
| 1:24.7 | And I've actually heard you argue, Mark, that things have accelerated in that time period, more so than previous decades before. So what do you think are the biggest |
| 1:28.6 | shifts now that are important to us in this newest fund? And what changed in that period, |
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