Welcome to the A16Z podcast. I'm Michael Copeland. The NFL is descended upon Silicon Valley for Super Bowl 50,

and A16Z was fortunate to have 30 of the world's best football players post up at the firm to talk about the intersection between the world of professional sports and venture capital.

Joe Montana, yes, the Hall of Fame 49ers quarterback, joins a discussion

with A16 Z's Jeff Jordan and Ben Horowitz about their approaches to tech investing and the

startup ecosystem, how they manage the risk involved, there's plenty, and whether athletes and other

high-profile folks can and indeed should get involved.

Here's one piece of common ground. The hardest thing for NFL legends and VCs alike,

losing. Jeff, Joe, can I call you Joe? What we want to talk about with you guys is this

kind of intersection between sports, investing,

and technology.

And you guys actually come at sports and technology investing from sort of different size

of it.

Jeff, you're an investor and a technologist, and Joe, obviously, you come from the sports side.

But I want to know when, and let's start with you, Jeff, and then we'll go to you, Joe.

From your perspective, where is the common ground?

Like, where is there a sort of common language and common ideas between, you know,

the world that these guys inhabit and that, Joe, that you inhabited it, and your world?

I mean, the other founder of Andresen Horowitz is Mark Andresen,

who was the co-founder of Netscape. And he had coined a phrase a few years back, software eats the world.

Software is increasingly impacting like every business in the world. And, you know, it's obvious,

okay, you know, music got impacted, but, you know, you're getting driverless cars And, you know, it's obvious, okay, you know, music got impacted, but, you know,

you're getting driverless cars. And, you know, the head of Pepsi was here telling us how

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