Hi, everyone. Welcome to the A6 and Z podcast. I'm Sonal, and we're here today because we're doing our 500th

episode of the A6 and Z podcast. Episode 499 was with Margaret Wenmockers, the head of marketing at

Andreessen Horowitz, who built the A6 and Z brand. And for the 500th episode, we're here to answer

for the first time.

So it's sort of a behind the scenes about how the podcast works.

A lot of frequently asked questions, people constantly ask us.

And that also I got on Twitter.

Our special guest host and interviewer is a 6th and Z general partner, Connie Chan.

Connie will also ask any questions she's interested in because she's actually

very into podcasting and invest in podcasting as well. So that's the context. So let's first

start with the history of the A16C podcast. Tell me about how it got started, how you got

involved. It was actually created before I even joined. There was already a culture of writing

at Andrews and Horowitz before they even built an editorial

operation. I mean, there was a popular P. Marka blog. There's Ben Horowitz's blog and then book.

And this all happened right before I joined. And they were already writing blog posts about

announcements. And they also had done very few specific op-eds that we talked about in episode

499. So that was a context. And then I believe that story was that Dixon, Chris Dixon, we all call him Dixon, came

in one day as like, we should do podcasting.

And Dixon was an early blogger, so my speculation is that I think he thought it was like

the evolution of that sort of type of communication.

And so the podcast was pushed by Chris Dixon and Kim Milosovich was hiring up the editorial team for Andrews Nguyen Horowitz, and she first hired Michael Copeland who got the podcast was pushed by Chris Dixon and Kim Milosevic, who was hiring up the editorial team for And Dusen Horowitz.

And she first hired Michael Copeland, who got the podcast off the ground and was the host for the first year.

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