Hi everyone and welcome to the A16Z podcast. I'm Amelia.

And this week we're sharing two one-on-one conversations

with Andreeson Horowitz co-founder Mark and Ben,

covering everything from company building to tech trends and culture.

These originally took place as live chats on Social Audio App Clubhouse, where Ben and Mark

now host weekly one-on-ones, the name partly inspired by a newspaper column

Andy Grove did in the 80s, and these conversations take place every Monday at 7 p.m. Pacific

time. You can find these and other conversations at our separate

new feed A16Z Live. But we're sharing these first two episodes here, nearly three hours

worth, where Ben and Mark cover everything from advice for

founders, the evolving ways we work together remotely during the pandemic, and how to create great co-founder relationships to the future of major tech trends like decentralization, crypto, voice video and

text, and much more.

So first of all, thank you everybody for joining the inaugural tryout of a new show that my

partner Ben and I are considering putting on a regular basis if it goes well.

It's called one-on-one with A and Z. It's actually inspired by our kind of hero of Silicon Valley and being a CEO and running companies and creating technology, Andy Grove, who in the 1980s,

he had a, he used the most advanced communication technology of his time in the 1980s.

He had a newspaper column in the San Jose Mercury News called

101 with Andy Gross and in fact there's a book of his columns that I

highly recommend people buy it might be out of print but he would he would take

questions and sort of it was a very rare opportunity for somebody to ask people

ask questions of somebody like him so you know we're no Andy Grove but you know we'll do our best so we put on a call for questions on

Twitter and we got I would see an extraordinary range of very very smart

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