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Welcome to the A16Z podcast.

I'm Zoran.

Today's episode is a conversation about four big trends in the tech world.

Any one of these trends would be notable on its own, but we cover all four in this hallway

style chat as A16Z general partner Chris Dixon talks with SEP KAMVAR,

professor of media arts and sciences at MIT,

and now co-founder of cryptocurrency

platform Sello.

Andilad Gill, an investor, and the co-founder of Health Technology

Company Color genomics

and formerly at Twitter and Google. This is a wide-ranging survey of some of the major

shifts in technology right now, but it's really a meta story of how innovation happens,

which is most definitely not in a straight line

so here are the trends they cover crypto of course AI and machine learning including

gp t3 you can also listen to our explainer episode on what's type and what's real there on our show 16 minutes

Full-stack startups which Chris first wrote about in 2014 and

Collaborative Web Collaborative Enterprise Social including RTC or real-time communication within the browser, which is where the conversation begins.

The first voice you'll hear is Chris, followed by Elad talking about WebRTC, and then SEP once the conversation turns to crypto.

So I guess a lot, first you and I've been talking about this and I know you're very excited about it, this

kind of this feeling that there's a new stack of web infrastructure, things like

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