The a16z Show

The New AI Agents That Shop, Plan, and Gossip

Anish Acharya, Josh Elman and David Pawlan revisit the personal AI agent landscape a month on. David Pawlan, who has now tested more than 140 assistants, reports what separates them on memory, judgment, trust, shopping and social experiences, and the three debate what happens when our agents start talking to each other and whether the next breakthrough is productivity or a secret superpower.

4 Nov · 51 min

Andrew Huberman’s Three Rules for Better Health and Focus

Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman joins Daisy Wolf on The a16z Show to walk through the daily routine he actually follows — light, meditation, training, food, supplements, work and sleep — and where he falls short, including locking his social media phone in a lockbox. He gives his three health priorities and three evidence-based habits for founders, and predicts neurotechnology will first solve sleep.

3 Nov · 49 min

The Robots Already Working in American Factories | Tutor Intelligence

Josh Gruenstein, cofounder and CEO of Tutor Intelligence, joins a16z general partners Martin Casado and Raghu Raghuram to explain how his company puts robots to work in American factories and warehouses. The conversation covers robot training data and human 'tutors', Cassie and Sunny, unit economics, customer adoption, manufacturing in Watertown, Massachusetts, and what general-purpose robots could do to the physical economy.

2 Nov · 46 min

How Bending Spoons Built a $20 Billion Compounder | Luca Ferrari

Anish Acharya of Andreessen Horowitz interviews Luca Ferrari, co-founder and CEO of Bending Spoons, about the company's model of buying software businesses, improving them and compounding their free cash flow. They discuss radical invention versus incremental optimization, the use of debt, whether AI can disrupt established software, and how far AI already runs coding, data analysis and customer support inside Bending Spoons.

1 Nov · 44 min

Can AI Fix Professional Networking? | Inside Cosign

David Booth and Dhruv Gupta of a16z New Media discuss Cosign and the new Cosign Awards, a reputation-based professional network where AI agents could one day connect people and companies. They cover the awards' categories, how Cosign's profiles, lists and agent features work, and how vouching could replace cold applications and job boards.

31 Oct · 25 min

Why AI Could Turn Small Law Firms Into Billion-Dollar Businesses

Alex Rampell and Jay Madheswaran discuss how Eve uses AI to handle plaintiff law work from intake through settlement, arguing that it expands lawyers' revenue and access to legal representation. They cover the economics of contingency cases, insurers' defenses, outcome-based pricing and where the legal system may go.

30 Oct · 53 min

The Startups Rebuilding American Industry | The AD50

Elena Burger of Andreessen Horowitz interviews Erin Price-Wright and Connor Love, both venture investors at the firm, about AD50, its annual list of companies shaping American dynamism. They discuss how defense, energy, robotics and critical minerals are increasingly linked, how AI and software reach physical manufacturing, and why private capital is now funding hard hardware companies.

29 Oct · 50 min

ElevenLabs CEO: Why Voice is the Next AI Interface

Mati Staniszewski, cofounder and CEO of ElevenLabs, joins Jennifer Li on The a16z Show to explain how the AI audio company ships quickly across voices, music and voice agents. The conversation covers small product teams, distributed hiring, the Voice Marketplace, licensing music with labels, enterprise sales and incentive design.

5 Nov 2025 · 31 min