At the Oliver Wyman Health Innovation Summit 2025, Julie Yoo, General Partner at a16z Bio + Health, makes the case that healthcare is uniquely positioned to benefit from AI more than any other industry. She argues that healthcare's historical underinvestment in technology is now an asset, enabling the industry to leapfrog directly to AI-native models of care ... Show More
Today
Rebuilding Behavioral Health’s Operating System with AI
a16z Partners Daisy Wolf and Eva Steinman talk with Zach Cohen and Raymond Wang, cofounders of Ease Health, a company building an AI operating system for behavioral health that combines CRM, EHR, and revenue cycle management into a single platform. They discuss why behavioral hea ... Show More
36m 31s
Feb 20
Ambience CEO Nikhil Buduma on AI in Clinical Workflows
a16z general partner Julie Yoo talks with Nikhil Buduma, CEO and cofounder of Ambience Healthcare, to discuss how AI is transforming clinical workflows. They cover the early days of deep learning, why Ambience started by running a medical practice before building a platform compa ... Show More
49m 10s
Feb 17
Building the Marketplace for AI’s Most Valuable Asset
a16z investors Daisy Wolf and Eva Steinman talk with Bobby Samuels, cofounder and CEO of Protege. They discuss the myth that we've run out of data for AI, how Protege connects healthcare systems and other data holders with the major AI labs, and why real-world data beats syntheti ... Show More
38m 41s
Sep 2024
Grand Challenges in Healthcare AI
<p>Vijay Pande, founding general partner, and Julie Yoo, general partner at a16z Bio + Health, come together to discuss the grand challenges facing healthcare AI today.</p><p>The talk through the implications of AI integration in healthcare workflows, AI as a potential catalyst f ... Show More
37m 40s
Sep 2025
The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
<p>Announcing our new show, Monitoring the Situation, hosted by a16z General Partners Erik Torenberg and Katherine Boyle, with guest Eddie Lazzarin, CTO of a16z crypto. </p><p>In this first episode, we ask how American Dynamism, consumer, games, and crypto all fit together, from ... Show More
1 h
Dec 2024
Fixing Education in America: What's Stopping Us?
<p>Over half of Americans live in childcare deserts, while 90% of brain development happens before the age of five. All the while, education and childcare remain among the most resistant sectors to technological change. Billions of dollars have been spent, but outcomes continue t ... Show More
38m 54s
Nov 2024
MI376: Why Do Great Companies Fail? The Innovator’s Dilemma w/ Shawn O’Malley
In today’s episode, Shawn O’Malley (@shawn_OMalley_) discusses why great companies fail, as outlined by Clayton Christensen in his timeless book, The Innovator’s Dilemma, which was first published in 1997. The Economist actually named it one of the six most important business boo ... Show More
45m 4s
Nov 2024
The Longevity Imperative: Redefining the Way We Age
<p>What if the biggest challenge of our time isn’t living longer, but living better? </p><p>In this episode, we’re tackling one of humanity’s greatest accomplishments—and perhaps its most overlooked challenge: longevity. As more people live past 100, our systems—healthcare, finan ... Show More
40m 30s
May 2025
Delivering More Connected Care Through AI: CVS Health's Josh Weiner
Josh Weiner, senior vice president of consumer engagement and analytics at CVS Health, is passionate about making health care more personalized, connected, preventative, and accessible. On today’s episode, Josh joins Sam and Shervin to explain how the integrated health care compa ... Show More
27m 22s
Sep 2025
Software finally eats services - Aaron Levie
<p>Should the US put a price on H-1B visas, or would that block the flow of new talent? Are AI coding agents actually making teams way more productive, or is it just hype? And in the AI platform shift, will the big winners be incumbents or new AI-native startups?</p><p>Erik Toren ... Show More
59m 33s