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One More Question

Nicework, Ross Drakes

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One More Question is a podcast lovingly created by the people of Nicework, a branding studio based in South Africa that serves a range of clients across the US, UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. The world doesn't need more lazy, boring, half-arsed, poorly-built brands. In this podcast, we explore what it takes to build a great one. We interview founders who have built multi-billion dollar brands and experts who know how to get people to connect with their products, services, and compan ...
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web3 with a16z crypto

a16z crypto, Sonal Chokshi, Chris Dixon

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"web3 with a16z" is a show about the next generation of the internet, and about how builders and users -- whether artists, coders, creators, developers, companies, organizations, or communities -- now have the ability to not just "read" (web1) + "write" (web2) but "own" (web3) pieces of the internet, unlocking a new wave of creativity and entrepreneurship. Brought to you by a16z crypto, this show is the definitive resource for understanding and going deeper on all things crypto and web3. Fro ...
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Launching a business is one thing, but building a brand that resonates with you, the founder, and your target audience, in order to authentically connect with your ideal client is another story. I am Anne-Héloïse Chavin, the host of this podcast and the founder and brand builder in chief at AHBC Group, a Branding agency based in Miami, Florida. Since 2018, we help our clients tell their stories and create meaningful connections with their audience through brand strategy, brand design, web de ...
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This series is dedicated to education in Web 3, NFT'S, and occasionally crypto currencies. We focus on elements such as branding, relationship building, how to's and much more. Together we can onboard, educate, and build a better #Web3, a better #NFT Community, and a better world!
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AI & I

Dan Shipper

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Learn how the smartest people in the world are using AI to think, create, and relate. Each week I interview founders, filmmakers, writers, investors, and others about how they use AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Midjourney in their work and in their lives. We screen-share through their historical chats and then experiment with AI live on the show. Join us to discover how AI is changing how we think about our world—and ourselves. For more essays, interviews, and experiments at the forefron ...
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Welcome to The Breakthrough Brand Podcast — your go-to for relatable, raw, and tactical business training designed to help you hit those big goals! I’m Elizabeth McCravy, a website designer and business educator for female entrepreneurs. I’ve built a multiple six-figure web design business in my 20s, and I’m passionate about sharing what I’ve learned so you can do it too. No secrets, just real talk and proven strategies for building a thriving business. I’m a Christian business owner, mama t ...
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Make sure your brand is everything it can be. If you're not tending to your brand in this chaotic environment, you might as well be shredding your money. Every week, our panel of top brand experts will discuss the state of the universe - and share insights in strategy, creative, digital, content, social and every area that can help build better and stronger connections with your audiences. Sometimes we'll agree, sometimes we'll argue and sometimes we'll just call BS on the whole thing. But, ...
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Mount Woods Studio

Mount Woods Studio

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Mount Woods Studio is a global Branding and Consultancy agency solving design problems for CEO & organizations helping them grow to become a unique brand identity. A creative studio that helps in building brand and grow through the power of design. Mount Woods Studio helps organisations shape businesses with our experience and strategies that are tested before implementation. Assist them to achieve their goals in the market which will build a reputation and trust with their customers. We pro ...
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Working Sunday

Reuben Ly

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A show about the hard road to success, as a creative entrepreneur. Based in Oakland, CA, host Reuben Ly – a small business owner turned journalist – travels the country capturing the struggle and success of a diverse range of creators. From award-winning chefs, to craft beer producers, to graffiti artists. Each season captures a different local industry, in a particular place. Working Sunday – because when it's your own business – you gotta do it. -- Social @workingsunday Web: http://www.wor ...
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analucianovak

Ana Lucia Novak Social Media

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Social Media, Online Marketing is in a constant state of influx - so I want to help shorten your learning cycle, understand big picture and provide you insight, blueprint, How to's to establish a successful strategy and implementation plan. We will share Wordpress for creating an optimized Website and Blogging platform; social media strategies, best practices, and tactics; tools to help manage your time, analyze your efforts, grow your communities, increase web traffic, enhance online presen ...
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with @kimbatronic @amandatylerj @clairekart Welcome to web3 with a16z. Since our show covers both tech trends and company building, today’s topic is all about marketing — including differences between marketing in crypto and traditional tech. The conversation shares a candid look at what works — and what doesn’t — when it comes to building reputati…
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I interviewed Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott about the future of agents and software engineering for another special edition of AI & I. With 41 years of programming behind him, Kevin has lived through nearly every big shift in modern software development. Here’s his clear-eyed take on what’s changing with AI, and how we can navigate what’s next: The rea…
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OpenAI just launched Codex, a brand-new coding agent that can build features and fix bugs autonomously. We’ve been testing it at Every for a few days, and I’m impressed. I invited Alexander Embiricos, a member of the OpenAI product staff responsible for Codex, to demo the agent live on a special edition of AI & I. We talk through: - What Codex is a…
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with @cdixon @SamBroner @rhhackett Stablecoins are quietly transforming how money moves — faster, cheaper, and more globally than ever before. In this episode, we take a deep look at why stablecoins have emerged as one of the most promising applications in crypto today — and how they could reshape global payments. I’m joined by Chris Dixon, founder…
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with @rhhackett @smc90 @DarenMatsuoka @SamBroner Welcome to web3 with a16z, a show about the next generation of the internet. I'm Robert Hackett. There has been a flurry of stablecoin news lately, so we're doing a special bonus episode to cover everything that's been going on. Sonal and I are joined by a16z crypto’s Data Science lead Daren Matsuoka…
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Will England just pivoted his $10B AUM hedge fund to go all in on AI with a firm-wide email: “I wrote this email using ChatGPT—you should too. As a hedge fund, we should be ashamed to leave money on the table by ignoring AI.” It’s working: 75% of his 400-person team are using ChatGPT daily—and Walleye is well on its way to transforming into an AI-f…
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with @danboneh @succinctJT @smc90 This episode is all about quantum computing -- what it is, how it works, what's hype vs. reality, and how to prepare for it/ what builders should do. Specifically, we cover: What quantum computing is and isn't, and what people are really talking about when they worry about a quantum computer that can break cryptogr…
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After two Jhana meditation retreats Nadia Asparouhova could silence her mind, change her emotional state at will, and even intentionally slip out of consciousness. It challenged the idea that our minds are not under our control—and made her wonder if we’re more like AI than we realize. Nadia is a writer and researcher of technology and culture. She…
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Sarah Tavel thinks it's criminal that ChatGPT isn’t inherently social. There’s no easy way to discover great prompts or share the ones that worked. As a venture partner at Benchmark, Sarah believes that the next wave of consumer AI will be built on this missing social layer—by product-driven founders who understand people, not just models. Sarah ha…
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with @eddylazzarin @skominers @milesjennings @rhhackett Today we're diving deep into *the* defining concept in crypto: tokens. We're moving beyond conventional categories — like “governance tokens” or “utility tokens” or even “memecoins” — to present a full taxonomy that details what tokens are, what they aren’t, and what they're capable of becomin…
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Kevin Kelly has spent more time thinking about the future than almost anyone else. From VR in the 1980s to the blockchain in the 2000s—and now generative AI—Kevin has spent a lifetime journeying to the frontiers of technology, only to return with rich stories about what’s next. Today, as Wired's senior maverick, his project for 2025 is to outline w…
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With LTX Studio, you can bring your stories to life, complete with a cast, storyline, and settings, all according to your style and specifications. Check them out here: https://bit.ly/LTXStudioEvery 500K people are confiding in an AI alien—and it's on track to generate $4M this year. It’s called a Tolan: an animated AI character that can talk to yo…
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with @ilblackdragon @rhhackett Welcome to web3 with a16z. I’m your host, Robert Hackett. In this episode, we're diving deep into one of the most intriguing intersections in tech today: AI and crypto. To help us unpack it, we're joined by Illia Polosukhin — co-founder of the crypto protocol NEAR and co-author of the groundbreaking 2017 "transformers…
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This episode is sponsored by Vanta. Achieving SOC 2 compliance can help you win bigger deals, enter new markets, and deepen trust with your customers—but it can cost you real time and money. Vanta automates up to 90% of the work for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and more, getting you audit-ready in weeks instead of months and saving you up to 90% of associated…
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with @eddylazzarin @DarenMatsuoka @ahall_research @rhhackett Welcome to web3 with a16z. I’m Robert Hackett. Today we’re talking about one of the most familiar — and most misunderstood — mechanics in crypto: the airdrop. We’ll explore the history of airdrops in and outside crypto, the challenges of incentive design, and learnings from airdrops to da…
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AI forces us to reckon with what makes us human—a question caught between science and spirituality that MIT’s Dr. Alan Lightman is uniquely placed to explore. Dr. Lightman is a physicist, bestselling novelist, and professor of the practice of humanities at MIT. As one of the first at MIT to hold a joint faculty position in both the sciences and the…
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with @mostrovs @skominers @rhhackett Welcome to web3 with a16z. I’m your host Robert Hackett, and today we’re talking about congestion pricing — an area of mechanism design that’s aimed at alleviating something everyone hates: traffic. Now you may have heard this term recently since New York adopted its own version of congestion pricing at the begi…
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Jonny Miller uploaded his entire life to ChatGPT to use it as the ultimate AI coach. He created what he calls a Codex Vitae—with core personality traits, values, goals, burnout signals and more to load into ChatGPT. It hyper-customizes his responses, to help him access deep meditation states, create custom supplementation plans, and do deep researc…
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Welcome to web3 with a16z. Today we’re talking about a founder’s journey from academia to the tech startup world — and the many lessons he’s learned along the way. We dig into big ideas, like what people mean when they call blockchains "truth machines." We also share practical advice and insights, like how to go about deciding on your life’s work; …
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In Episode #85, Ross is joined by Paul Worthington, President of Invencion Paul has been in the branding business for over twenty years, led major branding programs across 4 continents, lived in two, had his words published by the likes of Fast Company, and won multiple awards along the way. Previously head of strategy and client principal at renow…
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I interviewed the Governor of New Jersey Phil Murphy on AI & I. We spent an hour talking about his vision for AI in government, economic development, and the regulatory challenges ahead. His approach is refreshingly pragmatic: Spark real innovation at scale. Governor Murphy is laying the groundwork through an AI hub that pools the strengths of the …
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with @SashaSpiegelman @Tim_Roughgarden @rhhackett Welcome to web3 with a16z. Today we’re talking about the ins and outs of blockchain performance. How does the “speed” of one chain compare to another? What are the tricky ways that people talk about important metrics like throughput and latency? And how do design choices across things like consensus…
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Steve Schlafman is using a $20 ChatGPT subscription to expand his consciousness. He’s doing this through: Advanced dream work—Steve records himself talking about his dreams every morning, uploads the transcript to ChatGPT, and prompts the LLM to analyze it like a Jungian dream analyst would. The model pulls out archetypes and hidden emotions that h…
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with @mg_486662 and @rhhackett Welcome to web3 with a16z. I’m Robert Hackett and today we’re talking about what is potentially the biggest heist of all time — a hack of the Dubai-based crypto exchange ByBit which took place last month for a total of $1.5 billion and which the Federal Bureau of Investigation has attributed to a North Korean state-sp…
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Our sponsor for this episode is Microsoft. Want seamless collaboration without the cost? Microsoft Teams offers a robust free plan for individuals that delivers unlimited chat, 60-minute video meetings, and file sharing—all within one intuitive workspace that keeps your projects moving forward. Head to https://aka.ms/every to use Teams for free, an…
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with @haydenzadams @kidsuper @smc90 This episode involves a special mix of guests: Hayden Adams, founder and CEO of Uniswap Labs, and inventor of the Uniswap Protocol a leader in decentralized finance (DeFi); they recently announced Unichain; and Colm Dillane, the multimedia artist behind fashion brand KidSuper, CFDA award winner who has his own Wa…
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Michael Taylor has perfected the art of getting AI to speak in tongues. He’s taught it to mimic the voices of your customers—so you can see how they would respond before you ship. Michael is the creator of Rally, a market research tool that lets you simulate an audience of AI personas. He built a simulator that lets us A/B test Every’s headlines on…
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Big changes are coming to the Breakthrough Brand Podcast! In this episode, I’m sharing a personal and business update that’s been months in the making—I’m shifting the podcast to a seasonal format and taking a three-month break from releasing new episodes. But don’t worry, this isn’t a goodbye! To be clear, I’ll still be actively working in my busi…
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Welcome to web3 with a16z, today we’re running a special episode about the intersection of AI and crypto. Our guests are a16z crypto Founder and Managing Partner Chris Dixon & a16z Growth General Partner David George. They discuss the broken economics of the internet, new models for creative people, how to think through the first-, second- and thir…
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Today, I’m chatting with Emily Conley, an incredible copywriter, business owner, and world traveler who’s been balancing work, family, and homeschooling—all while exploring different countries. If you’ve ever wondered, is it possible to run a business without social media?, Could I travel full-time with my family?, or How does homeschooling actuall…
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Nat Eliason’s career arc is borderline absurd—but it works. In the last five years, he ran an SEO agency, got into crypto, made $600,000 from a course on the note-taking tool Roam Research, flipped real estate in Austin for a 6x return, and published a book with Random House. He’s now writing a book of science fiction and running a viral course abo…
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If you’ve ever wondered how to navigate health insurance as a self-employed family, this episode is for you! With two kids (and another on the way!) and no employer-sponsored coverage, we’ve found an alternative that works for us—Christian Healthcare Ministries (CHM). In this episode, we’re breaking down exactly how it works, what we pay, and the p…
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Guillermo Rauch is one of the most prolific coders of this generation. But he doesn’t think of himself as a coder anymore. Coding, he says, is a specific skill that AI is becoming great at. Instead, he thinks the future of coding is more holistic, full-stack engineers who can ideate, design, and execute all together. Guillermo is the founder and CE…
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Motherhood and business—can we really do both without losing our minds? If you’re an entrepreneur who’s expecting or navigating new motherhood, this episode is for you. I’m sharing everything I wish I had known before having my first baby while running a business. From planning maternity leave (hint: you’ll probably need more time than you think) t…
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with @1HowardWu @SuccinctJT @rhhackett Welcome to web3 with a16z. Today’s show is all about privacy, why it matters, and how to achieve it technically onchain. It's fair to say that many blockchains today are quite… revealing. But that openness and transparency doesn’t work for everything — who would want anyone to have full-on X-Ray vision into yo…
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AGI is coming. Reid Hoffman just wrote the book on how to prepare. According to Reid, every major tech breakthrough (the written word, the printing press, the telephone) triggered mass fear. But, contrary to our worries, new technology tends to enhance human agency—even more so, if you know how to use it well. In Superagency, his book that was rele…
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In today’s episode, we’re talking about prioritizing health and wellness as busy women who are juggling businesses, chasing kids, managing marriages, maintaining friendships, and nurturing faith. With so much on our plates, our health often takes a backseat. Our guest today is Shaela Daugherty, host of the Simple Fitness Habits podcast. She’s a cer…
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In Episode #84, Ross is joined by Kevin Swanepoel, CEO of The One Club for Creativity. The One Club for Creativity is the world's foremost non-profit organisation devoted to supporting and celebrating the successes of the global creative community. Since taking on the role in 2015, after being the organisation's President for more than eight years,…
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with @benleventhal @AriannaSimpson Welcome to web3 with a16z. How many of you are regulars at a favorite cafe, bar, or dinner spot? Probably a lot of you — but if you’re not, well, our guest today aims to make you one. This episode features Ben Leventhal — the founder and CEO of BlackBird, and formerly the founder of Resy and Eater. In it, he share…
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As a general partner at Spark Capital, Nabeel Hyatt backs just one or two companies each year. But when he does invest, Nabeel picks winners. He was an early investor in Discord, video editor Descript, self-driving startup Cruise (acquired by General Motor for over $1 billion), and, recently, AI note-taking app Granola. Nabeel’s investment thesis i…
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If you’ve ever thought about starting a podcast—or you already have one and want to take it to the next level—this episode is for you! After hitting 300 episodes, I’m pulling back the curtain and sharing exactly what I’d do if I were launching a brand-new podcast in 2025. Spoiler: the podcasting landscape has changed A LOT since I started in 2019, …
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Building an email client used to take many years and millions of dollars. But Every’s Kieran Klaassen built Cora—a totally new way to manage your inbox with AI—in just 3 months. He even shipped the original MVP of the product in a single day—something that just wasn’t possible before the current state of generative AI. Now, there are almost 10,000 …
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It’s the start of a new year, which means it’s time to give your website a little love. In this quick and tactical episode, I’m sharing three super simple updates you can make to your site that’ll keep it fresh and professional – and here’s the best part: they all take less than five minutes! Seriously, you could knock these out during your coffee …
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