How will the future unfold? What is the impact of technology on business & society? As technology reorders the world in which live, who will be the winners and who will be the losers? Join Azeem Azhar, curator of the Exponential View newsletter, in deep conversation with the world's leading thinkers and practitioners exploring these and other important questions. The views expressed on this podcast are those of its hosts, guests, and callers, and not those of Harvard Business Review.
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episode 12: From Tech Investor to Author (with a16z’s Andrew Chen)
Andreessen Horowitz general partner Andrew Chen and host Azeem Azhar have something in common: they were both tech company insiders and early-stage investors before becoming authors. They explore why they decided to write their books, how writing intersects with their day jobs, and whether they’d do it all again.
They also discuss:
- What selling a book online has taught them about e-commerce.
- How the future for factual books has changed as publishing has decentralized.
- What books can communicate that other media can’t.
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Further resources:
Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends 1995-2019
Status as a Service (Eugene Wei, 2019)
The Cold Start Problem (Andrew Chen, 2021)
The Exponential Age (Azeem Azhar, 2021)