Via the A16z Podcast about evolving trends in venture capital investing in academia. This is key podcast for leadership across all colleges, ILO and TCO offices, great big thinking here.
It’s a myth that startups happen in isolation. Those legendary two people in a garage are often building on deep and basic research — long funded by government and conducted in universities — that has come before it. But with the advent of the internet, what’s the future of peer-to-peer collaborations and startups-as-“science experiments”? Can venture capital disrupt academia… and vice versa? And finally, what’s the secret to universities like Stanford making money off the entrepreneurial ideas coming out of them? (Hint: It starts with a ‘p’. But isn’t what you think.)
a16z’s new professor in residence Vijay Pande interviews Marc Andreessen at our recent Academic summit on these topics, as well as ‘regulatory arbitrage’; how to mix humanities and science; and what major Marc would have done if he were 18 today.