Sil­i­con Val­ley got a black eye a decade ago when its big ven­ture cap­i­tal for­ay into expen­sive and nascent clean­tech didn’t pan out—but its recent­ly renewed inter­est in a wider […]

As part of my series about the lead­er­ship lessons of accom­plished busi­ness lead­ers, I had the plea­sure of inter­view­ing Clint McKin­lay. A sea­soned glob­al busi­ness exec­u­tive, Clint McKin­lay is chief […]

Inde­pen­dent cof­fee shops were hit hard by the pan­dem­ic last year. In Octo­ber, Euromon­i­tor Inter­na­tion­al pre­dict­ed that the U.S. would have just 25,307 coffee/​​tea spe­cial­ty out­lets by the end of 2020, a […]

If there’s one thing we know when live events return after the pan­dem­ic is that sound is going to be spa­tial and immer­sive. No more left/​​right. And there are many […]

Nan­cy Pfund is founder and man­ag­ing part­ner of DBL Part­ners, one of the first and largest impact invest­ing ven­ture cap­i­tal firms in the world. DBL seeks to achieve “Dou­ble Bottom […]

Last Feb­ru­ary, we intro­duced the a16z Mar­ket­place 100, a rank­ing of the largest con­­sumer-fac­ing mar­ket­place star­tups and pri­vate com­pa­nies. The series was a hit, spurring debate about the evo­lu­tion of marketplaces […]