Erik Torenberg

Erik Torenberg

162 Interviews

Erik Torenberg's Interviews

Katherine Boyle + Erik Torenberg & Marc Andreessen 17 Oct 2025 • EN

Marc Andreessen on the State of Film and Hollywood

Hollywood is going through a major cultural and creative reset, and Marc Andreessen thinks it’s long overdue. In this episode of Monitoring the Situation, Marc joins Erik Torenberg and Katherine Boyle to dissect the past decade of filmmaking, from the rise of “the message” in every movie to the return of genuine comedy

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Erik Torenberg + Ben Horowitz & Sam Altman 08 Oct 2025 • EN

Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire

Sam Altman has led OpenAI from its founding as a research nonprofit in 2015 to becoming the most valuable startup in the world ten years later. In this episode, a16z Cofounder Ben Horowitz and General Partner Erik Torenberg sit down with Sam to discuss the core thesis behind OpenAI’s disparate bets, why they released S

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Erik Torenberg & Mark Cuban 09 Sep 2025 • EN

Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics

What happens when AI collides with salesmanship, streaming-era sports, and healthcare? In this episode, Erik Torenberg is joined by Mark Cuban, entrepreneur, Dallas Mavericks co-owner, and founder of Cost Plus Drugs. Topics include fiery group chats and how dissent sharpens thinking, the sales playbook of modern politi

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Erik Torenberg & Steven Sinofsky + Balaji Srinivasan 11 Aug 2025 • EN

Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of AI, Tech, & the Global World Order

There’s been a wave of M&A deals lately - Meta and Scale, Windsurf and Google - and a lot of it points to something bigger: how regulation, capital, and innovation are colliding in 2025. In this episode Erik Torenberg brings together Steven Sinofsky, former Microsoft Executive and Balaji Srinivasan, founder of the Netw

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Erik Torenberg & Balaji Srinivasan 01 Aug 2025 • EN

Balaji on How Tech Truly Wins Media

What really caused the breakdown between tech and media—and what comes next? Erik Torenberg sits down with Balaji Srinivasan (entrepreneur, investor, and author of The Network State) to explore the long-building conflict between Silicon Valley and legacy journalism. Balaji explains how the collapse of traditional media

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Martin Casado + Erik Torenberg & Balaji Srinivasan 28 Jul 2025 • EN

Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money

a16z General Partners Erik Torenberg and Martin Casado sit down with technologist and investor Balaji Srinivasan to explore how the metaphors we use to describe AI—whether as god, swarm, tool, or oracle—reveal as much about us as they do about the technology itself. Balaji, best known for his work in crypto and network

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