Sonal Chokshi

Editor in Chief at Andreessen Horowitz

Sonal Chokshi is Editor in Chief at Andreessen Horowitz aka "a16z", which she joined nearly 7 years ago to build the editorial operation — which many people have observed as being a "media outlet that monetizes through VC". For podcasts, this includes building, growing, hosting, and showrunning the popular and influential a16z Podcast, now a network; conceiving of and hosting the shortform news analysis show 16 Minutes; conceiving of and shepherding the launch of Journal Club (now part of Bio Eats World), including training all editors into podcasting; bringing on outside voices and a network of book publishers, publicists, and authors onto the podcast; and much more.

July 12, 2023

Wed. 07/12 – Microsoft Wins Big In The FTC Case

A big win for Microsoft leads critics of FTC chair Lina Khan to come out of the woodwork. Anthropic has released its Claude 2 chatbot. Say hello to the Nothing Phone (2). And while the market caps of the big players might ha…

Guests: Avi Loeb , Connie Chan , Peter Kafka , Chris Messina , Joshua Schachter , Brady Dale , Josh Constine , Alex Kantrowitz , Rene Ritchie , Bryan Salesky , James McLeod , Alex Wilhelm , Christopher Mims , Steven Levy , Lloyd B. Minor, MD , Sam Rutherford , Angela Strange , Dan Frommer , Will Martin , Christina Farr , Flynn Coleman , Mark Bergen , Mike Murphy , Jay Yarow , Farhad Manjoo , Steve Case , Harry McCracken , Satish Jeyachandran , Gary Marcus , John Voorhees , Julia Alexander , Charles Fishman , Charles Nix , M.G. Siegler , Rafat Ali , Garry Tan , Noah Smith , Katie Roof , Natasha Mascarenhas , Christine Hall , Ilya Rosenberg , Andrew Chen , Kayvon Beykpour , Jackson Dame , SHL0MS , Janine Yorio , Ross Mayfield , Sonal Chokshi , Kaya Yurieff , Gregarious Narain , Nigel Pickles , Reesha Howard , Tony Haile , Ed Zitron , Joseph Flaherty , Chris Fralic , Romeen Sheth , Robert Scoble , Kyle Hilliard , Rob Maurer , Ali Tamaseb , Howard Lindzon , Nick Quah , Peter Linder , Timothy B. Lee , Jacob Ward , Victor Luckerson , Taylor Lorenz , Jason Schreier , Casey Newton , Justin Brookman , Matt Stroud , Harry Campbell , Federico Viticci , Bill Gattle , Alison Griswold , Jason Rowley , Dave Bittner , Dan Keyserling , Dexter Thillien , Shira Ovide , Eric Jackson , Simon Owens , Matt Simon , Brian Heater , Aaron Lammer , Matt Stoller , Joe Fassler , Mike Davidson , Jason Del Rey , Mark Gurman , Benedict Evans , Charlie O'Donnell

June 26, 2021

(SPC CST) a16z's Future Plans And Audio Spaces With @smc90 and @kyurieff

We have two special guests this week! The first is Sonal Chokshi, Editor in Chief of a16z and showrunner of a16z podcasts. We’ll be getting her perspective on the launch of FUTURE, which we discussed last week. Second, a…

Guests: Sonal Chokshi , Kaya Yurieff