Afghanistan, every mention
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Emil Michael: The Department of War Is Moving Faster Than Silicon Valley on AI | The a16z Show
- ▶ 2:12 Emil Michael So I get to spend time in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan.
- ▶ 18:57 David Ulevitch Uh, you know, the men and women who defend our country to have the best technique, technologies, and capabilities, and, ah, I always, whenever, whenever someone asks me these questions, I always remind them, look, like, Project Maven was…
Palantir CEO on Iran, AI Weapons and American Domination | a16z American Dynamism Summit
Can the Military Move at Startup Speed? How the Army and Navy Are Rebuilding
- ▶ 19:11 Alex Miller And, and in 30 days, I had kit in Afghanistan that was working for me, which told me it was legal, it was moral, it was ethical, we could do it, but we never actually went back and fixed
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 1:23:59 Ben Horowitz They need to preserve some of their history in order to not have a revolution or extreme violence and so forth, and yeah, we're seeing Al-Qaeda re-spark up in Afghanistan and all these kinds of things, uh, which are, by the way, Al-Qaeda's…
From Silicon Valley to the Pentagon: The Future of Defense Innovation
- ▶ 36:06 Brandon Tseng Because, you know, I'll give an analogy when I was a CEO in Afghanistan, right?
- ▶ 44:44 Doug Beck I had the privilege a long time ago, uh, of serving in Iraq and Afghanistan with the Joint Special Operations Task Force as part of a, uh, part of a SEAL team.
Blockchain in War Zones
- ▶ 2:19 Alex Pruden Ah, about a year later, I find myself in the Middle East, in Afghanistan, and it was notable not only for its physical beauty, but for the abject poverty under which the people there lived. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:01 Alex Pruden And for all the brutality that I had witnessed in Afghanistan at the hands of the Taliban,
- ▶ 11:37 Alex Pruden And was reflecting on that experience as well as the experiences that I had in Iraq and Afghanistan, and thought about what were the things that we were fighting against in the global war on terror. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:58 Alex Pruden He represents the sons and daughters of my friends who never came back from Afghanistan or Iraq.
a16z Podcast | Of Governors and Mayors, and Tech Policy
- ▶ 1:19 Ted Ullyot He was an intelligence officer in the Navy, certainly deployed to Afghanistan.
a16z Podcast | Centers of Power, War, and History
- ▶ 8:02 Matthew Colford And you make a great point in the book that the administration was really fully intending on recentering Asia as a priority in their foreign policy, but that, you know, fighting two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention the rise of…
a16z Podcast | For Your Ears Only
- ▶ 1:24 Michael Morell All the way to paramilitary activities like providing arms to the freedom fighters in Afghanistan when they were, when they were fighting the Soviet Union.
- ▶ 4:20 Matt Spence Should we add 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan?
- ▶ 8:12 Michael Morell If I walked into the sit room and people knew that Michael thought that, that, that absolutely we should keep 20,000 troops in Afghanistan, then people are going to question the analysis I put on the table.
a16z Podcast | Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis
- ▶ 1:18 Tony Blinken We have refugees, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, a dozen countries in Africa, and of course, Latin America as well.
- ▶ 9:03 Tony Blinken We just right now have a situation where there are millions of Afghan refugees in Pakistan who are finding the climate in Pakistan to be less hospitable than it was who are being driven back into Afghanistan. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What's Next for Technology and National Security?
- ▶ 3:31 Matt Spence In the hundreds of hours you spent in the Situation Room, you dealt with Afghanistan, you dealt with cyber efforts, you dealt with Asia.
a16z Podcast | Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker
- ▶ 18:36 Marc Andreessen Uh, there's this great story in Afghanistan, um, there's a huge problem with, you know, Afghanistan's trying to tilt up a national police force, um, and there's this huge problem of they were, you know, paying, there's no, like, modern… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Government, Startups, & Innovation -- with U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter
- ▶ 0:51 Ash Carter It makes it impossible to use it in the valleys of, for example, Afghanistan or a big city where you're shadowed.
a16z Podcast | Security’s Wakeup Call
- ▶ 24:51 Ash Carter I fought two wars there, Iraq and Afghanistan, um,
a16z Podcast | The End of Ownership
- ▶ 24:51 Joe Gebbia They ended up getting a few 100,000 people around the world for the Stanford artificial intelligence course, and he shared an email, which I'll never forget, because this changed the way that I thought about this, about a student, a…
a16z Podcast | Government Transparency Powered by Software
- ▶ 1:10 Zach Buchman I later went to Afghanistan and served as an advisor to two United States Army generals on the transparency task force that was set up by General Petraeus at the ISAF headquarters.
Crypto, Beyond Silk Road
- ▶ 22:34 Katie Haun Roya, a few years ago, started a tech company in Afghanistan. 2 times in the scene
3 Common Myths People Have About Crypto
- ▶ 16:16 Catherine (Katie) Haun She's an Afghan woman who started, she was the entrepreneur who started a company, a tech company in Afghanistan, that employed female software engineers.
Software Secures the World
- ▶ 0:08 Martin Casado So I worked, you know, with the intelligence community on cybersecurity from Afghanistan through Iraq.