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The Chip That Could Unlock AGI.
- ▶ 24:35 Naveen Rao I mean, if you think about humanity out of Africa, all that, you know, the crazy people went out.
The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 1:02:49 Balaji Srinivasan Because all the aid is used for these warlords in Africa, right?
The U.S. Can’t Build AI Without These Materials
- ▶ 15:39 unnamed speaker But the, there's a lot more kind of people activity, um, when you go to operations that are in Indonesia or in Africa.
- ▶ 26:46 unnamed speaker Either it's really far north, um, in like the Arctic Circle or the Yukon, um, or it is, uh, or it's overseas in Africa and you're doing exploration, or it's in Southeast Asia or in, or in South America.
- ▶ 53:52 Ryan McEntush I mean, I would love to think we can mine and refine everything in the United States, but, but obviously there, there's a lot, Australia, Canada, Latin America, curious sort of what Africa, under, underwater, uh, seafloor, like what, what…
Crypto Experts Explain Stablecoins & the Future Financial System w/ Ali Yahya & Arianna Simpson
- ▶ 7:23 Arianna Simpson Um, you know, there's a company in our current accelerator batch called Zarpay, which is, um, operating in Pakistan, and they're, um, basically creating a network of small, um, you know the little shops if you've been to Africa or, or…
The Software Crisis Behind America's Infrastructure
- ▶ 6:18 Leo Kosinski Africa Command out of Stuttgart, Germany, and that was also during the pandemic, but just working with Department of Defense logistics and infrastructure, trying to move around Africa, just the size and scope, and then you add on the…
Powering the Next Big Things
- ▶ 18:33 Doug Burgum There's child labor abuses in Africa.
Can the Military Move at Startup Speed? How the Army and Navy Are Rebuilding
- ▶ 34:06 Alex Miller We're in Africa.
AI, Robotics & the New Global Arms Race
- ▶ 29:54 Marc Andreessen Um, if you go to, to Ben's point, if you go to a Chinese, modern Chinese doc or like a Chinese built doc in Africa,
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 1:41:57 Ben Horowitz By the way, this is true in Africa as well. 2 times in the scene
What is the Future of Hollywood?
- ▶ 2:03:43 Ben Horowitz Many of the biggest artists are coming out of Mexico, South America, um, Africa, uh, Korea, um, like, in, in forests.
Global Investing in Tech: Pattern Recognition, Founder Traits, Momentum | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 2:06 Chris Schroeder So I spent a lot of time and have invested in, of course, the Middle East, uh, Southeast Asia, Latin America, a little bit in Africa.
- ▶ 3:51 Chris Schroeder But one of the things that you see in emerging markets, and I see this in Africa in particularly is trust is the most important thing to be able to light up people who are the trusted community leaders.
- ▶ 11:55 Chris Schroeder I saw companies from Africa, from the Middle East and Southeast Asia that started, you know, day one going to London and started going to
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 5:18 Balaji Srinivasan You know, if you think about a map of Africa, or actually even in the US, you have these straight lines, you know, on a map.
- ▶ 2:42:05 Balaji Srinivasan Clean lines on a map in Africa, you know, have put people who don't speak the same language, don't share the same culture together, and has led to a lot of the African civil wars, is these artificial nations that didn't reflect actual… 2 times in the scene
The Risk, Fear, and Preparation Behind Free Solo
- ▶ 26:41 Alex Honnold In a roundabout way, because, ah, you know, through climate expeditions, through travel, just through my experience in the outdoors, I basically started to care more about the environment, want to do something useful to protect the… 2 times in the scene
The Career Changing Magic of Strategic Compartmentalization
- ▶ 3:21 Susan Rice Um, I'd been in the job about a year, and 1998, none of you will recall, but I'll remind you was the year when, not only on the African continent,
- ▶ 35:20 Susan Rice Um, so now a few, maybe a year later, he's UN ambassador, he's established in the job, and he decides in the month that the United States is chairing the Security Council that he's gonna make it the month of Africa. 3 times in the scene
Making Culture, Making Influence -- Dapper Dan in Silicon Valley
- ▶ 6:30 Dapper Dan On the coast of Africa and just follow them across the ocean.
- ▶ 18:38 Dapper Dan Either I take that, or I can go to Africa and study in Africa with 40 Acres of the Mule. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:31 Ben Horowitz Now, when you were in Africa, the, for the fight in Zaire, which was later. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:34 Dapper Dan What I learned from, in 1968, when I came back from Africa, I started reading a lot of books on metaphysics and religion, because I wanted to know what happened, because I was in the Panther Party, the Nation of Islam, but I kept, I never…
- ▶ 41:03 Dapper Dan Now when I left, when I was on that trip in Africa, I had went down to, when I was in Monrovia, Liberia, I went down to buy me some artifacts, and when I was buying these artifacts, right, the guy liked the way I dressed and all, because I… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:43 Dapper Dan You know, I'm calling, call it Africa. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:57 Ben Horowitz Um, but you kind of took a lesson from what you learned in Africa when you visited Kenya. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Scientific Revolution of Ancient DNA
- ▶ 1:54 David Reich The best guess is about a 160,000 years ago, and it's almost certainly that that person lived somewhere in Africa.
- ▶ 14:39 David Reich Another thing that we can see is that the late Neanderthals, the ones that modern humans encountered sometime after 50,000 years ago when modern humans spread from Africa, the late Neanderthals really descend from another population crash,…
- ▶ 20:04 David Reich Dravidian languages spoken in the southern part of India, or Bantu languages in Africa today.
- ▶ 23:32 David Reich Have most ancestry to enslaved Africans who are brought forcibly to the Americas from Africa by Europeans in the 1617, 18th, and 19th centuries.
a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
- ▶ 54:15 Sonal Chokshi Because there is Africa, you know, another great example, Cambodia.
a16z Podcast | Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps
- ▶ 10:33 Dr. Nicole Forsgren We have a small sample in Africa.
a16z Podcast | Improv'ing Leadership
- ▶ 0:44 Dick Costolo I went to Cuba, I went to Africa, sort of all over the place.
a16z Podcast | Fintech for the People
- ▶ 4:14 Matt Flannery And so I ended up traveling all over Africa and getting really interested in entrepreneurship there and volunteering at various NGOs, making videos of borrowers who were 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Market Shifts
- ▶ 18:49 Adina Friedman But this little tech business was in Asia, was in the Middle East, was in Africa.
a16z Podcast | Making a (Really) Wild Geo-Engineering Idea Real
- ▶ 7:14 Ross Anderson Well, one interesting question around there that I didn't get to in the early 14,000 word draft, uh, there was more on this, but, uh, is that it's always a mystery in why Africa has kept a lot of its megafauna. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Cars and Cities, the Autonomy Edition
- ▶ 9:02 Sonal Chokshi Where Lindsay Lohan, who'd grown up in Africa, sees this scene of all these teenagers gathering in a mall, and they're all waiting around a fountain, and she has a vision of them going to, like, the watering hole.
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.
a16z Podcast | Produce or Perish! (What We Eat)
- ▶ 12:44 Sonal Chokshi We, you know, did a podcast recently on drones in Africa, and it is about how certain technologies can help you leapfrog the lack of infrastructure and essentially create this gonzo infrastructure, essentially.
a16z Podcast | Drones for Delivery in Healthcare
- ▶ 0:09 unnamed speaker And in this episode, we're featuring drones for healthcare delivery in Africa and beyond.
- ▶ 1:40 Chris Dixon And do you, and you have, uh, operations all over the world, including in Africa? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:02 Chris Dixon People talk about how in Africa they, you know, they sort of leapfrog the era of landline phones and went directly to mobile phones.
- ▶ 4:32 John Mena When you look at Africa, you look at humanitarian needs, we work with a lot of the major NGOs around the world, helping them solve logistics challenges. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:17 Keller Rinaudo This paradigm that if you're operating in Africa, you're doing charity or you're doing philanthropy is totally going to change.
a16z Podcast | Mastering the Game (with David Oyelowo)
- ▶ 1:24 Ben Horowitz Great, and you, one of the things you were saying to me earlier was that, um, there's a lot of movies about Africa, filmed in Africa, but they don't show a part of Africa that you really wanted to show, and can you tell us about that? 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Art of the Regulatory Hack
- ▶ 3:31 Evan Burfield And deliver that content to entrepreneurs in Africa.
- ▶ 7:52 Evan Burfield They're going to freehold farmers in Africa. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:14 Evan Burfield No, that's, that's, that's, that's only when growth hacking in Africa.
a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
- ▶ 11:20 Parag Khanna It's Africa.
a16z Podcast | When Banking Works Like My Smartphone
- ▶ 19:22 Tavit Henrikos So what happens in China or India or Africa, I think could actually be, you know, even, even more change, you know,
a16z Podcast | Things Come Together -- Truths about Tech in Africa
- ▶ 0:04 Sonal Chokshi Welcome to the A, Six, and Z podcast, and today, this podcast is all about technology and Africa. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:53 Sonal Chokshi I'm de-homogenizing what people mean when they say Africa, because Africa is clearly a huge continent, but we have a tendency to refer to Africa as like one big place. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:49 Sonal Chokshi Because, you know, based on what a lot of the reports that I read about technology in Africa, a big focus is talking about mobile as a sort of this great, I don't want to say the word equalizer, but at the same time, like it does have that… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:15 Sonal Chokshi In Africa would be about nine hundred and thirty million by 2019, which is just three years away. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:06 unnamed speaker It's a big continent, and there's definitely a lot of poverty, but in saying that, there's a growing middle class, and, you know, you can't solve Africa's problem or the world's problem in one, you know, in one, in one fell sweep, so is… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:56 Alan Knott Craig You know, if you're living in, in, in South Africa or Nigeria or Kenya or Zimbabwe or any, any part of Africa, actually any part of the world come to think of it. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:13 Alan Knott Craig But there's lots of things that in Silicon Valley, you know, people, some, some, some guys sitting in a cappuccino, having his cappuccino in San Francisco is just not going to think about, you know, if you've got a problem that's unique to… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:37 Nanjira Sambuli Or is it just for Africa in the developing world? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Blockchain vs/and Bitcoin
- ▶ 20:35 Adam Ludwin So companies like ChangeTip and BitPesa, ChangeTip is for tipping with Bitcoin on Twitter, BitPesa is for sending Bitcoin to Africa,
a16z Podcast | Advertising vs. Micropayments in the Age of Ad Blockers
- ▶ 23:41 Benedict Evans But, you know, a lot of those are farmers in rural Africa.
a16z Podcast | Connecting People with Digital Work, the Gig Economy, and More
- ▶ 18:45 Laila Janah She's, she's traveled throughout rural Africa, and so she's a pretty gritty kind of entrepreneurial person, but she saw someone pooping and peeing on our doorstep in the Mission District yesterday.
a16z Podcast | Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker
- ▶ 17:51 Marc Andreessen Um, and all throughout, you know, Africa and Southeast Asia and Latin America and all these places, there's this amazing adoption
a16z Podcast | A Copernican Update ... In Tech, the Smartphone is the Center
- ▶ 11:42 Benedict Evans So we are now long past the point that you could argue about, you know, is an impoverished farmer in rural Africa going to have a mobile, Africa going to have a mobile phone?
a16z Podcast | When Bio Meets Computer Science
- ▶ 39:16 Vijay Pande In, in Africa, but a lot of scare here too.
a16z Podcast | Software and Overcoming the Randomness of Birthplace
- ▶ 11:37 Sten Tamkivi Or there is an example of, uh, of, uh, specific kinds of mobile payment related things that can only happen in Africa.
a16z Podcast | Building a Better Board
- ▶ 5:42 Geri Elliott I think there was like a company in Africa or something that wasn't at the time that I could have done.
a16z Podcast | Technology and the Opening of Myanmar
- ▶ 21:05 Ethan Zuckerman Uh, and the folks behind iHub have been asked to go out and sort of expand the idea across the African continent
- ▶ 26:55 Ethan Zuckerman And so, you know, for those of us who've been following this for a while, Africa was a great introduction to what a mobile phone-only world would look like, um, because we had so many countries in which there were no landlines, and we… 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun
- ▶ 3:46 Benedict Evans There's quite a lot more SIM cards, um, but lots of people have multiple SIMs, especially if you go to markets like India or Africa, um, for coverage and for also to get on network pricing deals and so on.
Debating Crypto: Katie Haun vs. Paul Krugman
- ▶ 13:15 Katie Haun Um, happened with landlines in places like Africa or other rural areas in the world, and I think you are seeing, ah, that a bit.
The Next 3 Billion in Financial Services
- ▶ 9:05 Angela Strange What they've done is that there's a team that took a technique that they discovered in Africa. 2 times in the scene
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2014
- ▶ 1:55 Benedict Evans That's more than have improved water, more than have electricity, and already 40% of people in Africa have cellular phones,