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Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 56:48 unnamed speaker So you were talking earlier about how, when, you know, um, the technology got, got so good in mobile that there was a wave of these companies, you know, Uber, WhatsApp, Snap, you know, Airbnb, et cetera, that emerged in quick succession.
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 35:41 Benedict Evans But again, we're in 1997 and I'm trying to predict Uber and Airbnb and
The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- ▶ 45:02 Alex Rampell That's why the incumbents didn't, you know, that's why, you know, why didn't Booking.com build Airbnb?
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 32:48 Benedict Evans But the other side of it is, you're in that dialog box, or you're in that screen in that workflow in Workday, or Salesforce, or whatever the enterprise software is, whatever any software, or, or, or the airline website, or, or Airbnb, or…
Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)
- ▶ 46:10 Erik Torenberg Some argue that, you know, mobile was, was ultimately sustaining in that although there were, you know, net new companies and use cases that were, you know, a hundred billion dollars like Uber and Airbnb, et cetera, that, uh, you know, the…
Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
- ▶ 9:30 Vlad Tenev Versus Airbnb, which sounds like this light, airy, like they'll probably have a much easier time.
Rocket Companies CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis
- ▶ 15:47 Alex Rampell And a lot of these innovations that have popped up, like what is Airbnb?
Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
- ▶ 5:30 Eugenia Kuyda Maybe you're going to New York next week, and there's, you're into art, so it made an art show finder app for you, uh, which is gonna help you find art shows around the Airbnb you're staying at.
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 27:45 Anish Acharya The most interesting part of both Airbnb and Uber where there were these dramatic changes in human behavior.
How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 3:56 Augusto Marietti And Airbnb guys as well.
- ▶ 6:49 Augusto Marietti So we live it in an Airbnb somewhere else at like a hundred bucks and all in the same mattress. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:23 Augusto Marietti So the idea of the marketplace that when I was staying with Airbnb founders, I learned that the marketplace are, could be the biggest, more powerful business in the world. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:43 Martin Casado I remember, didn't like somebody stay in like your Airbnb and like loved Kong and like, and then you forwarded that to me.
Reid Hoffman on AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Labor
- ▶ 0:30 Erik Torenberg So, Reed, you're one of the most successful web two investors of that era, you know, Facebook, LinkedIn, obviously, which you co-created, Airbnb, many, many others, and you had several frameworks to help you do that, one of which was the…
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 31:25 Keith Rabois An extreme example of this that clarifies my point, I think is what happened to Airbnb COVID the first month. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:19 Keith Rabois Airbnb, I'm pretty sure Brian, Nate, and Joe did not have any hospitality experience.
Software is Eating Labor
- ▶ 15:41 Alex Rampell So, um, if you know the story of Airbnb, uh, Airbnb famously started by somewhat scraping Craigslist. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:18 Alex Rampell Why isn't there an Airbnb for bicycles? 2 times in the scene
Is Non-Consensus Investing Overrated?
- ▶ 3:55 Martin Casado And so then everybody picks apart the, the, uh, consensus, but, but here's my reaction to the list of like the Airbnbs and this and that, which is, I think we need to be very careful not to conflate a company having a hard round with…
- ▶ 19:37 Leo Polovets And if you look at like the Airbnb, you know, Uber, like 2000 tennis era, it's kind of the opposite, right?
AI Content and the War for Your Attention
- ▶ 35:38 Antonio García Martínez So book me an Airbnb, book me a flight and make it not cost more than.
The Future of Software Development - Vibe Coding, Prompt Engineering & AI Assistants
- ▶ 16:15 Martin Casado And then, um, you know, and it, by the way, meanwhile, of course, we saw consumer being disrupted by mobile, right, with the rise of, like, the Ubers and the Lyfts, you know, the Airbnbs.
Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
- ▶ 15:13 Marc Andreessen You know, 2010, 22,009, 20 10 was kind of the pivot we now know, which was, you know, the rise of Uber and Lyft, the rise of Airbnb, the rise of Tesla, the rise of SpaceX.
Hey Tech, Come to Healthcare
- ▶ 2:55 Daisy Wolf Um, you know, if you look at Airbnb or Lyft or even companies that have been built in unregulated markets like Google and Facebook eventually become regulated.
How Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What’s Coming Next
- ▶ 58:09 Marc Andreessen Um, and probably the first two of those, you know, that really, you know, kind of made this clear for me were, you know, Uber and Airbnb, right? 3 times in the scene
Why AI Voice Feels More Human Than Ever
- ▶ 15:18 Steph Smith It's kind of like, you know, the Uber, Airbnb, you know, I'm not gonna, no one's gonna wanna stay in a stranger's house, you know, drive in a stranger's car, and then what do you know?
Vibe Coding is Here - How AI is Changing How We Build Online
- ▶ 0:07 unnamed speaker Like now for payments, you don't want to the coding agent to, you know, build Stripe from scratch, because I know there's a lot of people building Stripe clones, Airbnb clones, but in reality, you would just ask the coding agent to…
- ▶ 7:40 unnamed speaker Because I know there's a lot of people building Stripe clones, Airbnb clones, but in reality, you would just ask the building, the coding agent to actually add Stripe as a component or add Clerk as a component for Authenticate.
Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto
- ▶ 3:12 Chris Dixon And so you, as a startup, can submit a job that, you know, goes beyond the compute you control, and it goes out to a network, kind of Airbnb style, of people that have access compute, and it, the network, um, manages that supply and demand.
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 30:49 Marc Andreessen And by the way, even mobile, like there were some new mobile companies like Uber and Lyft and Airbnb.
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 1:12:54 Chris Dixon Like what if instead kind of Airbnb style, you harness all the latent GPU power in the world by creating a network where people have incentives to provide GPU supply and someone else can access them on demand.
The Declining State of Higher Education
- ▶ 56:37 Ben Horowitz Well, you know, the, the way you tell it, it reminds me of Airbnb, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:26 Marc Andreessen Um, and so adjuncts, professors, including adjunct professors, have a rating the same way that Uber drivers and Airbnb hosts have a rating.
Fireside Chat with Sean Duffy
- ▶ 3:58 Vijay Pande Well, and I made that analogy to the hotel company without hotels, Airbnb, and then there's, you know, fleets without cars and so on.
Launching a New Category with Modern Treasury's Dimitri Dadiomov
- ▶ 2:13 Dimitri Dadiomov And so we kind of jokingly would call it ugly Airbnb because it was kind of like Airbnb, like in the user experience, but every property had water damage or had some sort of like issue with it. 2 times in the scene
Advancing AI, Approaching VC's & Crypto Scandals: Ask Us Anything!
- ▶ 10:40 Marc Andreessen Like, like, you know, his classic example here would be like something like Airbnb, for example, where it's like, you know, you have this like fundamental liquidity issue. 3 times in the scene
Competing in a Crowd of Incumbents with Mercury's Immad Akhund
- ▶ 5:09 Immad Akhund Like this is just a, you know, like Airbnb, for example, there wasn't really a thing that they were competing against.
Polarizing Talent: Navigating 2023's Landscape
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 3:51 Peter Diamandis Both of us were involved in the starting of Singularity University and started studying all of these companies and why was Uber, Airbnb, different elements of, of, of Google and Tesla.
- ▶ 8:22 Salim Ismail So you think about Airbnb, the cost of adding a room to their inventory is near zero.
- ▶ 16:17 Salim Ismail How's Uber scaling so fast or Airbnb or Ted or others?
- ▶ 24:31 Salim Ismail So this is Airbnb, leveraging other people's bedrooms, ways piggybacking on other people's GPS devices, right?
- ▶ 54:58 Salim Ismail And I think what's really powerful about today is when we were having this conversation, when we first put this model, Tesla was nowhere, uh, Uber and Airbnb were just kind of getting started, et cetera, et cetera.
Marketplace Breakout Strategies: Take Rates, Defensibility, Payments | Field Notes by Connie Chan
Marketplace Tactics: Metrics, Growth vs. Focus, Business Strategy | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 8:26 Deb Liu But if you think about it, like for example, Airbnb grew out of Craigslist, for example, local rentals, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:16 Deb Liu So some sites do it, Airbnb, for example, where you both give each other feedback, but then they reveal it at the same time.
- ▶ 17:24 Deb Liu You're unlikely to go to Airbnb if you're not traveling, right?
The Marketplace 100: A Glimpse Into the Future of Commerce
- ▶ 0:00 Steph Smith If you pick up your phone, I guarantee you'll see a bunch of marketplace companies, whether it be Airbnb, Uber, DoorDash, or Amazon.
- ▶ 3:57 Connie Chan Take Airbnb, for example, a fantastic marketplace. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:21 Steph Smith I mean, I love that you brought up Airbnb because I don't know if I'm the only one who needed a reminder that Airbnb, Uber, a lot of these super familiar companies are marketplaces and also huge companies.
- ▶ 7:41 Olivia Moore Cause you might think like, oh, Uber is already public, Airbnb is public, Lyft's public, like how much more is there to build in marketplaces?
- ▶ 13:33 Zach Cohen Uh, we saw with Uber, Black, and Airbnb plus, which they're still an open-ended marketplace.
- ▶ 22:32 Connie Chan Like Airbnb is the ultimate example of this, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:07 Connie Chan Like when you're looking at an Airbnb, maybe the video tours might get you to convert better than just the photo tours, right?
- ▶ 44:22 Olivia Moore Airbnb does this as well in that trust and safety, I think goes both ways.
The 1000x Developer with Amjad Masad
- ▶ 42:07 Amjad Masad You can now instruct the transformer to go book an Airbnb for you to go do like more complex tasks, like find the place with the best weather in this time of year and book an Airbnb for me and my family. 2 times in the scene
The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
- ▶ 37:36 Steph Smith I mean, you hear of some companies doing this, like if you work at Airbnb, you're encouraged to stay at Airbnb's and understand the product, but this is obviously a different level of that. 2 times in the scene
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 1:29:51 Balaji Srinivasan Uber and Airbnb are also regulators. 2 times in the scene
A Novel Path to Homeownership
- ▶ 2:05 Adena Hefets Same thing with Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:43 Adena Hefets I think it goes right back to what I had said earlier about Uber and Airbnb.
Any Company Can Offer Financial Services
- ▶ 4:38 Angela Strange Think of a company like Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
What's Next for the Internet?
- ▶ 39:06 Jonah Peretti If you're Gen X, Y, or Z, or anyone actually who's, who's using the internet, you're used to being able to watch any show on the streaming services, watch, um, listen to any song on Spotify, um, you know, go to any travel destination with…
Why You Should Be Optimistic About the Future
- ▶ 23:59 Kevin Kelly There was a, after Airbnb and Uber, there was a stampede of
How to Build an Open Source Business
- ▶ 23:36 Peter Levine As an example, Airbnb has open source more than 30 projects. 2 times in the scene
Decentralized Applications: What's Now, What's Next
- ▶ 12:18 Arianna Simpson So in the same way that Airbnb allowed you to share your physical space, Uber and Lyft, ah, have allowed, you know, a network of, of riders and drivers to communicate and, and collaborate with one another.
Social Networking in 2030: How Could Crypto Change Things?
- ▶ 8:21 Chris Dixon Uh, the heart, one of the hardest things to do when you're starting a network businesses, which are, you know, businesses like Uber and Lyft and Airbnb, dating sites like Tinder, social networks, chat apps.
- ▶ 12:36 Chris Dixon So finally, you know, this is not just social networking, so all of the things I've said here today, I use social networking as an example because it's, you know, the most prominent, but, you know, hospitality, services like Airbnb,…
Founding Stories: Synapse
- ▶ 42:51 Sanket Pathak Airbnb probably is going to do it.
How to Understand and Choose a Venture Investor
- ▶ 9:23 Scott Cooper You have to find a Facebook or a Google or a Twitter or an Instacart or Airbnb where you can earn 10, 20, 5000 times your money.
Everyone is an Analyst: Opportunities in Operational Analytics
Five Open Problems for the Blockchain Computer
- ▶ 15:44 unnamed speaker So I, you know, everybody talks about the, the Ethereum contract things underlying things like, hey, when you go rent an Airbnb, that lock will open because I know it's you. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:00 unnamed speaker It's not like instantly the replacement for Airbnb or Google Photos or Lyft, right?
- ▶ 42:46 unnamed speaker Uh, there's, uh, Airbnb and Lyft, and so, like, trust seems like a super powerful primitive, uh, for, for creating killer apps.
The Future of Decision-Making: 3 Startup Opportunities
a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
- ▶ 46:37 Jeff Jordan Collectibles online, weird, uh, Facebook, hot or not, you know, these things, I mean, the Airbnbs sleep on someone's couch, you know, these things don't present as monster companies.
What's Next for Education Startups in 2019 (Part II)
- ▶ 0:40 Frank Chen She's very interested in real estate and how people are finding homes, preparing their homes to be listed on Airbnb, renting homes, so on and so forth.
What's Next for Education Startups
- ▶ 19:03 D'Arcy Coolican So they've kind of restructured the business model around this kind of, you know, Airbnb-esque model, which has allowed a lot more, um, inventory to come online, a lot more Wonderschools to be opened up. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 11:44 Brian McCullough How would Uber, Airbnb, go down the list?
a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
- ▶ 29:45 Brian Armstrong And the third thing, I think, was that, you know, I joined Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Case Study of Dollar General and Surviving (Thriving!) Retail
- ▶ 8:10 Jeff Jordan I'm on the board of Airbnb and Brian Chesky strongly encourages the employees to host or be a guest on the platform because it keeps you connected to the value and philosophy and, you know, the entire thing.
a16z Podcast | The Basics of Growth 2 -- Engagement & Retention
- ▶ 14:42 Jeff Jordan OpenTable and Airbnb are both typically much more episodic.
- ▶ 29:55 Jeff Jordan Airbnb is, you know, for the average user, relatively infrequent.
a16z Podcast | Earned Secrets
- ▶ 8:38 Ben Horowitz So Airbnb, the rough idea doesn't actually sound that good, right?
a16z Podcast | Containing the Monolith -- From Microservices to DevOps
- ▶ 9:38 Florian Leibert So I used to work at Airbnb and at Airbnb search was actually really difficult. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How Technology Is Changing Investing
- ▶ 4:02 Angela Strange As the basis of all marketplaces, if you think of something like Airbnb, what does their platform actually do?
a16z Podcast | Trends in Cryptocurrencies
- ▶ 3:06 Chris Dixon Filecoin's similar, sort of analogous to Airbnb versus hotels or something, right? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Platforming the Future
- ▶ 0:50 Tim O'Reilly I spend a lot of time on Uber and Lyft and on Airbnb, kind of talking about how they have to make both parts of the market come together.
a16z Podcast | Getting Applications Into People's Hands
- ▶ 9:20 Chris Dixon Airbnb for hard drive space. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Adjusting to Trade... and Innovation
- ▶ 37:25 Russ Roberts I don't think the political power of the taxi cab industry is going to stop it, just like I don't think the hotels can stop Airbnb.
a16z Podcast | Competing Against Luck
- ▶ 3:04 Clayton Christensen But then Airbnb came along. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Engineering Intent
- ▶ 0:04 Sonal Chokshi Today's episode is about the tech that comes into our lives in unexpected ways, but more specifically, we talk about the engineering that's hidden behind and that drives consumer products that people use every day, like Airbnb, which… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18 Mike Curtis Airbnb built really early on this review system, right?
- ▶ 5:28 Mike Curtis And it's, it's, you know, it's actually kind of analogous to like the, the challenge that we have to solve on Airbnb, because you think.
- ▶ 8:29 Sonal Chokshi With both, you can have people who are pinning things because they want to have their dream house one day, or this is a type of Airbnb you're staying in because you can't afford to live in a beautiful industrial loft, but
a16z Podcast | Companies, Networks, Crowds
- ▶ 10:18 Frank Chen In other words, we're in Lyft and Airbnb precisely because once you have all the hosts, you're going to get all of the renters, right?
a16z Podcast | QR. AR. VR.
- ▶ 20:39 Kyle Russell I'm actually curious to see kind of evolution and combination of that kind of experience with things like Airbnb of, you know, you're planning, you're, 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Build Your Personal Brand
- ▶ 31:04 Alex Constantinople To Airbnb and microbiome company, right?
a16z Podcast | Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis
- ▶ 28:35 Sonal Chokshi When you think about technology as building tools, at the end of the day, our job is to build solutions, and it doesn't mean that it replaces structural things that need to happen as well, but it comes from LinkedIn's program matching, you…
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