Argentina, every mention
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every year anyone Ben Horowitz 5Marc Andreessen 3Michael Copeland 2Jared Ryle 2Brian Armstrong 2Alex Rampell 2Sondre Rasch 1Katie Haun 1Chris Schroeder 1Chris Dixon 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Argentina comes up
How AI Will Transform Fintech In 2026
- ▶ 15:03 unnamed speaker I mean, new bank, you know, a hundred billion dollar, you know, you know, company, you know, in Brazil, you know, my good friend, Pierre Paulo, who runs Walla in Argentina, you know, Colombia, Mexico, um,
Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- ▶ 23:30 Ben Horowitz You know, in, in those worlds, um, the talent gets kind of nuked, and, you know, it's, it's funny, because we spent some time with, um, Malay Yu in particular, but, you know, I just saw him at this conference, uh, in Argentina, the story… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:18 Ben Horowitz Presto chango, we're Argentina. 2 times in the scene
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 1:39:19 Marc Andreessen Uh, for example, could Britain, Argentina, or Japan be ideal targets for our message and mission?
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 1:06:54 Chris Dixon Like Argentina, something like last number I saw was 18% of Argentinians have owned a stable coin.
The Declining State of Higher Education
- ▶ 48:12 Ben Horowitz Yeah, although as, uh, what, what did, um, the Argentinian president Javier Malay say if, uh, you know, if, um,
Global Investing in Tech: Pattern Recognition, Founder Traits, Momentum | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 23:42 Chris Schroeder In part, not just because the regulations are unique, but the regulators or the politicians actually don't want new bank to own the fintech lending platform in Argentina.
Pay Without Borders with Alex Bouaziz (Deel), Darren Murph (GitLab), and Sondre Rasch (Safetywing)
- ▶ 1:10:25 Sondre Rasch But you're a company from Hong Kong and your customer or contractors in Argentina, you know, it's, it's, it's not going to work.
a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
- ▶ 29:19 Brian Armstrong The second thing was that I spent a year living in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2009, and I got to see really what a country looked like that had gone through hyperinflation, and I had never seen that before living in the U.S., and I…
a16z Podcast | When Journalism Goes Global
- ▶ 4:06 Jared Ryle You know, our Argentine partners, for instance, 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Managing Uncertainty -- Layoffs and Talent
- ▶ 4:13 Alex Rampell Well, we did because what we didn't want to have is, uh, I remember somebody at my company was from Argentina and he said he didn't want to be like the desaparecidos of like Argentina. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
- ▶ 39:09 Michael Copeland But, like, it makes me think of Argentina, where, like, all of a sudden, you know, my life savings is sort of frozen in my bank account, and the peso's been devalued. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker
- ▶ 18:03 Marc Andreessen Um, if you live in Argentina or Venezuela, um, you don't have the same view that you trust your local currency the way that we trust the dollar, right?
a16z Podcast | Which Bitcoin Players Matter?
- ▶ 0:18 unnamed speaker So I just wanted to kick off with an article you wrote in the New York Times recently about what you describe as an experiment with Bitcoin happening, playing out in Argentina, um, where people are trading pesos for Bitcoin and vice versa… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:51 unnamed speaker So, um, Nathaniel, speaking of Argentina, though, there are plenty of places in the world that have hyperinflation. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:13 unnamed speaker Well, interestingly enough, Wences Cazares, who you talk about in the book and in the article, um, is from Argentina, and I know that inspired his interest in Bitcoin, but he wrote an interesting post recently on LinkedIn about why Greece… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:07 unnamed speaker Um, in that vein, one interesting theme that comes up in the Argentina story that you tell, too, is this tension between decentralized and centralized players, and how a lot of people don't trust centralized players like banks.
- ▶ 12:17 unnamed speaker I mean, the, one of the analogies, anecdotes that really stuck out in your article in the New York Times recently was about, um, an artist who, if he had used, if he had, someone had sent him euros to Argentina, he would have lost 30% of… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:23 unnamed speaker Do you think, though, the situation in Argentina is a stopgap, or do you, was your sense from, you know, your observations there that it's actually going to be, people are converted, and they're going to continue doing this, especially as… 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What Makes the Valley Work
- ▶ 17:26 Marc Andreessen And so we've never been in a world in which if you're a, you know, I always think of, I grew up in rural Wisconsin, and I always think about the fourteen-year-old in rural Wisconsin, or in rural Indonesia, or in rural Argentina, or rural…
Company Building in Crypto: A Conversation between Brian Armstrong and Chris Dixon
- ▶ 1:14 Brian Armstrong And I moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, because I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life, and, um, that was a country that had gone through hyperinflation, right?
Crypto, Beyond Silk Road
- ▶ 21:33 Katie Haun It's in places like Argentina, Greece, and Turkey, and other places where there's hyperinflation.
3 Common Myths People Have About Crypto
- ▶ 13:34 Catherine (Katie) Haun Well, why don't you ask the eighty million people right now in Turkey, or the forty-four million people right now in Argentina, or the thirty-two million people in Venezuela if they think their money and banks are working just fine.