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Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply
- ▶ 27:10 Gavin Baker It's now 25 bucks in Europe and Asia or 20 bucks or whatever it is.
The State of AI: Models, Moats, and the Consumer Renaissance
- ▶ 21:01 Anish Acharya There's been a huge trend around short form drama, mostly in Asia, and that's starting to come over here.
The Opportunity for Global Founders
- ▶ 7:09 Gabriel Vasquez So we started seeing this trend happening in pretty much in every country, you know, you can extrapolate it to Europe or, or Asia, and it's pretty much the same, which is like, where are, where are the smartest people from my country?
How Whatnot's Live Shopping Beats Traditional E-Commerce
- ▶ 0:04 David George Live commerce is over a third of all commerce in Asia.
- ▶ 10:10 Grant LaFontaine Um, we had no idea, like, live shopping in Asia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:15 David George So, you know, you talked about Asia. 2 times in the scene
Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
- ▶ 29:52 Seema Amble And it's like, oh, well, normally if it's a person who's in Asia, we respond this way, but if it's a person in the U.S., we respond this other way.
- ▶ 53:13 Seema Amble I'm like, ok, this type of response is most effective in these cases, and in Asia we should be using this language,
Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
- ▶ 10:26 Marc Rowan Um, the second is we are the largest source of financing for this global industrial renaissance that is taking place across the US primarily, but across Europe and Asia and elsewhere.
Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
- ▶ 19:35 Balaji Srinivasan So, um, one way of thinking about it is AI is like the rise of Asia and India from an American perspective, right?
The Brutal Truth About Biotech: Why $2B Per Drug Is Killing Innovation
- ▶ 8:43 Elliot Hershberg And so we've just come to, uh, to accept the fact that everyone goes to Australia, um, everyone goes to Asia to do their studies because the things that we invent here, we can't actually first test here.
- ▶ 45:42 Elliot Hershberg There is low-hanging fruit when you think about, uh, the regulation that's in place for, uh, in Australia, in Asia, and, um, Carl June, who's the early developer of CAR T therapy, was asking this in a workshop recently, um, with the FDA.
ElevenLabs CEO: Why Voice is the Next AI Interface
- ▶ 8:13 Mati Staniszewski We, we knew that we need to find them across Europe, across Asia, and bring them into the company.
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 10:11 Amjad Masad So one, one really, uh, funny thing happened is we had servers in Asia, uh, and we, the reason we had servers in Asia because we wanted our Indian or, you know, Japanese users to be, to have a, you know, a shorter, uh, time to the servers.
The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
- ▶ 29:23 Steven Sinofsky And so, you know, it, it starts with t-shirts and socks, and then it gets to radios and you see this all over Asia.
- ▶ 34:12 Steven Sinofsky Because even at Apple, the number of people that really are manufacturing people, they just happen to work in Cupertino and fly to Asian locations a lot is very, very high.
The U.S. Can’t Build AI Without These Materials
- ▶ 7:39 unnamed speaker yeah, so I was working on battery cell manufacturing, um, because I was spending a lot of time in Asia, started to explore the supply chain, was building some of the early techno economic models of how cathode materials are made, how anode…
- ▶ 9:55 Ryan McEntush Something I found interesting about Tesla, especially early days working with Panasonic, that a lot of the, the know-how, the, the process knowledge came from Asia. 2 times in the scene
America's Energy Problem: We Need A New Grid
- ▶ 1:27 Ryan McEntush A big piece of that was a lot of the sort of energy generation, a lot of the manufacturing, a lot of sort of the heavy, heavy industry moved to Asia.
Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- ▶ 41:34 Erik Torenberg And so let's say Trump brings you in and says, hey, I've noticed that, uh, you know, nearly all of computing is, uh, you know, every layer of stack is, is done in China and, and, you know, Asia more broadly, um, and I'm trying to sort of…
Jensen Huang & Arthur Mensch: Why Every Nation Needs Its Own AI Strategy
- ▶ 38:25 Arthur Mensch And effectively, if, um, if there's some export control over weight, uh, this is not going to stop any country, uh, in Europe, any, any country in Asia to, to continue its progress.
A Nuclear Comeback: Are New Reactors the Answer?
- ▶ 11:56 Doug Bernauer And the typical construction timeline is really like six to 15 years on the big reactors right now, depending who makes them, even for the exact same reactor, like an AP 1000, built in the US is very slow, built in Asia is very fast.
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 1:08:41 Chris Dixon And I think, um, we're seeing some like Asia, some Japan just did some positive things.
Tony Robbins on the Future of Health & Longevity
- ▶ 1:24:38 Tony Robbins Vista partners and managers, a hundred billion dollars, Vinod Khosla, who's in your category, obviously, uh, Ramsey from Veritas, uh, Michael Kim, you know, is considered, uh, the, the, the king, basically, of Korea, of, of, you know,…
The Evolution of the Satellite Economy
- ▶ 28:00 John Gedmark So with the traditional big geo satellites, cost a billion dollars each, you know, for each and the geostationary, you know, you can divide up the world by region and over, you know, a given region that we might care about, uh, Asia, for… 2 times in the scene
AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
- ▶ 53:09 Marc Andreessen Um, and so like, you know, what if basically this Chinese vision and this Chinese approach to this Chinese communist party approach to this takes, you know, basically the rest of Asia and then takes Europe and then takes, you know, South…
Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity (Danny Postma and Sinead Bovell)
- ▶ 21:54 Danny Postma If your team is remotely and you have people in Asia, America, Europe, and you want to get the same photo style, like you cannot send a photographer all around the world to get the same cell, but everyone can upload a photo, train an AI…
Global Investing in Tech: Pattern Recognition, Founder Traits, Momentum | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 19:45 Connie Chan So, you know, similar to you, when I go to, to China or Asia, um, I try and talk to people who are very local who don't necessarily work in the tech world.
Digital Humans and the Story Behind Lil Miquela
- ▶ 4:56 Trevor McFedries And, and, you know, there were things happening in Asia.
- ▶ 32:21 Steph Smith And actually these virtual influencers, I think are biggest in Korea, um, and parts of Asia, which is interesting.
Autonomy & Defense Policy in the 21st Century
- ▶ 0:28 Jacob Helberg Europe is facing the bloodiest conflict that it's had since World War II, and Asia faces the looming threat of a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
- ▶ 6:15 Connie Chan But there is no reason that that user behavior, that customer behavior is only going to work in Asia. 3 times in the scene
Pay Without Borders with Alex Bouaziz (Deel), Darren Murph (GitLab), and Sondre Rasch (Safetywing)
- ▶ 1:09:23 Sondre Rasch I've seen, uh, hotels being remade into this, like co-work, co-living situations across Asia that's happening now at a big space.
Rearchitecting the Supply Chain with Ryan Petersen
- ▶ 2:24 Ryan Petersen And when I used to run a business importing products from Asia, motorcycles from Asia and selling them on the internet back in the early 2000, late nineties. 2 times in the scene
"Crypto Startup School" Documentary
How Gaming is Changing the Media Landscape
- ▶ 26:46 Andrew Chen Yeah, it's, it's fascinating to me also that the, um, a lot of what people are so excited about now with, you know, Fortnite's free-to-play model, and being cross-platform, et cetera, um, and, and, and kind of building these, um, pretty… 2 times in the scene
What's Next for Esports Startups
- ▶ 1:47 Bennett Carrocchio And despite North America lagging far behind Asia in audience size, esports league viewership is already about the average size of the four largest North American sports leagues.
Founding Stories: Sandbox VR
- ▶ 16:55 Andrew Chen And I know in Asia, there's a little bit, um, there's some precedent because there are a lot of kind of VR arcades. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:48 Siki Chen Um, Asia, the network wasn't as good, and people were willing to come.
The a16z Pitch Room: Sandbox VR
- ▶ 18:35 Steve Zhao It would be more difficult in Asia, but since we're basing this in the US, this definitely makes sense. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:02 Andrew Chen I think one of the things on this was that I, you know, felt like, and this is a little bit like the Asia to US thing as well, um, was that number one, we wanted to make sure that,
What's Next for Education Startups in 2019 (Part II)
- ▶ 2:40 Connie Chan And if you look at the dollars, um, abroad, I do a lot of studying what's working in China and working in Asia to give me inspiration for ideas here in the States. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:02 Frank Chen So, why do you think this is happening, uh, already in Asia? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:24 Connie Chan But in Asia, you'd pull up your phone and you'd open the Tmall or the Taobao app. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The IQ and EQ of Robots
- ▶ 24:16 Boris Soffman This idea of trying to pursue humanoid robots, which particularly is common in like Asia and Japan, it almost feels like a flawed compass because
a16z Podcast | M&A and Innovation, Inside Out
- ▶ 18:16 Stephanie Cohen We have big business in Asia and in Europe. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- ▶ 10:26 Fred Wilson Right, like Uber and Lyft and a bunch of other companies, a bunch of companies in Asia dominate that business.
a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
- ▶ 56:06 W. Brian Arthur What I'm finding, and let me broaden into Asian countries, including China, we tend to think of, as recently as 10 years ago, we would have thought of China as being 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 | Centers of Power, War, and History
- ▶ 4:36 Graham Allison No one imagines India is going to displace the U.S. as the predominant power in Asia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:57 Matthew Colford So, let's talk a little bit about, ah, the Obama administration's proposed pivot to Asia. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:18 Graham Allison They're, they're our poster child for a success story in Asia.
a16z Podcast | Making a (Really) Wild Geo-Engineering Idea Real
- ▶ 9:31 Ross Anderson Elephants were in Asia, in the temperate parts of Asia before they were up north in the Arctic.
a16z Podcast | The Cloud Atlas to Real Quantum Computing
- ▶ 11:59 Vijay Pande Uh, but the difference is that in those early days, IBM mainframes, uh, you know, a kid in Asia or, or in the Midwest would not, people have access to one. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | QR. AR. VR.
- ▶ 3:10 Connie Chan Well, QR codes have been around in Asia for a long time, not just in China.
a16z Podcast | From Data Warehouses to Data Lakes
- ▶ 24:32 Gaurav Dhillon Somebody else might decide to do it in Android because they might be doing it in Asia and they might have more fluency with Android.
a16z Podcast | Culture and/of Design
- ▶ 4:31 unnamed speaker If you look at a lot of the environments that people live in, in Asia, they are naturally very dense from an information standpoint period, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:44 Luke Wroblewski Is that really unique to Asia? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:49 Sonal Chokshi But when you are in a contained- Unless you're in Asia. 6 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | New Year, New Horizons -- Pluto!
- ▶ 38:23 Ivan Linscott That were over the visible horizon hoping to get out significantly, maybe to, um, as far as Asia and in both directions.
a16z Podcast | Knowledge Builds Technology and Technology Builds Knowledge -- with Joel Mokyr
- ▶ 24:37 Sonal Chokshi Even beyond the Western knowledge sphere, there's so many wonderful examples coming out of Asia, in China, India, as well, where there's a lot of ancient, like, work in that area.
a16z Podcast | Drones for Delivery in Healthcare
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.
- ▶ 13:08 Matt Spence Michelle, you recently described the rise of an increasingly powerful, capable, and confident China that appears bent on becoming a dominant power in Asia. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:22 unnamed speaker One of the things you mentioned was that in Asia, we have good reputation versus some other parts of the world.
a16z Podcast | Stickers! Filters! Memes! Livestreams!
- ▶ 0:53 Connie Chan There are graphics that don't denote just an emotion, but oftentimes an action or a phrase, and what I find in Asia is that you can have a long conversation where it's just people sending stickers back and forth.
- ▶ 12:02 Connie Chan So, so even on that point, the sticker phenomenon in Asia is not just being used among friends.
- ▶ 17:12 Connie Chan So there were, there were photo booths, and they still exist in Japan right now, where you would go in and take your photo for a couple minutes, you would run outside right away, because you have a short couple of minutes where you can…
- ▶ 24:11 Sonal Chokshi My dad, also Asian, there's a sort of conservatism between fathers and daughters and how you express yourself. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:52 Christina Xu There's, like, live streaming apps where you can stream concerts of, like, Korean boy bands, which are huge in China and all over Asia.
- ▶ 39:01 Connie Chan So what, what is common all over Asia? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Not If, But How -- When Technology is Inevitable (with Kevin Kelly)
- ▶ 34:29 Kevin Kelly and I tell my kids the story because I went to Asia instead of going to college and I had a backpack with 500 rolls of film and 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
- ▶ 4:33 Penny Pritzker It's just extraordinary what's going on in places like Ghana and Kenya and, uh, throughout Asia.
a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
- ▶ 11:51 Connie Chan It's not like Asia, where there's really two players that dominate, right? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Art of the Regulatory Hack
- ▶ 1:26 Evan Burfield parts of Asia are tend to be much more about sort of a physical space.
a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
- ▶ 28:35 Parag Khanna We used to believe that countries would relax all sorts of regulations in order to attract investment of any kind, and that was the kind of 19 seventies and 19 eighties of Asia.
a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond
- ▶ 37:03 Connie Chan I guess what I'm saying though is one, um, if that's the definition of conversational commerce, that is not new because it's existed in Asia for many, many years.
- ▶ 37:30 Connie Chan Because in WeChat, QR codes are, not WeChat, sorry, in Asia, QR codes are much more prevalent.
a16z Podcast | Mobile Falls Hard for Virtual Reality
- ▶ 19:11 Benedict Evans Um, certainly you can start seeing that happen for some of these companies, like, you know, Condor is doing half of the work in, they say, doing half the work in Asia, you know, we'll see.
a16z Podcast | Nobody Discusses Work Software Outside of Work -- and Then There’s Slack
- ▶ 14:15 Stuart Butterfield Um, the US and Canada put together are 47% of our daily active users, roughly 30% in Europe, 20% in Asia.
a16z Podcast | Telepresence and Tech for a Distributed Workforce
- ▶ 5:55 Shan Sinha I can work with the best manufacturer in Asia to go pull together our entire service.
a16z Podcast | The Tiger and the Dragon -- On Tech and Startups in India and China
- ▶ 0:52 Connie Chan At least from what I've heard in the venture capital community in Asia,
a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
- ▶ 10:03 Michael Copeland Do you go to Asia? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | When Bio Meets Computer Science
- ▶ 39:21 Vijay Pande Uh, dengue fever is something that kills a 100,000 people a year in Asia.
a16z Podcast | Software and Overcoming the Randomness of Birthplace
- ▶ 13:01 Sten Tamkivi A massive opportunity for somebody, uh, would it be in Asia or would it be in certain parts of Europe to say that, okay, a government comes in and says that, hey, here's 10 square kilometers of land, and here's the regulatory environment,…
- ▶ 32:59 Sten Tamkivi And then, like, you can turn to Asia and you look at, there are twenty million people a year moving to cities in China alone.
a16z Podcast | Messaging is the Medium
- ▶ 25:02 Michael Copeland So whether it's coming from, you know, Asia and, uh, uh, WeChat and others will, will keep you here and keep us up to date.
a16z Podcast | Building a Better Board
- ▶ 14:21 Geri Elliott We, we were both in Asia. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The End of Ownership
- ▶ 19:57 Joe Gebbia You know, um, when I travel, um, it turns out there's actually thousands of companies regionally around the world, whether it's in Europe, South America, or Asia, that have taken the basic premise of the sharing economy and said, like,…
a16z Podcast | Apple Takes on Payments and Your Wrist
- ▶ 4:01 Zal Bilimoria What I found interesting, actually, is that, you know, the, you know, Apple's, you know, foray into China was supposedly the five C, and that really didn't go anywhere, and the six plus with fablet seems to be the right way to potentially… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | China and Tech
- ▶ 7:06 Connie Chan Um, and I know stickers aren't necessarily as successful out here than they are in, in a lot of the Asian countries, but it is one way that they're monetizing users here. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:19 Connie Chan Um, they are very active out here, but it's also coming, now I see, from China VCs, and actually even sovereign wealth funds around Asia.
- ▶ 15:19 Connie Chan Um, well, I think there are a couple areas that China's really innovating on, um, and I do think some of the newest, coolest features will come out of Asia, uh, particularly around logistics. 2 times in the scene
Nature as Technology
- ▶ 10:21 unnamed speaker To the Asian market for the first time.
An Intro to Crypto: Decentralization, the Big Picture
- ▶ 7:27 Chris Dixon And it's a, you know, it's interesting that a lot of it is coming, for example, out of places like Europe and Asia,
Beyond a Zero-Sum Game: Tech Innovation and China
- ▶ 2:01 Connie Chan It's actually extremely rare for a large global company to only have investors from one country, and most of manufacturing is still happening in Asia, particularly China.
- ▶ 2:46 Connie Chan Their investors are worldwide, and we know that most of their manufacturing is done in Asia.
Rise of the Super App: Mobile-First Product Ideas from China
- ▶ 0:02 Connie Chan I spend a lot of time thinking about China and Asia, where I look for new interesting products and business models, and try and process which ones might have a chance of making it here to the States.
- ▶ 2:30 Connie Chan But in Asia, they mash it all together in one app, so that this one app can serve the user for a number of use cases, and it's even better because they're logged into everything, and their payment credentials are already stored, so they… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:09 Connie Chan But the more time you'll spend in Asia and in other developing countries, you'll see that they think about mobile first in a very different way.