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How AI Changes the Economics of Innovation
- ▶ 4:51 Steven Sinofsky I mean, if you like, I remember when I was in school, like there was some big thing that someone at AT&T invented a new, um, algorithmic, a new program for doing, um, linear algebra, like a new way to solve linear, which is super important… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:55 Steven Sinofsky You don't, you know, if you're a startup like you were, you don't have to go build a data center and build your own egress and call AT&T and do all of that stuff.
Lighthouse or Landgrab? How to Pick Your AI Sales Strategy
- ▶ 9:26 Andy McCall AT&T had a solution.
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 10:52 Benedict Evans And on the other hand, if you had flat rate data, which is kind of what happened in the US with the iPhone, the AT&T launches, AT&T singular launch the iPhone with flat rate data.
- ▶ 10:52 Benedict Evans And on the other hand, if you had flat rate data, which is kind of what happened in the US with the iPhone, the AT&T launches, AT&T singular launch the iPhone with flat rate data.
Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
- ▶ 20:12 Marc Rowan But if you think of the largest issuers of private investment grade, it's Intel, it's Air France, it's EDF, it's AT&T, it's Meta, it's BP Energy, and so on, and so on, and so on, and you're hearing lots of public companies.
Inside The $100M Bet on the Future of Space | Northwood CEO on a16z
- ▶ 34:46 Bridget Mendler Think about, like, you know, AT&T cell towers.
Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire
- ▶ 11:18 Ben Horowitz He said, it doesn't have to be smarter than a brilliant mind, just smarter than a mediocre mind like the president of AT&T.
The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
- ▶ 45:02 Steven Sinofsky Like, like, like if they were to be able to sell them here, which, you know, is a challenge, you know, those phones would all be these share leaders, and it wouldn't just be Samsung and the AT&T store, for example.
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 1:00:10 Steven Sinofsky And then AT&T did it with free minutes up to unlimited long distance calling.
Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
- ▶ 1:21:43 Marc Andreessen It was AT&T picture phone completely flopped.
- ▶ 1:21:43 Marc Andreessen It was AT&T picture phone completely flopped.
Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto
- ▶ 14:08 Chris Dixon Most prominent example is a project called Helium, and the, um, Helium is a, uh, uh, community-owned, crowd-sourced, uh, telecom network that tries to compete with Verizon and AT&T, and so basically what they did is they created an…
What DeepSeek Means For The Future Of AI | Tech Veterans Weigh In
- ▶ 0:08 Steven Sinofsky WorldCom and AT&T did not predict the internet was going to come out of universities.
- ▶ 12:38 Steven Sinofsky And, you know, even other companies, AT&T got wound up trying to monetize even lower layer.
- ▶ 26:10 Steven Sinofsky What happened was I was going to all these meetings in the nineties with all these pocket protector AT&T people who would just show up and they would yell at Bill Gates, like QoS.
- ▶ 37:22 Steven Sinofsky And, and it could have been, they could have looked at the internet and said, oh my God, this is a Sputnik moment, and then tried to turn it into what AT&T and WorldCom wanted.
- ▶ 43:18 Steven Sinofsky And, you know, nobody, no, WorldCom and AT&T did not predict the internet was going to come out of universities.
Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- ▶ 24:57 Ben Horowitz AT&T didn't own it.
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 31:07 Marc Andreessen And so the, the fear of the Defense Department was the Soviets presumably knew where the central switching offices were for like the AT&T network. 6 times in the scene
Startup Building: Major Shifts in Tech & Culture
- ▶ 5:39 Marc Andreessen Uh, the first video conferencing system, uh, I, I believe was the AT&T picture phone in 1965, uh, which was a complete failure.
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 48:14 Ben Horowitz Is it AT&T? 3 times in the scene
Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist
- ▶ 38:48 Ben Horowitz Aside from AT&T's monopoly that drove Bell Labs, I have yet to see systemic, uh, technological progress from private investment. 2 times in the scene
More Than a Game: Why Are We Obsessed With Sports?
- ▶ 12:59 unnamed speaker Because there's a lot of rituals, myths, beliefs, traditions, that if you're not thinking about that stuff, like one of my favorite, favorite, um, brand examples, AT&T was looking to grow their business with African American women. 2 times in the scene
The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
- ▶ 1:01:06 Chris Power The really short version is like Stripe doesn't get to sell to AT&T until they sell to a bunch of white combination startups.
a16z Podcast | Incenting Innovation Inside, Loonshots to Moonshots
- ▶ 37:48 Safi Bahcall So the difference, the ones who have really succeeded, let's say Vannevar Bush or Theodore Vale at AT&T, the ones who really succeeded didn't have that mindset.
a16z Podcast | From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
- ▶ 45:00 John Hennessy Bell Labs and AT&T were not the major beneficiaries of the discovery of the transistor.
a16z Podcast | Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
- ▶ 31:23 Benedict Evans Um, the question is, is this, like, iPhone hard, or is this, um, when you buy an iPhone, it activates with AT&T over, over the air.
a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
- ▶ 33:09 W. Brian Arthur They couldn't really do it, and in 1912 AT&T put out a call for inventions 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Internet of Taste, Streaming Content to Culture
- ▶ 38:22 Marc Andreessen Content companies merging with telcos, so let's say NBC Universal and Comcast, and then more recently, uh, AT&T and Time Warner.
a16z Podcast | Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'
- ▶ 29:30 Marc Andreessen AT&T, of course, now famously has bought DirecTV, which puts them in the content business directly, makes them a huge customer and increasingly direct producer of content. 6 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What's Next for Technology and National Security?
- ▶ 10:26 Marc Andreessen It's when you go to the AT&T or Verizon store and buy the new smartphone.
a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
- ▶ 0:50 James Currier The first time it was used was in 19 oh seven in a annual report by AT&T.
a16z Podcast | Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
- ▶ 34:26 Alex Rampell I have to go change my, like every, everywhere that I, my AT&T account, everywhere that I have this card number stored, I have to change it.
a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond
- ▶ 22:03 Chris Messina If Facebook is actually able to provide a way for smaller merchants in smaller environments, local towns and places like that to actually help their customers get in touch with them, not by using the phone, not by going through AT&T, not…
a16z Podcast | Mobile Falls Hard for Virtual Reality
- ▶ 20:21 Benedict Evans Um, well, what's happened is that the value kind of moves up the stack with each generation, and so it went from being the, um, network operators who designed and built, I mean, back in the eighties, the network operators designed and…
a16z Podcast | Infrastructure... Is Everything
- ▶ 16:05 Martin Casado Um, we had AT&T, NTT, eBay, Rackspace, and Fidelity.
a16z Podcast | Advertising vs. Micropayments in the Age of Ad Blockers
- ▶ 5:52 Benedict Evans If we'd had the information superhighway instead of the internet, and it had been, and it had been built by, you know, AT&T, and people like that, and it was like a system that happened on your TV, then yes, you'd have micropayments, but,…
a16z Podcast | The Best Way To Be Smart ... Is To Not Be Stupid
- ▶ 25:02 Tren Griffin It's not really a law, but the, the, the network effects kicked in as a result of the AT&T card to phone decision.
a16z Podcast | A Copernican Update ... In Tech, the Smartphone is the Center
- ▶ 8:40 Benedict Evans And the very phrase sort of the internet superhighway kind of presupposes that it's about AT&T and Comcast and Microsoft and they sort of build it all.
a16z Podcast | Innovation and Regulation -- What Happens When Policy Lags Behind Technology?
- ▶ 5:30 Fred Upton I mean, you talk to the, the big companies, the AT&T's, the Verizon's, you talk to, you know, obviously the Googles
a16z Podcast | Location, Location, Location -- and Mobile
- ▶ 5:36 Benedict Evans And that completely turned, of course, that completely screwed up AT&T's network for about two years, and it completely transformed what kind of experience you would build.
a16z Podcast | Dealing with Corporate Dealmakers -- When to Talk to Corp Dev
- ▶ 13:38 Jamie McGurk You know, AT&T or Sprint or anyone else.
a16z Podcast | Making Security More Useable
- ▶ 11:52 Vijay Balasubramaniyan You bark into your smart TV, say, I want to pay my AT&T bill. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Valuing Today's Fast-Growing Software Companies
- ▶ 22:00 Scott Cooper So if you think about, you know, a company like Comcast, right, or you think about AT&T, they've got this same problem, which is, you know, it costs a lot of money to acquire customers, right? 2 times in the scene
Managing Risk and Uncertainty: The Future of Insurance
- ▶ 3:35 Angela Strange You see these now still from AT&T with burglar alarms.
The End of the Beginning
- ▶ 19:28 Benedict Evans You didn't have to ask AT&T or Time Warner for permission to put up a website, and that was what enabled the explosion.
The Autonomy Ecosystem: Where and How It Begins (1 of 8)
- ▶ 0:02 Frank Chen In 1980, the iconic phone company, AT&T, asked one of the smartest consulting companies around, McKinsey, this question.