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Building Blackstone, Backing Costco, and Working with Munger | Tony James on The a16z Show May 5, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:15:44 Tony James Well, in 2018, a friend of mine who had worked for Obama and, ah, in their Department of Education came in and said, and he, he had been a, an M&A banker at DOJ, and then I think Bank of America, and then he went into the government, and…

Marc Andreessen on how the internet changed news, politics, and outrage | The a16z Show Apr 22, 2026 · 2 mentions

The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything. Dec 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:19 Erik Torenberg Or I remember, um, maybe it was you, maybe someone else who was like, wait, Obama should have, you know, or the president should have way better information than me, and yet they're, like, reading Politico, too.

Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It) Nov 19, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:02 Marc Andreessen Um, and he went out and actually got a former director, ah, actually, he got, ah, a guy who had actually been in the Obama administration, as basically the head of, the head of border, the head of the border security in the Obama 2 times in the scene

Marc Andreessen: How Movies Explain America Oct 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:59 Katherine Boyle It was 2008, which is actually very important, um, because I think one of the things that people forget is that, um, 2008 was also the year where we had a, a POW from the Vietnam War running for office against the first black president in…

The Person Who Runs HR For 2 Million Federal Workers Oct 2, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:14 Scott Kupor And if you remember the whole debacle over Solyndra, right, this was in the Obama administration, you know, they did this big loan. 2 times in the scene

Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics Sep 9, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 54:59 Mark Cuban Maybe less so with Obama, but definitely missing with Trump. 2 times in the scene

Ben Horowitz Shares the a16z Origin Story & Plans for the Future Aug 23, 2025 · 3 mentions

Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future Aug 1, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:16 Balaji Srinivasan It was like, you know, Steve jobs is there and you know, uh, there, there's actually this article from 20 12 on the Atlantic, like the nerds go marching in, but tech helping to reelect Obama and Facebook was helping. 2 times in the scene

Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook Jul 25, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 23:12 Ben Horowitz So that, you know, first Obama clearly won, uh, in 2008, um, because of Facebook, uh, and he used it effectively and so forth. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 54:01 Ben Horowitz Whereas, like, if you look at, you know, the presidential, uh, you know, Obama's Twitter handle or Biden's Twitter handle, they're clearly written by somebody else for the most part.
  • ▶ 1:01:45 Ben Horowitz Like it's kind of a, a very interesting thing where now on the internet, everybody's going to all Trump's policies and going back and having like Obama talk about the border or, you know, uh, tariffs or, or any of the, or manufacturing,…
  • ▶ 1:14:57 Erik Torenberg You know, uh, Trump has been the, the best politician of recent, of course, Obama was great in, so was Nate, but Trump recently at using these new channels and you talk to people on both sides of the aisle.

Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z Jun 2, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:45 Marc Andreessen This is still useless, however, it does get some credit for the Arab Spring, um, right, and for getting Obama elected, and there were, there were lots of headlines at that time of Social Media Saves Democracy, um, because of the Arab…

Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto Feb 20, 2025 · 2 mentions

Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startups Nov 12, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 7:25 Ben Horowitz The idea, um, was started during the Obama administration through a, a, a program called choke .1
  • ▶ 31:09 Ben Horowitz Um, so, oh, there's a fake video of, uh, you know, President Obama saying some speech.

Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy Jul 16, 2024 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 5:24 Marc Andreessen Um, I met Obama, um, uh, a mutual friend of ours. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:39 Marc Andreessen I don't think the Obama administration would have done this. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:25:53 Ben Horowitz Um, but you know, particularly people who get to that level, and you could, you know, any of the presidents, Trump, Obama, um, Clinton, 4 times in the scene

Politics & the Future of Tech Apr 2, 2024 · 2 mentions

Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter Jan 13, 2024 · 1 mention

Tony Robbins on the Future of Health & Longevity Dec 20, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:17:23 Tony Robbins I asked President Obama about this years ago, and he's like, oh, it's not going to change that fast. 4 times in the scene

Evolve or Die: The Future of the Creative Process, Artist Authenticity, and the Value of the Music Jun 13, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:19 Doug E. Fresh So he called me, told me the whole spiel, and I knew all about the WEF, because I watched CNN and MSNBC ever since Barack was running for president in oh eight, right?

Why Technology Still Matters with Marc Andreessen Nov 9, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:02 Marc Andreessen One was Obama got reelected, and the press went like, and this was like, at the time this was like referred to as like the first Facebook election.

The Career Changing Magic of Strategic Compartmentalization Jan 27, 2020 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 0:23 Katie Haun Um, aside from being Obama's National Security Advisor and the Ambassador, the U.S.
  • ▶ 23:16 Katie Haun I mean, um, for those who aren't familiar, I mean, your son Jake, here you are, having served in the Clinton administration, um, in the Obama administration, and your son Jake is the president of, was president of the Stanford College… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:54 Susan Rice And, um, the model, quite frankly, that President Obama set and that I and I think others tried to manifest was to give all of our colleagues the confidence to know that
  • ▶ 38:09 Katie Haun Well, so fast forward from the brash, um, the brash woman that you once were, Susan, and I want to go right into kind of one of the issues that consumed a lot of your time when you were working for President Obama was China, and now it…

a16z Podcast | The Business of Cybercrime Feb 26, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:33 Joel de la Garza Well, and what's even really more interesting is in other countries, so there's the clear integration between organized crime and the state, but, you know, right around the time that President Obama got after the Chinese for their cyber…

a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:08 Jeffrey Katzenberg You know, there are many people that felt the eight years of, you know, Barack Obama was painful for them, and they found themselves on the other side of that, to an extreme.

a16z Podcast | The Hard Things about Security Jan 2, 2019 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 25:04 Stina Ehrensvärd You know, once I got the opportunity to meet President Obama, I was invited to be here at the security conference at Stanford. 6 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Improv'ing Leadership Jan 2, 2019 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 7:03 Dick Costolo Anyway, the next day in the front of the New York Times was, like, you know, Medvedev greets Obama on Twitter, and there's the
  • ▶ 14:26 Dick Costolo So a bunch of tech CEOs go to the White House, and we're sitting in the Roosevelt Room, and President Obama comes in, and we all sit down, and unfortunately, he asked me the first question. 4 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Space -- the Near Frontier Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:32 Martin Casado So John, you're someone that was directly responsible to the Obama administration, the shift towards kind of privatization of spaceflight. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | A Society Under Construction - Modernizing Infrastructure Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:34 unnamed speaker This conversation is moderated by A-sixteen Z's policy team partner, Matthew Colford, and includes Secretary Anthony Fox, former Secretary of Transportation under the Obama administration, and also former mayor of Charlotte, North…

a16z Podcast | Centers of Power, War, and History Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

a16z Podcast | Lobbying Tech Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:12 Heather Podesta When Obama was running and when he was elected, one of his planks was sort of, um, distancing himself from the lobbyists and made a very big point of not taking lobbyist money, 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | For Your Ears Only Jan 2, 2019 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 4:53 Michael Morell There was still a considerable amount of uncertainty that we left the president with about whether he was there or not. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:25 Michael Morell Matt and I were involved in many discussions in the situation room about this question, and I think where President Obama came down

a16z Podcast | From Jobs to Flying Cars Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Technology, Mobility, and the American Dream Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

a16z Podcast | Of Policy, Capital, and the Startup Ecosystem Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:32 Bobby Franklin And so you think back over the last eight years of President Obama's term, and now the next four years of President Trump's term.

a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech Jan 2, 2019 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:21 Sonal Chokshi Matt Spence, who is in the White House, and then the DOD is part of the Obama administration, and Matt 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:47 Ted Ullyot It's, it's when you had a Democrat president, President Obama, the presumption was any major project, any major legislative project that was initiated by Republicans
  • ▶ 9:07 Matt Spence Yeah, I mean, speaking of someone who worked in the Obama administration, Democrats believe strongly in, you know, common rules of the road.
  • ▶ 15:47 Matt Spence But I mean, I wanted, I mean, not to be the Obama Democrat person, but, but I mean, I, I actually think like for all the people... 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | The Internet Is Your Movement Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:41 Jim Gilliam If you look at the, the number of votes over the last couple of presidential elections, you know, Trump got the same, roughly the same number of votes as, like, the previous two Republican nominees, but Hillary Clinton got dramatically…

a16z Podcast | Drones for Delivery in Healthcare Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:21 Keller Rinaudo And, ah, but, but of course, you know, Obama, you know, was mentioning in this Wired article, you have to let a thousand flowers bloom and then garden appropriately.

a16z Podcast | Messages and Movements in Politics AND Business Jan 2, 2019 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 9:45 Todd Cranny The Obama campaign had plenty of lead time to build that organization out, to road test it, and try different things, and one of the things they did really smartly was they learned about this whole concept of virtual precincts, and… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:47 Todd Cranny And President Obama was more of a movement candidate than some others are. 4 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Stickers! Filters! Memes! Livestreams! Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Mastering the Game (with David Oyelowo) Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:36 David Oyelowo Um, so, so, but you know, I couldn't have predicted that would happen to, to, to my career, but I can absolutely track it with the presidency of Barack Obama. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Getting Network Effects Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:26 Anu Hariharan Um, in fact, even, you know, in the early days, the, the story that goes around is that they, you know, they were, they found it very difficult to raise, so they actually remarketed their cereal boxes as Obama and McCain cereal boxes, and

a16z Podcast | On Government as Software Builder, Not Just Buyer Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:29 Sonal Chokshi And Haley, who is the deputy administrator at the USDS, she's been working to help implement some of President Obama's key technology initiatives during his administration.

a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 4:47 Penny Pritzker That's part of what the president's view is, is that we need to support entrepreneurship around the world.
  • ▶ 10:40 Penny Pritzker And, and I have found, and we as an administration have found, by going with business leaders and saying this directly to government leaders, so for example, at the ASEAN Leaders Summit that President Obama hosted, we brought Satya…
  • ▶ 18:04 Penny Pritzker In helping the president effectuate his policy. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:55 Penny Pritzker We've laid about a 130,000 miles of, uh, high-speed broadband during the Obama administration.

a16z Podcast | Your Worst Deeds Don’t Define You -- Life and Redemption in Prison Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:34 Shaka Senghor You know, when you think about last year President Barack Obama went into a prison, the first sitting prison, sitting president to go inside a prison, a prison in history.

a16z Podcast | Open vs. Closed, Alpha Cities, and the Industries of the Future Jan 2, 2019 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:11 Michael Copeland He was the senior advisor for innovation to Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state, and, uh, Alec, you also worked for President Obama during the first two years of his initial presidential campaign. 4 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Artificial Intelligence and the 'Space of Possible Minds' Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:03 Sonal Chokshi Collective of a group of people who are anticipating his every need, and it's not just like Obama's crew who's helping him get elected and his support team.

a16z Podcast | A Podcast about Podcasts Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:43 Erik Torenberg Barack Obama just went on Mark Maron's podcast the other month. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Crypto, Security, CS, Quantum Computing, and More with Our New Professor-in-Residence Jan 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:56 Dan Boneh There's lots of interest in this from industry now, from obviously in the, um, even in the policy circles, it was, it's hard to believe, but, uh, even the president came, President Obama came to campus a few months ago, and he was talking… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:51 Michael Copeland On your kind of wheelhouse there at the university, you know, both in terms of, you know, you mentioned the president coming to visit, but companies who's coming, who's knocking on your door now, both in terms of like, you know, outside…

a16z Podcast | Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker Jan 2, 2019 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 39:47 Dan Siroker Uh, we are in a presidential election cycle, and the origin of our company came out of the work, uh, in the 2008 Obama campaign where we were trying to use data 5 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | The Internet is His Religion Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:02 Jim Gilliam I got the transplant and Obama had gotten elected and stuff like that, and I didn't really know what that looked like, but I thought that there had to be something there that no one was really looking at.

a16z Podcast | Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:19 Michael Copeland Obama was here at Stanford for the security, um, conference, which you guys may have gone to, I'm not sure, but there was this impression that he was being sort of 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Crisis Time -- What to Do When Things Go Sideways Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:16 Michael Copeland I know President Obama a couple weeks ago brought up like we're going to discuss how, you know, what the regulations ought to be around disclosure for my credit card number being out there.

a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 1 Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:59 Michael Copeland So those three that you mentioned have been the most intractable, it seems, and we've been promised there's, you know, did, you know, electronic medical records, um, you know, Obama's got a great website, but, but that's not software…

Quantum Computing: A Primer Jul 15, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:11 Frank Chen That speech reminded me a little of when President Obama visited Google in January of 2008 and Eric Schmidt asked him what the most efficient way to sort a 1,000,032 bit integers was. 2 times in the scene
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