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Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 34:06 Marc Andreessen And then the power, then, and then the, and then the California power grid was buckling even before that.
Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence
- ▶ 39:20 Ben Horowitz California's kind of moving against, but can you own an illiquid asset that has value, um, or will it get seized?
Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
- ▶ 3:25 Marc Rowan I was well thought of, but, and so every time the market kind of went sideways, I would get a call from Mike and Mike would say, could you come from New York to California?
- ▶ 42:22 Marc Rowan And when I took over in 2021, one of the things I said is I want to be able to say the same thing in Texas as I say in California.
Palantir CTO on The SaaS Apocalypse & Preventing The Next World War | a16z
- ▶ 44:45 Katherine Boyle You don't hear that about California anymore.
The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- ▶ 6:00 Alex Rampell You know, had ChatGPT scan all the laws in California, um, and the US, um, you know, federal system writ large, even though our government is closed down?
- ▶ 28:25 Alex Rampell I will make sure that we're scraping every single new federal and state statute because what you say in Missouri is very, very different than what you have to say in California is very different than what you say in Iowa. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 6:05 Marc Andreessen Um, and so, like, you know, we're, we're, we're basically seeing that happen, and now, and now Silicon Valley is responding with this just, like, incredible rush, uh, of enthusiasm, and, you know, really critically, this gets to the magic…
- ▶ 35:05 Marc Andreessen You know, there's, there's no AI company that just operates in California or just operates in, you know, Colorado or Texas. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:21 Marc Andreessen This is what I'm not even willing to leave California.
“How We Can Eliminate Crime” | Ben Horowitz and Garrett Langley
- ▶ 9:30 Garrett Langley I mean, we've seen the social experiment in, in parts of California.
- ▶ 47:36 Garrett Langley California, there's a max of 90 days. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:49 Garrett Langley Immigration is unenforced in California. 2 times in the scene
The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
- ▶ 47:55 Alex Rampell So, if you were doing anything in 1849, apparently, in California, like, boom.
Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China
- ▶ 15:53 David Sacks Uh, 25% of them are in, um, the, the top four blue states, which are California, New York, Colorado, and Illinois. 3 times in the scene
The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
- ▶ 18:29 Dan Wang On the other hand, um, any fool is able to hire a lawyer to stop a project that he or she doesn't like, and so I spent a lot of time looking at quite a lot of these projects that California really tries to build.
- ▶ 41:46 Dan Wang I think that's a really great point about American complacency, because America can cite this triumphalist victory narrative that, oh, well, you know, in the forties we defeated Germany, and then later on we defeated the Soviet Union, and…
- ▶ 53:12 Dan Wang In California, this is a totally nimby state. 2 times in the scene
Software is Eating Labor
- ▶ 16:30 Alex Rampell The, uh, job, like, you have to now say in California how much you're charge, how much you're gonna pay.
Anduril CEO: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?
- ▶ 26:19 Chris Power Um, oddly, a lot of the stuff that we would stand up in California, frankly, is just flat out banned.
- ▶ 30:52 Brian Schimpf So I think you have a natural competitive function on the state side that's not overwhelming, but then I think it's like if people are trying to, you know, maybe California gets more efficient, but it's probably not going to get as…
- ▶ 33:31 Chris Power It's the way we think about it is we will probably do most of our advanced engineering in California because it's very hard to get the conflagration of software engineering and manufacturing in one building too. 3 times in the scene
Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
- ▶ 38:23 Chris Dixon So like, for example, California had a bill that would have, would have created unlimited downstream liability for software developers, which would have effectively killed open source.
The Little Tech Agenda for AI
- ▶ 28:57 Colin McCune And this is the same conversation that we're having in California right now, or in Colorado right now, if uses does not go far enough.
- ▶ 49:29 Matt Perault Somewhat diminished relative to what the proponents think they are and that the costs are significant, like the cost of a developer in Washington state for complying with a law that's in California or a law that's in New York is going to…
Google DeepMind Lead Researchers on Genie 3 & the Future of World-Building
- ▶ 36:52 unnamed speaker I'm just saying clearly, Jack, it's time to move to California. 2 times in the scene
The Current Reality of American AI Policy: From ‘Pause AI’ to ‘Build’
- ▶ 2:11 Martin Casado What was the, the, the, the California AI?
- ▶ 11:55 Anjney Midha And if there's a party who's gonna show up and say, these are like nukes, you know, AI models are like nukes, and California should shut down, should start imposing downstream liability on open source developers for open sourcing the…
Marc Andreessen: The US is in a AI Arms Race & It Decides The World's Future
- ▶ 10:57 Marc Andreessen Um, and, um, uh, and then, you know, and then when I, you know, graduated college, I, I moved to California.
- ▶ 17:17 Marc Andreessen We, we have a project to build a new city, um, in California.
- ▶ 18:50 Marc Andreessen California state, state government almost passed a law to outlaw AI in California six months ago, which is an indication how crazy California is. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:24 Marc Andreessen And so every time there's a housing crisis, you know, perpetual housing crisis in California, the answer always is subsidies for home buyers.
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 1:38:06 Balaji Srinivasan Like, for the Democrats, it means, you know, California's a one-party state, right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:40:18 Erik Torenberg Um, and now you can vote with your feet and go to California or go to Florida or go to wherever. 2 times in the scene
Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
- ▶ 46:00 Ben Horowitz And so my father, you know, being my father and how he is, just wrote the story and was called Whitewash, and it was in California Magazine, um, kind of telling the story of this cover-up of this, you know, how this disease was spread.
America's Energy Problem: We Need A New Grid
- ▶ 18:23 Ryan McEntush I think just to put this in more tangible terms, the sort of like the, the peak summer load in, in places like California might be half of what it is in, in, in winter or something like that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:32 Erin Price-Wright Or why we don't, why we don't have a high-speed rail in, in California. 3 times in the scene
How AI Will Impact Emergency Response: The Tech That Could Soon Save Your Life w/ Michael Chime
- ▶ 5:10 Michael Chime There's big agencies out in California where the average hold time on non-emergency calls is 40 minutes.
- ▶ 13:35 Michael Chime Again, you go to some large agencies in California and the hold times are 40 minutes.
Building Cluely: The Viral AI Startup that raised $15M in 10 Weeks w/ Roy Lee
Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
- ▶ 40:15 Adam Neumann And, uh, and I didn't meet him either, but he sounds like an amazing person who's done a lot for the Valley and for California.
- ▶ 59:45 Marc Andreessen And I mean, it, it actually becomes, it's actually hard to even discuss this without getting enraged because we're sitting here in California where they have the infamous prop 13, you know, which was this very explicit, you know, handout…
Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
- ▶ 33:14 Marc Andreessen Um, and so, and so that created a culture, you know, and the, and the Valley was always, you know, it's always been a mix of like right and left wing, but you know, the, the sort of like, the, the, the, the hippie anti-war movement, you…
Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software
- ▶ 43:34 Marc Andreessen Extremely different experience if you go to Maine or if you go to California or if you go to, if you go to Kansas.
How to Enable a Manufacturing Renaissance
- ▶ 2:55 Chris Power We, we will scale outside of California very quickly, but the inception of the company basically had to be half Silicon Valley, half manufacturing.
- ▶ 4:57 Bryon Hargis Um, the power rates in California are ridiculously high, and even if you tell them, I will just pay you hundreds of thousands per month to buy megawatts of power, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:13 Bryon Hargis I don't want to invest in an area if I don't know if I'm going to actually get the final permit to use the factory, um, and that just then slows everything down, so working with jurisdictions for us that give out regulatory certainty is,… 2 times in the scene
The Kill Chain: 2025 Edition
- ▶ 0:36 Christian Brose Uh, writing the book was something I did between the hours of, like, three in the morning and eight in the morning in California when I was on East Coast time, sitting in my hotel room.
Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto
- ▶ 34:20 Chris Dixon It's already starting to play out in the courts, and it's starting to play out in, like, state legislatures, um, with, like, California had the AI bill, you know, you have a bunch of lawsuits around copyright.
Ben Horowitz in Conversation w/ Dr. Clarence B. Jones, MLK's Advisor and Speechwriter
- ▶ 5:06 Dr. Clarence B. Jones I was living in Altadena, California, at 27 51 Altadena Avenue, which, you know, talk about it later. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:56 Dr. Clarence B. Jones Now, I had only been in California, like, a year, but I, I knew something about Baldwin Hills.
How Zapier Became Profitable in 3 Years and Scaled to $5B with Wade Foster
- ▶ 3:32 Wade Foster And, you know, we didn't know much about, like, California, Silicon Valley, things like that, but, you know, we'd read PG's essays, we were a fan of Hacker News and YC, and we thought, you know, it'd be nice if we get accepted and, like, 2 times in the scene
How Gusto Used Customer Input to Scale Growth with Tomer London
- ▶ 5:30 Tomer London You wouldn't believe it was just California companies who only, who have salaried employees only.
- ▶ 6:54 Seema Amble Um, if you think about that small subset in California, like, how did you even go find that, that set of, of customers? 2 times in the scene
The Future of Health Insurance in a Work Remote World
- ▶ 4:06 Adam Beckman We started hiring people in New York and California, uh, in Washington and all over the place.
Can We Detect a Deepfake?
- ▶ 24:34 Martin Casado Um, so I, I've been in a lot of policy discussions lately, you know, in the California, uh, in California, as well as at the federal level.
AI, Robotics & the New Global Arms Race
- ▶ 10:44 Ben Horowitz You know, multiple times by the Department of Justice, by the State of California, um, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:18 Ben Horowitz It wasn't that way in California, but it definitely was that way in Wisconsin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:28 Ben Horowitz And that's why California in particular has been, uh,
Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- ▶ 1:13:19 Marc Andreessen Number one, by the way, number two, you killed the California tax base. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:34 Marc Andreessen And then number two, it's going to hit every California homeowner.
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 1:24:22 Marc Andreessen Um, out in California. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:39:37 Marc Andreessen Um, most of them were able to move out to California, um, and were core members of, of what followed at Netscape. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 13:15 Marc Andreessen Um, and so, it's just that, that avenue's not available, and if, if you need, if you need to reinforce your, your views on this, just take a look at the California high-speed rail project. 2 times in the scene
AI, Robotics & the Future of Manufacturing
- ▶ 1:14:01 Marc Andreessen Basically F you get out of California.
Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities
- ▶ 55:26 Marc Andreessen So Nate asks, uh, to what extent did California's COVID policy, and here I think what he means by that is, you know, basically the, you know, long, long lockdowns, um, you know, lots of controls for a long time.
- ▶ 59:38 Marc Andreessen So the extreme, I think that's right in New York, the extreme, if I recall correctly, but the extreme version was California in the year 2000. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:59 Marc Andreessen Um, but I, those people don't need to be in California.
Startup Building: Major Shifts in Tech & Culture
- ▶ 19:22 Ben Horowitz I think they're kind of the second most, uh, kind of people moving out other than, uh, California and San Francisco.
- ▶ 36:29 Ben Horowitz like, ah, the, in California at least, they sort of outlawed that, and I think in Minnesota, maybe they just outlawed that as well, um, because they want people to work 40 hour weeks. 3 times in the scene
The Electric Grid, Explained
- ▶ 6:12 Ryan McEntush A good example is California. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:56 Ryan McEntush There's a lot of these sort of regulated entities in the southern United States, like Southern Power Company, where like a lot of these nuclear facilities were built, and a lot of this in sort of the western United States, Spare,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:39 Ryan McEntush And so like, if you look at your electricity bill, typically they'll separate out these fees and you can see like many times and increasingly so in California, the cost to deliver is like over 50% of the bill.
- ▶ 15:05 Ryan McEntush Um, whereas in California or other places, they're like, you know, we wanna make sure it's always gonna be delivering power and it's not gonna, uh, you know, destabilize our, our connection.
Intelligence in the Age of AI with new CTO of the CIA
- ▶ 22:01 Nand Mulchandani I just actually took a red eye in from California and like, you're over there.
Rebuilding the California Dream
- ▶ 0:25 Katherine Boyle You grew up far away from California, in a small working class town in the Czech Republic. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:29 Jan Sramek Because it's creating opportunities, and that's what happened for 60 years in California. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:00 Jan Sramek It's, it's completely acceptable in California, and actually in most of the country today, to say that you're working on inventing artificial intelligence. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:59 Katherine Boyle Yeah, and thank you for reigniting the California dream.
Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter
- ▶ 37:28 Ben Horowitz Um, and it won't be, you know, it's not legal, uh, at least for sure not in California to do a general IQ test for a specific job, but you can do pretty rigorous job specific tests that, you know, certainly kind of, you know, include…
- ▶ 1:28:13 Ben Horowitz And then in California, they, uh, so a couple of things happened. 2 times in the scene
Tony Robbins on the Future of Health & Longevity
- ▶ 27:56 Tony Robbins So if you can imagine, I get a call from the governor of California, uh, who I don't share necessarily values with a hundred percent, but I'm friendly with.
Creating a Supportive Builder Community with Plaid's Zach Perret
- ▶ 13:40 Zach Perret We knew we wanted to move it to California, um, eventually, but, um, in the meantime, I ended up just flying a lot back and forth between anywhere that our customers were. 2 times in the scene
Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta's Jason Gardner
- ▶ 20:18 Jason Gardner You, you California people are out of your minds.
The Truth Behind Salary Transparency
- ▶ 7:55 Steph Smith A lot of companies don't have this in place, or just in the early innings, and so if you are a company that, let's say, has, I think the California threshold is 15 employees, and all 15 of those employees have been hired in disparate ways,…
Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
- ▶ 1:40:53 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, Philistine, right, like, not open a new art, not open a new music, and so forth, like all these things, then you select into the place that welcomes all of that, right, um, which is the San Francisco Bay Area and California,… 3 times in the scene
The Electrification of Everything: From Sky to Sea
- ▶ 1:00:10 Duncan McIntyre And so there are places in California where we're, you know, engaged with municipal leaders, where
Global Investing in Tech: Pattern Recognition, Founder Traits, Momentum | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 9:29 Connie Chan I can take a state in the Midwest, compare it to New York or California.
The Robot Lawyer Resistance with Joshua Browder of DoNotPay
- ▶ 21:32 Joshua Browder One lawyer called up every major state bar association in all the major cities and California and another state bar association actually threatened us.
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 2:34:26 Balaji Srinivasan And now you have something like Florida that's been coming up over the last 20 years, and it's really with the Miami thing and so on, it's really giving California competition, right? 2 times in the scene
Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah on the Data Highway Above
- ▶ 4:31 Steve Wozniak Designing products for five cents each for people all over California, incredible things that, you know, starting big industries. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23:34 Steve Wozniak From California, Colorado right now.
"Crypto Startup School" Documentary
The Future Will Be Genetically Engineered
- ▶ 6:14 Alec Nielsen And interesting fact, it was actually illegal to sell and possess these fish in the state of California until relatively recently.
a16z Podcast | For the Billions of Creatives Out There
- ▶ 17:58 Brian Koppelman And we said to our, our agents at the time, listen, we're going to stay in, in California until you can get us a meeting with John Dahl.
a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond
- ▶ 16:37 Steven Sinofsky Because there was California versus, like, Texas and Seattle.
a16z Podcast | Talent, Tech Trends, and Culture -- with Ben, Marc, and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 24:13 Marc Andreessen Um, and so it does feel like both of the kind of central hubs of California are developing and crossing over, you know, quite nicely now.
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 45:47 Brian McCullough They're already out in California, and, and, um, Sean Parker, at least this is Parker's telling, so, you know, granted that, but he's got to convince, Mark, you have this great idea here, believe in this, you know.
a16z Podcast | The Infrastructure of Total Health
- ▶ 19:12 Bernard J. Tyson The best example of it working fairly well is in California, where we compete on price, we compete on service, we compete on quality. 2 times in the scene
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