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every year anyone Michael Morell 17Nand Mulchandani 14Derek Harris 14Balaji Srinivasan 10Marc Andreessen 4Benjamin Wittes 3Frank Chen 2Dapper Dan 2Alex Rampell 2Tony Blinken 1

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Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner Nov 21, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:01:49 Alex Rampell Well, we could hire lots of CIA agents that, like, go bribe people and all this kind of stuff, but you know what? 2 times in the scene

Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future Aug 1, 2025 · 10 mentions

Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook Jul 25, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:17 Marc Andreessen Um, he spent 30 years in the CIA doing, uh, basically analysis, um, of, uh, of essentially regime change.

The Dual-Use Founder: Vets Now Building For America Apr 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:44 Matt Shortal Yeah, you brought up programs, you know, CIA's got In-Q-Tel, DIUs for the DoD, not only programs, but how to select the best tech.

Intelligence in the Age of AI with new CTO of the CIA Mar 11, 2024 · 30 mentions

  • ▶ 1:30 unnamed speaker A-sixt-in-Z general partner, Martín Casado, and A-sixt-in-Z enterprise editor, Derek Harris, are joined by first ever CTO of the CIA. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:29 Derek Harris Martin, I'll assume most people watching, listening to this are fairly familiar with, with you and your role at A-sixteen Z, but Nand, because the CIA CTO role is relatively new, 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:34 Nand Mulchandani And I'll just compliment what Martine said was, you know, really when you look at the two big functions that we, we, we have as an agency, right? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:29 Derek Harris I mean, or are we, are we still a ways away from like, you know, very much automating, like maybe in a CIA analyst sort of. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:55 Nand Mulchandani Pentagon was two and a half years and now CIA, of being on the buy side of technology and seeing all the stuff happening. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 39:52 Nand Mulchandani So in my role at the agency, one of the big areas of focus for us is how do we become a better customer, 10 times in the scene

Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism Aug 2, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 40:07 Marc Andreessen You know, with which, you know, in which Oppenheimer is selected and all these other scientists are selected, you know, Groves, Groves makes that comment later that, you know, we wouldn't have been able to clear any of these people, you…
  • ▶ 1:05:49 Marc Andreessen Written by a CIA, it was created by a CIA officer who had actually fought the Russians in the Cold War, and so he, he really kind of knew what, what was what.

Imagining Our Future Through Tech Dec 30, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:04 Frank Chen So today, if you are a CEO or a five star general, or maybe director of the CIA, you probably have a chief of staff who will follow you around to all of your meetings and help you be the best you.
  • ▶ 7:37 Frank Chen This is the product that the CIA director was hoping for.

Making Culture, Making Influence -- Dapper Dan in Silicon Valley Sep 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 22:03 Dapper Dan We didn't find out until later on that it was a CIA agent following us around, you know, because this was the time. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Talent, Tech Trends, and Culture -- with Ben, Marc, and Tyler Cowen Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | When Journalism Goes Global Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:54 Jared Ryle And almost within minutes of us sending the email with all the questions to the Kremlin, they called a press conference at the Kremlin and denounced ICIJ as an arm of the CIA, and it was an American plot to bring down Russia.

a16z Podcast | Improv'ing Leadership Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:42 Dick Costolo We were, like, scrambling around, trying to deal with him being there that day, and, you know, there were all these security dogs in the building, and the building landlord didn't want dogs in the building, and the CIA was like, you're…

a16z Podcast | The Why Behind the Weird Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:16 Peter Leeson However, American law enforcement, so the CIA, the FBI, the LAPD, they rely on polygraph tests all the time for purposes that are ultimately oftentimes inputs into our judicial system.

a16z Podcast | Centers of Power, War, and History Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:30 Graham Allison International economies, and I believe the best yardstick is purchasing power parity, which is also the yardstick that CIA and IMF think is the best yardstick.

a16z Podcast | Cybersecurity in the Boardroom vs. the Situation Room Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | The Law (and Tech) of Warfare Jan 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:43 Benjamin Wittes Aldrich Ames was a spy at CIA for the Russians, and after the Ames case, the Justice Department quietly went to the Congress and asked the Congress to
  • ▶ 9:16 Benjamin Wittes On the one hand, you're talking about battlefield drones, right, weaponized battlefield drones, but you're also talking about the CIA's use of drones in non-battlefield settings. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | For Your Ears Only Jan 2, 2019 · 20 mentions

  • ▶ 0:03 unnamed speaker I'm Hannah, and I'm here today with A-sixteen-Z policy team partner Matt Spence in Washington, D.C. to talk with Michael Morrell, former deputy director and two-time acting director of the CIA about all things spies. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:58 Michael Morell And then the third myth is the Jason Bourne myth, which is that there's a lot that the CIA does that's rogue, that nobody in Washington knows about. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:22 Michael Morell And the president said to Leon Panetta, then the director of the CIA, who was sitting at the table, I was sitting against the wall because I was the deputy, the president said to Leon Panetta, why is there such a gap here in, in these…
  • ▶ 14:57 Michael Morell Biometrics used at borders makes it very difficult for CIA operations officers to travel in alias. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:36 Michael Morell So throughout the history of my 33 years at the agency, it was a question that was asked frequently about technology.
  • ▶ 19:21 Michael Morell So, so this is always a huge issue inside CIA, right? 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:16 Michael Morell So one of the things that analysts do at CIA is they actually brainstorm.
  • ▶ 29:59 Michael Morell So places, you know, CIA, we developed our technical tradecraft inside. 3 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Harnessing the DevOps Movement -- Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:35 Alex Solomon So I think, you know, that's why a lot of companies, including like the CIA and government, are paying AWS to do it for them, because they have that expertise in-house, and it's hard to gain that same expertise for every single, you know,…

a16z Podcast | Mellody Hobson and Ben Horowitz Talk Investing, Career, and Star Wars! Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:10 Mellody Hobson We actually use an organization called BIA Associates, Business Intelligence Advisors, ex-CIA agents, who help us in, in questioning.

a16z Podcast | How to Lead, Not Manage Your Board Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

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