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Lighthouse or Landgrab? How to Pick Your AI Sales Strategy Aug 12, 2026 · 1 mention

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

  • ▶ 34:19 Marc Andreessen Um, but it was a great example, which is like, what happened on the street in Chicago that night during the, whatever, whatever blizzard cyclone thing it was like, kind of matters, kind of doesn't matter.
  • ▶ 1:02:36 Marc Andreessen Um, along with, you know, maybe some shenanigans in Chicago.

Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan: How AI Will Cure All Disease Nov 6, 2025 · 2 mentions

Software is Eating Labor Oct 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:53 Alex Rampell I mean, United Airlines, if they have bad weather over Chicago, which of course never happens,

Ben Horowitz on Leadership and Culture Apr 23, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:34 Ben Horowitz Was interesting, first, because, ah, it had the highest murder solve rate in the country, with 94% of murders get cleared in Las Vegas, and if you compare that, like, San Francisco's like 70, 75%, ah, Chicago's in the thirties. 2 times in the scene

Ben Horowitz in Conversation w/ Dr. Clarence B. Jones, MLK's Advisor and Speechwriter Jan 31, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:10 Dr. Clarence B. Jones He had two, uh, tax lawyers from Chicago, and he had a young lawyer, he's not young anymore, Fred Gray, from, uh, Montgomery, Alabama.

Las Vegas is Becoming the SAFEST City in America Nov 18, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:13 Marc Andreessen Yeah, so, um, you know, you guys alluded to, you know, many other cities in the country are dealing with a lot of these, these same challenges, um, and, you know, I, I can't help but note, you know, obviously there's been a just vigorous…

Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet) Jun 28, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:40 Marc Andreessen There's the, there's sort of the big city of Milwaukee, which is like a very, uh, kind of, um, you know, kind of like a bit, almost like a Chicago, you know, kind of thing.

Rebuilding the California Dream Mar 5, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:31 Jan Sramek I think it happened in Florence, and Paris, and London, and New York, and Chicago, and maybe LA, and then it happened in the Bay Area, and when I moved there, I loved it for all of the reasons that, that I just named, and for the reasons…

The China Threat: Silicon Valley and the Great Uncoupling Mar 5, 2024 · 1 mention

Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public Safety Feb 8, 2024 · 1 mention

Creating a Supportive Builder Community with Plaid's Zach Perret Dec 5, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:48 Zach Perret So, um, this was oftentimes, um, uh, California and New York, but we, we could chase customers wherever, Chicago, wherever, wherever they happened to be.

The Challenge of Replicating Reality with Steve Zhao from SandboxVR Feb 22, 2023 · 1 mention

Gamers are Entering a New Era of Monetization Mar 9, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:06 Kevin Chou This is Chicago's famous Cloud Gate sculpture where 5000 people descended to play a game of Pokemon Go.

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

  • ▶ 38:10 Dapper Dan Uh, in New York, and there was two in Chicago, and I went and visited all of them to see how their operation worked, and I come back and I start doing it first.
  • ▶ 1:00:07 Dapper Dan To Chicago, hitting all the black cities.

a16z Podcast | From Research to Startup, There and Back Again Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:00 Marc Andreessen Could be Silicon Valley of Chicago, or it could be Silicon Valley of France, or Kazakhstan, or what, right, anywhere, anywhere.

a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:18 W. Brian Arthur Their idea was to be able to telephone from New York to Chicago, but you needed to have some sort of repeating circuitry.

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

  • ▶ 2:30 Dick Costolo Student Union on, like, open mic night and stuff, and that went really well and was super fun, so I decided when I graduated not to take any of the programming job offers I had and instead try to go to Second City in Chicago and do improv…

a16z Podcast | The Internet of Taste, Streaming Content to Culture Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:40 Ted Sarandos So he cashed out all of his savings in Chicago, moved to Arizona, opened a little tiny store, had everything that you could possibly get on video at the time, which is about 900 things on VHS tapes.

a16z Podcast | Data, Insight, and the Customer Experience Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:03 Jeff Glueck There's still fifty million people a month used across our apps and our website, and we actually invested a lot in personalization at first, almost too much, because Dennis Crowley, our founder, believed that Yelp and Google gave people…

a16z Podcast | From Hidden Figure to Sonic BOOM Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:22 Dr. Christine Darden Flight test in the sixties around Chicago and around Oklahoma City, people were calling saying, you know, you broke my glass, you cracked my sheetrock, so they could get paid for the damage to their houses and things.

a16z Podcast | Securing Infrastructure and Enterprise Services Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:18 Brad Peterson And now it goes back to, I think, security, fairness, and resiliency are going to be balanced out, so we probably won't end up with massive data centers in New Jersey and Chicago.

a16z Podcast | The Realities of Aging / When Healthcare Is Local Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

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

  • ▶ 39:52 Jeff Jordan Converted restaurant people searching on Google for Morton Chicago into OpenTable users is the OpenTable growth hack.

a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:07 Parag Khanna And it's cities like Chicago, like New York, like Toronto, like Hong Kong, like Singapore.

a16z Podcast | Mapping the Future of Virtual Reality Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:00 Chris Dixon Right, instead of sitting next to strangers, you're sitting next to your friend who actually is in, you know, my friend's actually in Moscow and Chicago and whatever, and, but we're all sitting there, and so there's, part of it is sort of…

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

  • ▶ 21:39 Alec Ross And so, you know, I, I even think about a city like Chicago. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Hall of Fame Football Meets Venture Capital Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:52 Jeff Jordan Um, so, you know, Chicago had Groupon, and, you know, uh, Foursquare had, it was in New York, and they can only hire so many engineers, particularly engineers, but also the senior executives who've done digital marketing, and done…

a16z Podcast | Mellody Hobson and Ben Horowitz Talk Investing, Career, and Star Wars! Jan 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 4:48 Mellody Hobson They have a bunch of properties, the LA Forum, um, Cadillac Theater in Chicago, so they own a bunch of properties around the country, but obviously the Knicks are a major, major asset.
  • ▶ 7:56 Ben Horowitz Melody's from Chicago. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 11:27 Shaq (Shakil Khan) Because if you start in San Francisco, the natural thing is San Francisco, New York, Boston, Miami, Chicago, uh, LA, San Diego.
  • ▶ 13:59 unnamed speaker It's equivalent to somebody from San Francisco going to Chicago.

a16z Podcast | Wall Street's Most Hated Man -- A Conversation With Overstock.com's Patrick Byrne Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:28 Patrick Byrne And we finally said, let's say he was in Chicago, which I think where he was. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Big Data Goes Really Big Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

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