Detroit
6 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Marc Andreessen · said 76 times in 42 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Steven Sinofsky (17), Qasar Younis (13), Sonal Chokshi (7), Marc Andreessen (5), Michael Copeland (4), Shaka Senghor (3), Stacy Brown-Philpott (2), Chris Dixon (2)
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2026 2 mentions in 1 episode
2025 12 mentions in 10 episodes 1 per episode
- The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
- Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
- Rocket Companies CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis
- The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
- Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- Oren Cass & Noah Smith Debate the True Impact of Tariffs
- Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- Hey Tech, Come to Healthcare
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2019 56 mentions in 25 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- a16z Podcast | Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
- a16z Podcast | Your Worst Deeds Don’t Define You -- Life and Redemption in Prison
- a16z Podcast | Using Social Tools to Build Homes for Those Most in Need
- a16z Podcast | Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?
- a16z Podcast | The Strategies and Tactics of Big
- a16z Podcast | Getting That First Board Seat
- a16z Podcast | What Makes the Valley Work
- 17 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
Everything said about Detroit, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019
Andreessen: Future top tech companies will almost certainly be new startups
“The expectation of Detroit is that 50 years from now the three big car companies will be Ford, GM, and Chrysler, right? The expectation of Silicon Valley is the opposite. Like we don't know who the big three tech companies are going to be, but they're almost c…”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019
Evans: Dell and legacy automakers are logistics and assembly businesses, unlike Apple
“They're a logistics business as much as they are a technology business. There's lots of cool technology inside Dell as well, but basically they're an assembly business, and which is also what Detroit was, and what Apple isn't.”
Jan 2, 2019
Sinofsky: PC makers failed in mobile due to siloed structures
“The reason that there are none of the PC makers, other than Apple in a sense, are successful phone makers, is because they were exactly like Detroit. They had a graphics group, they had a peripheral group, they had an IO group, they had a storage group.”
Feb 26, 2019 positive
Jul 27, 2023 negative
Khan: Detroit 8th grade math proficiency fell from 6% to 3% post-pandemic
“You know, people have looked at the NAEP results, and I think it was Detroit had three percent of kids, and I think they were eighth graders who were proficient in math, three percent. It's like, wow, the pandemic was pretty bad. Well, before the pandemic was …”