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Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 25:42 Qasar Younis It's like, they're like, how dare you, you metal-bending monkey from Detroit?
- ▶ 1:10:20 Qasar Younis I mean, the funny thing is, I was, I was just saying like, well, well, people in like the suburbs of Detroit, actually, that passes the test.
The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
- ▶ 48:31 Alex Rampell Um, it might not like this does not mean that like, you know, what, what happened to Detroit? 2 times in the scene
Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
- ▶ 53:25 Marc Andreessen Yeah, so I grew, I grew up in, ah, sort of, it was described as light manufacturing country, um, in Wisconsin, so we were adjacent to, ah, Detroit, um, and we sort of viscerally experienced, you know, the decline and fall of Detroit, um,… 2 times in the scene
Rocket Companies CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis
- ▶ 27:20 Varun Krishna You know, we have, we've been around for a long time and, and we've grown, you know, we are, uh, one of the largest employers in Detroit.
The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
- ▶ 43:42 Steven Sinofsky And I, and I think that, like I said, my biggest worry is just, is, is complacency from our own, you know, like Detroit is the classic example of complacency in the U S where, you know, Japan made cars.
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 4:34 Aaron Levie And, and you shouldn't be able to kind of game and exploit the talent pools for saying, you know, now in Detroit, we can go wipe out IT jobs because we can go and offshore those.
Oren Cass & Noah Smith Debate the True Impact of Tariffs
- ▶ 55:44 Noah Smith You know, during the time that Detroit was facing this incredible competitive pressure, right, like you actually saw Americans buying more cars, and you saw people in these other countries buying more cars, and then
Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- ▶ 45:33 Steven Sinofsky Like, you know, even if you make cars in Detroit that are really manufactured and assembled in Canada, like, where do all the in-dash electronics and all the car computers come from?
Hey Tech, Come to Healthcare
- ▶ 32:35 Vijay Pande It's like, you know, will the electric car come from Detroit?
Mobilizing the American Industrial Base
- ▶ 10:23 Shyam Sankar If you go to the factory floor in Detroit, they're so proud of their ERP system, but on the factory floor, they're using Excel.
Autonomy is no longer a moonshot—it’s a market
- ▶ 31:35 Qasar Younis It's like, you know, me going to the General Motors Institute for undergrad, growing up in Detroit, working at GM and Bosch is the, you know, biggest tier one supplier in automotive.
AI, Robotics & the New Global Arms Race
- ▶ 5:58 Marc Andreessen Um, there is an ecosystem of basically parts, um, for making cars in Detroit.
The Quest for Community-Trained Open Source AI Models
- ▶ 4:05 Jeff Schmidt I actually, uh, I, I grew up in Detroit and worked in automotive for like 15 years.
AI, Robotics & the Future of Manufacturing
- ▶ 1:11:34 Ben Horowitz And if you look at Detroit, you know, Detroit quickly became a drug capital and a lot of it was, you know, like so many of the people on the assembly lines were just on drugs because the job was so damn boring.
Startup Building: Major Shifts in Tech & Culture
- ▶ 21:13 Ben Horowitz You know, you can't, like, why, it's not like what happened in Detroit, you know, where the cows go for five grand and that kind of thing.
Classroom 2050: Unleashing AI, XR, Gaming
Evolve or Die: The Future of the Creative Process, Artist Authenticity, and the Value of the Music
- ▶ 52:30 Doug E. Fresh He, he was in Detroit.
What's Next for the Internet?
- ▶ 11:01 Chris Dixon They were in Detroit, they were hacking.
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 0:15 Sonal Chokshi We also share some clarity on what levels of autonomy means there, including touching on regulatory aspects, and also discuss, quite frankly, capitalism, what cars mean nationalistically, and what it'll take to bridge the worlds of Silicon…
- ▶ 29:40 Sonal Chokshi Well, this begs a question, and Benedict often asks a similar question in his post on autonomy a lot, which is, you know, will Tesla become more like Detroit 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:58 Qasar Younis I think there's no path to autonomy that doesn't go through Silicon Valley and Detroit. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:09 Peter Ludwig Yeah, as well as in the Detroit area.
- ▶ 37:31 Sonal Chokshi Detroit could actually loosen some of the barriers, just like, you know, I think Governor Ducey's doing in Arizona, where you have, um, different cities offering different incentives and doing more experiments so that they can ensure the… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
- ▶ 36:14 Sonal Chokshi It makes me think a little bit of automotive and become, and traditional Detroit car companies trying to become autonomous car companies.
What's Next for Education Startups
- ▶ 39:17 D'Arcy Coolican Yeah, I mean, I think one, one, there's a really interesting company based in Detroit, which actually thinks of creating these kind of, um, like, they call them gyms, and the teachers are more like trainers, and everybody goes to this…
a16z Podcast | Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
- ▶ 4:32 Steven Sinofsky And it, this notion that, like, to innovate in cars, you know, you, you need to understand, like, cars more, and manufacturing, and to innovate in the software in cars, you need to understand software more if you're living in Detroit. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:48 Steven Sinofsky Well, and that's very similar, you know, the PC industry actually had this exact, 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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:25 Steven Sinofsky Like, this is exactly what Detroit did, has been doing for decades over electric. 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What's at the Core of the Latest Apple Announcement?
- ▶ 3:47 Benedict Evans That's sort of where Detroit is now.
a16z Podcast | Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?
- ▶ 4:33 Qasar Younis I'm from Detroit, and I grew up in that ecosystem.
- ▶ 12:31 Qasar Younis I grew up in the Detroit area.
a16z Podcast | The Case Study of Lyft and Local Governments
- ▶ 11:44 Matt Spence And that, you know, you don't have plants like GM on the ground in Detroit.
a16z Podcast | The Strategies and Tactics of Big
- ▶ 8:42 Steven Sinofsky In thinking about Detroit and cars in the fifties and the sixties.
- ▶ 20:18 Steven Sinofsky What, you know, back in the sixties, when, when Ford had the Mustang, you know, every Detroit company had a platform of four wheels and a high performance engine to make a car like that.
a16z Podcast | The Golden Era of Productivity, Retail, and Supply Chains
- ▶ 21:56 Mark Levinson They said, you know, our hourly labor cost in China is a lot cheaper than it is in Detroit.
a16z Podcast | Technology, Mobility, and the American Dream
- ▶ 34:33 Tyler Cowen So the idea that you move from Mississippi to Detroit, take a job in the automobile factory, it's mostly gone.
a16z Podcast | On Corporate Venturing & Setting Up 'Innovation Outposts'
- ▶ 30:47 Evangelos Simudis Completely obliterating it and making Silicon Valley the, you know, the next Detroit, it's hard for me to, to imagine that.
a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
- ▶ 27:56 Sonal Chokshi So for example, Detroit could decide to focus on drones, and another region could focus on biopharma, and in doing so, become specialists in a certain thing, and more importantly,
a16z Podcast | Your Worst Deeds Don’t Define You -- Life and Redemption in Prison
- ▶ 7:15 Shaka Senghor Um, so I, I grew up in the city of Detroit on the, on the east side, ah, in a neighborhood that, on the outside looking in, ah, was pretty much the model for black middle class America. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:06 Shaka Senghor And so he would, he would write these fascinating stories about the neighborhood he grew up in in Detroit, and they would be like, you know, 60, 70 pages of folded paper, and I would just like read these stories.
a16z Podcast | Software is What Distinguishes the Hardware Winners
- ▶ 21:39 Steven Sinofsky All of these companies, the Detroit companies in particular, North America, three quarters of their cars are light SUVs and, uh, or, you know, light trucks.
a16z Podcast | Using Social Tools to Build Homes for Those Most in Need
- ▶ 21:02 Michael Copeland Do you guys ever run into, so for example, in the auto industry, Tesla comes in and like, look, we're going to show Detroit how to make cars and Detroit's like, yeah, 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | When Software Eats Cars
- ▶ 26:50 Michael Copeland Well, made in Detroit, though, yes.
a16z Podcast | Getting That First Board Seat
- ▶ 12:41 Stacy Brown-Philpott A huge fan of roller coasters, and when I was a kid, I grew up in Detroit, and we used to go to this place called Cedar Point, which is in Ohio, and they have some, like, the world's tallest roller coasters at one point,
- ▶ 19:08 Stacy Brown-Philpott I think I've told my life story to every single board recruiter, never to an actual recruiter, but they all know I'm from Detroit.
a16z Podcast | Investing in Communities
- ▶ 23:39 Keisha Cash If you're, you know, a white man and you grew up in Silicon Valley, I don't expect you to know what's going on in, you know, necessarily in Detroit or what that community actually needs.
a16z Podcast | Guiding Startup Culture -- The Genius ISMs
- ▶ 30:37 Ilan Zechory She's a rapper out of Detroit.
a16z Podcast | What Makes the Valley Work
- ▶ 28:26 Marc Andreessen Like the expectation is not that you'll, you know, like Detroit, Detroit. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Secrets, Power Laws, and Technology – The Ideas of “Zero to One”
- ▶ 17:46 Blake Masters We need like a Silicon Valley in Detroit.
a16z Podcast | Google I/O -- A Three-Hour Tour (in 30 minutes)
- ▶ 6:23 Benedict Evans And, but then in America, it's more like 45, 55, and in San Francisco, it's more like 60, 65 iPhone, and then in Detroit, it's more like 60, 65% Android.
a16z Podcast | Mapping the Information Economy -- Where’s the Cloud Going Next?
- ▶ 3:40 Steven Sinofsky We're, we're seeing, like, in fact, the way that I used to talk about it was, was like, you could go to Detroit, and you could see these three car companies, and basically we used to think what really differentiated them was, you know, how… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Rise of Full Stack Startups
- ▶ 14:54 Chris Dixon Um, so the automobile in the automobile revolution, the first phase happened in Detroit.