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Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply
- ▶ 0:54 Gavin Baker It has more gold, silver, platinum, every precious metal in it that exists in the Earth's crust.
Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World
- ▶ 9:10 Travis Kalanick Um, uh, more productive minds to power Earth's industries.
NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin, and The Race to The Moon | Jared Isaacman on The a16z Show
- ▶ 1:15 Jared Isaacman On that note, in the weeks ahead, America will send the brave Artemis II astronauts potentially farther into space than any humans have ever traveled in generations flying around the moon on a ten-day mission to test the Space Launch…
- ▶ 17:56 Morgan Brennan Can they deliver as quickly as you need them to, especially if we're talking about low Earth orbit rendezvous and they're developed for something deeper space? 2 times in the scene
Inside The $100M Bet on the Future of Space | Northwood CEO on a16z
- ▶ 0:00 Bridget Mendler Every satellite requires a connection point back to Earth.
- ▶ 6:10 Bridget Mendler You know, the problem that we're solving is, for every satellite, it requires a connection point back to Earth so that they can, ah, control the spacecraft. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:40 Bridget Mendler And then that connectivity back to Earth is really critical, and being able to kind of orchestrate and network all of that connectivity is really important.
- ▶ 28:18 Bridget Mendler Right now, when we talk about space missions, um, you're thinking of, like, low Earth orbit through to geostationary orbit. 3 times in the scene
The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- ▶ 1:55 Alex Rampell But the fact is, you now have, you know, eight billion humans on planet Earth, the vast majority of whom have smartphones, and the adoption of this new technology is taking off like never before, so the AI layer, the, the AI era is here.
Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)
- ▶ 3:29 Alex Rampell Like the Earth, you notice the gravity.
Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire
- ▶ 36:58 Sam Altman It should be the cheapest form of energy on earth, like, or anywhere.
Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money
- ▶ 17:42 Balaji Srinivasan How many concepts were encoded in language that could be learned even to the point of like rough world models of like, you know, the map of the earth or the proximity of things.
Founders, Media, & Memes: a16z’s Strategy for the Future | a16z LP Summit 2025
- ▶ 10:14 Marc Andreessen And so, so we've been, we've been living, you know, those of us who've been on, on planet Earth for, you know, more than 20 years or something, have been living life, basically, in this extended television show.
Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
- ▶ 27:46 Ben Horowitz There's just very few people on Earth that are top two in anything.
How Fei-Fei Li Is Rebuilding AI for the Real World
- ▶ 13:28 Fei-Fei Li Of course, I think what, one thing that's very exciting for me is that for the entirety of human civilization, we all collectively as people lived in one, three D world, and that is the physical earth, three D world.
AI at the Intersection of Bio | Vijay Pande, Surya Ganguli & Bowen Liu
- ▶ 22:23 Vijay Pande I think the second aspect is that life on Earth is evolvable.
Big Ideas 2024: A New Age of Maritime Exploration with Grant Gregory
- ▶ 3:06 unnamed speaker All right, Grant, you say that we know more about the surface of Mars than we do about our own planet seabed. 2 times in the scene
The Unanswered Questions of Space: Quantum Entanglement, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy
- ▶ 6:27 John Mather Ah, and when you look at the history of Earth, you see the history of the different forms of life growing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:43 John Mather Earth is 8000 miles across.
The Evolution of the Satellite Economy
- ▶ 12:50 John Gedmark So, you know, there's enormous amount of value up there and it's in this real estate, which is this belt that, uh, surrounds the earth that, uh, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:14 unnamed speaker And then also just like, tell me a little bit more about this question of just how many people on earth actually don't have access to internet. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:58 John Gedmark Same thing as, uh, on the earth.
Universally Accessible Intelligence with Character.ai's Noam Shazeer
- ▶ 13:46 Noam Shazeer So two times 10 to the 21 divide by like eight times 10 to the nine people on Earth. 3 times in the scene
AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
- ▶ 58:21 Marc Andreessen And the, and the theory goes that basically, like, it's going to get so good at making paperclips that at some point it's going to harvest every atom on Earth, right? 2 times in the scene
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 9:49 Peter Diamandis You know, the, um, the analogy I use, Steph, is, you know, sixty-five million years ago, an asteroid hit the Earth.
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 2)
- ▶ 35:44 Ryan McEntush Beyond Earth, infrastructure must be built to service existing assets in orbit and power more ambitious missions to deep space. 6 times in the scene
Building for Tomorrow with Jason Feifer
- ▶ 34:01 Steph Smith Like, I have problems on Earth.
a16z Podcast: Best Clips of 2022
- ▶ 29:10 Steph Smith Here, they talk about the problem of space pollution, but also the impact that space has here on Earth and the challenge of space governance, an issue that's becoming more and more important as lower Earth orbit becomes more crowded, but… 5 times in the scene
The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
- ▶ 21:48 Steph Smith One of them is this idea of space that many people think is a frivolous endeavor, but what happens in space directly impacts what happens on Earth.
- ▶ 1:06:34 Steph Smith Like, we can pursue space, the technologies will hopefully return back to things on Earth, but also we can pursue space and pursue improving climate change and pursue AI and pursue insert other exciting thing here, right? 4 times in the scene
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 53:38 Balaji Srinivasan and you saw like somebody walking in New York, right?
Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah on the Data Highway Above
- ▶ 1:30 Steph Smith But the reality is that not all space is the same, and there are strategic zones that don't only matter up there, but also down here on Earth. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:24 Steve Wozniak It's all connected because we down on earth, I'm sure Mariba told you this, we down on earth use so many things from space from, you know, you know, weather review to, um, flight conditions to, um, um, GPS to our cell phones. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:35 Steve Wozniak Oh, it was, uh, two days ago, August, no, the birthday should be when the earth is around the sun at the same place.
- ▶ 25:27 Steph Smith And us on Earth, we're all distributed, but Earth feels so small compared to space, right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:08 Steph Smith Us on earth, whether it be things actually coming down to earth or impacting the satellites or infrastructure that we use on earth up there in space. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:46 Steph Smith I'm curious to know, though, we've seen the price of launching a kilogram into lower earth orbit go down dramatically over the years. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:37 Dr. Moriba Jah That's not even talking about Earth observation with, I don't know, monitoring climate change, hydrology and agriculture, wars in Ukraine, that sort of stuff. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:43 Alex Fielding These are global services that we as humans need so we can keep space accessible, uh, so that someday we can, we can utilize space better to cure planet earth and some of the, the ails that we have caused on it.
- ▶ 1:19:28 Alex Fielding And, you know, there are a lot of things that on, on planet earth that are technology projects that I really don't care about.
Why Technology Still Matters with Marc Andreessen
- ▶ 1:06:03 Marc Andreessen Traveling across space, and like, we should know about others, and like, basically, what, why aren't, you know, why is it still after all this time with all these radio telescopes, it's just still, you know, humanity on planet Earth, and…
Better Together: Humanity + Machine Learning
- ▶ 0:47 Frank Chen And we're going to be the also ran species on planet earth.
a16z Podcast | Ancient Dreams of Technology, Gods & Robots
- ▶ 7:59 Adrienne Mayer The very first robot to walk the earth was the bronze robot named Talos. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:44 Adrienne Mayer Yes, but when Hephaestus made things that would be sent to Earth, that's when problems arise. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:05 Adrienne Mayer Pandora comes down to Earth, she is escorted to Earth by Zeus's messenger Hermes, and Hermes 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What's at the Core of the Latest Apple Announcement?
- ▶ 21:29 Steven Sinofsky And they, to me, their planning, when it all does come together, very much resembles sort of landing a person on the moon, though obviously not in scale and complexity, in that they, they're like, congratulate us, we orbited around the…
a16z Podcast | Space -- the Near Frontier
- ▶ 2:23 Steve Smith And now there are a couple of vendors where the rocket comes back to earth. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:29 Dan Birkenstock And now with, you know, several billion dollars invested across maybe 10 or 20 of these companies, a tremendous set of capabilities have been demonstrated from monitoring the earth, its atmosphere, watching ships, taking pictures, sending…
- ▶ 10:03 Dan Birkenstock You know, the, the earth and its environment, as well as the things that move around it on a daily basis.
a16z Podcast | The Strategies and Tactics of Big
- ▶ 6:28 Steven Sinofsky The episode is, as everybody knows, that the Squire of Gothos is out there, and he's got some fancy radar sonar thing, and he can see what Earth is like hundreds of years ago, and he replicates it for the, for the landing crew, but all of…
a16z Podcast | Making a (Really) Wild Geo-Engineering Idea Real
- ▶ 5:32 Sonal Chokshi What just blew my mind is Yuval Harari paints this picture of how humans are basically the worst predators in Earth's history, and that, and we're so tiny relative to these huge megafauna, both on land and in water, from like huge woolly… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Future of... You
- ▶ 11:16 unnamed speaker And what we look at and say, well, nature's really done a hell of a job, uh, without us on this planet.
a16z Podcast | Brains, Bodies, Minds ... and Techno-Religions
- ▶ 0:59 Sonal Chokshi In fact, our entire evolution of all the species on earth has ever seen because it allowed us to essentially bypass evolutionary adaptations where we could become seafarers without having to grow gills like a fish, for example.
a16z Podcast | New Year, New Horizons -- Pluto!
- ▶ 4:09 Ivan Linscott It's going to have to be transmitted from the Earth, not to spacecraft.
- ▶ 6:33 Ivan Linscott You can't use solar power because the square of the distance, and so 40 squared is 1600th, so you get one 1600th of the power of the Sun that you would get at the Earth's orbit, and that's not enough.
- ▶ 15:06 Ivan Linscott We were initially offered a chance to implement our new technology for, um, acquisition of the signal from, that was transmitted from the Earth to the spacecraft.
- ▶ 24:41 Ivan Linscott So we transmit from the Earth, um, with the Deep Space Nets, uh, stations, which are, there are three of them that ring the Earth, and we use two of them because at the time of the encounter, Pluto is up above the horizon for Goldstone,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:59 Ivan Linscott When the spacecraft goes safe, those are not good words because it meant that something, something went wrong and the spacecraft tucked its head under its wings and, and shut everything off and tried to find out where earth was and, and,…
- ▶ 40:49 Ivan Linscott The interesting aspect, I think, of operations at the DISH was in order to facilitate the tracking, in some cases they wanted to track satellites that were Earth orbit, and so you want to be able to 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Knowledge Builds Technology and Technology Builds Knowledge -- with Joel Mokyr
- ▶ 1:02 Joel Mokyr And, you know, the principles on which that engine was built were not known a century earlier, because these are called atmospheric engines, and the idea that the Earth is surrounded by an atmosphere, which sounds kind of commonplace to…
a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- ▶ 13:09 Benedict Evans There's only one and a half billion PCs on Earth, and Apple has nine hundred million iOS devices out there.
a16z Podcast | Mastering the Game (with David Oyelowo)
- ▶ 7:56 David Oyelowo Having been in films that I have seen impact culture, you know, educate people, enlighten people, bring people joy, help them reevaluate or evaluate their lives, I have basically set myself the remit that, for me, I have to use this tool…
- ▶ 13:43 David Oyelowo On planet Earth, who can completely pass for a Ugandan corn seller in the slums of Cartway, she can pass for it.
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Case of Invisible But Audible Innovation
- ▶ 28:58 Steven Sinofsky It's important to remember, like Apple is also, they make devices, but they're a platform company too, and quite often the way that you make a platform is you build out some infrastructure, and you have an idea of where it's heading, but…
a16z Podcast | Sleep!
- ▶ 1:43 Ariana Huffington And then if you look through history, that's happened many times, you know, going back all the way to us believing that the earth is flat.
a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
- ▶ 24:21 Benedict Evans There's one and a half billion PCs on Earth. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential
- ▶ 0:18 Michael Copeland Baumgartner's return trip to Earth lasted just over nine minutes, but there was seven years of preparation that came before that.
- ▶ 37:54 Andy Walsh So as luck would have it, we finally got Felix out of the capsule, down to earth safely,
a16z Podcast | The Future of Food
- ▶ 11:01 Chris Dixon Um, we were consuming, you know, 80% of fresh water on earth is used by, um, agriculture. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:13 Rob Reinhart It's almost, it's something that would work just as well in space or on Mars as on Earth. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:41 Rob Reinhart You know, uh, of a natural food product and how it works, and then we think about, you know, how is it meeting our needs, and, uh, what can we do to, um, you know, make, make, uh, what can we do to produce it so that it, um, uses fewer of…
a16z Podcast | What Comes After the Smartphone
- ▶ 0:23 Michael Copeland When you have already gotten to everybody on Earth, what comes along next that is 10 X the size?
a16z Podcast | A Copernican Update ... In Tech, the Smartphone is the Center
- ▶ 11:17 Benedict Evans And so this is the thing, there are five billion adults on Earth out of about seven billion people, and depending on what estimates you make, there are between, say, four, three and a half to four billion, and maybe four and a half to five… 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Rise of the Quasi-IPO
- ▶ 24:03 Benedict Evans And that comes with it a shift from there being about one and a half billion PCs on earth to four or five billion smartphones on earth, perhaps depending on what estimates you make.
a16z Podcast | For Google, Android is a Tactic and Cloud is a Strategy
- ▶ 25:22 Benedict Evans Um, there are, as it might be, two to two and a half, two, two and a bit billion people on Earth today who have a smartphone. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Software and Overcoming the Randomness of Birthplace
- ▶ 9:00 Sten Tamkivi And this is where the most interesting arbitrage happens, is that while this income bit is becoming loosely, uh, tied or, or detached from location, and is happening on the internet increasingly, if you look at the cost side, uh, then it's…
a16z Podcast | When Your PC Expires, What's Next?
- ▶ 4:09 Benedict Evans Yeah, I think that's right, and we're seeing, obviously we're seeing an explosion in smartphone sales now, and so there are about one and a half billion smartphones on earth now, and we'll go up to maybe three billion, and they'll be…
a16z Podcast | Where is the Technology That "Matters?" Right Here
- ▶ 12:18 Benedict Evans So there are, as it might be, 1.5 billion PCs on Earth now.
Nature as Technology
- ▶ 1:00 unnamed speaker The most biodiverse climate on this planet is the Amazon River Basin, and you might be surprised to know, at least I was surprised to find out, that you can trace the origins of this biodiversity to the fertility of the soil,
- ▶ 2:30 unnamed speaker This has taken 3.1000000000 years since the, the start and the evolution of, of life on Earth.
- ▶ 5:27 unnamed speaker So imagine then that we were able to use that shark skin and apply it to all the marine transport vessels on this planet.
- ▶ 8:23 unnamed speaker So every surface of a plant that you see growing above the surface of the earth is covered with this thin barrier.
- ▶ 11:10 unnamed speaker Now, we could go try to find a second Earth, and there are people trying to do this. 2 times in the scene
The End of the Beginning
- ▶ 0:19 Benedict Evans The access story is reaching the end because we've connected three quarters of people on Earth, and we're going to connect all of the rest.
The Oral History of TrialPay -- Obstacles and Opportunities in Payments
- ▶ 43:58 Alex Rampell There would be a lot of repercussions for it, but in many, in many respects, this is kind of like the, the incumbents of the 200 plus nations on Earth, they've been doing this kind of print money, um, thing for a long time, so I, I don't,…
Decrypting Crypto: From Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs
- ▶ 6:23 Alex Rampell So if you were to graph every country on Earth by energy usage, the 71st most energy-using country, so this is ahead of a 120 other ones,
10 Year Futures (vs. What's Happening Now)
- ▶ 0:30 Benedict Evans And mobile phones today are close to connecting pretty much everybody on Earth.
Kathryn McKinley
- ▶ 0:16 Kathryn McKinley It's the fastest man on earth, 24 miles per hour.
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2016
- ▶ 0:22 Benedict Evans There's about five and a half billion people on earth over 14. 2 times in the scene
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2015
- ▶ 0:24 Benedict Evans But mobile is a product that gets sold to pretty much everybody on Earth.
- ▶ 1:28 Benedict Evans That means that by 20 20 of about seven billion people on earth and a bit over five billion adults, over four billion will have a mobile phone, and almost all of those will have converted to a smartphone, and as you can see that's really…
- ▶ 2:14 Benedict Evans And so, if you count up all the phones that Apple sold at the launch weekend for the iPhone six, you get about 25 times more CPU transistors than were in all the PCs on Earth in 1995. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:24 Benedict Evans And so what you see here first is global handset sales, and Apple has about 15% of all the phones sold on Earth, and Android is the next 50 to 60%, and then the rest are feature phones that are converting very fast to those 35 dollar…
- ▶ 15:18 Benedict Evans And so there will be two or three times more smartphones and PCs on Earth by 20 20, but you have to multiply those smartphones and discount the PCs.
- ▶ 16:08 Benedict Evans WhatsApp is doing about twenty billion messages a day, and the entire global SMS system of every mobile operator on Earth is doing about twenty billion.
- ▶ 17:49 Benedict Evans About five billion square foot of screen will be sold this year, so roughly one square foot for every adult on Earth.
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2014
- ▶ 0:23 Benedict Evans But as we go to mobile, for the first time, the tech industry is selling to everybody on Earth. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:32 Benedict Evans They did about 25 times more transistors than were in all the computers on Earth back in 1995.
- ▶ 13:05 Benedict Evans That is to say, because of all of the scale effects and all the changes in the dynamics, because of this enormous opportunity of everybody on earth for the first time being a customer of the technology industry, in effect what happens is…