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Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
- ▶ 2:16 Alex Rampell The Europeans somehow got their savings.
Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply
- ▶ 27:10 Gavin Baker It's now 25 bucks in Europe and Asia or 20 bucks or whatever it is.
- ▶ 42:39 Gavin Baker You'll see, you know, whatever European country is like the least bureaucratic at the time, you'll see one there.
How Cursor Built One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies
- ▶ 24:32 Martin Casado It's like, how often was Oscar, you know, hey, I'm on a red-eye to Europe to close, so I'm like, literally, like, IC engineer.
The Opportunity for Global Founders
- ▶ 7:09 Gabriel Vasquez So we started seeing this trend happening in pretty much in every country, you know, you can extrapolate it to Europe or, or Asia, and it's pretty much the same, which is like, where are, where are the smartest people from my country?
- ▶ 18:54 Gabriel Vasquez So, you know, this is, this is a company that started out of Europe in the UK, but it has Polish founders.
How Whatnot's Live Shopping Beats Traditional E-Commerce
- ▶ 26:04 David George It's, it's, it's one of the great and probably lesser known, less covered stories of small business empowerment in the US and increasingly now in Europe, which we can talk about, but it's, uh, it's super exciting.
Tokens Are the New Dollars | Stripe's Will Gaybrick & David George
- ▶ 4:38 Will Gaybrick The US, let's say they have an entity in Europe, they are the seller of record, but, you know, in long-tail markets, you know, the Kazakhstan and, you know, all over, um, APAC, uh, where they, you know, haven't sort of entities, you know,…
Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World
- ▶ 18:27 Travis Kalanick Well, there was a strike across all of Europe and all the major European cities.
Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
- ▶ 1:28:07 Ben Horowitz Yeah, otherwise we'd be Europe.
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 11:58 Qasar Younis If you look just at the example of, of, uh, Waymo from America and Pony from China trying to deploy in, let's say, the other countries, so not America, not Europe, not China, every one of those, uh, spaces
Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
- ▶ 53:21 Seema Amble You know, type of opening versus in Europe, et cetera.
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 56:06 Benedict Evans And the answer is, well, it depends which mark, whether you're in America or Europe or India or China.
Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
- ▶ 8:32 Marc Rowan But began to diversify our business to US and European and international institutions, and the rest, as they say, is, is history, but it was a pretty contained history for about 18 years.
- ▶ 10:26 Marc Rowan Um, the second is we are the largest source of financing for this global industrial renaissance that is taking place across the US primarily, but across Europe and Asia and elsewhere.
Goldman Sachs Chairman on Why Finance Adopts AI Differently | a16z
- ▶ 10:17 David Haber It was really a business, at least from my vantage point, you know, built brick by brick, that kind of generations of entrepreneurial partners, you know, raising their hands, going off and building, you know, Europe, or the merchant…
Marc Andreessen’s Worldview in 60 Minutes | Live on MTS
- ▶ 30:20 Marc Andreessen Um, and, and then, of course, Europe is, is going to run the opposite, you know, test, which is they're going to try to prevent all this from happening, and, and again, I think the data's already in there, um, which is they're, you know,…
Digital Freedom, AI Regulation, and the Fight for the Western Internet | The a16z Show
- ▶ 3:16 Katherine Boyle Um, when the U.S. says it supports internet freedom abroad, and you've been very vocal about this, and, and even places like Europe, you know, what does it mean in practice?
- ▶ 12:22 Sarah Rogers We engage with Europe on these issues because we want our European allies to be safe, strong, and prosperous like us, not just so that they can defend themselves vis-a-vis NATO, but because we comprise one civilization and we have a lot of…
- ▶ 19:37 Sarah Rogers One is just not to create, uh, regulatory cudgels that can be wielded in a capricious, arbitrary way, um, like we've seen in Europe with this blue check investigation, for example, um, or like we've seen in some of these debanking cases.
Marc Andreessen on how the internet changed news, politics, and outrage | The a16z Show
- ▶ 16:10 Marc Andreessen Um, and then in all of the violent riots of the sixties and seventies, you know, which were kind of, you know, super crazy, both, you know, across the U S and Europe.
- ▶ 22:30 Marc Andreessen and then you go back further than that, you've got the, you know, the, the Democratic Revolutions, uh, all through Europe, and then you've got the, you know, the, the Gutenberg printing press kicking off all kinds of violence, you know,… 2 times in the scene
OpenClaw, Claude Code, and the Future of Software | Peter Yang on The a16z Show
- ▶ 28:23 unnamed speaker Maybe we get like the European style four day work week.
Palantir CTO on The SaaS Apocalypse & Preventing The Next World War | a16z
- ▶ 34:03 Shyam Sankar Europe has created exactly zero companies from scratch in the last 50 years worth more than a hundred billion euro. 2 times in the scene
Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 16:49 Olivia Moore In some, even some of like the European countries, um, or Eastern Europe, it's like 50, 40, 45, 60% on, on smaller bases, but they've kind of embraced it more quickly than we have here.
AI Markets: Deep Dive with a16z's David George
- ▶ 41:54 David George So the collective valuation of North American and European unicorns is about five and a half trillion dollars.
From $0 to $11B: The ElevenLabs Story
- ▶ 4:21 ElevenLabs Engineer I was actually, like, ranked 250 or something on the, on the European leaderboard.
How Truemed Is Incentivizing Americans to Invest in Prevention
- ▶ 7:43 Justin Mares I mean, the US, our food system relative to like Europe or something like that, uh, Europe, many, you know, their countries are smaller. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:12 Justin Mares Uh, then I, I would take a much stronger stance, one much, much more similar to that that Europe takes, um, when it comes to like certain environmental toxins, chemical regulation, things like that.
Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Years
- ▶ 1:25 unnamed speaker Brick by brick by generations of entrepreneurial partners raising their hand, going off and building new businesses, whether it was expanding into Europe or starting the merchant banking business or the wealth management division, you…
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 37:11 Marc Andreessen Okay, and this is the backdrop to all the US stuff, which is the EU passed this bill called the AI Act, I don't know, whatever, two years ago, and it basically has killed AI development, and, well, it's actually killed AI development in… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:30 Marc Andreessen And you could say XAI is one of those, uh, Mistral, uh, by the way, Mistral is the great outlier to my Europe 2 times in the scene
The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
- ▶ 37:36 Russ Fraden I was in the UK in July, uh, and, uh, I went on a bunch of sales calls and I was talking to someone at a bank, very large, very regular European bank is among the most regulated folks in the world. 4 times in the scene
Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
- ▶ 38:32 David Ulevitch You know, one other thing I would add is that, um, and you've seen this, actually, you know, when JD Vance went and gave a speech in Europe, I think at the Munich Security Conference, he really said, like, it's time for Europe to step up… 6 times in the scene
Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?
- ▶ 37:57 Amjad Masad It seems clear that we're not, uh, in this, um, globalized era, and perhaps it's gonna get much worse, and so investing in the foundation, in the open AI of, of Europe might be a good idea, and like, similarly, China being an entirely…
ElevenLabs CEO: Why Voice is the Next AI Interface
- ▶ 7:09 Mati Staniszewski Um, and we, we, we, I think 11 Labs wouldn't have existed if we weren't starting from Europe. 5 times in the scene
Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China
- ▶ 0:00 David Sacks The Europeans, I mean, they have a really different mindset for all of this stuff. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:12 David Sacks Not 50 separate state markets, like, kind of, you know, Europe before the EU wasn't competitive at all on the internet because it's 30 different regulatory regimes, and so, you know, if you're a European startup, and even if you won your… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:36 Marc Andreessen Like, basically, I think everything we've talked about so far is basically the opposite of the European approach. 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: How Movies Explain America
- ▶ 54:37 Marc Andreessen Um, and, but then a lot of the other key members of the, uh, Manhattan Project, you know, kind of in one of the great twists of irony, were, um, Hungarian-Jewish refugees from, you know, from, from basically the Nazi, kind of rampaged…
- ▶ 1:02:20 Marc Andreessen Um, and so basically, like, everybody, everybody in sort of the military political establishment in 1945 kind of took it for granted that there was going to be World War III with the Soviet Union at some point, um, and it was going to be a…
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 2:34 Keith Rabois He's probably more right than wrong, and so you still, if you're gonna build one for Germany or Europe or Israel or wherever, you're still gonna need a critical density of those 150 people to be able to compete
- ▶ 10:34 Keith Rabois Basically, post-World War II, we sort of intentionally sabotaged our growth and harmonized it with, let's say, Europe, people rebuilding, and made an explicit trade-off to do that, and then just forgot that 50, 60, 70, 8090 years have…
- ▶ 42:59 Keith Rabois Like, one of the best investments I've ever made is a company in Europe, uh, called Trade Republic. 3 times in the scene
Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire
- ▶ 27:16 Sam Altman I hope we'll only focus the regulatory burden on that stuff and not all of the wonderful stuff that less capable models can do that you could just have like a European style complete cramp down on
- ▶ 35:00 Ben Horowitz and, you know, worse so in Europe than in the US, but also dangerous here, and now with AI here,
The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
- ▶ 44:10 Steven Sinofsky Germany, you know, one of the things that always through the seventies and eighties that surprised Americans was, why are there so many German cars all over Europe when they would go visit Europe? 2 times in the scene
Software is Eating Labor
- ▶ 5:03 Alex Rampell Amadeus did this for Europe.
Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture
- ▶ 45:49 Doge Cubuk Many of it is in Europe, for example, although the novel synthesis methods.
The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
- ▶ 37:44 Katherine Boyle Like it's, it's not like you have to be, uh, you know, like when we were growing up, if you, if you knew someone who went to Europe, you were like, seriously?
Taking Bold Bets: NIH and the Future of Biomedical Science
- ▶ 5:05 Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Like, we have worse outcomes in the United States than Europe does.
- ▶ 34:12 Erik Torenberg What, why, why are some European countries doing better? 2 times in the scene
Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
- ▶ 20:47 Dylan Patel Whether it be, uh, the Middle East or Southeast Asia or South Asia or Europe or LATAM, right?
Oren Cass & Noah Smith Debate the True Impact of Tariffs
- ▶ 0:25 Noah Smith Obsessively on the trade deficits and surpluses, on the imbalances, on the net amount, but basically the more important effect is the gross, the total, the total amount of exporting that we're able to do, you know, and so in that sense,…
- ▶ 28:10 Noah Smith I think that that would be a wise thing to do because, you know, Japanese manufacturing and European manufacturing don't actually threaten America.
- ▶ 47:13 Noah Smith We need Europe and Japan and Korea and maybe India, which is the biggest country of them all, uh, to, to partner with us so that we can scale, but that requires some reciprocity, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:28 Oren Cass It was sort of like, well, what else can we bribe them with? 2 times in the scene
Dylan Patel on GPT-5’s Router Moment, GPUs vs TPUs, Monetization
- ▶ 46:44 Dylan Patel But outside, like it's like in Europe, like that number's not moving up that fast and like all these other countries, I think.
Marc Andreessen: The US is in a AI Arms Race & It Decides The World's Future
- ▶ 1:06 Joe Lonsdale It's a gathering of a lot of top leaders who are interested in capitalism, in markets, in American dynamism, and really has kind of a more pro builder mindset than we see in Europe.
- ▶ 15:20 Marc Andreessen You know, in Europe, it's, it's, you know, their, you know, their, their other kind of clientele underclass that they've developed in places like Paris.
- ▶ 19:09 Marc Andreessen And then, by the way, the US is benefiting a lot, because Europe has basically made AI illegal. 2 times in the scene
AI Content and the War for Your Attention
- ▶ 9:57 Antonio García Martínez I mean, just as like a tourist in Europe, the fact that literally you have a line of people taking selfies in front of the thing, right?
Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
- ▶ 57:14 Adam Neumann Everyone's doing it in Europe.
Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
- ▶ 19:57 unnamed speaker We're a U.S. firm, American dynamism, ah, you know, Europe, when it's not shooting itself in the foot, reg, regulation wise, you know, they're increasing their, ah, defense spend, ah, you know, could you imagine, ah, uh, Europe dynamism… 6 times in the scene
Sovereign AI: Why Nations Are Building Their Own Models
- ▶ 10:06 Anish Acharya So, you know, post-World War II, when Europe was completely decimated, there was a group of really enterprising, you know, folks in the private sector and the public sector who got together and said, hey, we, we can either choose to turn… 4 times in the scene
The Software Crisis Behind America's Infrastructure
- ▶ 1:18 Philip Buckendorf Um, I knew I wanna be in a fast-paced, demanding environment, um, but what I found in Europe was, like, most of my friends just wanted to party, um, uh, Germany just
JD Vance on the Future of America
- ▶ 19:56 J.D. Vance Uh, in town this week for meetings with our government, and one of the things they consistently hammer upon is something that unfortunately too few of our European allies tend to get, is that if you want to lead in artificial intelligence,…
Can the Military Move at Startup Speed? How the Army and Navy Are Rebuilding
- ▶ 18:33 Alex Miller So that's what we've been doing with some of our brigades that have been in Europe and in the Pacific and, and frankly, going in and out of the Middle East still.
- ▶ 41:51 Justin Fanelli We have folks, um, over in, uh, in Europe right now, like, working with some of the startup founders to say, um, hey, here is a breakthrough.
- ▶ 45:51 Alex Miller In Europe, we're doing this thing called Project Flytrap.
Jensen Huang & Arthur Mensch: Why Every Nation Needs Its Own AI Strategy
- ▶ 38:25 Arthur Mensch And effectively, if, um, if there's some export control over weight, uh, this is not going to stop any country, uh, in Europe, any, any country in Asia to, to continue its progress.
The Future of Health Insurance in a Work Remote World
- ▶ 2:22 Chris Ellis The first 10 years of it, it was like a super niche product that nobody used, and, um, it wasn't actually until World War II, where you had a lot of the labor market going to fight in Europe, and you had Congress issuing a wage freeze, and…
Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startups
- ▶ 42:57 Marc Andreessen Well, this is why this is, as people watching geopolitics will know, this, this is a big factor in German, in, uh, in Europe now, and relative to the war, the, uh. 3 times in the scene
Marc & Ben on AI Policy, Safety, Censorship & Unexpected Risks
- ▶ 51:05 Ben Horowitz Not that way in Europe. 3 times in the scene
AI, Robotics & the New Global Arms Race
- ▶ 20:41 Marc Andreessen And so that both the, both the U S and the Europeans already are like slapping big import duties on these cars to try to prevent them from coming in.
- ▶ 25:28 Ben Horowitz Or in Europe, by the way. 2 times in the scene
The Quest for Community-Trained Open Source AI Models
- ▶ 1:06:00 Jeff Schmidt So would it be possible to have like an interconnected, like hub in every continent where they're communicating more frequently and then there's less communication to sort of the more disparate elements from like the North America to… 2 times in the scene
Why Human Data is Key to AI: Alexandr Wang from Scale AI
- ▶ 10:30 Alexandr Wang This is before all this generative AI work, but there was, you know, um, at one point Meta did some research, uh, that utilized basically all the Instagram photo, all the public Instagram photos along with their, um, hashtags, uh, uh, to… 2 times in the scene
Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- ▶ 50:05 Ben Horowitz And I think that we've seen that in Europe where they've basically eliminated, you know, almost all innovation through this idea of the precautionary principle, trying to like stop the future before it happens.
- ▶ 1:02:20 Marc Andreessen I mean, you know, Europe, Europe is, Europe is the, Europe is the, um, you know, is the, is the, is the, um, the Dickens, uh, the ghost of Christmas future. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 26:39 Marc Andreessen So, so basically it was, you know, first of all, it was like a hundred percent people in the West, um, you know, overwhelmingly the US and Europe.
Zach Perret (Plaid) & Simon Khalaf (Marqeta): New Applications in Fintech
- ▶ 1:49 Zach Perret Um, our, our European team is doing a bunch of work on it because there are, you know, there's no FCRA, um, uh, in most of Europe, and, uh, so I think that one will have a major shift.
- ▶ 10:05 Zach Perret We're in this interesting inflection year where pay by bank, um, is getting a lot of tailwind, kind of, a lot of, uh, kind of, initial conversation traction, um, due to, um, basically FedNow and RTP, so these faster payment mechanisms, uh,…
- ▶ 21:23 Zach Perret Uh, so, in, in, in, in Europe there have been these rules, uh, that, that basically force banks to have APIs to allow consumers to collect their transaction data, uh, to set up a basic payment, so on and so forth, uh, kind of a, a basic… 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 14:35 Marc Andreessen Then there's kind of the classic European approach, which is the opposite, which is everything is prohibited except for that which is specifically permitted, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:26 Andrew Chen Um, you know, how active can, you know, a Tencent or a NetEase or, you know, one of those be, and, you know, how easy or hard is it to launch the products in, in Europe?
AI, Robotics & the Future of Manufacturing
- ▶ 30:53 Marc Andreessen Cause you end up with, uh, especially when you end up basically with, you essentially bring the unions onto the board, um, at a lot of like European multinationals, and then you basically bring European, you bring, sorry, union politics… 2 times in the scene
Jeff Sloan (Global Payments): Placing Multiple Bets on ‘Mosaic of Solutions’
- ▶ 29:54 Jeff Sloan We, um, uh, cut some of the investments that we were planning to make in the UK, not in Europe, you know, but really in the UK.
Marco Argenti (Goldman Sachs): Turning Developers into Clients
- ▶ 4:38 Marco Argenti You know, I actually moved to Europe where a friend of mine was doing an IPO of a company, and he acquired a mobile company almost like as an afterthought.
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 1:12:38 Marc Andreessen And European ones, exactly.
- ▶ 1:16:37 Marc Andreessen And so look, I would say that this is where you get to like the really, really big geopolitical long-term issue, which is basically my understanding of things is, is, is sort of as follows, which is, you know, basically the, the, for a…
- ▶ 1:32:11 Marc Andreessen Um, are European AI companies becoming less interesting investment targets for US-based VCs due to the strict and predictably unpredictable regulatory landscape in Europe? 8 times in the scene
The Electric Grid, Explained
- ▶ 8:59 Ryan McEntush In Europe, it's like 50, I believe, and I think in Japan it's 50 as well.
America Needs More Techno-Optimism, with Marc Andreessen and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 16:16 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, I would say Europe, 3 times in the scene
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 47:31 Marc Andreessen Well, the regulatory, the regulatory apparatus in both the US and in Europe seems to actually want that, right?
- ▶ 1:32:31 Marc Andreessen Um, and you know, as you guys know, in the U S it's very hard, you know, in Europe, they have coalition governments, they have many more political parties. 2 times in the scene
Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist
- ▶ 8:53 Marc Andreessen and then, you know, throughout certainly most of Europe as well.
- ▶ 53:15 Marc Andreessen By the way, France just got, I mean, the European politics are so entertaining on this, because France is so pro-nuclear, and the rest of Europe is so anti-nuclear.
The Evolution of the Satellite Economy
- ▶ 29:34 John Gedmark Over Europe.
What is the Future of Hollywood?
- ▶ 23:06 Ben Horowitz I mean, it's a little like, you know, music or, and if you've ever been to Europe, you'll go to a like bar or restaurant and they'll have an Adele song, but it won't be Adele singing it.
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