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AI, Robotics & the Future of Manufacturing
- ▶ 17:27 Ben Horowitz In my view, like, if you can manage a soup company, you cannot manage, you know, meta. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:59 Ben Horowitz Um, and you know, I think this is something that every, I know, you know, on, on the meta board, I know they've been talking about this
- ▶ 48:46 Ben Horowitz Um, I mean, the one, one was, was Oculus, but Oculus got, you know, they sold relatively early to meta.
Build Your Startup With AI
- ▶ 16:10 Marc Andreessen And then specifically, um, not only that, but, you know, Meta, Meta and others recently have been talking about how so-called overtraining actually works, um, which is, uh, basically continuing to train the same model, um, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:59 Ben Horowitz For example, a company that you're familiar with Meta, um, uses its data to kind of great ends itself, feeding it into its own AI systems, optimizing its products in incredible ways.
- ▶ 1:18:00 Ben Horowitz And if you hit any one of those, like you funded, you know, probably the next set of companies, you know, which included things like, you know, Facebook and X and, you know, snap and all these things.
Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities
- ▶ 3:21 Ben Horowitz I don't know if you remember, Mark, where he was saying like one of the keys to Facebook at the time's growth team was that they had the exact, not just that they had a growth team, but they had the exact same people on it for years and…
- ▶ 35:37 Ben Horowitz I think, uh, Zuck did an amazing job in the early days for sure at Meta on that, um, where, you know, their onboarding program was so good that they were able to just
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 17:47 Marc Andreessen And, you know, Facebook and Google were the catalyst.
- ▶ 33:40 Marc Andreessen Uh, just as an example, the current White House chief of staff, uh, is, you know, former board member at Meta, where I'm on the board.
- ▶ 43:49 Ben Horowitz Probably, you know, Google, Microsoft, and Meta, um, um, you know,
- ▶ 51:49 Marc Andreessen Uh, the Meta, you know, you can, you kind of mentioned the big companies being Microsoft, Google, Meta. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:03 Marc Andreessen Yann LeCun is, you know, a hero in France, teaches at NYU and works at Meta, both of which are American institutions.
Bringing AI to the Masses with Adam D'Angelo, CEO of Quora
- ▶ 0:27 Sarah Wang He was the CTO of Facebook until 2008 before founding Quora in 2009.
- ▶ 13:48 David George You were CTO at Facebook at the time where social was emerging, and then right when the platform shift to mobile was taking place, right?
- ▶ 16:26 Adam D'Angelo You know, I, I think if you think about maybe the relationship between Facebook and Facebook Messenger, these are two products built by the same company, but they, they share a lot.
- ▶ 22:31 Adam D'Angelo Maybe, maybe Meta can be there.
Collaborative Disruption at DoD
- ▶ 4:16 Kathleen Hicks It's more than what Alphabet, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft combined spent on R&D last year.
The China Threat: Silicon Valley and the Great Uncoupling
- ▶ 9:34 Congressman Mike Gallagher Luckily, Facebook had just started, so none of it's online, so, just sneaked under the radar.
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 25:53 Chris Dixon Like we used to invest in things that were built on Facebook and Twitter. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:13 Ben Horowitz It worked for a few things like eBay and Amazon and so forth, but it certainly wouldn't have worked for, you know, Facebook or, uh, Twitter or these kinds of things.
- ▶ 1:12:47 Chris Dixon So instead of having to go buy, you know, Facebook just bought, I think it was 10,000 H 100, ten billion dollars in capex.
Text to Video: The Next Leap in AI Generation
- ▶ 21:19 Robin Rombach There was a paper recently that Meta put out that also describes just this process for image models in detail.
Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public Safety
- ▶ 28:08 Garrett Langley We've already given up the traditional sense of privacy because we enjoy having Instagram and Facebook and the internet.
Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter
- ▶ 33:35 Ben Horowitz I think Facebook, you're on the board of Meta. 4 times in the scene
Safety in Numbers: Keeping AI Open
- ▶ 0:31 unnamed speaker Now, earlier this year, Arthur banded together with two other researchers, Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix, two researchers at Meta who worked on Llama.
- ▶ 4:43 Anjney Midha And your co-founders were at Meta. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:28 Arthur Mensch It's something that Timothy and Guillaume are, uh, very, uh, sensitive to because they've been doing it for a while, uh, when they were at Meta.
Big Ideas 2024: The Consumer AI Battleground Moves from Model to UX with Alex Immerman
- ▶ 4:56 Alex Immerman There were social media apps like Facebook, but there wasn't a great experience that bridged the two.
2024 Big Ideas: AI-First Games That Never End with Jonathan Lai
- ▶ 19:57 Jonathan Lai Uh, if you recall the early days of, um, Facebook games, um, take, for example, Funville, like the, like the Zynga games.
Redefining Partnership with Adam Neumann
- ▶ 8:01 Adam Neumann He then worked in Netflix and was in charge of moving them to the iPhone and to the phone, so he saw that transition, and his last job was at Meta for WhatsApp.
Advancing AI, Approaching VC's & Crypto Scandals: Ask Us Anything!
- ▶ 40:50 Ben Horowitz And so that's companies like, you know, a Google or a Meta or so forth.
- ▶ 1:14:08 Marc Andreessen And new companies like Facebook, like they just kept working.
Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta's Jason Gardner
- ▶ 6:51 Jason Gardner So the first move was we got a call from Facebook and Facebook wanted to build what was called the Facebook card. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:51 Jason Gardner So the first move was we got a call from Facebook and Facebook wanted to build what was called the Facebook card.
Doubling Down on Founder-Led Sales with Pilot's Waseem Daher
- ▶ 23:45 Seema Amble And it sounds like, but it sounds like the, the, the still the process of doing that cold outreach, you know, whether it's the computer club or, you know, uh, account, account and Facebook groups, which we often see are dental Facebook… 2 times in the scene
Dunking in VR: Inside the Future of Sports
- ▶ 11:54 unnamed speaker You know, with a social technology like this, um, there's a lot of, you know, companies and Meta's doing this. 2 times in the scene
AI Copilots and the Future of Knowledge Work with Microsoft's Kevin Scott
AI Food Fights in the Enterprise with Databricks' Ali Ghodsi
- ▶ 12:50 Ali Ghodsi But just like the internet, someone will show up later and think about Uber rides and cab driving and someone else showed up and thought about, Hey, I want to check out my friends on, you know, on the Facebook and so on.
The Economic Case for Generative AI with a16z's Martin Casado
- ▶ 1:52 Martin Casado And so, as we all know, there's been a ton of market cap that's been added to companies like Meta and Google and
Living Up the Promise of A True Second Brain with Nat Eliason
- ▶ 16:43 Nat Eliason Like, you know, early internet marketing with social media 10 years ago or whatever, like your Facebook and your Twitter and whatever were all to drive
Chasing Silicon: The Race for GPUs
- ▶ 13:42 unnamed speaker As one of many emerging examples, Vicuña was created by fine-tuning Meta's LlamaOne model for chat.
- ▶ 16:11 Guido Appenzeller And so, so, uh, you know, Lama, for example, that was a Facebook model where they published the weights for, for researchers.
Growth vs Efficiency: Can You Have Both?
More Than a Game: Why Are We Obsessed With Sports?
Polarizing Talent: Navigating 2023's Landscape
- ▶ 11:23 Rob Frawein And, you know, and all these things, but I think some studies are sort of coming out meta is sort of saying like they've noticed that people are back at the office three days a week are more effective, or if they've already been in the…
AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
- ▶ 1:03:50 Marc Andreessen Microsoft thinks about PCs, or Apple thinks about iPhones, or Intel thinks about chips, or Google thinks about search, or Facebook thinks about social, or the Coca-Cola company thinks about Coca-Cola, or Tesla thinks about cars.
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 12:43 Salim Ismail The second is buy them like Facebook bought Instagram and WhatsApp, et cetera. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:06 Peter Diamandis Instagram gets acquired for a billion dollars by Facebook with 13 employees. 2 times in the scene
Digital Branding: Lessons from Vogue, Monetizing Social, Creator Tips | Field Notes with Connie Chan
- ▶ 13:41 Connie Chan I mean, during that time there was the app store, there was Facebook, there was Instagram, there was Snapchat.
Future of Resale: AI Styling, Live Video, Social Marketplaces | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 5:07 Connie Chan Like that, that's what a lot of younger people are thinking about if they, if they even consider going on Facebook, but how do you make sure that Poshmark stays relevant throughout generations?
Marketplace Breakout Strategies: Take Rates, Defensibility, Payments | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 0:24 Connie Chan Deb is a former VP of commerce at Meta and the current CEO of Ancestry.
- ▶ 10:48 Deb Liu That said, it's still a really vibrant site and I still use it as well, even though I obviously built Facebook marketplace, but occasionally I'll, I'll browse there just to see what's there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:48 Connie Chan I think a lot about how commerce can evolve even inside something like Facebook, there's Facebook marketplace, but then a lot of transactions also happen on things like Facebook groups.
- ▶ 11:48 Connie Chan I think a lot about how commerce can evolve even inside something like Facebook, there's Facebook marketplace, but then a lot of transactions also happen on things like Facebook groups.
- ▶ 11:48 Connie Chan I think a lot about how commerce can evolve even inside something like Facebook, there's Facebook marketplace, but then a lot of transactions also happen on things like Facebook groups.
- ▶ 12:49 Connie Chan And, and we can also talk about payments because you have so much experience from Facebook payments here.
- ▶ 12:53 Connie Chan How does Facebook marketplace even know that you purchased it from a lead that you got from Facebook marketplace, right? 2 times in the scene
Marketplace Tactics: Metrics, Growth vs. Focus, Business Strategy | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 0:22 Connie Chan Deb is the CEO of Ancestry and the former VP of Commerce at Meta.
- ▶ 5:18 Connie Chan Cause you spent a lot of time also figuring out how to bridge relationships at Facebook, where you spent a good chunk of your career. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:40 Deb Liu You know, the, the theme for Facebook marketplace when we started it was connecting people through commerce.
- ▶ 15:44 Deb Liu One of the things we did for Facebook marketplace was we, at first, our first metric wasn't transactions because we couldn't measure them. 2 times in the scene
Building Hardware and Taking on the Phone Giants with Carl Pei
- ▶ 4:42 unnamed speaker But I mean, a lot of these companies, like even Meta, Snapchat, they have so much money and they've struggled with hardware.
- ▶ 19:22 Carl Pei So one example to make it clear is like when Facebook just launched their ads product, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:07 Carl Pei oh, and you can contribute content to the internet through blogging, through YouTube, through Facebook. 3 times in the scene
The Marketplace 100: A Glimpse Into the Future of Commerce
- ▶ 31:01 Steph Smith You know, another trend we've seen is that a bunch of non-marketplace companies are entering the marketplace category, perhaps most notably a few social companies like Facebook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:12 Steph Smith Facebook marketplace has become a core component of that business, and so curious to hear your thoughts on what other companies or industries you're seeing actually shift into this category.
The Art and Science of Podcasting with Sriram and Aarthi
- ▶ 36:07 Steph Smith The types of posts we would do on Facebook is so funny, right? 2 times in the scene
The Challenge of Replicating Reality with Steve Zhao from SandboxVR
- ▶ 57:26 Steve Zhao People share on Facebook. 2 times in the scene
The 1000x Developer with Amjad Masad
- ▶ 1:02:17 Steph Smith And you see this, if you look at the charts of like chat GPT, for example, their speed to ten million users was so much quicker than, you know, Facebook or Snapchat or other, um, other apps in the past.
The State of Apps with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 3:31 Steph Smith And again, I'm feeling kind of old here, but during my era, you know, we're, we're thinking of Facebook, we're thinking of Twitter, um, Instagram, Snapchat, and none of these appeared in the top three. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:58 Steph Smith It also feels like we were in this heyday several years ago where something like a Facebook was top of the charts for a very long time.
- ▶ 14:44 Olivia Moore Again, like, low cost for now, great channel for now, similar to how Instagram and Facebook ads got so much more expensive.
- ▶ 19:08 Olivia Moore When I was a teenager, it was like honesty box on Facebook and then ask FM and forum spring. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:00 Olivia Moore There used to be this kind of paradigm in consumer where the goal was to build an app, get it to the mainstream, get it to Facebook level, Instagram level, millions, if not hundreds of millions of users, and then you would monetize people…
Disrupting the World's Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann
- ▶ 23:30 Marc Andreessen Um, and so, you know, it's, you know, basically if you work for, you know, for the Google campus or the Facebook campus, like where you're going to date, probably somebody who also is there.
The 4th Estate: How Media is Changing in Washington, D.C.
- ▶ 19:54 Jim VandeHei Then they use Facebook and the platforms to put it in front of people.
- ▶ 24:08 Jim VandeHei The trend that I like is you see more and more journalists becoming entrepreneurs, and I see more and more media companies starting with actual business models as opposed to pipe dreams, and so what I think will survive will be anybody who…
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 2)
- ▶ 10:03 Anish Acharya If you look at the NPS of Google, Apple, Facebook, all of these companies, you know, it's not just better than the NPS of, you know, their financial services companies and, you know, most media outlets.
Building for Tomorrow with Jason Feifer
- ▶ 52:15 Jason Feifer And, um, they all, they all blamed in one way or another social media, and particularly at the time Facebook, um, and to a lesser degree Twitter on, on the problem. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast: Best Clips of 2022
- ▶ 7:46 Balaji Srinivasan When I say billions, I mean like three something billion just on Facebook, right?
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 18:18 Balaji Srinivasan When I say billions, I mean like three something billion just on Facebook, right?
- ▶ 39:15 Balaji Srinivasan So it's not just, you know, a game of Thrones, Facebook group.
- ▶ 58:34 Balaji Srinivasan Not every business needs to have the ambition of becoming a public company, let alone becoming Google or Facebook, right?
- ▶ 1:19:44 Balaji Srinivasan Just like a small, just like a small website, right, will outsource its login to Facebook login. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:44 Balaji Srinivasan Just like a small, just like a small website, right, will outsource its login to Facebook login.
- ▶ 1:26:27 Balaji Srinivasan Because those bureaucrats, I mean, for example, when Facebook is criticized, you know who runs Facebook?
- ▶ 2:32:58 Balaji Srinivasan So you have Larry Page in Google, you have Zuckerberg in Facebook, you have Steve Jobs in Apple, you have Bill Gates in Microsoft, you have Jeff Bezos in Amazon. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:44:33 Balaji Srinivasan This is at the level of Twitter or Facebook, okay? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:49:27 Balaji Srinivasan Now, Facebook is not a network state because it was not set up as such. 2 times in the scene
AI and the Creator Economy with Karen X Cheng
- ▶ 7:36 Karen X. Cheng Um, that does not work anymore because Facebook ate, like, all the reporters' jobs.
- ▶ 21:35 Karen X. Cheng Most companies will have different strengths, and then they'll continue to be able to differentiate by sort of specializing in that, but I do imagine that some of these companies are gonna buy other companies, and then so they'll like, you… 2 times in the scene
Why Technology Still Matters with Marc Andreessen
- ▶ 27:02 Marc Andreessen One was Obama got reelected, and the press went like, and this was like, at the time this was like referred to as like the first Facebook election. 3 times in the scene
Two-Sided Networks in Healthcare - a Founder's Playbook
- ▶ 25:57 Doug Hirsch Like I was at Facebook and Yahoo where time spent was like the, the God metric.
B2C2B in Digital Health, a founder's playbook
- ▶ 9:21 Jay Rughani Different businesses have different end consumers, and if you understand where your specific end users are looking for digital health information, whether it's online on Facebook or offline in community gatherings, you can acquire them at… 2 times in the scene
Scaling Up Blockchains with Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Social Tokens for Creators Explained
- ▶ 7:12 Chris Dixon Um, but, uh, and then, and then as you said, you know, in that case, it was like Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook and a bunch of things came along.
From Unknown Title to Viral Game: 12 Growth Lessons From Spellbreak
- ▶ 2:25 Seth Sivak Um, you know, you're competing with, with Netflix, you're competing with, um, you know, with Facebook and TikTok.
- ▶ 4:15 Seth Sivak And so that's not things like Twitter or Facebook, because you know, at the time our Twitter had very few followers, you know, a couple hundred.