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How Gaming is Changing the Media Landscape
- ▶ 18:01 Andrew Chen Well, and, and, uh, you know, sitting on, on the, the tech side of, um, you know, much of this investing, it's so exciting to see, you know, caffeine and, uh, YouTube and Facebook embracing, especially on the video side, streaming kind of…
- ▶ 25:21 John Riccitiello Um, you know, Tencent is arguably in the same league, for those of you who aren't as familiar, with a Facebook, a Google, a Microsoft, or an Apple in terms of market cap and market impact and what they do.
Gamers are Entering a New Era of Monetization
- ▶ 1:57 Kevin Chou It was one of the first studios in the world to make games right inside of social networks like Facebook and MySpace.
Data Security and the Rise of Crypto
- ▶ 0:00 Diogo Mónica What does Jack's Twitter account being compromised, Capital One's data breach, and Facebook's outage have in common?
- ▶ 2:34 Diogo Mónica And early in the year, I had been thinking about how Facebook in March had suffered a massive outage, and hundreds of millions of people out there did not have access to their services, but more importantly, did not have access to their… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:27 Diogo Mónica Finally, I want to talk a little bit about data sovereignty, and let's go back to the example of Facebook.
What's Next for the Internet?
- ▶ 2:16 Chris Dixon And so that was a big sort of the, you know, Twitter and Facebook and, you know, all of the, the kind of tagging and all these other new kind of concepts.
- ▶ 16:32 Jonah Peretti Even within Facebook, there was a lot of disagreements about should we have everything be encrypted to protect privacy or should we have content not be encrypted so we can scan the content for child pornography or terrorist activity or…
- ▶ 20:52 Chris Dixon And then you have things like Facebook and Google, which are,
- ▶ 21:29 Chris Dixon Um, and so, until now, you know, if you were using a public computer, um, if I was on Facebook, just by, just by virtue of the fact that, um, that computer is controlled by that company, they can change the code, they can change the rules,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:43 Jonah Peretti So you end up having Facebook.
Why You Should Be Optimistic About the Future
- ▶ 23:16 Marc Andreessen So like Facebook groups and all these, all these, all these other things, you know, WhatsApp groups and all these other things people do with social networks and games and all these other things.
How to Build an Open Source Business
- ▶ 23:53 Peter Levine It's a part of Facebook, Airbnb, and Google.
The Architecture of Crypto Innovation
- ▶ 15:08 Neha Narula Instagram is run by a company, Facebook. 6 times in the scene
Social Networking in 2030: How Could Crypto Change Things?
- ▶ 1:29 Chris Dixon Those people all get access to these incredible services like Google and Facebook and it's free of charge.
- ▶ 3:18 Chris Dixon And the upside of this, um, similarly, like, if you talk to content providers, media companies, New York Times, et cetera, a lot of them were early supporters of Facebook, and they provided a lot of the content that made it popular, and…
- ▶ 5:15 Chris Dixon If you notice, like, you very rarely hear about an email provider doing things like, you know, ah, all the sort of things that you, these controversies you hear about Facebook and things like this because, because there's competition,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:38 Chris Dixon So instead of, you know, having, I think Facebook has 30,000, uh, community moderators now, people going and saying, this is fake news, this isn't, or something. 3 times in the scene
Founding Stories: Synapse
- ▶ 41:54 Sanket Pathak Uh, and then once kind of the operating system became extremely stable, then you started seeing Chase, Bank of America, Facebook, like all these people that traditionally were not like iOS apps,
Founding Stories: Anchorage
- ▶ 0:31 Chris Dixon Um, there's also was recently an announcement that you're involved with the Facebook blockchain project called Libra.
- ▶ 18:53 Chris Dixon Let's talk about, um, there was recently announcement, um, the Facebook has, uh, launched, or co-launched, what's called the Libra Association, which you guys are part of, um, and it's gotten a lot of attention, and, uh, some people think… 9 times in the scene
How to Understand and Choose a Venture Investor
- ▶ 9:23 Scott Cooper You have to find a Facebook or a Google or a Twitter or an Instacart or Airbnb where you can earn 10, 20, 5000 times your money. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:17 Scott Cooper So I'm asking you to give me money so that I can go and invest in what I hope is going to be the next Facebook or Google or Twitter.
How to Raise Money from a Venture Investor
- ▶ 20:28 Frank Chen So maybe the first question is I heard that Google and Facebook have these dual class voting shares and then like the founders have ultimate control. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:50 Scott Cooper Because if you go back to where we started from our last session, so much of what the venture capitalist incentive is, can I get a Facebook? 2 times in the scene
What's Next for Esports Startups
- ▶ 11:41 Andrew Chen As you're now in a world where there's billions of people across multiple platforms that, um, you know, whether, whether it's YouTube, whether it's Twitch, whether it's, you know, Facebook video, whether, you know, just all the platforms…
- ▶ 19:04 Andrew Chen You know, then you look at something, you know, I'll jump ahead a bunch of generations, but, you know, Facebook games were all about how do you create a game that, um, is intrinsically viral.
10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
- ▶ 46:31 Justin Kan Probably, um, join Facebook.
Everyone is an Analyst: Opportunities in Operational Analytics
Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- ▶ 20:05 Chris Dixon There's all these generated content in YouTube and Facebook.
- ▶ 24:41 Chris Dixon So much, there's so many issues created around platforms, and around trusting platforms, and so you think about, you know, Zynga building on Facebook, and like the hundreds of entrepreneurs who tried to build on top of Twitter, and just…
- ▶ 37:19 Chris Dixon Um, I think of it as like, what if like, here's a sort of metaphor, but like, like the fact that that photos are just a file format that you can send to people, allowed people to invent Facebook and Instagram.
- ▶ 46:42 Olaf Carlson-Wee Um, today, yes, Facebook loves its users, but also it wants to put as many ads in front of the users as it possibly can, which, um, actually disrupt the user experience.
The a16z Pitch Room: Sandbox VR
- ▶ 5:22 Steve Zhao Across Facebook, Google, and TripAdvisor, and over thousands of reviews, it's near unanimous five out of five.
- ▶ 24:27 Andrew Chen That basically you have, um, YouTube, you have, um, you know, TikTok, you have Instagram videos, you have Facebook videos, um, where there's literally now billions upon billions of people who are viewing this stuff.
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 6:08 Steven Sinofsky I mean, you have to imagine, imagine the leading application like Facebook today, and to use Facebook, you would have to go to get to a course, like you would go to a strip mall, and spend like 200 dollars, and go to Sears, and spend like… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:27 Steven Sinofsky We, you know, like, this is a very tight, you know, been to Japan many times, like, I, like, I'm still, even to this day, Facebook friends with this whole group.
Five Open Problems for the Blockchain Computer
- ▶ 4:34 unnamed speaker So instead of trusting Google or Facebook or Apple, I can entrust the collective of people who have contributed their computing, their storage, power, et cetera, et cetera, to deliver the service that
- ▶ 44:44 unnamed speaker Which is, on the one hand, you had all of these private keys that represented you, right, in these cryptographic networks, and on the other hand, you had sort of your Twitter profile, and your LinkedIn profile, and your Facebook profile,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:58 unnamed speaker You see some of this, uh, even in like things like the Facebook marketplace today, right?
a16z Podcast | Incenting Innovation Inside, Loonshots to Moonshots
- ▶ 13:54 Safi Bahcall I mean, just as a simple example, Peter Thiel and Ken Howery, who I, I remember Ken Howery was telling me this story, you know, a couple of years ago that when they were first looking at Facebook, everybody was passing on social networks…
Network Effects: Categories & Debates (2 of 3)
- ▶ 9:19 unnamed speaker It was surprising, I think, to everyone, which is that, you know, Facebook ultimately ended up taking over in all of those geographies and displacing a lot of the incumbent social networks that actually had a greater number of users, so…
3 Ways Startups Are Coming for Established Fintech Companies -- And What To Do About It
- ▶ 7:55 Frank Chen Um, I saw an ad in my Facebook feed recently for Health IQ, and I think they're doing something like this too, right?
a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
- ▶ 29:21 Jeff Jordan And so now you can go buy 10,000 dollars of Facebook ads and, and try to reach your core audience.
- ▶ 46:29 Jeff Jordan Facebook was the second or third social network, but you know, no one was thinking social networks when they talk about a trillion dollar company. 3 times in the scene
Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs
- ▶ 40:30 Frank Chen So the, uh, you know, go watch the Facebook videos on Autocorrect comedies.
Better Together: Humanity + Machine Learning
- ▶ 27:31 Frank Chen You have a more active Facebook profile.
What's Next for Education Startups in 2019 (Part II)
- ▶ 24:37 Connie Chan Mostly because the ones that, um, do succeed, say like a Facebook or Google, I mean the reason their ads succeed is not because of the massive page views, it's, it's also because of all the information they have on that user.
a16z Podcast | Dark Data in Healthcare
- ▶ 6:12 Vijay Pande So you think about all the data you can quickly share on Facebook or LinkedIn or something like that, that's really trivial to do.
a16z Podcast | Talent, Tech Trends, and Culture -- with Ben, Marc, and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 8:12 Ben Horowitz Like, I remember the internet killer app, it was never Facebook, that's for sure. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:44 Marc Andreessen Like, they're going to be like, I don't know, 10 or a hundred times the size of Google and Facebook.
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 27:47 Chris Dixon oh, I think that's Clay Shirky's phrase, which is sort of this idea of like Wikipedia and Facebook, whatever, of just sort of this bi-directional instead of just, uh. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:11 Chris Dixon Um, uh, the, you know, if you just think about your typical experience of a corporate worker in 2018, you go to the office, and maybe you're using Windows 95, and, you know, some archaic, I don't know what, ERP software, and a bunch of…
- ▶ 36:03 Brian McCullough So there was this decade-long period for the Facebooks and everybody to surface, and no one's gonna take them out. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:28 Brian McCullough In almost every single case, you know, the whole Facebook chapter is about Zuckerberg almost, it's requiring people to tell him, no, you've got the great idea here. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
- ▶ 26:39 Chris Dixon You would never build on top of, you know, a centralized protocol, because people have now learned, after 2030 years of this, that when you do that, that the platform changes the rules, and you ask everyone who built on top of, you know,…
a16z Podcast | Eyeballs on the Game
- ▶ 4:10 Yogi Roth Like, there are millions of outlets, and every one of us are an outlet and are a production company, whether that's our Facebook page, our YouTube channel, Instagram TV.
- ▶ 10:40 Zach Wiener You know, the last time most of the big rights deals were up, you didn't have Facebook and Amazon and Apple bidding for them, and then you also have new rights categories.
- ▶ 11:33 Zach Wiener MLB, their idea of broadcasting baseball games with Facebook was to just put the broadcasting 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:45 Jeff Jordan Zion Williams, you know, just had about three million followers or something like that on Facebook.
a16z Podcast | From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
- ▶ 15:17 John Hennessy I mean, look, I was sitting at Google when Facebook came along.
- ▶ 35:46 John Hennessy They're not going to thrive very well in that kind of online setting where they don't see how that directly translates to getting a job at Facebook, for example, right?
- ▶ 46:12 John Hennessy Um, it's driven by not only the amount of resources that are available at Google, Facebook, Microsoft,
a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- ▶ 3:27 Fred Wilson We're looking at ours in Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, you know, they have these massive entrenched, um, platforms, and
- ▶ 9:21 Fred Wilson So, you know, those companies, Facebook I think is the perfect example of this, saw that the mobile phone and mobile apps could potentially disrupt them. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:35 Fred Wilson And the things that were kind of happening in the latter part of the last decade where you had like a Facebook come out of nowhere, a Twitter come out of nowhere, YouTube come out of nowhere, where VCs were making a hundred times their…
- ▶ 30:21 Fred Wilson The other thing is, you know, if you were an early user of Facebook, you might have said to yourself, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:04 Chris Dixon Facebook early on says, hey, media companies, come work with us. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:31 Fred Wilson But like, look, you just said, like, when Facebook realizes that they've got the keys to the castle, you're gonna start to extract rents.
a16z Podcast | What's at the Core of the Latest Apple Announcement?
- ▶ 18:14 Benedict Evans Um, and obviously they've been, they've benefited from all the news flow that's happened in the last kind of year or two around Facebook and YouTube and so on, um, which, you know, they couldn't have planned for, but, um, and of course you… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:47 Benedict Evans To Google or Facebook, but you, Apple is kind of carefully positioning themselves such that you would be comfortable with Apple having that kind of thing.
- ▶ 23:48 Steven Sinofsky And then they sort of channeled Facebook a little bit and said, yeah, but it's, you know, call me when you're doing something for health that doesn't cost 500 dollars.
a16z Podcast | Seeing into the Future -- Making Decisions, Telling Stories
- ▶ 31:33 Chris Dixon Are we headed to an internet that's, that's, um, similar to TV where you have like four channels that control everything, you know, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, et cetera.
a16z Podcast | When Organic Growth Goes Enterprise
- ▶ 22:36 Andrew Chen Yeah, there's folks that they're spending tons and tons of money on Facebook, on Google, et cetera.
a16z Podcast | Crypto And The Evolution Of Open Source
- ▶ 3:45 Dennis Nazarov So when, when Facebook or some, or a large entity like that, you know, uses a database, it has millions or billions of users, it has tons of data, that deployment becomes much more valuable. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:58 Devon Zuegel And it doesn't give you all the information that you could possibly want because it's dependent on Google and Facebook and Twitter and so on, uh, to, to give you the information that they're, they're willing to give, which is pretty…
- ▶ 33:18 Dennis Nazarov Just because I can run my sequel doesn't mean I'm going to get a billion users and all the data Facebook has.
a16z Podcast | The Basics of Growth 2 -- Engagement & Retention
- ▶ 7:58 Andrew Chen So for example, for all the different social products, whether that's Twitter or Facebook or Pinterest, et cetera, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:45 Jeff Jordan Facebook 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:52 Andrew Chen DAU-MAU was very much popularized by the fact that Facebook used it, including in their public financial statements. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:08 Jeff Jordan Early on in the Facebook platform, companies literally got to a million users in, you know, it felt like minutes. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:09 Jeff Jordan And it's typically other BMS, because the top apps are almost all done by Facebook, Amazon, yeah, Google, and, you know, breaking through, just, Mark calls it the first page. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:05 Jeff Jordan So Facebook has got a whole different set.
a16z Podcast | The Basics of Growth 1 -- User Acquisition
- ▶ 15:09 Andrew Chen For example, when Facebook in the past has broken into new markets, they'll start with paid, you know, marketing to kind of get it going. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Earned Secrets
- ▶ 3:41 Ben Horowitz So just give an example is, look, Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard and started Facebook.
- ▶ 6:21 Ben Horowitz And so I think all of those things will really change the face of what we now think of as the Internet and mobile and Google and Amazon and Facebook.
- ▶ 10:45 Ben Horowitz Like, I think Facebook had, like, five people who say they were co-founders at one time. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks
- ▶ 5:24 Chris Dixon Um, so software developers, um, you know, when they're building on a, on a network like Facebook or Twitter, you know, there's a long history of a whole bunch of software developers who tried to do that. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:47 Devon Zuegel They, they will input posts on Twitter, on Facebook, um, they'll click on ads, and they're getting the product for free, but it's not truly free in the sense that a lot of these services then use the information that they're getting from…
- ▶ 21:15 Chris Dixon Android, Twitter, Facebook, I think Google Search in a lot of ways can be seen as a platform because you build websites that get, you know, that get shown on the, in the search results. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:59 Chris Dixon You didn't even talk about like LinkedIn and Facebook and Twitter and Tinder and whatever.
- ▶ 38:52 Chris Dixon You know, the vast majority of people's time they spent on the internet now is spent at Google, Apple, you know, using a service by Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, etc.
a16z Podcast | High Growth in Companies (and Tech)
a16z Podcast | Beyond Zero-Sum Thinking in the Game of Tech... and Life
- ▶ 33:21 Ben Horowitz You know, Facebook or Amazon will wipe it out.
a16z Podcast | The Hard Things about Security
- ▶ 14:10 Stina Ehrensvärd The same key I can log into Facebook and Dropbox and GitHub.
a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
- ▶ 19:40 Sonal Chokshi Well, it reminds me when they tried to do, like, social networking, when Facebook came along, and now they're sort of just decided to become an AI-first company, so it kind of brings that full circle.
a16z Podcast | Breaking Into Bio
- ▶ 12:20 Vijay Pande It's not like joining Facebook or Google or something like that where there's an obvious track record.