Ford Motor Company
also referred to as: ford
10 statements across 8 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Jul 16, 2017 by Jeff Jordan · said 65 times in 39 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Frank Chen (11), Marc Andreessen (10), Steven Sinofsky (8), Qasar Younis (3), Martin Casado (3), Benedict Evans (3), Alex Rampell (3), Ale Massa (3)
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2026 13 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- The Media Game Has Changed
- Kavak's Playbook for Rebuilding a Company Around AI
- Why Top Founders Are Racing Into AI Infrastructure
- Tokens Are the New Dollars | Stripe's Will Gaybrick & David George
- Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
- Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
- Is Defense the Next Trillion-Dollar Category? | a16z American Dynamism Summit
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2025 9 mentions in 8 episodes 1 per episode
- The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
- How AI Will Transform Fintech In 2026
- Rocket Companies CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis
- AI Content and the War for Your Attention
- Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- How Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What’s Coming Next
- JD Vance on the Future of America
- Mobilizing the American Industrial Base
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2019 25 mentions in 13 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Cars and Cities, the Autonomy Edition
- a16z Podcast | Software is What Distinguishes the Hardware Winners
- a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- Founding Stories: Anchorage
- 3 Ways Startups Are Coming for Established Fintech Companies -- And What To Do About It
- a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- a16z Podcast | The Apple WWDC 2014 Deep Dive
- a16z Podcast | Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
- 5 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about Ford Motor Company, oldest first
Jul 16, 2017
May 15, 2018 neutral
Chan: Alibaba and Ford launched a facial-recognition car vending machine in 2018
“This is a car vending machine that Alibaba launched in conjunction with Ford this year. You just had to drive up to this vending machine, do a facial recognition scan, log in with your phone, and then borrow that car for three days.”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Cooper: JOBS Act right-sized SEC filing regulations for early-stage companies
“One of the things that Job Act did was kind of modify the regulatory requirements around those filings to kind of right-size it for what is appropriate for an earlier stage company instead of what might be appropriate, for example, for a GM or a Goldman Sachs …”
Jan 2, 2019
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Jun 24, 2019 negative
Mónica: Failing to stake crypto tokens violates VC fiduciary duty
“Their LPs expect them to actively participate in this protocol. Imagine that you're investing in Ford, but somehow you're dropping the dividends of Ford on the floor. Or you're participating in some decision of the network. You're not actually voting on who's …”
Apr 23, 2025 positive
Jun 18, 2025 bearish
Sinofsky: Western automakers lost IP and capital in Chinese joint ventures
“And like, we met once with and so the car companies, if you just fast forward, they all are out of China now. These joint ventures, they could never get their money out. They lost all their IP, their manufacturer. It's just horrible to, like, Volkswagen, Ford,…”
May 19, 2026 positive
Mavrookas: Auto/aerospace workers failing at shipbuilding signals bad design
“If somebody can't come out of somebody who's building a car for Ford or General Motors or an airplane at Boeing or a rocket ship for SpaceX, And we can't get them highly effective building ships quickly. That's our fault. That means our design isn't simple eno…”