Fortune 500
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16 statements across 10 episodes · 5 bullish · 6 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Nov 30, 2018 by Angela Strange · said 72 times in 45 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Shelley Archambault (8), Marc Andreessen (8), Elizabeth Weil (7), Mark Craney (4), Alex Bouaziz (4), Sonal Chokshi (3), Russ Fraden (3), Jen Kha (3)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 12 mentions in 9 episodes 1 per episode
- AI Markets: Deep Dive with a16z's David George
- The New Rule for Picking AI Winners | The a16z Show
- How Cursor Built One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies
- Tokens Are the New Dollars | Stripe's Will Gaybrick & David George
- Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
- The Media Game Has Changed
- Box CEO on AI Agents & Why Enterprise Can't Keep Up | a16z
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 9 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
- The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
- How Scale AI is Pioneering the Future of Work
- Aaron Levie on AI's Enterprise Adoption
- Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
- Building AI Systems You Can Trust
- Unbundling the BPO: How AI Is Disrupting Outsourced Work
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 4 mentions in 1 episode
2019 38 mentions in 21 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Building a Better Board
- a16z Podcast | How Big Companies Can Get the Most From Silicon Valley
- a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
- a16z Podcast | The Case Study of Dollar General and Surviving (Thriving!) Retail
- a16z Podcast | High Growth in Companies (and Tech)
- a16z Podcast | Principles and Algorithms for Work and Life
- a16z Podcast | The API Economy -- The Why, What, and How
- a16z Podcast | Scaling Healthcare
- 13 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 2 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Fortune 500, oldest first
Nov 30, 2018
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Stamos: 470 of the Fortune 500 cannot defend against modern cyber adversaries
“If you look at the Fortune 500, I would say 470 of those companies are kind of screwed because they're playing at What's happened is, is that the level of adversary has caught up to a level that's well beyond their ability to play”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Andreessen: A Harvard project pushes annual board re-elections on Fortune 500s
“For those of you who study this stuff, there's this, literally, it's this actually completely bizarre thing. There's an academic project at Harvard where literally like the class project is to go get like Fortune 500 company, company bylaws changed in order to…”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Franklin: Startup interests in Washington are drowned out by Fortune 500s
“You have to recognize Washington is really a big company town. I mean, if you think about it, once you become a big company, you're going to have a Washington office. You're going to have a lot of folks running around. And when you have so many voices talking …”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Mariotti: Fortune 500 APIs Fail When Treated as Brand Ego Projects
“You have giant Fortune 500 that thought that way, and just because they're the ego of the brand, but they never went anywhere, nobody used their APIs. Just because they think like an afterthought or a satellite thing, rather than the future.”
Dec 1, 2025 positive
Aug 17, 2026 bullish