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How Cursor Built One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies Aug 27, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:35 Sarah Wang I mean, they got to over 50% of the Fortune 500 and I think faster than anyone we've ever seen.

Tokens Are the New Dollars | Stripe's Will Gaybrick & David George Aug 17, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:17 Will Gaybrick I don't know the exact percentages today, but it's not quite half, but we're getting there, uh, Fortune, 500 companies.

Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show Jul 21, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:38 Qasar Younis GM was like a, when we say, like, GM was number one the Fortune 100, it was like number one, two, and three.

Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show Jul 7, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:52 Seema Amble For rebuilding, you know, a CRM for a Fortune 500 business, it's, it's a lot of business logic to capture, and you're also trying to, like, do open heart surgery while, like, the patient is, like, alive, right?

The Media Game Has Changed Jun 19, 2026 · 1 mention

The New Rule for Picking AI Winners | The a16z Show May 29, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:41 David George And so, if you just look at the Fortune 500 or the S&P 500, they're actually pretty close. 2 times in the scene

Box CEO on AI Agents & Why Enterprise Can't Keep Up | a16z Apr 28, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:12 Aaron Levie And so, so at some point your agent can run in parallel, you know, 500 times and like I'm going into, uh, I want to do a market map of, of customers across the fortune 500, um, that agent can, can fan out and do that work in a way that I…

AI Markets: Deep Dive with a16z's David George Feb 9, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 21:43 Jen Kha Like, if you were to think about traditional industries like finance, for example, and using JP Morgan as a benchmark, what would you calibrate the Fortune 500 in terms of AI adoption? 3 times in the scene

The Biggest Bottlenecks For AI: Energy & Cooling Jan 26, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:30 unnamed speaker From, uh, folks in the Fortune 500, just given, you know, obviously this reorients your business on how do they engage with the consumer when you could actually do a really detailed search as David described with, with his son's baseball…

The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything. Dec 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:48 Jonathan Swanson Called How You Measure Your Life by Clayton Christensen, and he basically told the story of how Harvard Business School professor, kids come back at reunions, and they're Fortune 500 CEOs, super rich, and their lives are in shambles,…

The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About Dec 1, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 30:19 Russ Fraden Yes, there's the occasional Silicon Valley company that grows very quickly, but if you are in the Fortune 500, you are going to be 20 plus years old, 99% of the time, right?
  • ▶ 44:23 Russ Fraden So I absolutely believe there'll be even more entrepreneurs, but at a very high level, I just don't believe the Fortune 500 will employ fewer people in 30 years than they do today, because the ones that try and cut all the people will no… 2 times in the scene

How Scale AI is Pioneering the Future of Work Aug 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:01 Ben Scharfstein We work with governments and fortune 500 to build agents that change their companies and bring them into the future.

Aaron Levie on AI's Enterprise Adoption Jul 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:14 Aaron Levie We have about a 120,000 customers, about 65 or so percent of the Fortune 500.

Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies Jun 12, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:25:08 Marc Andreessen And I, we talked to, you know, a lot of Fortune 500 CEOs, and I would say that they're all struggling with this.

Building AI Systems You Can Trust May 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:35 Scott Clark And I mean, people are running into this problem across the fortune 500 and global 2000 today of, okay, how do I sleep at night effectively?

Unbundling the BPO: How AI Is Disrupting Outsourced Work Apr 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:04 Kimberly Tan And today really touches on all the major industries that we think about when we think about like the fortune 500.

RIP to RPA: How AI Makes Operations Work Dec 20, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:47 Kimberly Tan It just wasn't like a large enough individual customer, like it wasn't one of the fortune 500 customers.

AI, Robotics & the Future of Manufacturing May 16, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:52 Marc Andreessen Maybe let's, let's do a slightly longer uh, version of that, of that discussion because, because Ben, as you know, or I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll straw man it, steel man it, as you know like it is,, it is…
  • ▶ 26:02 Marc Andreessen But, like, if you go on the website, pick a typical, pick any fortune 500 company,

Jeff Sloan (Global Payments): Placing Multiple Bets on ‘Mosaic of Solutions’ Apr 30, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:52 Angela Strange During his tenure, the company completed a twenty one billion dollar merger with Tesis and earned Fortune 500 status.

Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter Jan 13, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:55 Marc Andreessen You know, law schools, usually Harvard or Yale, um, you know, CEA, if you look at the CEOs, the Fortune 500, if you look at, you know, top politicians, presidents, um, I think Harvard alone is responsible for eight presidents.

Doubling Down on Founder-Led Sales with Pilot's Waseem Daher Nov 21, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:38 Waseem Daher So the interesting thing about the shape of the problem we're tackling accounting, or maybe I should say the back office generally, but if we limit ourselves to accounting, well, literally every business in the world has the problem…

Pay Without Borders with Alex Bouaziz (Deel), Darren Murph (GitLab), and Sondre Rasch (Safetywing) Dec 20, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 58:14 Alex Bouaziz To Darren's point, you know, the way, one of the things that's been really fun at Dale is now that we're starting to get quite, quite larger, you know, we've been working with Fortune 500 in terms of helping them 4 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?) Feb 26, 2019 · 2 mentions

a16z Podcast | The Case Study of Dollar General and Surviving (Thriving!) Retail Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:35 unnamed speaker The story behind Dollar General goes back to a farmer in the depression with a third grade reading level, all the way up through from facing chapter 11 to IPO, and now a Fortune 300 company.
  • ▶ 3:11 Cal Turner, Jr. That doesn't sound like the beginnings of a fortune 500 company now does.

a16z Podcast | High Growth in Companies (and Tech) Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:20 Elad Gil And I think if you took apart a fortune 500 company and asked what are all the different things that they have to do repetitively, you could come up with a dozen of these.

a16z Podcast | Principles and Algorithms for Work and Life Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 40:36 Sonal Chokshi A very big difference in mindset, I would argue, between startup founders and like the CEO of a Fortune 500 established company sometimes.

a16z Podcast | The API Economy -- The Why, What, and How Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:48 Augusto Marietti Most of that will fail, and 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.

a16z Podcast | Scaling Healthcare Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:29 Rajiv Singh Certainly, in the Fortune 500, there are more than a few companies spending more than a billion dollars a year on healthcare.

a16z Podcast | The Rise of the CCO Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:32 unnamed speaker Enterprise software company with large sort of Fortune, 500 companies.

a16z Podcast | The Cloud Atlas to Real Quantum Computing Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:57 Sonal Chokshi Which I suspect is a reality of the fortune 500 global 2000 where they're really want to get ahead, but there's this tension between adopting something new and sticking to what you know in the old.

a16z Podcast | The Business of Creativity -- Pixar CFO, IPO, and Beyond! Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:33 Sonal Chokshi Fortune 500 company, that's having a portfolio framework for deciding which projects to invest in and not to invest in.

a16z Podcast | Messages and Movements in Politics AND Business Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:35 Mark Craney You know, the individual employee, but that competition doesn't have the scalability or the architecture to be used across a, you know, fortune, 500, global 2000 company.

a16z Podcast | On Government as Software Builder, Not Just Buyer Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:58 unnamed speaker Each of the agencies in the federal government, if you peel them out into the private sector, would be larger than most Fortune 500 companies.

a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | The Why, How, and When of Sales Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:53 Mark Craney If you think of, say, a Fortune 500 or a global 2000 company, these are big, bureaucratic, political, complex organizations that are difficult to navigate in.

a16z Podcast | How Big Companies Can Get the Most From Silicon Valley Jan 2, 2019 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 0:11 Michael Copeland Elizabeth is on our market development team, and, uh, you spend a lot of your time, most of your time, sitting in between kind of startups, the startup world, Silicon Valley, and big Fortune 500, global 2000 companies who are coming…
  • ▶ 6:49 Elizabeth Weil You know, often I view my job as a translator, and I think it's just as hard for the portfolio companies to work with, uh, or it was, it's just as hard for the startups to work with the Fortune 500 as it is for the Fortune 500 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:18 Elizabeth Weil Uh, also some of the platforms, the, the social platforms are still not totally clear to the Fortune 500, uh, and how to utilize them, how to find and get the best ROI.
  • ▶ 11:49 Elizabeth Weil Uh, when the Fortune 500 comes and learns a lot, but then there's no desire for a next step, and the best thing has been having a clear leader assigned to who will be that follow-up point.
  • ▶ 13:13 Elizabeth Weil Um, secondly, these Fortune 500 have spent so much time growing in a variety of areas, 3 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Barbarians at the Gate -- How to Think About Enterprise Security Today Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:07 Gaurav Banga So, for example, why, why would people come in and say, I'm gonna spend 10,000 dollars on just buying this software exploit so that I can hack this Fortune 500.

a16z Podcast | How to Lead, Not Manage Your Board Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 44:32 Spencer Rascoff It wasn't the marquee, you know, Fortune 500 CEOs who are on our board who have big names that everybody's heard of.

a16z Podcast | Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:32 Marc Andreessen And so, it's for the first time this year, you know, major Fortune 500 boards of directors are all, all of a sudden realizing this is their thing that they have to deal with.

a16z Podcast | The Truth about Serving on Boards (with Diane Greene and Marc Andreessen) Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:43 Marc Andreessen There's an academic project at Harvard where literally like the class project is to go get like Fortune 500 company, company bylaws changed, um, in order to have, and, and their big cause is to have the entire board get reelected every 12…

a16z Podcast | Building a Better Board Jan 2, 2019 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 2:08 Shelley Archambault So, more than half of elected directors, and these, this one's really focused on the Fortune 500 size company. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:20 Geri Elliott Uh, and then I realized that if I wanted to, to get on a, uh, on a really good fortune 500 public board, I'd have to put a plan in place, like landing any operating role.
  • ▶ 19:35 Shelley Archambault That doesn't mean your first board has to be the Fortune 500 board. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:35 Shelley Archambault There's only 18% of the Fortune 500 directors are women. 4 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Security’s Wakeup Call Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:13 Alex Stamos Carter said, uh, the unfortunate truth is that if you look at the Fortune 500, I would say 470 of those companies are kind of screwed, um, because they're, they're playing at, um,

a16z Podcast | The (Definite) Optimism of Peter Thiel Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:01 Marc Andreessen Um, Oracle is some giant share of databases with enormous pricing power, um, and IBM obviously is like, IBM's, at one point actually, well, IBM went through decades of actually antitrust prosecutions over being a monopoly, and even today…

Managing Risk and Uncertainty: The Future of Insurance Nov 30, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:41 Angela Strange Quick poll, and you could probably name five or six insurance companies, and that's because in the Fortune 501 in 10 companies is an insurance company.

Go to Market Boot Camp for Startups: Field Sales Jul 16, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:13 Mark Craney We're running a sales and marketing motion on behalf of the firm and for our portfolio companies to help them connect to the largest, most complex buyers across the G 2000, the Fortune 500, the largest government agencies.
  • ▶ 2:31 Mark Craney You know, in some cases we may start with outside direct salespeople that can walk the halls of these big fortune, 500, global 2000 companies and or government agencies because it's going to be a lot more complex and we're going to have to…
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