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Inside the Race to Measure Frontier Intelligence
How Cursor Built One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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.
How Decagon Runs 90% of Its Agents on Open-Source Models
- ▶ 16:21 Jesse Zhang So let's say I'm like a fortune 100 company, right?
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 38:37 Marc Andreessen Are you important enough to be with Fortune 500 CEOs?
The New Rule for Picking AI Winners | The a16z Show
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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…
Palantir CTO on The SaaS Apocalypse & Preventing The Next World War | a16z
- ▶ 23:27 Shyam Sankar cargo culting their way there, which is frankly what I think the private sector, you know, large Fortune 100 do as well. 2 times in the scene
AI Markets: Deep Dive with a16z's David George
The Biggest Bottlenecks For AI: Energy & Cooling
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm
- ▶ 18:44 Ben Horowitz Mark on the cover of Fortune, which was, ah, that, that was amazing to me because, you know, we had been running a company all these years, and I remember you saying, do you want to be on the cover of Fortune, Forbes, or Business Week? 2 times in the scene
How Scale AI is Pioneering the Future of Work
- ▶ 1:01 Ben Scharfstein We work with governments and fortune 500 to build agents that change their companies and bring them into the future.
The Current Reality of American AI Policy: From ‘Pause AI’ to ‘Build’
- ▶ 22:41 Anjney Midha Open source has always been political and philosophical by definition, but now there's an extraordinary business case for it, which is why I think you're seeing a lot of startups and companies also changing their posture because they're…
Aaron Levie on AI's Enterprise Adoption
- ▶ 20:14 Aaron Levie We have about a 120,000 customers, about 65 or so percent of the Fortune 500.
Can AI Solve Healthcare's Urgent Workforce Challenges? w/ Ankit Jain
- ▶ 23:30 Ankit Jain I think we support something like 44 or 45% of the Fortune 50.
Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
- ▶ 47:33 Ben Horowitz The great moment for you was being on the cover of some magazine, Fortune, whatever.
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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?
How Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What’s Coming Next
- ▶ 53:08 Ben Horowitz And so when we launched the firm, she said to us, she said, do you want to be on the cover of Fortune or Forbes? 2 times in the scene
Unbundling the BPO: How AI Is Disrupting Outsourced Work
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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’
- ▶ 0:52 Angela Strange During his tenure, the company completed a twenty one billion dollar merger with Tesis and earned Fortune 500 status.
Marty Chavez (Sixth Street): Finding a Single Source of AI Truth
- ▶ 24:51 David Haber Fortune 100 is using maybe GitHub Copilot in some new organization or Microsoft AI product.
Sharks Never Stop Swimming: A Conversation with Mark Cuban
- ▶ 13:04 Mark Cuban If five of the Fortune 50 companies walked away from the big three insurance companies and the big three PBMs, they'd have to change their business models, and immediately, immediately the entire healthcare system would change.
Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter
- ▶ 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.
Tony Robbins on the Future of Health & Longevity
- ▶ 24:22 Tony Robbins I was at a Fortune 400 conference, and with Mark Benioff, a good friend of mine, and they invited me in, and they were doing these interviews, and they were asking people there, how many of you have people working, you know, five days a… 2 times in the scene
Doubling Down on Founder-Led Sales with Pilot's Waseem Daher
- ▶ 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…
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 39:51 Salim Ismail And what we did was we went and ranked the fortune 100 by this model. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:56 Salim Ismail Okay, so we looked at every one of the Fortune 100, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Walmart unit, and said, okay, to what extent one to four are they purpose-driven? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:46 Salim Ismail So you can then, once you know, this is the baseline and, and the diagnostic is also free to take us how we scored the fortune 100.
Pay Without Borders with Alex Bouaziz (Deel), Darren Murph (GitLab), and Sondre Rasch (Safetywing)
- ▶ 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 | Gaming Goes Mainstream
- ▶ 0:04 Sonal Chokshi Today's episode features Marc Andreessen interviewing Bobby Kotick, CEO of Fortune 500 company Activision Blizzard, the largest game network in the world, responsible for popular entertainment franchises such as Call of Duty, Candy Crush,…
a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
- ▶ 19:00 Ryan Caldbeck They're Fortune 500 companies. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How to Manage a PR Agency
- ▶ 2:12 Margit Wennmachers It makes everything easier, but there's almost never a direct correlation where it's like, I did this, the interview in fortune, and therefore I got these customers.
a16z Podcast | The Case Study of Dollar General and Surviving (Thriving!) Retail
- ▶ 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 | When Organic Growth Goes Enterprise
- ▶ 15:09 Andrew Chen Well, I think one really important one is what kinds of companies and people are signing into your service where you're starting to see both prominent tech companies as well as fortune 1000 just signing up to try it.
a16z Podcast | High Growth in Companies (and Tech)
a16z Podcast | Principles and Algorithms for Work and Life
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 20:32 unnamed speaker Enterprise software company with large sort of Fortune, 500 companies.
a16z Podcast | The Cloud Atlas to Real Quantum Computing
- ▶ 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 | Build Your Personal Brand
- ▶ 8:49 Alex Constantinople It's like, I don't want to be, I only do, go out there, only do my fortune story or whatever.
a16z Podcast | The Business of Creativity -- Pixar CFO, IPO, and Beyond!
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 11:26 Parag Khanna Most fortune 500 companies now earn more revenue abroad than at home.
a16z Podcast | The Why, How, and When of Sales
- ▶ 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 | The Fundamentals of Security and the Story of Tanium’s Growth
- ▶ 17:05 Orion Hindawi And what we now have is the preponderance of the Fortune 100 who are using us, who can demonstrate that they're becoming more secure by following really block and tackle things.
a16z Podcast | How Big Companies Can Get the Most From Silicon Valley
- ▶ 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 | Big Data Goes Really Big
- ▶ 1:44 Peter Levine This not only democratizes the use of big data, it democratizes the organizations that use big data, such that it's not limited to the, only the Fortune 2000 who have the capabilities to set up these large data centers.
- ▶ 14:09 Michael Copeland It's not, it's not just, um, fortune 1000 companies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:06 Peter Levine It democratizes the organizations that use big data such that it's not limited to the, only the Fortune 2000 who have the capabilities to set up these large data centers.
a16z Podcast | Barbarians at the Gate -- How to Think About Enterprise Security Today
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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)
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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 | Dumb Storage Gets Smart
- ▶ 10:53 Paula Long The state and the federal government don't care whether you're a Fortune 1000 company, or you're a 50 person company when it comes to allowing, like, personally identifiable information to be accessed inappropriately, and so you really…
a16z Podcast | Security’s Wakeup Call
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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.
Going to Market When No Market Exists
- ▶ 7:55 Martin Casado If you identify, listen, we have to do direct sales because, you know, this is only applicable to the Fortune 2000, and this is a market category creation situation, so we have to have, like, kind of the deep conversation and it has to be…
Winning Founders & Influencing Everyone: Margit Wennmachers at Startup Grind Europe
- ▶ 10:36 Margit Wennmachers With media, but that is so that we can tell stories that our entrepreneurs find interesting or regular leaders want to be aware of that are outside what might be written up in Fortune.
Go to Market Boot Camp for Startups: Field Sales
- ▶ 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…