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Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence
- ▶ 12:10 Ben Horowitz In a couple of months, he was in, you know, France and Poland and all over the world with this incredible technology that had his actors basically acting exactly as they normal do with their right kind of intonations, their right laugh,…
Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
- ▶ 6:32 Marc Rowan And as happenstance would have it, we received a cold call from the government bank of France, the Credit Line A bank, asking whether we would be interested in starting an M&A boutique under the mighty Credit Line A banner. 3 times in the scene
Digital Freedom, AI Regulation, and the Fight for the Western Internet | The a16z Show
- ▶ 21:57 Sarah Rogers So, if the U.S. government, to go back to that Thierry Breton letter, if the U.S. government threatened Le Monde or threatened Vivendi, these are French, French platforms for hosting an interview with Emmanuel Macron, the French government… 2 times in the scene
Reid Hoffman on AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Labor
- ▶ 48:47 Reid Hoffman So, you know, just last week I was in France talking with Macron because he's trying to figure out, like, how do I help French industry, French society, French people?
The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
- ▶ 57:19 Steven Sinofsky And, and the French had built one, and then it deteriorated. 2 times in the scene
Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
- ▶ 56:13 Mark Cuban There's no French dream.
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 45:27 Balaji Srinivasan Like, basically, you know how, ah, at various times in history, France and Germany have traded, and France and Germany have fought, and France and Germany have traded, and France and Germany have fought.
AI Content and the War for Your Attention
- ▶ 35:28 Antonio García Martínez And, and when you manage to map that to like e-commerce or travel, when I can say, I want to go, which I do go to, to France for a week in August to see my daughter and spend a week in Brittany.
America's Energy Problem: We Need A New Grid
- ▶ 21:52 Erin Price-Wright Why doesn't France work in the summer?
Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
- ▶ 21:55 Marc Andreessen And so you just imagine being like a German or French, you know, tech founder and reading that, you know, just being like, oh, God. 2 times in the scene
DeepSeek, Reasoning Models, and the Future of LLMs
- ▶ 2:50 Guido Appenzeller So for example, if I just take a pre-training model, I would ask it, what's the capital of France? 2 times in the scene
How AI is Reshaping Labor Markets: A $Trillion-Dollar Opportunity Explained
- ▶ 8:36 Alex Rampell Of course there are nurses in the UK and France and Angola, like every country on Earth, right?
AI Is Becoming a Regional Race
- ▶ 3:59 Anjney Midha Um, and if you're trained the models on data in France, they actually subtly have a bunch of different
- ▶ 14:51 Anjney Midha You know, France for example's embrace of nuclear, 20 years ago, has positioned them to have extraordinarily efficient data centers today.
Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startups
- ▶ 47:00 Ben Horowitz And France, you know, look, to their credit, France, you know, is totally clean. 2 times in the scene
The Top 100 GenAI Consumer Apps
- ▶ 9:09 Steph Smith We're currently actually recording this in San Francisco, where a lot of tech has been built, but we're seeing, you know, like Mistral from France, and like, what else are you seeing in those global dynamics? 2 times in the scene
The Future of the American Dream
- ▶ 17:43 Ben Horowitz Not anybody can become French.
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 1:17:03 Marc Andreessen Yann LeCun is, you know, a hero in France, teaches at NYU and works at Meta, both of which are American institutions.
- ▶ 1:33:28 Ben Horowitz Um, you know, France turns out to be leading a revolution in Europe on AI regulatory, where they're basically telling the EU to pound sand, um, you know, and a large reason because they have a company there, Mistral, and, you know, they,… 5 times in the scene
The Electric Grid, Explained
- ▶ 29:01 Ryan McEntush Nationally, you know, like Japan and France, uh, and even, like I said, our regulated utilities in the United States, a lot of our nuclear power plants are, you know, government supported.
America Needs More Techno-Optimism, with Marc Andreessen and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 16:28 Marc Andreessen Um, uh, uh, on the other hand, you know, we, we have this incredible AI company called Mistral in France, uh, which is probably the leading open source AI company right now and one of the best AI companies in the world.
Intelligence in the Age of AI with new CTO of the CIA
- ▶ 17:15 Derek Harris Like, enter a prompt, go get a cup of coffee, and then, and then by the end of the day, we've arrested someone in France for something, right?
Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist
- ▶ 8:55 Marc Andreessen With, you know, maybe France being the big exception.
- ▶ 53:09 Ben Horowitz Really, France is doing it right now. 4 times in the scene
The Art and Science of Podcasting with Sriram and Aarthi
- ▶ 16:21 Sriram Krishnan He was in France and he met this host for what he thought was some 2 times in the scene
The State of Apps with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 54:05 Olivia Moore Be Real is originally from France, which is an interesting example.
Pay Without Borders with Alex Bouaziz (Deel), Darren Murph (GitLab), and Sondre Rasch (Safetywing)
- ▶ 1:04:53 Alex Bouaziz And a lot of countries, friends being one of them, um, they've got other things that are not really good, but you know, they have an amazing tax incentivization.
- ▶ 1:11:26 Alex Bouaziz Like banks don't understand you because you're not an employee that's working nine to five at a company in France.
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 6:03 Balaji Srinivasan French to German as you cross the Franco-German border.
- ▶ 10:51 Balaji Srinivasan The French state is France, right?
- ▶ 1:45:03 Balaji Srinivasan Fighting, has been fighting, simultaneous conflicts with, ah, tech, with half its population, with Russia, with China, with, to a lesser extent, with Israel, India, Hungary, France, Brazil, with the Brexiteers in Britain, um, with Web…
- ▶ 2:38:14 Balaji Srinivasan People argue, like, um, Eric Hobsbawm argues that at the time of the French Revolution, most people in France didn't speak what we now know as French.
- ▶ 2:38:42 Balaji Srinivasan After the French Revolution, France got unified and homogenized. 2 times in the scene
Two-Sided Networks in Healthcare - a Founder's Playbook
- ▶ 19:45 Thomas Clozel Curie was the first in France.
The Open Source Movement in Fintech
- ▶ 9:48 Angela Strange I wouldn't invest in Google for Canada, Google for Brazil, Google for France, like, that's just Google, but I would invest in a bank for each of those reasons, regions, and it's because it's got different regulatory structure, different…
From Unknown Title to Viral Game: 12 Growth Lessons From Spellbreak
- ▶ 24:29 Seth Sivak There's, you know, a discord for Brazil and Germany and, and, um, France and Tokyo, Japan.
Blockchain in War Zones
- ▶ 1:38 Alex Pruden My great grandfather volunteered, ah, to fight in France in World War I.
Making Culture, Making Influence -- Dapper Dan in Silicon Valley
- ▶ 46:22 Ben Horowitz And your, ah, your design process was also very different in that you spent time with the, the customers in a way that the guys in France never would have thought of.
Growth, Sales, and a New Era of B2B
- ▶ 2:26 unnamed speaker Berlin, France, UK, certainly New York, as well as Silicon Valley.
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 36:52 Steven Sinofsky You know, I remember I was in France, and the bank, uh, Credit Lyon, had, had like a tigerish, kind of, the Tour de France character, and like, nobody cared.
a16z Podcast | How Many Taps in the Apple (Plus) Tree?
- ▶ 11:40 Benedict Evans Yeah, and going back to the, you know, old world of print, US magazines is a bigger market, and then the UK is a bigger magazine market than France or Germany, and that, you would expect that to be reflected in what happens on this…
a16z Podcast | For the Billions of Creatives Out There
- ▶ 44:23 Brian Koppelman I mean, like France, like France in the deuce, man.
a16z Podcast | Gaming Goes Mainstream
- ▶ 1:12 Bobby Kotick So my college roommate and I started a company, he worked at Apple Computer in France.
- ▶ 13:13 Bobby Kotick Well, it was the water company of France that this very. 4 times in the scene
What's Next for Education Startups
a16z Podcast | From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
- ▶ 20:00 Marc Andreessen Could be Silicon Valley of Chicago, or it could be Silicon Valley of France, or Kazakhstan, or what, right, anywhere, anywhere.
a16z Podcast | When Journalism Goes Global
- ▶ 21:14 Jared Ryle So it's got to be something that affects people in, in Brazil, and France, in, in Germany, because we have to have kind of a unique story for each of our media partners to get them interested in the story.
a16z Podcast | The Why Behind the Weird
- ▶ 1:44 Peter Leeson I think the one that caused the most head scratching was the criminal prosecution of insects and rodents in Renaissance, Italy, France, and Switzerland.
a16z Podcast | Exploding the Map
- ▶ 30:21 David Rumsey And it was a fight between the British and the French right off of Brittany in France during the American Revolution.
a16z Podcast | Centers of Power, War, and History
- ▶ 12:32 Matthew Colford And the British and the French kind of went, well, I don't know, maybe we want to join this other baseball team.
- ▶ 22:04 Graham Allison So wait, what does this guy in Sarajevo have to do with Britain and Germany and Russia and France going to war? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Strategies and Tactics of Big
- ▶ 8:21 Benedict Evans So it's like makeup in France is three people.
- ▶ 11:21 Steven Sinofsky That's like having different marketing messages in France versus Germany.
- ▶ 22:10 Benedict Evans So shoes in Germany are three people, and makeup in France is four people.
a16z Podcast | The Golden Era of Productivity, Retail, and Supply Chains
- ▶ 31:11 Sonal Chokshi And there's, they're playing out in ripples and waves in different ways across, you know, France, Europe, the US, in so many different ways.
a16z Podcast | From Hidden Figure to Sonic BOOM
- ▶ 10:51 Dr. Christine Darden But, that was a reason, in the early seventies, the United States, Russia, and the English and French were planning to build a supersonic passenger plane. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Technology, Mobility, and the American Dream
- ▶ 21:14 Alex Rampell It's very hard to have ambition for a certain goal if all of your needs are taken care of, either under a, you know, highly socialist system, which might be the problem with stagnation in parts of Europe, or under a gentrified system where…
a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
- ▶ 12:45 Ted Ullyot It's what are the, what are the preconditions that we need to create in name your country to create the Silicon Valley in, in France or in Germany or in Indonesia or in Australia?
a16z Podcast | Airspace as the Next Internet-Like Platform
- ▶ 3:17 Jonathan Downey They were in France. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Mobile Falls Hard for Virtual Reality
- ▶ 1:38 Benedict Evans No, although there was an urban legend about somebody whose assistant booked him a flight to Caen in the north of France, um, which is, if you don't know, if you know the spelling, it looks kind of similar.
- ▶ 11:55 Benedict Evans And so then you, so you have them, and then you have Wicco in France, which has built a distribution in France. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | When Banking Works Like My Smartphone
- ▶ 1:14 Tavit Henrikos But if there's another Angela who lives in another part of the world, in France, for example, then if you want to pay her, then transfer money is the best way of doing it.
a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
- ▶ 10:22 Reshma Sohoni And then as you said, maybe France or Germany, we're seeing a completely different, a completely kind of change of perspective there.
- ▶ 13:28 Shaq (Shakil Khan) US is far similar to UK than France will ever be.
a16z Podcast | Building Tech Startups in a Place Where Tech Isn’t Everything
- ▶ 17:09 Nick Babayan I think one, one maybe smaller thing that surprised me when I talk to entrepreneurs from the US or from France or other places that government is either seen as irrelevant at best or the enemy at worst, and I think there's a different, a… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Data Down on the Farm
- ▶ 15:53 Thibaut Scola Which has a culture of a young society ready to embrace new technologies compared to the old world like France or Italy or Portugal.
a16z Podcast | Sports, Tech, and What We Can All Learn from the Latest Performance Science
- ▶ 17:02 unnamed speaker Yeah, in France?
a16z Podcast | What Makes the Valley Work
- ▶ 26:43 Marc Andreessen Um, and there's a place that's the best place in the world to make red wine, which is France.
a16z Podcast | Google I/O -- A Three-Hour Tour (in 30 minutes)
- ▶ 20:30 Benedict Evans So they've got, they've mentioned partnerships with a couple of the IPTV cable, um, um, television providers in France. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun
- ▶ 6:54 Benedict Evans If you are Carrefour in France, right now you have an Android app and an iOS app.
What's Next in Consumer Startups?
- ▶ 4:13 Andrew Chen And so I want to start with 1900 when there were 3000 automobiles in France. 2 times in the scene
Culture and Revolution
- ▶ 20:42 Ben Horowitz So in 1799, just to demonstrate how powerful this, in 1799, the French and U.S. were in something that was known as the Quasi War. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:48 Ben Horowitz And completely change a slave culture, and defeat the French, the British, and the Spanish, and free the slaves of Haiti, 65 years before they were freed the United States, then you can change your company, and make it great.
AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer
- ▶ 41:14 Frank Chen Now, you might need to spend a second or two to try to parse that sentence to figure out, oh, Paris Hilton, the celebrity, is in Paris, France, the city, in Paris Hilton, the hotel, listening to Paris, the album.
Trends in and the Future of Infrastructure
- ▶ 0:54 Martin Casado And so just like in, you know, France, when like one king died and the next king was being ascended and coronated, you'd say, you know, the king is dead.