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Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
- ▶ 8:18 Alex Rampell It's like, so if I'm GE 6 times in the scene
How AI Changes the Economics of Innovation
- ▶ 19:34 Steven Sinofsky Not only were they cheering it on, they were, every parent was looking at their kids saying, go learn that in school, go, go win the Westinghouse competition, go win the GE math competition.
The Media Game Has Changed
- ▶ 17:02 Marc Andreessen And then I, I think what happened is in the thirties, forties, you started getting these, you know, international business machines, General Electric.
Atlassian CEO on the SaaS Apocalypse, AI Agents & What Comes Next
- ▶ 9:53 Alex Rampell So, like, Workday has this great pricing model where, like, oh, you're GE. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:34 Alex Rampell Because GE has more profits than a ten-person company. 6 times in the scene
The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- ▶ 3:59 Alex Rampell It's not necessarily GE.
- ▶ 1:08:53 Alex Rampell It's not happening at GE.
Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)
- ▶ 10:53 Alex Rampell I'm now 90% of your profits as the CEO of GE. 2 times in the scene
The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
- ▶ 16:36 Russ Fraden That, that's, there's some subset of workers at all size companies, probably a larger percent in Silicon Valley, but a smaller percent in at GE, right? 2 times in the scene
The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm
- ▶ 35:05 Margit Wennmachers And as you always said, most books, like whoever the guy was from this and that, GE, whatever, they were all kind of fancy resumes and victory labs.
Former Microsoft Executive Explains Where We Are in the AI Cycle w/ Anish Acharya & Steven Sinofsky
- ▶ 13:38 Steven Sinofsky But they embraced it as no different than they embraced the latest MRI technology, or the latest software update from GE for a CAT scan.
Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- ▶ 20:20 Steven Sinofsky And In Search of Excellence is sort of this Jack Welchian GE management mantra of, like,
Sovereign AI: Why Nations Are Building Their Own Models
- ▶ 10:38 Anish Acharya And so they came up with this idea called the Marshall Plan, right, where a number of, um, leading enterprises in the US got together like GE and General Motors and, and literally subsidized the massive reconstruction of Europe that helped…
Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities
- ▶ 26:59 Ben Horowitz GE, right? 2 times in the scene
Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
- ▶ 45:27 Marc Andreessen So grading on a curve used to be more common, I think, both in educational settings and also in employee evaluation settings, and, you know, companies like Microsoft used to do it kind of famously, um, and GE,
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 34:43 Salim Ismail GE actually gave up and sold GE appliances to them because they couldn't compete.
a16z Podcast | M&A and Innovation, Inside Out
- ▶ 17:03 Stephanie Cohen We bought the GE deposit platform. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Build Your Personal Brand
- ▶ 2:30 Alex Constantinople I mean, my three sixties that I've gotten from my GE past to now are hilariously the same.
- ▶ 27:52 Alex Constantinople Then I got to OutKast, and it was like my GE-ness, because we worked on startups, and we're like, oh, oh, like that is how embarrassing for you, basically.
a16z Podcast | Technology, Mobility, and the American Dream
- ▶ 24:31 Alex Rampell And you want to optimize for the next five-year period where your own, your own compensation benefits, but you're going to have two trillion dollars that comes back to the U.S. from the Cisco's and GE's and predominantly Apple's of the…
a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
- ▶ 5:31 Steven Sinofsky Like, you know, the GE Carousel of Progress talked about, like, washing your dishes.
a16z Podcast | The Cloud and The Public Sector
- ▶ 21:30 Teresa Carlson I hear customers on stage like GE and Capital One and the intelligence community
a16z Podcast | Selling to Developers & Open Source Business Models
- ▶ 2:41 Peter Levine Whether you are GE or
a16z Podcast | Beyond Lean Startups
- ▶ 30:02 Eric Ries So whenever I deal with hardware things, and I've worked with, you know, the GEs of the world, the Toyotas of the world on big physical, if it can explode, I tend to be very humble.
- ▶ 39:25 Eric Ries So like a GE, they have this program called FastWorks, which is their version of lean startup at Intuit. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Getting Security Right Isn’t as Hard as You Think (But the Effort Never Ends)
- ▶ 16:27 Orion Hindawi He hired a bunch of people from other places like General Electric that were super competent people.
a16z Podcast | How to Lead, Not Manage Your Board
- ▶ 8:54 Aaron Levie So as an example, um, two to three years ago we were really going into the large end of the enterprise, and so the, the person that we selected to bring on the board was the previous CIO of General Electric.
a16z Podcast | Public or Private? Finding the Right Board Seat
- ▶ 17:24 Michael Copeland I mean, I sort of think, oh, I could go on the board of, you know, GE, and I would add value.
a16z Podcast | Crisis Time -- What to Do When Things Go Sideways
- ▶ 19:28 Margit Wennmachers Um, then if you're GE and you're quintessentially reliable and stand for, for quality, right?
a16z Podcast | The Technology is Ready, So Where is the Internet of Things?
- ▶ 10:38 Preethi Kasireddy For example, GE with their aviation, they have the smart jet engines, which the mechanics don't need, don't even need to check the plane once it lands and that they just know if it needs maintenance or not.
a16z Podcast | Gateway Gadgets to the Internet of Things
- ▶ 1:28 Ben Kaufman Kicked off a partnership with GE and, ah, attempted to, ah, both build products in the space, but also start thinking about a platform that was truly, ah, you know, customer friendly.
a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?
- ▶ 9:19 Reshma Saujani Um, you know, when I first started Girl Who Code, we couldn't get a foundation to support us, and our first seed money came from Rochelle Parham, who was a CMO at eBay, and Beth Comstock, a CMO of GE, and Dick Hensel at Twitter, and Jack…
a16z Podcast | Where the Growth in Cloud and Enterprise Software Really Is (with Marc Benioff)
- ▶ 25:59 Marc Benioff And, uh, three, we run over 23,000 non-profits and NGOs for free on Salesforce, universities, et cetera, and that's been really gratifying and really fulfilling part of our, you know, business is that, um, we're not just, uh, you know,…
a16z Podcast | Selling Tech to Everyone -- Changes Everything
- ▶ 20:55 Steven Sinofsky And so all of the biggest companies in the, in the world basically became banks and GE and, and all the car companies and everybody who did kept Boeing, everybody did these capital equipment like that.
a16z Podcast | The Micro and Macro of Mobile
- ▶ 9:49 Benedict Evans Because enterprise products do not get, you know, you can't outfit General Electric with 250,000 tablets and migrate all their apps onto tablets by saying, well, great, go to your local app store.
a16z Podcast | Mapping the Information Economy -- Where’s the Cloud Going Next?
- ▶ 16:35 Aaron Levie And they, they got really good at building these things, and now they have a CIO and a head of innovation that realizes that they can do exactly what GE just did on jet engines and bring that to completely other areas and, and, and…
a16z Podcast | Engineering a Revolution at Work
- ▶ 4:19 Benedict Evans I mean, my, I mean, my, say my first experience of business computing communications was scribbling on the back of telex stack, tractor paper stacks that my father brought home from his general electric company, um, plant, making very big…
a16z Podcast | China and Tech
- ▶ 15:06 Chris Dixon So they, they've become much more like the GEs of technology or something.