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The Opportunity for Global Founders
- ▶ 11:43 Gabriel Vasquez And I think a lot of these people either grew up in, you know, we have, we have backed a German founder that grew up in a really, really small town in Germany. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:21 Gabriel Vasquez They might have a strong network if they're from Germany in Germany, but they probably have no knowledge about Brazil or Japan. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:25 Gabriel Vasquez You know, the, the joke, a lot of people usually tell us that like, hey, Gabe, you're so well known in Sweden or in Germany or in Brazil.
- ▶ 38:21 Gabriel Vasquez And then, you know, there was this really four smart students from CDTM, which is one of the best programs in Germany.
“Every small business should run itself” | Lassie with a16z
- ▶ 35:51 Stein Overtoom Where I'm from, um, and Germany, Hamburg, where Frederick is from, can, can start like using as well.
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 1:19:10 Qasar Younis I've lived, you know, in Japan, I lived in Germany, I lived in Dubai, so also being Pakistani by birth, I think that's also influenced our company. 2 times in the scene
Digital Freedom, AI Regulation, and the Fight for the Western Internet | The a16z Show
- ▶ 10:33 Sarah Rogers So I think the idea that, um, you know, these kind of European censorship laws, laws that make it illegal to insult a politician as it is in Germany, for example, or legal to, um, you know, blaspheme Islam as some prosecutors argued…
Palantir CTO on The SaaS Apocalypse & Preventing The Next World War | a16z
- ▶ 45:04 Shyam Sankar Like Jack Warner in the thirties, Germany was the third largest export market for American entertainment.
Palantir CEO on Iran, AI Weapons and American Domination | a16z American Dynamism Summit
- ▶ 3:22 Alex Karp And being able to think it, and if that doesn't work, being able to defend it with the Second Amendment, uh, and, uh, and last not least, our, our founders, founders, uh, uh, did not structure these rights the way they are in, say, where I… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:52 Alex Karp You know, the funny thing about those of us who've spent most of our life abroad, like in Germany, it's a phenomenal culture. 2 times in the scene
Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Years
- ▶ 2:07 Ben Horowitz Like, they got very mad at each other over, it was at Sachs who supported Germany in World War I, so.
The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm
- ▶ 32:41 Margit Wennmachers I mean, look, I just saw this on X, I think, like the layoff numbers from the German car companies, my home country, like every sixth job in Germany is somehow related to the auto industry. 2 times in the scene
Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
- ▶ 48:20 Ben Horowitz Yeah, I think that, um, you know, geopolitically, we've, we've kind of entered a new era, uh, and so if you kind of go back, you know, post-World War II, we had kind of, um, bombed our big manufacturing competitors, you know, Japan and,…
The Brutal Truth About Biotech: Why $2B Per Drug Is Killing Innovation
- ▶ 12:15 Jorge Conde You're talking about the Germans.
Marc Andreessen: How Movies Explain America
- ▶ 56:09 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, the US is, you know, is kind of variously at odds with not just Germany, but also with Soviet Russia. 3 times in the scene
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 2:34 Keith Rabois He's probably more right than wrong, and so you still, if you're gonna build one for Germany or Europe or Israel or wherever, you're still gonna need a critical density of those 150 people to be able to compete
The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
- ▶ 30:55 Dan Wang But why doesn't the U.S. try to achieve, let's say, Japan or German levels of, um, you know, manufacturing as a share of GDP, which are closer to 20%?
- ▶ 37:42 Dan Wang Apple engineers come over, train a lot of people, bring their managerial talents, bring their design talents, and then mostly assemble, at the start, um, components that were coming from the US and Japan and Germany and Korea, and only… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:10 Steven Sinofsky Germany, you know, one of the things that always through the seventies and eighties that surprised Americans was, why are there so many German cars all over Europe when they would go visit Europe?
Anduril CEO: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?
- ▶ 22:33 Chris Power Like it's all German, South Korean, Japanese or whatever, and they're controlled products.
Oren Cass & Noah Smith Debate the True Impact of Tariffs
- ▶ 4:18 Noah Smith You know, I know, observing countries like Germany and South Korea, where the manufacturing share of industry has remained remarkably high.
- ▶ 46:23 Noah Smith This is like us trying to match China is like Germany trying to match us. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:32 Noah Smith So if, no, you, well, I mean, the point is that you do, so if you, if we export 10, um, if we export ten billion dollars worth of cars to Germany, 6 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: The US is in a AI Arms Race & It Decides The World's Future
- ▶ 5:50 Marc Andreessen You know, it's, it's the same thing Germany did.
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.
America's Energy Problem: We Need A New Grid
- ▶ 14:56 Ryan McEntush I think it's actually cheaper to put residential solar on your home in Germany than in the United States.
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.
Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software
- ▶ 10:21 Rick Rubin I'm wearing headphones, and I had my hands on a mouse, and it was in Germany at a hi-fi convention, and I was listening to those headphones very closely.
Sovereign AI: Why Nations Are Building Their Own Models
- ▶ 12:28 Guido Appenzeller I mean, I grew up in Germany, right, so benefiting from the Marshall Plan.
The Software Crisis Behind America's Infrastructure
- ▶ 0:49 Leila Hay Um, on your ASI company page, and I quote, it says, you, 12 years ago, you were frustrated by Germany's stagnant approach to national security and its economic degrowth mindset. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:18 Leo Kosinski Africa Command out of Stuttgart, Germany, and that was also during the pandemic, but just working with Department of Defense logistics and infrastructure, trying to move around Africa, just the size and scope, and then you add on the…
Automating Developer Email with MCP and AI Agents
- ▶ 37:56 Zeno Rocha I was, uh, I was in Germany. 3 times in the scene
Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startups
- ▶ 42:57 Marc Andreessen Well, this is why this is, as people watching geopolitics will know, this, this is a big factor in German, in, uh, in Europe now, and relative to the war, the, uh.
Marc & Ben on AI Policy, Safety, Censorship & Unexpected Risks
- ▶ 1:11:23 Marc Andreessen NVIDIA, the, the news of the week is NVIDIA, just NVIDIA, just passed the total market cap of both the German stock market and Italian stock market combined. 2 times in the scene
AI, Robotics & the New Global Arms Race
- ▶ 6:04 Marc Andreessen Um, there's an ecosystem in Germany. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:15 Marc Andreessen Um, and basically China is following the exact same trajectory that Germany, Japan, and Korea, um, uh, did before it, which is it, you know, there have been domestic Chinese car companies for a long time now, but, you know, generally…
- ▶ 25:31 Marc Andreessen The Germans are in no way adapting, or at least not yet have not adapted this.
- ▶ 28:03 Marc Andreessen Um, Germany is currently de-industrializing. 4 times in the scene
Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- ▶ 1:02:29 Marc Andreessen Um, uh, Europe is the warning sign on this because the German, you know, the, the Germans over the course of the last 40 years just declared war on their domestic energy industry. 4 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 1:20:46 Marc Andreessen Um, and we'll let people, you know, all these people, all these foreign buyers will be able to buy books from, you know, Japan and Germany.
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 1:34:05 Marc Andreessen Right, but have been staunchly pro-nuclear, um, and trying to hold off, I think in a lot of ways, sort of, uh, attempts throughout the rest of Europe, and especially from Germany to, to basically bad nuclear. 3 times in the scene
America Needs More Techno-Optimism, with Marc Andreessen and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 25:08 Marc Andreessen I think Apple's market cap is bigger than the entire market cap of the German stock market. 2 times in the scene
Text to Video: The Next Leap in AI Generation
- ▶ 36:38 Robin Rombach It's, it's quite fun that we have like this, this lab here in Germany.
The Declining State of Higher Education
- ▶ 16:12 Marc Andreessen Um, and, you know, to this day, uh, when you meet an engineer from Germany, it's actually, you know, pretty likely they have a PhD, um, from one of these German technical universities, which, you know, their PhD is like much higher rates,…
Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter
- ▶ 9:03 Marc Andreessen And then more recently, you know, starting about a hundred, I don't know, a hundred, 120 years ago, the, the influence started showing up much more also of the German model. 3 times in the scene
Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist
- ▶ 53:22 Marc Andreessen France just had to get a waiver from Germany, um, to continue to run their nuclear reactors, um, which they, which they finally just got.
Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
- ▶ 23:54 Marc Andreessen And this was the, this, you know, this was the rise of fascism in Germany and in Spain and Italy and other places, right?
- ▶ 1:30:58 Marc Andreessen It was invented by the German Greens in the 19 seventies to prevent the, the use of nuclear power, um, which is a decision that is causing, you know, tremendous damage, not just globally, but specifically to Germany right now. 2 times in the scene
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 49:53 Salim Ismail The most roboticized companies in the countries in the world that have the highest penetration of robotics are South Korea, Sweden, Germany, which have the lowest unemployment.
Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity (Danny Postma and Sinead Bovell)
- ▶ 5:18 Sinead Bovell And I, I did also see as I was reaching more and more fashion companies like Zilando, a big e-commerce giant in, in Germany, also researching the technology.
The State of Apps with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 20:46 Olivia Moore There's already, in twenty-twenty-three, a new app that just raised a seed round that hit number one in Germany.
Building for Tomorrow with Jason Feifer
- ▶ 45:13 Jason Feifer So the teddy bear was invented in Germany right around the turn of the century, and then it made its way over to America around 19 or six, 19 or seven, it became popular enough to trigger its own moral panic.
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 6:03 Balaji Srinivasan French to German as you cross the Franco-German border.
- ▶ 10:47 Balaji Srinivasan The state now says, uh, the German state is Germany.
- ▶ 1:35:20 Balaji Srinivasan For example, you can go to Germany for stem cells. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:24:20 Balaji Srinivasan You know, sometimes it's leaving, like, communism, like China, or Nazism, fleeing Germany.
- ▶ 2:38:24 Balaji Srinivasan Germany, you know, Bismarck unified Germany, and there's a whole thing in the, it's called the German question about, you know, whether like, uh, Hanover and Austria, like how would, how would they actually interact?
- ▶ 2:39:43 Balaji Srinivasan Like, so the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars are what helped lead to German unification. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:48:27 Balaji Srinivasan Or Bismarck before Germany.
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.
a16z Podcast | How Many Taps in the Apple (Plus) Tree?
- ▶ 10:49 Steven Sinofsky And also just like, again, with all of these, there was a lot of like hemming and hawing over, oh, is this, is this part of it going to be available in Germany? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 35:18 Qasar Younis Uh, the German government won't just let Waymo come take over Germany, uh, and let Daimler and BMW go under business, and the same thing is true for Hyundai in Korea, Honda and Toyota in Japan, and the Chinese companies, because there's a…
a16z Podcast | The Business of Cybercrime
- ▶ 23:12 Jonathan Lusthaus They're duping victims in the UK, the US, Australia, Germany, wherever it might be.
a16z Podcast | Automation + Work, Human + Machine
- ▶ 1:46 unnamed speaker In fact, we opened the first chapter of our book talking about co-bots at the Mercedes E-Class factory in Fingelhausen, Germany, where they actually de-automated the production scale, large scale robots to smaller scale co-bots and…
a16z Podcast | Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
- ▶ 5:09 Steven Sinofsky Or at least Germany and Japan.
a16z Podcast | The Scientific Revolution of Ancient DNA
- ▶ 15:39 David Reich We obtained lots of DNA samples from Germany, ranging in time from 7000 years ago to 3000 years ago, and also DNA samples from Russia and Spain from the same period. 2 times in the scene
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 Case Against Education, From Signaling to Rainbow's End
- ▶ 22:50 Bryan Caplan And you know, the most famous systems in the world are probably like the Swiss and the German systems of vocational education, where when you are in your early teens, if you're not going to the academic high school, instead you go to a…
- ▶ 23:56 Marc Andreessen I'm half German, so let me characterize utilitarian society, let's say. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | On Morals and Meaning in Products, Business, and Life
- ▶ 12:30 Sonal Chokshi That's just like in Germany, like the gymnasium system, actually.
a16z Podcast | The Internet of Taste, Streaming Content to Culture
- ▶ 21:17 Ted Sarandos Hey, you like foreign language television, and you liked Stranger Things, and you like this movie and that movie, you like this cast, you're gonna love this show called Dark that we just produced in Germany.
a16z Podcast | Adjusting to Trade... and Innovation
- ▶ 18:31 Noah Smith So what's interesting is that during the eighties and nineties, people were very scared of trade with Japan and Germany, you know, Japanese car companies coming in and out competing our companies and blah, blah, blah. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:34 Noah Smith Because on the eve of World War I, Great Britain and Germany were each other's largest trading partners.
a16z Podcast | Centers of Power, War, and History
- ▶ 14:22 Graham Allison A percent and a half a year of GDP and give it to the Europeans to help rebuild the devastated Europe, including Germany and Italy.
- ▶ 18:49 Graham Allison We then, uh, threaten war, first with Germany, and then with, uh, uh, Britain, about a territorial dispute in Venezuela, where they're trying to settle the dispute.
- ▶ 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?
a16z Podcast | The Strategies and Tactics of Big
- ▶ 8:23 Benedict Evans Shoes in Germany is two 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 Living Museum
- ▶ 20:28 Sarah Lombard It is supposed to feel slightly confused, what would you say, sort of shocking, chaotic, not necessarily chaotic, but more you think of the 19 thirties and Germany is falling apart, destabilizing, that's so good.
a16z Podcast | From Jobs to Flying Cars
- ▶ 11:33 Marc Andreessen Specifically, rural Midwest, 19 seventies, 19 eighties, and so this is at a point, right, agriculture was in, like, severe distress, and had been through a 200 year process of transformation, and there were all kinds of chaos happening in…
- ▶ 25:13 Marc Andreessen There was supposed to be, I mean, the military spent 30 years preparing for a giant land war, you know, in, in, on the plains of Germany, like, there was supposed to be this massive military conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union,…
a16z Podcast | Build Your Personal Brand
- ▶ 11:55 Margit Wennmachers Another person who hasn't, actually doesn't even tell her story, but I think has done a good job is Angela Merkel over in Germany.
- ▶ 23:16 Margit Wennmachers And then I always have, like, my happy home place, Germany.
a16z Podcast | Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis
- ▶ 22:36 Lena Sergi Attar The most innovative solutions are coming from the people themselves, and this is what we're seeing in the media with, like, the feel-good stories of refugees who've made it in Germany or made it in the U.S. and brought pieces of their…
a16z Podcast | Truce for Mobile, Battle for VR
- ▶ 6:04 Benedict Evans It's like one operator in America, one operator in the UK, one in Germany and so on.
a16z Podcast | Not If, But How -- When Technology is Inevitable (with Kevin Kelly)
- ▶ 12:11 Sonal Chokshi It's when in the early days when countries like Germany put their entire code, their laws in GitHub, and people, everyone essentially became an open source contributor.
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 | Banking on the Blockchain
- ▶ 35:40 William Mougayar For example, there's a company, there's an energy company in Germany, AWE, uh, that's, uh, going to be working with a company called Slocket, where they're going to allow electric vehicles to, to charge themselves when they are stopped,…
a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
- ▶ 7:13 Parag Khanna But now that Russia has built so many, is building so many new pipelines to Europe that circumvent Ukraine, Europe is building what are called reverse pipelines that take the gas that goes from Russia to Germany and feeding it back through…
a16z Podcast | Your Worst Deeds Don’t Define You -- Life and Redemption in Prison
- ▶ 44:57 Ben Horowitz Well, prison is prison, and, you know, like, you can't really design a better prison that has, ah, kind of a better outcome, but, you know, now, since you've been out, ah, you've actually been invited to prisons in other countries, and…
- ▶ 45:20 Shaka Senghor So in June of last year, I was, I was given a wonderful, wonderful opportunity to, to travel to Germany, um, to, um, do research on their prison system. 6 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Truth and Humanity in Leadership
- ▶ 11:57 Lars Dalgaard Like, so in this case, I would go to these meetings, and German is not my first language, so I just drove around Germany.
a16z Podcast | Open vs. Closed, Alpha Cities, and the Industries of the Future
- ▶ 3:13 Michael Copeland China, Myanmar, and then Germany.
- ▶ 9:29 Michael Copeland You know, Germany does this, this 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Reinventing Insurance
- ▶ 9:40 Mike Paulus So, uh, you know, we had in Germany, the first factory that was, um, attacked in a cyber way and it caused physical damage.
a16z Podcast | When Banking Works Like My Smartphone
- ▶ 6:33 Tavit Henrikos So hearing from your friend said, hey, you know, I was paying, I was sending some money over to Germany.
a16z Podcast | Things Come Together -- Truths about Tech in Africa
- ▶ 5:16 Alan Knott Craig South Africa is a bit like Germany in Europe, you know. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Nobody Discusses Work Software Outside of Work -- and Then There’s Slack
- ▶ 14:23 Stuart Butterfield Um, Japan was our number two country, both for paid seats and daily active users, until it got dislodged by the UK and Germany.
a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
- ▶ 9:23 Shaq (Shakil Khan) UK has probably been the last in that, because out of European countries, Germany and UK
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