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Box CEO on the AI Adoption Gap | The a16z Show
- ▶ 18:23 Martin Casado But then I gave it its own Gmail account, which you can log into, and then Gmail actually has all of these RBAC permissions. 2 times in the scene
Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
- ▶ 2:28 Balaji Srinivasan A small example, but an important one is the Gmail thing, right?
Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 4:06 Olivia Moore They're adding AI to, uh, Gmail, Sheets, Calendar.
Atlassian CEO on the SaaS Apocalypse, AI Agents & What Comes Next
- ▶ 25:08 Mike Cannon-Brookes They're building apps that work just for them on top of their Gmail or something else, right? 3 times in the scene
The Biggest Bottlenecks For AI: Energy & Cooling
- ▶ 6:10 David George Um, or, you know, if you take the Google properties, like, you know, search and Gmail, and now I guess increasingly AI stuff,
Where does consumer AI stand at the end of 2025?
- ▶ 13:17 Olivia Moore They're launching it within Google Docs and Gmail and other things.
How AI Will Transform Fintech In 2026
- ▶ 16:26 unnamed speaker Like they, they, they didn't operate on Outlook or on Gmail.
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 58:17 Amjad Masad We had Gmail.
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 13:52 Keith Rabois So their strategy is going to be at some point, they're going to try to take advantage of all this personal data from your Gmail, from your YouTube videos, you know, from all the different products they have, and then therefore make a much…
- ▶ 17:29 Alex Rampell You will just go to chat GPT or to your point, like it's possible that the empire strikes back, but like the, like, all right, I already have my calendar, my Gmail, everything else that personalization potentially makes it better. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:27 Alex Rampell Gmail was pretty good.
What Is an AI Agent?
- ▶ 32:48 Matt Bornstein I don't know if you guys remember when Gmail first implemented ads.
Automating Developer Email with MCP and AI Agents
- ▶ 10:36 Zeno Rocha Uh, so for an email to render the same on Outlook and Gmail and Yahoo Mail, you still have a lot of challenges.
- ▶ 26:23 Zeno Rocha All of your emails are already on Gmail.
Vibe Coding is Here - How AI is Changing How We Build Online
- ▶ 6:41 unnamed speaker Um, and then you can even log in with your Gmail account, which like a, a Google authentication API.
AI, Robotics & the Future of Manufacturing
- ▶ 52:21 Marc Andreessen Um, which, you know, you can't do if you're running a Gmail service or a search engine or something. 2 times in the scene
Big Ideas in 2024: Voice-First Apps Will Become Integral to Our Lives with Anish Acharya
- ▶ 2:47 Anish Acharya I think the other thing that's very interesting for productivity apps is that, you know, you could imagine some of the incumbent productivity providers, you know, Gmail for email, for example, they're going to build a lot of the obvious…
- ▶ 5:01 Anish Acharya This is why, you know, I'm sure there's a lot of creative people at Gmail, but it's very hard for them to go to a dramatically different paradigm like a superhuman.
The 1000x Developer with Amjad Masad
- ▶ 17:29 Amjad Masad Um, and so it helps you in every aspect of software creation, whether that's typing code, it's provides this type ahead components similar to Gmail to either complete lines of code or entire functions or entire classes.
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 1:29:29 Balaji Srinivasan Another way of doing it, which is actually not thought of as such, but it's really important, is a cloud-based international regulator like Amazon, eBay, actually even Gmail, Apple, et cetera.
The Latest in Cyber Attacks
- ▶ 4:02 Martin Casado So in order for me to, for example, take over your Gmail account, it costs about a hundred bucks. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:42 Martin Casado Normally, what they're meant to do is just to trick you into, like, assuming it's a bank, so you reveal, ah, your credentials, or maybe you think it's, it's Gmail, so you reveal your credentials.
Superhuman's Founder on How to Move Beyond Gamification
- ▶ 8:02 Rahul Vohra In Gmail, the shortcuts to compose an email is C, so I hit C, and then I type Conrad. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:37 Rahul Vohra In Gmail, when I archive this email, I end up back on the inbox. 2 times in the scene
Imagining Our Future Through Tech
- ▶ 16:29 Frank Chen A lot of us help our parents digitally today by logging on to their laptops and helping them with Gmail problems, right, with remote desktop.
Social Networking in 2030: How Could Crypto Change Things?
- ▶ 5:52 Chris Dixon Today, if you, probably a lot of you use Gmail, that anti-spam technology was provided by a company called Postini, which Google bought, which was funded, created by entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.
10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
- ▶ 27:35 Justin Kan So those people, Paul Graham, great example, founder of Y Combinator, Paul Buhay, who is like a partner of Y Combinator, but the inventor of Gmail inside of Google.
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 1:07:19 Frank Chen Or, there's features embedded in, ah, all of your apps, like Autoreply is in Gmail, right?
Five Open Problems for the Blockchain Computer
- ▶ 1:09 unnamed speaker I use Gmail.
a16z Podcast | Dark Data in Healthcare
- ▶ 9:28 Anil Sethi There are very few mental health and sexual health carve-outs, but most of the time I am in the right when I can ask my doctor and she can send me all of my information in any digital format I request, as long as she's got it, to my Gmail…
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 35:11 Chris Dixon Um, uh, the, you know, if you just think about your typical experience of a corporate worker in 2018, you go to the office, and maybe you're using Windows 95, and, you know, some archaic, I don't know what, ERP software, and a bunch of…
a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
- ▶ 19:15 Brian Armstrong In the same way that, you know, Hotmail and Gmail, they both have SMTP as the protocol underneath, so it's interoperable with all these email providers all over the world, and
a16z Podcast | Why Crypto Tokens Matter
- ▶ 16:21 Chris Dixon You could argue Gmail has gotten so powerful, so big at this point that maybe they've actually 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Strategies and Tactics of Big
- ▶ 26:37 Steven Sinofsky And I remember watching YouTube and going, when are they going to be able to sign on with a Gmail account?
a16z Podcast | The Law (and Tech) of Warfare
- ▶ 27:21 unnamed speaker Google, Gmail.
a16z Podcast | For Your Ears Only
- ▶ 20:14 Matt Spence There's classified information which are on classified networks, but you cannot forward one from, you can't sort of have a mistake and accidentally send it to someone's classified email address or their Gmail address.
a16z Podcast | Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols
- ▶ 11:50 Chris Dixon Gmail is a great user experience, and it's built on open protocols.
a16z Podcast | The Product Edge in Machine Learning Startups
- ▶ 1:32 Steven Sinofsky What, what is it that doesn't, that makes it so that, hey, they have all the data, like it's all in Gmail already.
a16z Podcast | It's Complicated
- ▶ 15:11 Steven Sinofsky It's cool if it's Gmail
a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
- ▶ 48:46 Balaji Srinivasan One of the big things that's a pain moving between countries, your Gmail works, your Facebook works, all your internet services work.
a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
- ▶ 4:39 Connie Chan Yeah, I think the messaging app just embodied, um, the concept of eliminating friction, and I really loved how they really leaned into that concept, and if you think about all the other Google services like Google Calendar or Gmail, you…
- ▶ 10:49 Benedict Evans Everything Google does plugs onto the kind of core competency, you know, whether it's Gmail, or advertising, or web search, or self-driving cars, they all plug onto that core platform of understanding data.
a16z Podcast | Mapping the Future of Virtual Reality
- ▶ 24:08 Kyle Russell It's also interesting to think of even business use cases where I think we've all had difficulties with Skype or Google Hangouts or, you know, any telepresence, uh, experience where, um, you know, either the connection was bad or, uh, you…
a16z Podcast | Telepresence and Tech for a Distributed Workforce
- ▶ 2:43 Craig Walker But the reality, like, what we see is businesses are moving their productivity suites to the cloud, their email, their Gmail, their Office
a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
- ▶ 16:10 Alex Rampell Think back to when Gmail came out. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Making the Case for Permissionless Innovation
- ▶ 13:48 Adam Thierer People forget in 2004 when Gmail was introduced, there were proposals to ban it. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Crypto, Security, CS, Quantum Computing, and More with Our New Professor-in-Residence
a16z Podcast | Messaging As the Interface to Everything
- ▶ 41:24 David Pierce And it's, it's privacy versus convenience, and it's like, I'm gonna, the more I tell you, the better Google Now is, and the better Google Search is, and the better Gmail is, and all these things, whereas, but then it knows more about me,…
a16z Podcast | Bitcoin's Growing Pains -- and Possibilities
- ▶ 12:00 Chris Dixon and, you know, Outlook are the obvious ones, but there's anti-spam services and there's compliance services and there's, you know, whatever services for
a16z Podcast | Dealing with Corporate Dealmakers -- When to Talk to Corp Dev
- ▶ 14:55 James Loftus And so say it's Gmail
a16z Podcast | For Google, Android is a Tactic and Cloud is a Strategy
- ▶ 16:45 Benedict Evans You've got an iPhone, you're signed into Google Maps, and you use Gmail, and you use Google Search.
a16z Podcast | Making Sense of Big Data, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
- ▶ 16:15 Christopher Nguyen That's what I learned from you from the consumer perspective with things like Gmail and so on.
a16z Podcast | How Hacks Happen (Let’s Just Say Mistakes Have Been Made)
- ▶ 6:16 Kim Zetter This happens in your Gmail account, where you'll get a message, and Gmail will tell you, ah, this doesn't appear to be coming from the, who, who appears to be sending it.
a16z Podcast | Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back
- ▶ 11:00 Marc Andreessen Um, and so I think that there's actually this inversion happening right now where one of the reasons these cloud vendors, and this is, you know, Google, you know, Gmail and Box and like all these new guys, um, you know, GitHub,
a16z Podcast | Tools for How We Work Today
- ▶ 15:28 Stuart Butterfield Yeah, we actually, um, we often use the analogy of what it was like for us, and I think this is true for many, many people, and certainly most listeners of this podcast, of what it was like to switch to Gmail from another email client,…
a16z Podcast | Searching for Mobile's Third OS
- ▶ 11:17 unnamed speaker Yeah, it's kind of interesting, like, even, even from a location perspective, like, we think of, you know, the, the American US, you know, the model around Android is, everyone's on Google, everyone's using all the various services that,…
a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile
- ▶ 16:05 Benedict Evans And then every, and then you need Gmail for your notifications.
a16z Podcast | The End of Ownership
- ▶ 32:46 Balaji Srinivasan So for example, Google rankings, Apple's app store, Gmail spam filtering, PayPal and eBay fraud protection, Amazon reviews, um, these things already happening in the cloud, massive scale marketplaces where all the checks and balances, rare…
a16z Podcast | Beyond Bitcoin -- The Blockchain
- ▶ 15:11 Chris Dixon So Coinbase is big enough now that a lot of the transactions flow internally, and they can, they can make those, they basically waive those fees, as an example, and I think you could imagine, I think it might, maybe like email, like you'll…
a16z Podcast | Mobile Invades the Data Center
- ▶ 19:45 Ramana Jonnala Around a lot of the CIOs in the enterprise are, you know, they use Google Mail, they have Facebook and all of that, and they do know that that infrastructure is not built on, on, you know, the way data centers are built.
a16z Podcast | The Wearables Session
- ▶ 11:53 Chris Dixon You know, the stuff you have at home on your iPhone and Gmail is much better than stuff you have at work.
a16z Podcast | Mapping the Information Economy -- Where’s the Cloud Going Next?
- ▶ 8:20 Steven Sinofsky Because, of course, what they learned was over the past 10 years or so with this new demographic, if, if they don't pay attention, then, and they make it harder for people to use that system that they put in place in the industrial age,… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Bending Every Pixel to Your Will -- Optimizely and the Next Wave of Internet Tools
- ▶ 4:04 Tom Reichert More familiar to someone who might be, uh, you know, someone coming out of a university program who's never coded, but they've, they've used Facebook, they've used, um, Gmail, they use these different applications, which, um, have trained…
a16z Podcast | Where is the Technology That "Matters?" Right Here
- ▶ 5:12 Balaji Srinivasan The iPads and iPhones and Gmails and Dropboxes and Twitters and things of that nature.
a16z Podcast | The State of the Bitcoin Ecosystem, and a Theory on Satoshi
- ▶ 6:14 Balaji Srinivasan Wallets linked to your Google account would be used to pay your Google storage or maybe to send money to people in Gmail and so on and so forth.
a16z Podcast | Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun
- ▶ 16:48 Benedict Evans So is Gmail, so is Maps, so is Now, so is the advertising platform that pays for it all, but those are all applications that sit on top of, you know, in a literal sense, but in a metaphorical sense, they're all things that sit on top of an…
What's Next in Consumer Startups?
- ▶ 10:54 Andrew Chen Um, you know, email address, and you can, um, share it with them, but by the way, you can also, um, it integrates nicely with, uh, you know, Facebook Messenger, your Gmail contacts, there's, uh, tracking in the URL, so you kind of know how…
The Future of Money: Banking on Fintech
- ▶ 3:14 Alex Rampell What's more likely to happen is somebody who's entering the financial system for the very, very first time, who's used to using their iPhone all the time, who's used to, you know, logging into their Gmail account, they go into the clunky…