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Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 33:08 Marc Andreessen And so, and then Google engaged in the program.
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 42:43 Marc Andreessen And so they were already in the war for kind of cloud services, and this is like AWS versus Azure versus, uh, Google Cloud, um, you know, and then all the, all these other, all these other cloud efforts.
- ▶ 43:49 Marc Andreessen For a startup building an AI app, they don't have giant fixed costs because they can just tap into the OpenAI or Anthropic or Google or Microsoft or whatever, you know, cloud, you know, tokens by the drink, you know, intelligence tokens by…
- ▶ 51:08 Marc Andreessen So, I mean, look, you know, big companies that are definitely, you know, playing hard, you know, Google's playing hard, Meta's playing hard, um, Amazon, um, Microsoft, um, you know, there's a bunch of these companies that are, you know,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:23 Marc Andreessen And by the way, you know, KP in the, in the, in the nineties invested not only in us, but also in Amazon and then Google and like, you know, you know, company after company after company.
- ▶ 1:10:57 Marc Andreessen If you do a Google search on, it's like,
The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm
- ▶ 5:54 Marc Andreessen I mean, among the companies you created turned out to be the company that created basically the Google search model.
Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
- ▶ 9:47 Marc Andreessen Yahoo almost bought Google.
- ▶ 28:02 Marc Andreessen You know, you know, just meet with them on behalf of startups, and they start yelling at us about Google or something, and it's like, we're not here representing Google. 3 times in the scene
Truth Terminal - The AI Bot That Became a Crypto Millionaire
- ▶ 3:03 Marc Andreessen Um, do, do not do a Google search, um, on Goatsy.
- ▶ 8:11 Marc Andreessen Um, and there's a website, you could Google it, there's a website called Infinite Back Rooms, and it's got, you know, endless, you know, transcripts of basically, and they, they, they poured in all these different models, they poured in…
Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- ▶ 4:30 Marc Andreessen In the old SGI office, um, uh, the, now the Google campus, um, uh, I think in 96.
- ▶ 19:53 Marc Andreessen And of course the classic example that playing out right now is Google invented the transformer in 2017 and then put it on a shelf. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:11 Marc Andreessen Because why on earth is anybody going to go do this instead of going to work for, you know, Google and getting paid a lot of money every year in cash?
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 42:16 Marc Andreessen Waze was like a pre-Google, pre-Google search engine.
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 30:53 Marc Andreessen And, but you know, look, you know, Google and Facebook adapted to mobile just fine.
- ▶ 33:48 Marc Andreessen Right, and, and, and, and what they basically say is like, look, this market's going to be like the search market was like, which is, you know, of course you're always just going to ask Google all your search, like, there's no market for… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:58 Marc Andreessen Like, he's worked, you know, Mark has worked himself in a position where he's able to do that, and the Google guys have been able to do that in other areas, like self-driving cars, and, you know, and now AI.
Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities
- ▶ 38:37 Marc Andreessen I mean, Google is an example, like Google search is still, you know, some giant percentage of the revenue. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:37 Marc Andreessen I mean, Google is an example, like Google search is still, you know, some giant percentage of the revenue. 2 times in the scene
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 17:47 Marc Andreessen And, you know, Facebook and Google were the catalyst.
- ▶ 51:49 Marc Andreessen Uh, the Meta, you know, you can, you kind of mentioned the big companies being Microsoft, Google, Meta. 4 times in the scene
America Needs More Techno-Optimism, with Marc Andreessen and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 4:33 Marc Andreessen They started to do something different, and then there was actually one guy, um, who actually, uh, his name is, I think, uh, Alec Radford, and he, he literally was, like, off in the corner at OpenAI, like, working on this in, like, you…
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 57:19 Marc Andreessen Well, we learned something very valuable over the last few days with a new Google image generator, which is we learned out that the Nazis were actually quite diverse.
The Declining State of Higher Education
- ▶ 42:16 Marc Andreessen He went to work at Google as a fully like tenured econ professor, top of his field. 3 times in the scene
Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
- ▶ 57:14 Marc Andreessen So, um, uh, if you want to just, uh, something I would do for fun sometimes is if you, if you just Google, um, newsroom diversity crisis.
Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter
- ▶ 37:07 Marc Andreessen I think Google, just to close on this topic, I think Google now formally does not take college degrees into account, or at least they've said they're, they're neutral or ambivalent or don't care. 3 times in the scene
Advancing AI, Approaching VC's & Crypto Scandals: Ask Us Anything!
- ▶ 26:51 Marc Andreessen Because, because if you knew you had it, right, if you knew you were headed to a Google, you know, sort of a search industry outcome thing where you were going to have like a national monopoly or a logopoly, it would be the government…
- ▶ 1:14:03 Marc Andreessen Um, what actually happened was like a lot of really smart people at a lot of companies, you know, including companies like Google and Amazon and others, right?
- ▶ 1:15:27 Marc Andreessen We talked about this earlier with this kind of question about, you know, kind of the God models versus, you know, the, the, the Google sort of search model versus the internet model or something.
Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist
- ▶ 40:31 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, uh, you know, IBM and Hewlett Packard and Google and Microsoft and many, many, many others across many industries have done this. 2 times in the scene
What is the Future of Hollywood?
- ▶ 46:00 Marc Andreessen And then, and then basically, as a consequence, there's this 15 point basically bullet list that you can just Google and look up, and it's really interesting, and it's like, and it turns out it's this, it's the same format of plot, um,…
- ▶ 57:04 Marc Andreessen And look, I actually think like, uh, search, uh, search engines, like Google had a, had a, uh, had a, had an impact on, on actually the quality of screenplays, which is, you know, like, it's, it's a lot easier to write a screenplay that… 2 times in the scene
AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
- ▶ 25:59 Marc Andreessen So jailbreak, for people who haven't seen, so basically, by, by the time you as an individual in the world get access to, like, Bing or BART or ChatGPT or any of these things, like, it's, it's basically been essentially, you know, it's…
- ▶ 1:03:50 Marc Andreessen Microsoft thinks about PCs, or Apple thinks about iPhones, or Intel thinks about chips, or Google thinks about search, or Facebook thinks about social, or the Coca-Cola company thinks about Coca-Cola, or Tesla thinks about cars.
- ▶ 1:05:13 Marc Andreessen Like, Bing and BART are both free.
Disrupting the World's Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann
- ▶ 22:10 Marc Andreessen And, and, you know, sort of Google maybe, you know, really kind of, you know, crystallized that in the, in the culture. 5 times in the scene
Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower
- ▶ 8:21 Marc Andreessen But I'll, but I'll bet, we can, we can check this, I'll bet if we Googled long enough, I'll bet we could find a paper that described a general purpose algorithm for, you know, multi.
- ▶ 45:09 Marc Andreessen Everybody knows that patients should not be on Google Googling their own symptoms. 2 times in the scene
Why You Should Be Optimistic About the Future
- ▶ 9:47 Marc Andreessen Google's a good example of this. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:12 Marc Andreessen It seems like more of the same, but you know, the, if you want, the experience you can have now is like, you can wear one of these things basically all day and you can, you can talk to it all day and, you know, they're getting, you know,…
a16z Podcast | Talent, Tech Trends, and Culture -- with Ben, Marc, and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 2:51 Marc Andreessen AOL was a little bit like the Google of the error or something where
- ▶ 25:44 Marc Andreessen Like, they're going to be like, I don't know, 10 or a hundred times the size of Google and Facebook.
a16z Podcast | Competing Against Luck
- ▶ 29:40 Marc Andreessen Google just struck me as absurd on its face for two obvious reasons. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'
- ▶ 35:20 Marc Andreessen Right, so then, so then, let me, let me ask directly then, so in the case of an Apple, which I think is just now really starting to put its foot in the water on this stuff, Google, which seems like it's exploring increasingly original… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
- ▶ 1:08 Marc Andreessen And so Don Valentine has, if you, if you go online and Google Don Valentine's talks, he, he talks a lot about how the key to success of a startup is to land yourself in a giant market.
- ▶ 12:34 Marc Andreessen You can Google it if you really want to learn about it, but it's the regulatory kind of threshold that public companies need to hit on how they deal with risk and they do reporting and all this stuff.
- ▶ 21:11 Marc Andreessen We've got, you know, AlphaGo, the great accomplishment that Google recently had, that DeepMind had.
a16z Podcast | Investing in (Business and Career) Change
- ▶ 4:45 Marc Andreessen Or Google search will do great, um, as long as, you know, people don't, instead of searching, people just, like, ask Siri instead, right?
- ▶ 7:17 Marc Andreessen And then she turned around and sold the company to Google, which was a bit of a surprise. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Disruption in Business... and Life
- ▶ 25:39 Marc Andreessen There's a financial way of looking at it, which is Google's sitting on how much cash they've got, probably 60 or seventy billion dollars of cash. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Role of Academia in the Startup World
- ▶ 14:19 Marc Andreessen You can Google it if you haven't seen it.
a16z Podcast | Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker
- ▶ 2:32 Marc Andreessen Um, where they kind of start out looking, you know, they kind of start out looking like a point product or a point thing, um, and then there's kind of this swallow the red pill moment that happens, um, where you kind of, like, realize, oh…
- ▶ 5:52 Marc Andreessen Um, and then you look at these things, you know, there's a lot of, you know, kind of, um, drama around, like, you know, privacy of your Google searches or privacy of your, uh, of your Facebook graph or whatever, but as a user, you're, it's…
- ▶ 29:20 Marc Andreessen Um, and then what's happening today, which is now there's a generation of, of companies, including big public companies like Google and Facebook, but also new companies that people are getting all excited about.
- ▶ 30:55 Marc Andreessen Like, it's like Apple's a public company, Google's a public company,
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,
- ▶ 28:45 Marc Andreessen Um, and then, um, you know, the route planning software, the guidance software, Google, you know, the Google, you know, the Google, you know, the Google, the stream of Google Earth data that's going to be coming in.
- ▶ 28:45 Marc Andreessen Um, and then, um, you know, the route planning software, the guidance software, Google, you know, the Google, you know, the Google, you know, the Google, the stream of Google Earth data that's going to be coming in.
a16z Podcast | The Truth about Serving on Boards (with Diane Greene and Marc Andreessen)
- ▶ 2:54 Marc Andreessen Um, by the way, Diane is on some very, very large boards of some very important companies, including Google and Intuit.
- ▶ 5:54 Marc Andreessen So suppose you're sitting, suppose you're sitting at the Google board meeting or the Intuit board meeting, and you actually have what you feel like is an actual legitimate, like, idea.
a16z Podcast | What Makes the Valley Work
- ▶ 5:36 Marc Andreessen Um, and then, actually, what actually happened before, before we entered the scene as VCs, what happened was Google took off, and Google was viewed from the outside as professionally Eric Schmidt as professional CEO, but we always felt…
- ▶ 17:13 Marc Andreessen oh my god, the market size, like, you can now build products and services like Pinterest or Facebook or Google, and you can, like, conceivably have everybody on the planet be your customer. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:58 Marc Andreessen Um, and so one question would be, the question we're trying to figure out is, okay, like between Google search listings and Facebook likes and tweets and, you know, e-commerce volumes and app download charts, like there's all these sources…
a16z Podcast | The (Definite) Optimism of Peter Thiel
- ▶ 1:57 Marc Andreessen Uh, if you haven't, definitely go on Google News and type in Peter Thiel, and you will get a cornucopia, uh, of excitement.
- ▶ 27:29 Marc Andreessen For those of you, this is worth a Google search, this car.
- ▶ 42:01 Marc Andreessen What's the, if somebody becomes a monopoly, arguably today, Google and search, um, or, you know, take your pick of the next big company.
a16z Podcast | Startups as Science Experiments -- Can VC Disrupt Academia?
- ▶ 6:45 Marc Andreessen Um, actually, this week, or next week, is the unveiling of Ram Sriram, who was an angel investor in Google, just funded a new biomedical research institute.
a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 1
- ▶ 11:48 Marc Andreessen Which is why you have these companies like Google and Facebook now that have more than a billion users. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon
- ▶ 13:36 Marc Andreessen You can Google it if you haven't seen it.