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Why Every Founder Needs a Story | Replit CEO on a16z Jul 17, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 4:04 Amjad Masad I think still, if you go to Hacker News sort by the top 10, 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:58 Amjad Masad Outside of Silicon Valley, which is kind of the early adopter, if you're targeting early adopters, uh, you know, so I would also cluster Hacker News within that as well.

Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed) Dec 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:05 Alex Rampell It's like, oh, this is just, like, our sync with this, that, and the other thing.

Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI? Nov 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 56:24 Amjad Masad I saw another thing on Hacker News the other day where, um, you know, uh, text diffusion, uh, where someone made a text diffusion model by, instead of doing

Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding Oct 23, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:00:28 Amjad Masad It went viral in Hacker News, and it coincided with the MOOC era, so massively online courses. 3 times in the scene

Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech Aug 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:37 Balaji Srinivasan With Facebook's public offering only a few weeks away, spontaneous and improvisational business moves become more curious, you know, like, you know, or Hacker News, this is not going to be one of the best tech acquisitions of the next…

How Zapier Became Profitable in 3 Years and Scaled to $5B with Wade Foster Dec 11, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:32 Wade Foster And, you know, we didn't know much about, like, California, Silicon Valley, things like that, but, you know, we'd read PG's essays, we were a fan of Hacker News and YC, and we thought, you know, it'd be nice if we get accepted and, like,

Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity (Danny Postma and Sinead Bovell) Apr 24, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 38:40 Danny Postma I would love to have someone build a tool where I say, hey, I want the top five posts of hacking news while I was sleeping, the latest news, and my favorite 2 times in the scene

The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan Nov 16, 2022 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption' Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:25 Chris Dixon They also probably, by the way, disproportionately have Twitter followers, Reddit Karma, Hacker News, Cred, whatever that's called, you know, Google Juice, right?

a16z Podcast | When Organic Growth Goes Enterprise Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:08 Andrew Chen When you look back at Dropbox, the first thing they did to get traction was to announce on Hacker News and also Dig at the time was such a big deal, right?

a16z Podcast | Sleep! Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:30 Sonal Chokshi It's kind of funny because when I see hacker news threads or Reddit threads or, you know, people who are really into biohacking, one of the topics that comes up a lot is how to, I hate this phrase, but how to hack your sleep. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | The Dream of AI Is Alive in Go Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:11 Frank Chen And if you look at some of the Hacker News comments, you can actually see this in the gameplay, which is

a16z Podcast | What Software Developers (and Therefore Every Company) Need Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:52 Ben Uretsky So they'll go on Twitter, on Hacker News, uh, write a blog post, or even just tell a friend.

a16z Podcast | Guiding Startup Culture -- The Genius ISMs Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

Company Building in Crypto: A Conversation between Brian Armstrong and Chris Dixon Dec 21, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:26 Brian Armstrong So, you know, you know, in 2010, um, I was home for Christmas visiting my parents, and I happened to read the Satoshi Nakamoto white paper for Bitcoin, and I think I just saw it on Hacker News one day.

Going to Market When No Market Exists Oct 26, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:27 Martin Casado One of the most disruptive things in a startup, in my experience, you, you built out your sales team because you're really excited because you got one customer win and like a lot of people are talking about you and you hit Hacker News and…

Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon Jul 15, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:10 Chris Dixon So, the point is, you know, the, and that's because Reddit and, and Hacker News and the rest of the internet has been referring to using the word in a different way, right?
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