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How AI Changes the Economics of Innovation
- ▶ 29:11 Steven Sinofsky So at Harvard, they used to bring your typewriter to exams, because that way the professor could read it.
- ▶ 33:58 Steven Sinofsky I worked on, on one that was doing organic synthesis with a team at Harvard.
“Every small business should run itself” | Lassie with a16z
- ▶ 15:09 Stein Overtoom So like what Alex like shared is we come across that literally every day that like it is the doctor themselves with their Harvard degree that sits there till like midnight, uh, and it makes them like, uh, not like their job anymore.
Jake Paul on Going From YouTube to Boxing to Investing | a16z ft. Anti Fund
Goldman Sachs Chairman on Why Finance Adopts AI Differently | a16z
- ▶ 7:14 David Haber And Harvard really changed my life, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:00 Lloyd Blankfein It was the, it was the, it was the, it was around Harvard and MIT, not around Stanford.
Box CEO on AI Agents & Why Enterprise Can't Keep Up | a16z
- ▶ 55:50 Steven Sinofsky And then like some students at Harvard, they brought a computer into the classroom.
Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
- ▶ 1:55 Balaji Srinivasan Like, uh, Facebook scraped all these Harvard social networks or Google, Google scraped the entire internet, built a Google index.
The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
- ▶ 47:04 Alex Rampell Um, uh, I think he's at Harvard
- ▶ 56:00 Russ Fraden And then I'll leave you with a, we'll leave you with an unrelated thought to your, to your Harvard professor. 4 times in the scene
Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
- ▶ 14:21 Katherine Boyle And when you look at sort of the, the kind of Bob Noyce generation of working with your hands, building the physical world, where those engineers came from, versus the story of a Harvard dorm room that inspired generations of college… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:59 Katherine Boyle And if you look at the, the founders, it, it's not your typical, again, to go back to the, the Bob Noyce, uh, Harvard dorm room comparison, it's not your typical, you know, software engineer coming out of a, a college dorm.
Rocket Companies CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis
- ▶ 19:24 Alex Rampell Um, I, I went to Harvard and there's a store called the Harvard coop or it's co-op, but it's called the coop and that's where you buy your textbooks and everything else.
Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?
- ▶ 54:25 unnamed speaker By the way, just on that note, if you were going to Stanford or Harvard, you know, today, 20, 25, just enter, would you major again in computer science or just focus on building something?
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 1:13:10 Anish Acharya Um, if you're somebody that goes to Stanford or maybe Harvard or MIT, like, those people are leaning into CS degrees in a big way, and unfortunately, I think this story has gotten out into broader society that CS is over, engineering is…
Opendoor CEO: Building the Amazon for Homes
- ▶ 52:51 Kaz (Kaz Nejatian) Like William Buckley used to say, he used to rather grab the phone book of Boston, Massachusetts than go to Harvard professor's book for like advice because it's a very real thing about the natural intuition of people is real.
Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
- ▶ 4:30 Chris Dixon So they start off often, um, quite limited, you know, Facebook was just at Harvard and it was essentially a, you know, a, a real time, you know, kind of yearbook or whatever for students at one school.
Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
- ▶ 34:47 Mark Cuban You know, you went, you got your CS degree from Harvard.
Marc Andreessen: The US is in a AI Arms Race & It Decides The World's Future
- ▶ 27:51 Marc Andreessen Um, there was a great story, the thing that woke me up to this, there was a story in the New York Times 20 years ago about Harvard, 3 times in the scene
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 29:41 Balaji Srinivasan So we're a fork of them in, in the same way that like Yale was a fork of Harvard or America was a fork of Britain.
Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
- ▶ 27:56 Marc Andreessen So Harvard is the authoritative institution that certifies the experts who are professors and 2 times in the scene
Building Cluely: The Viral AI Startup that raised $15M in 10 Weeks w/ Roy Lee
Ben Horowitz in Conversation w/ Dr. Clarence B. Jones, MLK's Advisor and Speechwriter
- ▶ 7:51 Dr. Clarence B. Jones He says, Attorney Jones, he says, you know, we have lots of white lawyers, particularly from the Northeast, you know, from Harvard, and University of Pennsylvania, and yeah, who want to help us.
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 1:34:43 Marc Andreessen They've got all these initials after their names and they've got these incredible resumes and they've got all these publication credits and they've got all this stuff and these government grants and like on like every possible credential…
The Future of the American Dream
- ▶ 43:03 Ben Horowitz So you could look, you could offer a higher quality education than Harvard, no doubt, you know, 2 times in the scene
Marty Chavez (Sixth Street): Finding a Single Source of AI Truth
- ▶ 4:31 Marty Chavez Uh, I, I, I went to Harvard. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:44 Marty Chavez And, uh, fortunately, I had not taken the database classes at Harvard, because if I had, I would have said, that's crazy.
Sharks Never Stop Swimming: A Conversation with Mark Cuban
- ▶ 3:09 Mark Cuban And by publishing our price list, now researchers from Harvard and Vanderbilt and other, you know, research organizations are taking our price list and comparing it and saying, look, here are three urology drugs that if CMS would have…
- ▶ 21:02 David Ulevitch Uh, I know we, we as a firm totally, totally agree with that, and, uh, I remember reading the average GPA at Harvard has like gone up a full grade point, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:37 David Ulevitch Uh, you've historically been, I like, oh, there's like some Harvard people being like, oh, it's actually a good school, I promise. 4 times in the scene
The Declining State of Higher Education
- ▶ 1:53 Marc Andreessen Parker Pruitt asks, um, given that there are some presidential vacancies at notable universities, and I should pause there and say that I believe that Harvard, uh, Stanford, uh, Penn, and Yale are all currently searching for new presidents.
- ▶ 34:09 Marc Andreessen Number one, go to Harvard. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:54 Marc Andreessen Well, like, as an example, we know Claudine Gay as a law professor at Harvard, you know, makes 900,000 dollars, right?
- ▶ 1:24:12 Ben Horowitz The largest one, Stanford, Harvard, Yale.
- ▶ 1:31:24 Ben Horowitz I think, you know, um, in a crisis, they can kind of do what Harvard did and, and remove the president.
Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
- ▶ 16:50 Ben Horowitz So, you know, student loan money pours in Harvard raised their tuition.
- ▶ 32:18 Ben Horowitz A few years ago, maybe it was five years ago, Henry Louis Gates, who is the, uh, very famous, very, uh, talented professor of African-American history at Harvard, uh, called me up and cause he, you know, wanted to basically raise money… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:35 Marc Andreessen Um, so your, your friend, Henry Louis Gates, longtime professor at Harvard, actually was, well, pointed out, 2020 years ago, I think, all the way back in, like, 2004, there, there's a big article in the New York Times archives, it's really… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:40 Ben Horowitz But the meaning of who's the top student at Harvard to have clarity on that is pretty powerful.
- ▶ 1:03:05 Marc Andreessen And so, and Harvard just happened to be the university that was the target of it.
- ▶ 1:12:34 Ben Horowitz Um, so just from a VC standpoint, I think that now, like, I think there's something very noble. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:10 Ben Horowitz Actually, more interesting to Andreessen Horowitz than the person from Harvard who's got this degrading credential.
- ▶ 1:49:57 Marc Andreessen Um, but no, to like the original Harvard, the original Harvard business plan, which was like to instruct moral leaders, right?
Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter
- ▶ 4:26 Marc Andreessen Yeah, and, and yeah, and I think a great case study of that, Ben, is I think Xi Jinping's daughter goes to Harvard, I believe, which is one incredible case study. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:39 Marc Andreessen Um, and so Harvard in particular is sort of the, the leading case study on this is, uh, and I think Harvard's the, I think the oldest current one, uh, Harvard is I think 400 years old. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:19 Ben Horowitz Harvard has it, you know, Columbia, et cetera, et cetera. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:29 Ben Horowitz I'm getting kids from weird places, you know, not Harvard, not MIT. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:43 Ben Horowitz So now you want to go to Harvard, but you can't, you know, or you want to go to particularly like UC Berkeley or UCLA, the public schools.
- ▶ 1:01:53 Marc Andreessen This is based on, like, research that took place in the whatever, you know, political, you know, such and such and such health policy department at Harvard or whatever it is, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:17 Ben Horowitz Uh, and you know, like, and people have seen people like Larry Summers famously got fired from Harvard for questioning the religion, um, in like, uh, not even questioning the religion, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:41 Ben Horowitz Like the, the original Harvard students made a lot of money.
- ▶ 1:40:34 Marc Andreessen And so just as an example, um, just to pick an example, uh, Harvard, uh, looked it up last night. 3 times in the scene
Fireside Chat with Sean Duffy
- ▶ 2:35 Sean Duffy I was enrolled in Harvard's MD, MBA, and then, you know, through that came up with the idea for Amada.
Tony Robbins on the Future of Health & Longevity
- ▶ 46:19 Tony Robbins But, you know, Harvard's done studies where they actually give people, uh, you know, a barbiturate, which is slowing the body down, and tell them it's an amphetamine. 2 times in the scene
The Architecture of Crypto Innovation
- ▶ 25:17 Neha Narula Say the beginner intro computer science class at Stanford, MIT, or Harvard.
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 4:23 Qasar Younis In 2007, I was at Harvard at the time, and I remember one of my buddies, uh, getting a phone, and I said, oh,
a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
- ▶ 6:21 Jeff Jordan There, there's a fun book by a Harvard dean called Different, and it basically says almost all consumer goods are these small incremental improvements that everyone copies because that's the improvement that, you know, wider mouths on the…
Better Together: Humanity + Machine Learning
- ▶ 29:07 Frank Chen This is a study done at Harvard and Cornell last year.
What's Next for Education Startups
- ▶ 11:23 unnamed speaker So you would argue, look, the last universities or sort of schools to get threatened would be the sort of high brand, the Harvard's, the Stanford's, the Waterloo's, the, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:07 Li Jin Um, so this is inspired by where I went to college, Harvard, um, which monetizes superficially through the tuition payments, but obviously a lot of it comes from donations from alumni.
a16z Podcast | Earned Secrets
- ▶ 3:41 Ben Horowitz So just give an example is, look, Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard and started Facebook.
a16z Podcast | The Case Against Education, From Signaling to Rainbow's End
- ▶ 16:23 Marc Andreessen So there is a phenomenon in Silicon Valley where if you get accepted at Harvard and you drop out on day one, you are much more attractive.
- ▶ 17:15 Bryan Caplan For you, of course, as a venture capitalist, you might really like these Harvard dropouts, but as an employer of a functionary, on the other hand, not so interested in getting someone like that.
a16z Podcast | From Mind at Play to Making the Information Age
- ▶ 5:58 Steven Sinofsky I mean, especially because most of the people reading those and answering them were probably on the East Coast at Harvard and MIT.
a16z Podcast | Making a (Really) Wild Geo-Engineering Idea Real
- ▶ 10:07 Ross Anderson The guy who's really at the forefront of this is George Church, who is a geneticist at Harvard and kind of has his hands on any number of sort of eccentric schemes like this.
a16z Podcast | On Wearables, Quantified Self, and Biohacking
- ▶ 0:13 Sonal Chokshi And joining us to have this conversation, we have Rachel Kalmar, and she is currently at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University.
a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
- ▶ 15:14 James Currier Social networks that came before Facebook, but it was the first one started at Harvard.
a16z Podcast | Getting Network Effects
- ▶ 6:27 Anu Hariharan So the, the first was they first launched in Harvard. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:41 Jeff Jordan Um, now different, you know, so we go into markets, you know, Zuckerberg is pretty obvious on Harvard.
a16z Podcast | Investing in (Business and Career) Change
- ▶ 10:37 Marc Andreessen Mark Zuckerberg drops out of Harvard, starts Facebook, age 20.
a16z Podcast | Open vs. Closed, Alpha Cities, and the Industries of the Future
a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
- ▶ 3:11 Alex Rampell Like Harvard and Stanford, it doesn't matter.
a16z Podcast | Beyond Lean Startups
a16z Podcast | The Best Way To Be Smart ... Is To Not Be Stupid
- ▶ 16:54 Tren Griffin Was when Paul Allen and Bill Gates were in Harvard Square, and they saw the magazine, and they realized that Bill had to drop out of Harvard and start a company right then.
a16z Podcast | Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker
- ▶ 19:57 Marc Andreessen Um, it has this scary name, um, and the reason it has this scary name is because the idea of disruption was invented by this guy, Clay Christensen, who's a professor at Harvard, and so, you know, he's, he's a guy who comes out with a new…
a16z Podcast | The Truth about Serving on Boards (with Diane Greene and Marc Andreessen)
- ▶ 35:43 Marc Andreessen There's an academic project at Harvard where literally like the class project is to go get like Fortune 500 company, company bylaws changed, um, in order to have, and, and their big cause is to have the entire board get reelected every 12…
a16z Podcast | Technology and the Opening of Myanmar
- ▶ 13:36 unnamed speaker Then, interestingly, it was actually a journalist who came to the United States, to Harvard MPH,
a16z Podcast | The End of Ownership
- ▶ 36:54 unnamed speaker Um, in terms of a mindset shift that needs to happen in traditional companies like, say, Exxon, uh, Citi, or even an institution like Harvard, 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Sports, Tech, and What We Can All Learn from the Latest Performance Science
- ▶ 31:08 Mark McClusky The, the granular information I, I read about Kirk Goldsberry, who, um, is a Harvard cartologist.
a16z Podcast | Secrets, Power Laws, and Technology – The Ideas of “Zero to One”
- ▶ 4:31 Chris Dixon It's funny because like Michael Porter, you know, the, the Harvard strategist says strategy is the art and science of making your industry less competitive and therefore higher profit margins, right?
- ▶ 6:28 Blake Masters Uh, as soon as he knew he had something at Harvard, right?
a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 1
- ▶ 8:14 Ben Horowitz Well, basically, uh, enter a virtual classroom, um, with virtual other kids and virtual teacher, uh, which, you know, might not sound that great if you're at Harvard, but it sounds awfully good if you're in an inner city school, um, that's…
a16z Podcast | Demystifying Venture Capital
- ▶ 25:41 Anne Winblad Other than Stanford and Harvard, um, which has a higher percentage of, um, women as MBAs, only about the typical MBA class in other universities is 20 to 25%.
Distribution, Channel & Partnerships
- ▶ 3:38 Alex Rampell So, and the classic example here is that Facebook started off at Harvard.
When Biology Moves to Engineering
- ▶ 12:28 Vijay Pande And, you know, biology's come a long way, but actually if you go to, you know, the top labs at Stanford, or Harvard, or MIT, or UCSF, for the most part, a lot of science has not changed.
Challenges in Healthcare Innovation
- ▶ 9:35 Jorge Conde So scientists at the Broad Institute at Harvard and MIT, they've created an atlas of various different cell types, so we can understand how different cells function and dysfunction.
Don't Follow Your Passion
- ▶ 15:50 Ben Horowitz So that means a girl growing up in Bangladesh now has a better library than a student at Columbia or Harvard had 20 years ago.