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Why Top Founders Are Racing Into AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 42:32 Ben Horowitz By the way, he bought a whole 3 times in the scene
Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World
- ▶ 19:27 Travis Kalanick Uh, we've got Ford.
Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
- ▶ 33:28 Anish Acharya You think of how lossy the communication is, like the entire management science sort of managerial class, like maybe that was a hundred year distraction from what was founder mode, you know, in the industrial revolution, all the way…
Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
- ▶ 1:21:40 Ben Horowitz Fords. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:03 Ben Horowitz and then got in an argument with Henry Ford and went to Chevy, or went to GM and, like, built Chevy and, like, all that kind of thing, and then went to work for the government for a dollar.
The Media Game Has Changed
- ▶ 16:14 Marc Andreessen It just, it never even, I mean, I'm positive it never occurred to Henry Ford to name his company anything other than the Ford Motor Company. 2 times in the scene
Palantir CTO on The SaaS Apocalypse & Preventing The Next World War | a16z
- ▶ 33:24 Katherine Boyle That was sort of, you know, that's the, that's the Henry Ford style, right?
Rocket Companies CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis
- ▶ 1:17 Alex Rampell Um, this guy, think about what Henry Ford did for the automobile. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:42 Alex Rampell Um, and actually like the, the technology wasn't bad at all, but it was like, let's go bring the Henry Ford factory to housing.
Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
- ▶ 25:41 Ben Horowitz Including like Henry Ford.
How Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What’s Coming Next
- ▶ 34:00 Ben Horowitz So I knew Thomas Edison and Henry Ford and JP Morgan.
Reasoning Models Are Remaking Professional Services
- ▶ 34:35 George Sivulka But, you know, maybe that the Henry Ford quote of, of do you want a car or do you want a faster horse?
Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- ▶ 18:12 Ben Horowitz Well, and that, that, that strength was built through kind of little tech entrepreneurs like Thomas Edison, like Henry Ford, um, who, you know, kind of built these technologies and these companies and these manufacturing capabilities that,…
AI, Robotics & the Future of Manufacturing
- ▶ 1:10:58 Ben Horowitz Like they're really in some ways were very, very bad jobs in that, uh, you know, Henry Ford very famously doubled the minimum wage and everybody, you know, like, it's funny, he celebrated
America Needs More Techno-Optimism, with Marc Andreessen and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 28:41 Marc Andreessen There's the original model of capitalism, which he calls bourgeois capitalism, um, which you could think like Henry Ford is the archetype of that.
From Silicon Valley to the Pentagon: The Future of Defense Innovation
- ▶ 35:43 Brandon Tseng Uh, I'm reminded of the old saying from Henry Ford, if I asked people what they wanted, they would say faster horses versus the entrepreneur who says, let me figure out what the best solution to your problem is.
Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist
- ▶ 11:58 Ben Horowitz And Henry Ford's famous line, you know, there are two men, uh, one believes he can do it.
- ▶ 1:01:56 Ben Horowitz And, uh, in fact, Henry Ford, you know, famously doubled the minimum wage, but the reason he doubled the minimum wage was he had so much attrition because people hated those manufacturing jobs so much.
Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
- ▶ 9:26 Ben Horowitz Uh, so it's, it's very different than the Henry Ford days when he, um, uh, bought rubber, you know, bought, uh,
Growth vs Efficiency: Can You Have Both?
- ▶ 45:48 Kieran Flanagan From way back in the past that are no longer with us, like all the way back to Henry Ford and all these incredible entrepreneurs.
Building for Tomorrow with Jason Feifer
- ▶ 29:52 Jason Feifer And, um, and when people tell the story now of how cars became the dominant mode of transportation, what they tell is the story of Henry Ford. 2 times in the scene
Why Technology Still Matters with Marc Andreessen
- ▶ 1:14:09 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, and, and, and, and this is, you know, the bourgeois capitalism era was the era of like Henry Ford and Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie and, 7 times in the scene
What's Next for the Internet?
- ▶ 10:54 Chris Dixon There's a great book about Henry Ford I read recently, and you look at early cars, it's like, exactly like, you know, Soma, 2015 or something. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 27:06 Sonal Chokshi Oh, I would have thought it was Henry Ford. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Automation + Work, Human + Machine
- ▶ 0:28 unnamed speaker What has changed on that factory floor from Henry Ford to today?
- ▶ 2:15 unnamed speaker It goes back to the turn of the 1900, the 20th century, Henry Ford and factory automation.
- ▶ 11:08 Prasad Akella When Henry Ford rolled out the Model T, and he realized that he needed people who could figure out what was going on the line, and therefore created the industrial engineer. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:49 Prasad Akella And then Henry Ford showed us the way of mass production, and then in the mid-fifties come along the Japanese, and they show us lean manufacturing type of production system.
a16z Podcast | Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
- ▶ 39:25 Steven Sinofsky He did not do Henry Ford and go to, go and buy tires.
a16z Podcast | The API Economy -- The Why, What, and How
- ▶ 3:46 Augusto Marietti So every four, uh, made a commercial success with the Model T in 19 oh six. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Creating a Category, from Pricing to Positioning
- ▶ 21:38 Martin Casado And it's like, this is such a cliche, but it's like the Henry Ford quote, which is like, if I asked them, they would have asked me for a faster horse, right? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Cash, Growth, and CEO ❤ CFO
- ▶ 16:08 Ben Horowitz Or people stepping on each other where you carve it up into teeny, teeny light pieces like you're Henry Ford and you're running the Model T. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | On Government as Software Builder, Not Just Buyer
- ▶ 10:10 unnamed speaker There's like Henry Ford saying, if I'd asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses, right? 2 times in the scene
The Autonomy Ecosystem: Where and How It Begins (1 of 8)
- ▶ 2:39 Frank Chen Rockefeller Jr., and very famously, Clara Ford, the wife of Henry Ford.