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How AI Changes the Economics of Innovation Aug 25, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:45 Steven Sinofsky Cause ten million, you'd buy a bunch of stuff from Hewlett Packard and the money would be gone.

Lighthouse or Landgrab? How to Pick Your AI Sales Strategy Aug 12, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:27 Andy McCall Like, we had no chance of getting into the largest corporations in the world, Lighthouse, because Cisco and HP had them all tied up.
  • ▶ 20:03 Andy McCall Don't you know that market was won 10 years ago by Cisco and HP? 2 times in the scene

Box CEO on the AI Adoption Gap | The a16z Show Apr 8, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:06 Steven Sinofsky And the old job before those interns was, you just sat there with basically calculators and an HP calculator, figuring out the model for some M&A deal or whatever, and you only got to do, like, two iterations before you had to put out the,

Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger Jan 15, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 40:22 Ben Horowitz Um, early on, we really studied Hewlett Packard, uh, which the, the original Hewlett Packard before the computer business kind of swallowed the company was very much like this. 2 times in the scene

The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm Nov 26, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:14 Margit Wennmachers And I concluded that it was probably because you were angel investing at the time, and you had just left HP.
  • ▶ 11:29 Margit Wennmachers Like having turned that around and it sold it to HP and like for like money, money was just spectacular.

The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future? Oct 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 40:17 Steven Sinofsky And they were also gonna beat Intel, and they were gonna beat, uh, HP or whatever in making computers.

Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie Sep 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:59 Steven Sinofsky And you would come up with a financial model and you'd have 50, you know, recent MBAs all turning away with, with their HP calculators figuring out the financial model.

Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech Aug 8, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 29:58 Steven Sinofsky Like they generally always think, you know, like they'll do like a HP autonomy acquisition was a very famous off went off the rails acquisition during the enterprise software world where HP just thought, well, this is sort of this 2 times in the scene

Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem Jun 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:25 Steven Sinofsky And then you go and you just go outside, and he goes, that's where we make HP laptops, that's where we make, and this is where we make those other laptops that we're not allowed to tell you about.

How Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What’s Coming Next Apr 29, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:12 Ben Horowitz We had, uh, sold, um, Opsware to HP and, uh, kind of had been out of it for a little while.

AI, Robotics & the Future of Manufacturing May 16, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:41 Ben Horowitz Um, this is why, you know, HP ended up being totally vulnerable to Apple, um, because Apple was still building computers and HP was assembling computers and GM is assembling cars and Elon completely kind of re-engineered how you build a… 2 times in the scene

Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities May 2, 2024 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 12:02 Marc Andreessen So when you were an executive at HP, um, as I recall, tell me if this is right for a short time, but I, I, I believe, I believe when you were there at the time, I think the, the many, and this was, you know, way pre-COVID, that was way… 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:05 Marc Andreessen at HP when I was on the board, you know, we worked with this activist named Ralph Whitworth, who has unfortunately since passed away, but, um, was sort of a legend in the activist community, and actually joined our board, and had a big,… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 40:22 Ben Horowitz Like, uh, well, Hewlett Packard, um, or the original Hewlett Packard, not like pre-computers Hewlett Packard, uh, I think did a remarkable job of scaling the company through org design without hitting that law is hard. 2 times in the scene

The Future of AI Is Amazing Mar 5, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:44 Martin Casado ENIAC was introduced, which was four orders of magnitude faster, and then you had the computer revolution, and here came, you know, IBM and HP and everything else.

Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist Oct 21, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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.

The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail May 25, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:56 Salim Ismail Okay, so we looked at every one of the Fortune 100, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Walmart unit, and said, okay, to what extent one to four are they purpose-driven?

a16z Podcast: Best Clips of 2022 Dec 27, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:31 Steve Wozniak I, myself, I was really a great engineer in certain field and I was designing the hottest products in the world for Hewlett Packard without even having a college degree yet.

Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah on the Data Highway Above Nov 9, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 18:39 Steve Wozniak I myself, I was really a great engineer in certain field, and I was designing the hottest products in the world for Hewlett Packard without even having a college degree yet.
  • ▶ 1:18:07 Alex Fielding But in his garage, um, I came across a blue three ring binder, and it was filled with HP graph paper from when he worked at Hillard Packard before they started Apple. 3 times in the scene

Growth, Sales, and a New Era of B2B Aug 9, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:59 unnamed speaker Like, it's very hard for, like, a Cisco or an IBM or an HP or an SAP to defend against this sort of emotion.

How to Understand and Choose a Venture Investor Jun 14, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond Feb 26, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:53 Steven Sinofsky HP doesn't really have a big booth, even though their printers and computers fill all of the electronic stores.

a16z Podcast | Talent, Tech Trends, and Culture -- with Ben, Marc, and Tyler Cowen Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:37 Ben Horowitz So going back to Thomas Watson at IBM or Dave Packard, Bill Hewlett at Hewlett Packard, or

a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology Jan 2, 2019 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:32 Marc Andreessen I won't spend a huge amount of time, but suffice it to say, if you've used the internet or a personal computer in the last 20 years, uh, you've used products that Meg has been an integral part of creating and building across eBay, Hewlett…
  • ▶ 2:25 Meg Whitman But anyway, and then HP and DreamWorks had a very strong technology partnership. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:05 Marc Andreessen And I can, by the way, I can confirm, so I was on the board of Phila Packard with Meg during her tenure, and I can confirm how determined she was to retire after, which is her, her conference room was actually named Telluride, um, and had…
  • ▶ 26:57 Marc Andreessen So as Meg was leaving HP, when she and I, one of the last meetings we had as she was leaving, she, I'll just remember you observed at the time that Jeffrey is, I think you said, far more disciplined

a16z Podcast | From Research to Startup, There and Back Again Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:04 John Hennessy Hewlett Packard was there, then talent from Hewlett Packard helped build Sun, talent from Intel helped build the first generation of fabulous semiconductor companies, and that spread out over time, and that's one of the great things that… 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | What's at the Core of the Latest Apple Announcement? Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:39 Steven Sinofsky You know, or the HP Pavilion QR-II Core i-II III XI, you know, all, like, and then compare it to the XZ and the XK.
  • ▶ 9:53 Steven Sinofsky Because no matter what an HP or a Dell or a Novo come out with that's expensive, they have to pull it down, the price down in order to gain market share.

a16z Podcast | On Mentors and Mentees Jan 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:07 Sonal Chokshi The discussion takes place between A, Six, and Z co-founder Ben Horowitz and his mentor, Ken Coleman, who started his career at HP and then Activision, was later chairman of Accelerus and is on multiple other boards, and held several… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:09 Ken Coleman Before Silicon Graphics, we recruited Howard to HP, and I learned more about how to manage engineering from him than anybody.

a16z Podcast | From Teaching Leadership to Being a Leader Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:04 Andy Rachleff So Apple, Google, you name the company, Salesforce, Hewlett Packard, none of them succeeded at their original idea, if you can believe that.

a16z Podcast | Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software) Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:18 James Waters For instance, IBM showed up and standardized on what we were doing, HP, SAP, other people.

a16z Podcast | What Startups Should Know about Analyst Relations Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:16 Michael King If the largest, most well-funded companies are the only ones in the leaders quadrant, you can guarantee that the IBM's and the HP's and the other very, very large technology companies

a16z Podcast | Produce or Perish! (What We Eat) Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:37 unnamed speaker And I look at that and go, wow, who's going to develop the HP of three D printing with the different inks that are all from material science understanding

a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:49 Marc Andreessen Tom Perkins had actually been a, a, a general manager at Hewlett Packard, which was actually at the time a source of a lot of the CEOs of the new companies in the Valley.

a16z Podcast | Managing Uncertainty -- Layoffs and Talent Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:54 Shannon Schiltz And it was at the end when we sold to HP, everyone that went over in that cell would still to this day probably walk off a cliff for Ben.

a16z Podcast | Banking on the Blockchain Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Mellody Hobson and Ben Horowitz Talk Investing, Career, and Star Wars! Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Quantum Leap Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:36 Ilyas Khan Apple are very interested, and so these are new, Intel we mentioned earlier, these are new entrants, um, Cisco, for example, Hewlett-Packard, uh, Siemens.

a16z Podcast | What Comes After the Smartphone Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:42 Benedict Evans And then you have the whole Shenzen ecosystem, and it's quite unclear how that's going to play out and whether there will be kind of equivalents of Dell, HP, Compaq, and so on who kind of become the kind of the global scale players or not.

a16z Podcast | Dell + EMC -- Why the Python Just Ate the Cow Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 7:08 Peter Levine And Amazon, and in those environments, incumbent hardware in particular, and in the case of, you know, whether it's Cisco, EMC, Dell, HP, there's not a lot of that hardware that exists in these new architectures.
  • ▶ 16:37 Ash Ashatosh You know, you have HP and others.

a16z Podcast | The Role of Academia in the Startup World Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Wall Street's Most Hated Man -- A Conversation With Overstock.com's Patrick Byrne Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:14 Patrick Byrne Company, our financial system and such, just because our computer, our entire company was running on an HP N class box, sort of a 300,000 dollar box about the size of this little table in front of us.

a16z Podcast | Getting That First Board Seat Jan 2, 2019 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 0:07 unnamed speaker She was just named to the HP Inc board in the first board shuffle since Hewlett Packard split up into two companies.
  • ▶ 1:05 Matt Levy You are the COO of TaskRabbit, uh, former, uh, operator at Google, former EIR at Google Ventures, and the newest board member at HP. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:26 Stacy Brown-Philpott And so it turns out that this, the HP board came through initially a referral. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Why Every Business is in the Data Business Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Dealing with Corporate Dealmakers -- When to Talk to Corp Dev Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | The Truth about Serving on Boards (with Diane Greene and Marc Andreessen) Jan 2, 2019 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:34 Marc Andreessen Two people I respect tremendously as directors, uh, Reed Hastings, um, who I served with on the Facebook board, as well as, uh, a, a, a very accomplished executive named Ken Thompson, who was, I was, I was on the Hewlett Packard board with…
  • ▶ 26:43 Marc Andreessen Oh yeah, so like at HP, I gotta give an example at HP, we do kind of a rotating series of dinners, and so there'll be, like, half the dinners are just the, the, the board and the CEO, or the board and the top three or four executives for,… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 36:30 Diane Greene He was my first board member, and Larry is managing partner at Wilson Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati, and he's a very business-minded attorney, and, and we were, like, trying to wedge this layer of software between two monopolies, Intel and…

a16z Podcast | Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops Jan 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

a16z Podcast | What Makes the Valley Work Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:16 Marc Andreessen Um, and then that interfered with the mission that we always had, which is how do you build big, enduring, franchise, important, you know, our, our role models were always, you know, Microsoft and Oracle and Intel and Cisco and IBM and…

a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 2 Jan 2, 2019 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 5:29 Ben Horowitz And so, if you go back to HP or IBM or any of these companies when the founder, when Thomas Watson was running the company, when Dave Packard was running the company, they didn't have any trouble. 5 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | The Micro and Macro of Mobile Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:19 Benedict Evans Um, and I think to the point of, of, of, of the Apple IBM deal, um, you know, this is a story around, there's, there's a kind of, there's a, there's a wonky art narrative here, which is says, well, you know, it couldn't be HP cause HP

a16z Podcast | Datacenter of the Future Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Demystifying Venture Capital Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:07 Theresa Gao Then I came out here to Stanford, and what I wanted to do was I wanted to be a product manager back then, giving my age, at Hewlett Packer.

a16z Podcast | When Your PC Expires, What's Next? Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

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

10 Years Too Early: On a Tech Career, Business, and Investing Aug 3, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:25 unnamed speaker Ah, HP ended up buying, ah, our company, and after the 18 month lockup, we all, ah, basically started Andreessen Horowitz Mark and went, went fundraising in the spring of 2009, which

Chandra Krintz Jul 15, 2017 · 1 mention

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

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