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a16z Podcast | Quantum Computing, Now and Next
- ▶ 19:21 Chad Rigetti In terms of real effort to build practical quantum computers, it's a much smaller universe, and of course, IBM has a very significant effort in this.
- ▶ 23:28 Chris Dixon So quantum computing sounds like a very hard research problem, and, and it's not surprising that IBM and Google and universities are working on it.
a16z Podcast | Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
- ▶ 2:16 James Waters If you look at IBM and Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, et cetera, what they get right in is a very basic thing is they understand how to cater to enterprises. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:26 James Waters The last time I checked Oracle and IBM did not get to be the size they are by having commoditized a previous generation of suppliers.
- ▶ 13:50 James Waters Like they can literally just take your name, even though it's very popular for large companies, say IBM or somebody else to say we support X.
- ▶ 17:01 James Waters I'll use the word being high end, meaning that IBM and Oracle are
- ▶ 20:31 James Waters And suddenly IBM and Oracle's earnings are missing every time.
- ▶ 21:53 James Waters If you compare it to what IBM or Oracle or SAP or Microsoft or any of the megas, they still haven't caught that size of a trend.
- ▶ 27:18 James Waters For instance, IBM showed up and standardized on what we were doing, HP, SAP, other people.
a16z Podcast | The Storage Renaissance
- ▶ 3:42 Haoyuan 'H.Y.' Li You have different type of storage solution provided by traditional vendors like EMC, like HPE, IBM.
a16z Podcast | The Product Edge in Machine Learning Startups
- ▶ 4:04 AJ Shankar So, for example, you know, what IBM calls Watson, which is not some brain that just solves every problem, but a
- ▶ 4:04 AJ Shankar So, for example, you know, what IBM calls Watson, which is not some brain that just solves every problem, but a
a16z Podcast | Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'
- ▶ 27:31 Marc Andreessen Well, Thomas Watson, the founder of IBM, Thomas Watson Sr. said in the late forties, there's only a world market for a total of five computers.
a16z Podcast | What Startups Should Know about Analyst Relations
- ▶ 1:17 Anil Lakhani Analysts as we know them today really came about because there was a point in time in history where IBM was a firm that moved the markets the largest and there was no information about what IBM was doing outside of IBM and financial… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 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 | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
a16z Podcast | Software Programs the World
- ▶ 25:36 Marc Andreessen One of the consequences that will be interesting to watch play out is that historically enterprise software has, has been described as represented by companies like Oracle, SAP, IBM.
a16z Podcast | Move Fast But Don't Break Things (When It Comes to Computational Biology)
- ▶ 11:26 Jeff Kindler I mean, one recent example is a Watson Healthcare at IBM. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:05 Jeff Kindler It hasn't had an existential crisis the way IBM did in the Gerstner era, for example, which is one of the few examples you can think of where a big industry really changed.
a16z Podcast | Not If, But How -- When Technology is Inevitable (with Kevin Kelly)
- ▶ 27:08 Kevin Kelly And that's what, and Watson and, you know, going to the diagnosis, the
a16z Podcast | Automation, Jobs, & the Future of Work (and Income)
- ▶ 10:33 Tom Davenport You know, big companies like IBM are hiring thousands of people to do this, and I think there's every reason to expect that as these technologies take hold, almost every vendor will have some level of cognitive capabilities, and a lot of…
a16z Podcast | On Corporate Venturing & Setting Up 'Innovation Outposts'
- ▶ 0:18 Sonal Chokshi Then he became a software engineer, and he went to Digital Equipment Corporation and then to IBM.
- ▶ 15:30 Sonal Chokshi I mean, the company you worked at was, is probably one of the very few hundred year old companies left IBM.
- ▶ 20:26 Evangelos Simudis So in the case of, of IBM, which was the company that we evaluated through our framework, they, they are developing Watson and 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:26 Evangelos Simudis So in the case of, of IBM, which was the company that we evaluated through our framework, they, they are developing Watson and 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:34 Sonal Chokshi A question I have for you, though, Evangelos, is Watson is an interesting example on multiple fronts, but I can't help but wonder, how can it compete with what a new class of startups can do?
- ▶ 24:47 Sonal Chokshi And when you have other companies that have a whole different type of data that IBM does not have access to, like Google and Facebook, for example, and what they're doing, and that's just an example of AI. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Investing in (Business and Career) Change
- ▶ 3:11 Marc Andreessen He took a big position in IBM. 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Dream of AI Is Alive in Go
- ▶ 3:55 Frank Chen IBM was so convinced that there were going to be so many expert systems that we needed to improve developer productivity in creating them.
- ▶ 10:07 Steven Sinofsky He actually spent a lot of effort in this interview on, on Canadian television explaining why the IBM Watson Jeopardy playing machine was not deep, was not deep learning because it used all of these other techniques.
a16z Podcast | Mapping the Future of Virtual Reality
- ▶ 28:22 Kyle Russell For instance, IBM just announced that they're going to try to use Watson to provide, uh, basically an AI interaction system for a game based on an anime about a VR MMO.
- ▶ 28:22 Kyle Russell For instance, IBM just announced that they're going to try to use Watson to provide, uh, basically an AI interaction system for a game based on an anime about a VR MMO.
a16z Podcast | Infrastructure... Is Everything
- ▶ 17:03 Michael Copeland I mean, it didn't rhyme with IBM or, or anything.
- ▶ 30:43 Martin Casado Like if they don't, if you don't have an existing relationship, if you're not IBM and you don't have IBM account control, you're not Cisco, you don't have Cisco account control.
a16z Podcast | Hall of Fame Football Meets Venture Capital
- ▶ 10:16 Joe Montana And one of the smartest guys, you know, I've seen on the, especially on the commerce side, if you, if you use anything to do with IBM's cloud, he built the, IBM bought his business, ah, and he came out of lockup in 2014, and
- ▶ 10:16 Joe Montana And one of the smartest guys, you know, I've seen on the, especially on the commerce side, if you, if you use anything to do with IBM's cloud, he built the, IBM bought his business, ah, and he came out of lockup in 2014, and
a16z Podcast | The Fundamentals of Security and the Story of Tanium’s Growth
- ▶ 9:02 Orion Hindawi Because I like my twenty billion dollar TAM that's being prosecuted by, like, seventy-year-old gray hairs at IBM. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:48 Ben Horowitz That's IBM's entire business model that you're just crashing. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development
- ▶ 12:34 Steven Sinofsky In fact, people who wrote books about the systems that we used would go out and just read those manuals and rewrite them and turn, you know, remove the IBM-ness and turn it into fun-ness or something. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:44 Steven Sinofsky Um, as fun as IBM three 60 assembler could be, but, um, how, how does open source and, and just the whole change in the environment alter just how programmers even learn what to do?
a16z Podcast | Mellody Hobson and Ben Horowitz Talk Investing, Career, and Star Wars!
- ▶ 29:02 Ben Horowitz You know, the only guys older than them are like IBM and HP.
a16z Podcast | The Tiger and the Dragon -- On Tech and Startups in India and China
- ▶ 33:54 Sonal Chokshi Versus like an individual company, like a small company, or whether it's a startup or a huge company like, you know, an IBM.
a16z Podcast | Quantum Leap
- ▶ 3:50 unnamed speaker And just to be clear, those corporate entities are the likes of, I know Intel's putting money in, IBM, et cetera, but what are, who are we talking about? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:58 Ilyas Khan Feynman and, and all the rest of the greats, Charlie Bennett at IBM, Peter Shore, Shore's Algorithm, um, you know, Kitayef, all the people at Microsoft, of course, Martini's now at Google, you know, these are the giants of the, of the…
- ▶ 25:38 Ilyas Khan They're either sponsored by people like IARPA, or they are being, um, employed by people like IBM and Google.
a16z Podcast | A Whirlwind Tour of Policy Issues in Tech
- ▶ 20:41 Sonal Chokshi Like IBM.
a16z Podcast | What Comes After the Smartphone
- ▶ 7:16 Steven Sinofsky And so IBM used to be measured, like, how many MIPS are actually in use at any given time.
a16z Podcast | Dell + EMC -- Why the Python Just Ate the Cow
- ▶ 5:42 Michael Copeland IBM, Microsoft, EMC.
- ▶ 12:54 Ash Ashatosh And number two actually might be IBM, and not AWS, as far as enterprise is concerned.
a16z Podcast | AMPLab, the Power of Open Source, and the Future of Systems Software
- ▶ 7:11 Michael Franklin I mean, I think, um, from, from my perspective, I think another way to say what Peter was saying was, um, first of all, open source, uh, has made a lot of this possible, and so, uh, you know, I always, I always tell people when I started…
- ▶ 18:18 Peter Levine Up till, well, to me, re, uh, up until recently came from, like, Bell Labs and IBM and Microsoft Research, and that's where a lot of the new, I, I would say the new commercial ideas came from folks leaving those and pushing the envelope.
a16z Podcast | The Role of Academia in the Startup World
- ▶ 35:22 Marc Andreessen That was one of the things, um, and then on the Waterloo point, that was one of the things, when I was in Illinois, that was one of the things I give them a lot of credit for, is they also had, they did, they call it the co-op program, um,…
a16z Podcast | A Podcast about Podcasts
- ▶ 15:40 Roman Mars I think it's equivalent to the kind of the startup world where, you know, you could have had a, you know, a great job at IBM or something, but there's something amazing about doing something on your own and, and working like crazy at it…
a16z Podcast | Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff
- ▶ 11:47 John Markoff I had made that argument in my mind that these, the, you know, the arrival of the internet coupled with companies like SAP and PeopleSoft and Oracle and IBM who are re-engineering the white-collar clerk class inside, ah, corporations has…
- ▶ 26:01 John Markoff I, I talked to, um, I think her name is Michelle Liu, uh, who was an IBM researcher.
- ▶ 37:37 John Markoff And for, for me, the, the moment that I got, you know, my generation of Silicon Valley was slightly after the introduction of the IBM PC.
a16z Podcast | The Internet is His Religion
- ▶ 2:09 Jim Gilliam Um, we lived in upstate New York in Woodstock, and, um, my dad worked at IBM. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:14 Jim Gilliam Um, they had a big facility there in Kingston, and they launched this, uh, uh, IBM, the IBM PC, the big answer to the Apple II computer, and, um, but they didn't have any software for it, so they had this big employee software program.
a16z Podcast | A Conversation With the Inventor of Spark
- ▶ 5:25 Sonal Chokshi So one of the most interesting announcements that came out of the Spark Summit that I think a lot of people saw was the announcement that IBM is backing Spark.
- ▶ 6:10 Matei Zaharia I think even though the cloud is, is one area, um, you know, that IBM is, is interested in expanding and they have huge business lines that are completely unrelated to the cloud in, in, in solutions and consulting and also in products, uh,…
a16z Podcast | The Rise of the Quasi-IPO
- ▶ 10:47 Scott Cooper And the biggest thing that, you know, we've seen, and we've published about this a little bit, uh, you know, at other times is when you look at kind of the growth opportunities as a public investor in the public markets, those are fairly… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back
- ▶ 4:24 Marc Andreessen I, I don't think the people who invented, you know, the IBM researchers who invented SQL in the 19 seventies, I don't think they had any idea of SQL injection.
a16z Podcast | The Truth about Serving on Boards (with Diane Greene and Marc Andreessen)
- ▶ 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 | Building a Better Board
- ▶ 1:38 Geri Elliott And before that I was chief customer officer with Juniper Networks, and before that Microsoft and IBM. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:26 Geri Elliott Once I decided, though, that I wanted to get on a public board, I couldn't do it at IBM. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Crisis Time -- What to Do When Things Go Sideways
- ▶ 4:17 Margit Wennmachers So let's just say, you know, um, I remember the IBM systems at the 96 Olympic games didn't work, so instead of your long jump result, you would get the shoe size of the athlete. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What Makes the Valley Work
- ▶ 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 | The (Definite) Optimism of Peter Thiel
- ▶ 36:38 Peter Thiel Old tech stocks, like Oracle, or IBM, or Microsoft, where you, um, you financially model them like government bonds, and the most important variable in evaluating them is the discount rate.
- ▶ 38:22 Peter Thiel You know, IBM is a bet that we'll keep the same kludgy software from the seventies and eighties and need lots of service people to 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 2
- ▶ 4:51 Michael Copeland IBM may be the only company that's done it. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 1
- ▶ 15:55 Marc Andreessen Um, and so people experimented with how to bring computers to consumers for 10 years before, you know, the IBM PC went broad.
a16z Podcast | Mobile Invades the Data Center
- ▶ 6:02 unnamed speaker Whereas if I was IBM 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:16 unnamed speaker Um, you know, one of the, the most interesting things that, that, that I find now is, you know, IBM DB two, which was the reason you bought an IBM mainframe now runs on every processor architecture across every operating system.
- ▶ 11:23 Ramana Jonnala There was this belief, right, going back to JR's point, which is, what has happened is, DB-II is just better on a Linux platform, on an x-a-d-six hardware, and that sort of a commoditization of the core, you know, platform is, is what is…
a16z Podcast | The Micro and Macro of Mobile
- ▶ 7:19 Michael Copeland So, so the other bit of news related to this was, you know, a week or so ago about IBM and Apple striking this deal.
- ▶ 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… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:19 Benedict Evans And the IBM deal is part of that.
a16z Podcast | When Large Scale Gets Really Massive -- Managing Today’s Enterprise Networks
- ▶ 4:26 Michael Copeland And so a system, Big Fix, which, which was later bought by IBM, correct?
a16z Podcast | Bending Every Pixel to Your Will -- Optimizely and the Next Wave of Internet Tools
- ▶ 7:10 Scott Weiss Like, you walk into IBM or Oracle or any of those old companies, like, I don't, I think a designer walks in there and gets hives.
- ▶ 17:39 Scott Weiss Like, I think the same consolidation that happened where IBM and Oracle and even Salesforce and others were buying these companies, 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Engineering a Revolution at Work
- ▶ 1:15 Steven Sinofsky And, you know, I showed up that, that first day of work and, you know, they use this email system that we don't think of as email, but it was called profs and it was IBM mainframe based email.
- ▶ 1:49 Steven Sinofsky And next to every administrative person's desk was a Selectric typewriter.
- ▶ 19:31 Steven Sinofsky Making the rounds, trying to get people to automate expense reporting, they all looked at me and said, that's why we have a selector typewriter, because our expense reports need to be filled out in triplicate, and, and they have to be, the… 2 times in the scene
Going to Market When No Market Exists
- ▶ 16:47 Martin Casado In the past for enterprise sales motion, like, and I actually think the power and the moat of all the incumbents like IBM and Cisco and Oracle,
- ▶ 26:54 Martin Casado HP will sell it for me or IBM will sell it for me or whoever.
Pande & Conde: When (and How) Biology Becomes Engineering
- ▶ 15:56 Vijay Pande Um, it, it will also be interesting because I think, you know, there's lots of big incumbent companies like Google and IBM doing all this research, and they bring an engineering mentality and an engineering sort of, ah, zeal and excitement…
The World Through an API
- ▶ 2:13 Martin Casado In the sixties and seventies, you had a mainframe and if a company like IBM created a mainframe, they'd create every aspect of it, right?
When Biology Moves to Engineering
- ▶ 13:45 Vijay Pande A typical microprocessor, and this is like the IBM Z-Ten, you know, a typical microprocessor has literally billions and billions of transistors, you know, deep into Carl Sagan transistor territory.
- ▶ 13:45 Vijay Pande A typical microprocessor, and this is like the IBM Z-Ten, you know, a typical microprocessor has literally billions and billions of transistors, you know, deep into Carl Sagan transistor territory. 2 times in the scene
Decrypting Crypto: From Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs
- ▶ 1:54 Alex Rampell I actually, I think it's actually, it's a little bit helpful to talk about what blockchain is not, and I hope I won't cause any offense if anybody here works at IBM, but to, to do that, I'm going to use some help from my friends at IBM.
- ▶ 2:06 unnamed speaker This is not a cloud.
- ▶ 2:44 Alex Rampell Maybe this is what IBM was trying to do. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:47 Alex Rampell But, you know, I shouldn't joke about IBM. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:00 Alex Rampell It actually turns out when most people, and I think even that IBM commercial as well, when most people are talking about blockchain, what they're really talking about is this.
10 Year Futures (vs. What's Happening Now)
- ▶ 2:51 Benedict Evans So IBM and then Wintel and now GAFA, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon.
- ▶ 5:02 Benedict Evans So, IBM looked invulnerable, then Microsoft, Intel, Nokia did, then the internet giants of the, um, the last bubble, now Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon look invulnerable, but all the previous ones fell, and it was not predictable at the…
Jason Mars
- ▶ 7:17 Jason Mars Uh, and so we've started with open effort, which is actually the foundation that then became Watson, and we've built a QA system, uh, our QA approach out of that, and the way it looks is, uh, uh, we, we have a microservice infrastructure…
The Promise of AI
- ▶ 0:38 Frank Chen So EF cod invented the term relational database working at IBM research in 1970, and then Oracle implemented a relational database in the late seventies and early eighties.
- ▶ 23:03 Frank Chen So this trailer was created by IBM Watson, and it selected all of the scenes that you saw in the trailer.
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2016
- ▶ 3:55 Benedict Evans And what it really means, I think, fundamentally, is that the tech giants today have a completely different character of scale to IBM or Wintel before them. 2 times in the scene