infrastructure

14 statements across 13 episodes · 7 bullish · 2 bearish · 13 people on the record · first statement Jul 15, 2017 by Martín Casado · across every show →

Everything said about infrastructure, oldest first

Jul 15, 2017 bullish
Opinion
Casado: Startups have an unfair advantage in new infrastructure era
“This new era, this golden era of infrastructure that we're moving into and why I think it is Bias towards new startups, which I believe actually have an unfair advantage.”
Martín Casado Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 1:11 Trends in and the Future of Infrastructure
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Contradicted
Dixon notes 70% of venture capital goes into enterprise companies
“70% of all venture capital goes into enterprise companies, which, you know, more than half of which are infrastructure.”
Chris Dixon Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:24 a16z Podcast | Where is the Technology That "Matters?" Right Here
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Insight
Levie: Enterprise cloud adoption happens via net-new workflows, not legacy migration
“It's not that every single process and piece of software and piece of infrastructure has to move to the cloud or become mobile. It's that there's a net new area of work that's happening or opportunity that will align to more of these principles”
Aaron Levie Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:24 a16z Podcast | Mapping the Information Economy -- Where’s the Cloud Going Next?
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Opinion
Casado: Major technical innovations happen at the infrastructure level
“If you want to see where the really magic happens and a lot of the big technical innovations happen to get the infrastructure level.”
Martin Casado Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:15 a16z Podcast | Infrastructure... Is Everything
Jan 2, 2019
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Khanna: Global infrastructure and supply chains are replacing nation-state borders
“And once every 500 years, we have this kind of systemic transformation in how human society is organized. And so, you know, we're moving from the world of nations and borders to what I call the world of flow and friction in which infrastructure and supply chai…”
Parag Khanna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:06 a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Opinion
Wilson: Digital connectivity should be treated as a public utility
“Not just the roads, the bridges, those physical things that immediately come to mind, but also those physical assets that help make modern society possible and connectivity, like, as something that should be viewed as a utility and as infrastructure to a moder…”
Jace Wilson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:56 a16z Podcast | A Society Under Construction - Modernizing Infrastructure
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Foxx: Autocratic urban planning historically created socio-economic barriers in America
“You know, if you look at the history of how infrastructure has been built, and Robert Moses is a good example of this, the autocratic style that was prevalent at a certain part of our history resulted in essentially using infrastructure as a way of creating ba…”
Anthony Foxx Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:53 a16z Podcast | A Society Under Construction - Modernizing Infrastructure
Feb 26, 2019
Insight
Ludwig: AV simulation is continuous infrastructure, not a one-off hardware test
“It's also infrastructure in the sense that it's used continuously on an ongoing basis. Whereas the traditional forms of simulation were typically used sort of for this big bang moment, which is the, it's the creation of this final hardware specification, which…”
Peter Ludwig Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 23:38 a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
Sep 25, 2023 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Roblox operates hundreds of thousands of custom servers for 3D simulation.
“We for a long time really focused on building our own infrastructure. We have hundreds of thousands of servers, many, many edge data centers, terabits of connectivity that we've traditionally used for three D simulation.”
David Baszucki Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 6:58 Leveling Up with Roblox's David Baszucki
Jul 21, 2025 neutral
Insight
Jennifer Li: Software infrastructure never disappears, it gets layered
“Infrastructure never goes away. It just gets layered.”
Jennifer Li Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 6:22 The Future of Software Development - Vibe Coding, Prompt Engineering & AI Assistants
Aug 6, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Patel: AI Infrastructure Scale Will Expand by 100x to 1000x
“I think actually infra from a market size as well as a scale perspective is more like a hundred to a thousand X, not 10 X in in infrastructure scale. Like you will find probably two to three orders of magnitude.”
Jeetu Patel Aug 6, 2025 ▶ 37:30 From the Dot-Com Crash to the AI Era: How Builders Survive Waves of Disruption
Sep 3, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Casado: Tech platform shift value accrues primarily to infrastructure, not apps
“My view is, is the infrastructure is where the value is. Every time you have a platform shift, you'll get a new set of infrastructure companies, and then a bunch of apps get built on top of those. But like the value is going to accrue largely to the infrastruc…”
Martin Casado Sep 3, 2025 ▶ 16:30 Jack Altman & Martin Casado on the Future of Venture Capital
Oct 31, 2025 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2030
Andreessen: Extreme AI infrastructure shortages will abate within five years
“NVIDIA has like, you know, the best position probably anybody's ever had in chips, but notwithstanding that, I find it hard to believe that there's going to be this level of pressure on infrastructure in five years.”
Marc Andreessen Oct 31, 2025 ▶ 34:14 Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on the State of AI
Aug 28, 2026 bullish
Insight
Raghuram: AI bottlenecks have shifted from models to physical infrastructure
“What we have seen over the last three years is the steady increase of the capabilities of the models. Where the model is no longer the bottleneck. And in fact, using AI, these models are getting better faster and faster and faster. Now the bottleneck is all wh…”
Raghu Raghuram Aug 28, 2026 ▶ 2:21 Why Top Founders Are Racing Into AI Infrastructure
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