internet
also referred to as: the internet
82 statements across 65 episodes · 35 bullish · 15 bearish · 39 people on the record · first statement Jul 15, 2017 by Benedict Evans · said 15 times in 11 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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brought up most by Steven Sinofsky (3), Marc Andreessen (2), Katie Haun (2), Ben Horowitz (2), Zooko Wilcox (1), Palmer Luckey (1), Jim Gilliam (1), Amin Vahdat (1)
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2025 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2024 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2019 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2018 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about internet, oldest first
Jul 15, 2017 neutral
Jul 15, 2017 neutral
Jul 15, 2017 bullish
Jul 15, 2018 bullish
Stark: Crypto skepticism mirrors 1990s media doubts about the internet
“There were some great articles from the mid nineties where people wrote like the internet will never be a thing. Right. And like some interesting quotes around. So the internet's impact on the economy will be less than that of the fax machine. And I think we'r…”
Jul 26, 2018 bullish
Dec 15, 2018 bullish
Katie Haun: Shutting down Bitcoin is like shutting down the internet
“This was one of the early misconceptions out there about cryptocurrency, that you could shut something down like Bitcoin. That would be like saying, let's go shut down cash or the internet. Not only not possible, but also not desirable.”
Dec 21, 2018 bullish
Armstrong: Bitcoin is a global value protocol as big as the internet
“The Internet was such a transformative thing in society. It's this global decentralized protocol for moving information around. But here was another protocol that was also global and decentralized, but it was for moving value around, or money. And I remember t…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Andreessen: A modern internet would be completely decentralized with built-in cryptocurrency
“I think if we were to create the internet today, I think we would do it completely different. I think we would have it be completely decentralized and I think we would have cryptocurrency built in at the core. And I think it would be far more robust and would …”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Markoff: Enterprise software and the internet hollowed out white-collar corporate jobs
“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 caused this, you know, the evaporation of, the hollowing out of modern corporations.”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019
Shanahan: Future AI will be an ambient internet presence, not humanoid robots
“In the future, rather than the AI necessarily being the stereotype of a robot standing in front of us, it's going to be something that sort of is, is, is, Hidden away on the internet, and there's a kind of ambient presence that goes with us wherever we go.”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Andreessen: Academic research papers are underexploited sources of knowledge
“Research papers I tend to find are underexploited, because there's a lot, you know, for interesting topics, there tends to be a lot of academic research that's actually been done that, that historically people just haven't had access to, but now it's all on th…”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Kevin Kelly: AI and VR were expected, while the internet was unexpected
“I think AI and VR were both overly expected. I mean, they've been expected for such a long time that it's almost hard to, escaping from that is really hard. So, the kind of ones that aren't expected, well, the internet was actually not expected. There's almost…”
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Gilliam: Internet systems will make traditional elections and government irrelevant
“But I think as more and more people do that, you know, the institutions of elections and politics and even government will become less and less relevant to people's lives as completely new systems are built by leaders outside of that system creating something …”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Dixon: Early open internet beat AOL despite initial clunkiness because developers built on it
“The same thing happened by the way with the internet versus AOL. AOL had a, it was a much slicker interface and more performant in the beginning. The internet was clunky and weird. And slower and all these other things, but you had all the developers building …”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Dixon: Token networks redesign the internet so participants own network value
“A lot of what's going on here is new internet. You know, it's sort of redesigning the architecture of the internet in a way that allows for the participants of the internet to own a piece of those networks. And ultimately those networks will have value and tho…”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Wilson: Porting offline models online was an early internet investing mistake
“When we first started investing in the internet in 94, 95, 96, what we were doing was dumb. We were just basically investing in things that had existed in the offline world that were getting moved onto the internet. Like, ok, so let's, let's invest in a, Let's…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
McCullough: Pre-IPO Google kept its massive profitability secret from the market
“Everyone had been conditioned to think that while the internet was fun, it was probably a niche, and you were never going to be able to build a truly great company on top of it. And then all of a sudden, because they kept it secret for so long, I remember peop…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019
Feb 26, 2019 positive
Monegro: Blockchains challenge tech's proprietary data model like Linux disrupted software
“Right on schedule we get the arrival of a new open technology, which are blockchains that directly challenge The proprietary data business model, just as the internet and Linux challenged the proprietary software and distribution business model.”
Aug 29, 2019
Aug 29, 2019 bullish
Dec 12, 2019 bullish
Andreessen: The internet's impact on global culture is just beginning
“And it feels like the internet's impact on culture is, is just beginning in, in the sense of, like, a world in which culture is based on the internet, which is what I think is happening is just at the very start, right, because it had to get universal before i…”
Dec 19, 2019 neutral
Dixon: Tech has only truly disrupted media, transportation, and retail
“The, it's kind of surprising, 25 years into the internet that, The only industries that have been really quote disrupted have been, I think media, maybe transportation and maybe starting to happen is retail, right? And then the rest, I mean, if you look at the…”
Dec 19, 2019 bullish
Jan 23, 2020 bullish
Jan 30, 2020 positive
Nov 8, 2021 bullish
Gluchowski: Blockchains will disintermediate global value exchange like the internet did information
“The same thing that internet has done to information, I think blockchains will do to the world of value, to the network of pages. We can exchange value directly without intermediaries overcoming the trust issues between people without involving third parties, …”
Nov 9, 2022 bullish
Andreessen: Crypto, social media, and internet face identical resistance patterns
“The internet followed this exact trajectory. Like, you know, crypto, cryptocurrency, blockchain, web three is following this exact same trajectory. Social networking followed this exact same trajectory. Like, I've now seen this pattern, you know, out of 50 tim…”
Nov 9, 2022 positive
Nov 16, 2022 bullish
Nov 16, 2022
Nov 16, 2022
Dec 27, 2022
Feb 6, 2023 negative
Sep 25, 2023 positive
Sep 25, 2023 bullish
Casado: Generative AI will drive productivity expansion and create new jobs
“I personally believe when it comes to creating any creative asset or any sort of kind of work automation, clearly the demand is elastic, right? I think the more that we make that, the more people consume, and so I think that we're very much looking forward to …”
Dec 28, 2023 neutral
Feb 28, 2024
Mar 5, 2024 neutral
Martin Casado: Unique internet risks like asymmetric attacks do not fit AI
“So the danger, so, so having been through the rise of the internet very closely, there were things that were very unique to the internet. Things like asymmetric attack, right? The more that you invested in the internet, the more vulnerable you were, and if you…”
Mar 5, 2024 bullish
May 9, 2024 neutral
Jun 28, 2024 negative
Andreessen: Tech CEOs in 1994 dismissed the internet as a toy
“And if you just go back and look at the magazine covers from that era, it's basically all these big company CEOs just pouring scorn on the internet and then declaring that it's a joke and a toy. And the thing that they're going to come out with their proprieta…”
Jun 28, 2024
Andreessen: Commercial activity on the internet was illegal prior to 1993
“The internet up until 1993, the, what was the NSF net, which then turned into the internet the, operated under something that the federal government dictated called the acceptable use policy, the AUP. And because the NSF net was federally funded, The, it was a…”
Jun 28, 2024 neutral
Jun 28, 2024 neutral
Jun 28, 2024 negative
Feb 6, 2025 neutral
Feb 6, 2025 positive
Feb 6, 2025 bullish
May 31, 2025 negative
Jul 16, 2025 negative
Jul 25, 2025 neutral
Andreessen: The internet turns all media formats into direct competitors
“But if the internet is a solvent that basically turns every media into every other kind of media, right, where all of a sudden local TV is competing with national network TV, competing with cable TV, competing with newspapers, competing with magazines now all …”
Jul 28, 2025
Martin Casado: Greater internet dependence makes the US uniquely vulnerable to attack
“So the internet actually introduced the notion of asymmetry, which is the more that you rely on it, the more vulnerable you are. So to wit, the United States is more vulnerable than, like, you know, random, you know, random federal country.”
Jul 30, 2025 negative
García Martínez: The internet is breaking down the nation state
“I think the nation state is kind of cracking up in a way just to get do more for a second. And I think the internet's definitely behind part of it because you don't have the sense of collective consensus that the media and TV, for example, Used to create durin…”
Sep 10, 2025 negative
Oct 17, 2025 neutral
Oct 23, 2025 negative
Dec 12, 2025 neutral
Jan 7, 2026 bullish
Andreessen: AI wave is bigger than the internet, comparable to electricity
“First of all, I would say this is the biggest technological revolution of my life. And you know, hopefully I'll see more like this in the next whatever, 30 years, but I mean, this is the big one. And just in terms of order of magnitude, like this is clearly bi…”
Mar 23, 2026 bullish
Mendler: Space networking could become as fundamental as cellular networks
“And so I think when the problem set around space networking came up, and when that was something that I started digging into, it connected on that deeper level where it's like, wow, this is something, like an opportunity to make an impact on an industry that c…”
Apr 22, 2026 positive
Apr 28, 2026
Jul 3, 2026 negative
Horowitz: The internet has not distributed Silicon Valley globally
“I don't think that's true, by the way. Like, I think that's a happy talk. If you know, like, one thing you learn when you go to different countries is they're very different. Like, the laws are different, the policies are different, the governance are differen…”