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Goldman Sachs Chairman on Why Finance Adopts AI Differently | a16z
- ▶ 1:10:33 Lloyd Blankfein And we were at, we were at DEFCON II, so it's very bad that we're fighting a regional war in Iran.
Why Claude Feels Different (And What That Means for AI) | The a16z Show
- ▶ 1:34 unnamed speaker I mean, I could have an opinion on Iran and dating at the same time. 2 times in the scene
Palantir CTO on The SaaS Apocalypse & Preventing The Next World War | a16z
- ▶ 3:36 Shyam Sankar You have the, the failure of JCPOA to keep the Iranians from getting a bomb.
Emil Michael: The Department of War Is Moving Faster Than Silicon Valley on AI | The a16z Show
- ▶ 10:39 Emil Michael In the US military, where we do exercise combat power, central command now that's sort of, ah, air of responsibilities, Iran, or in, you know, Indo-PACOM is air of responsibilities, China, or
Palantir CEO on Iran, AI Weapons and American Domination | a16z American Dynamism Summit
- ▶ 1:44 unnamed speaker So, over the weekend, uh, the U.S. and Israel bombed Iran in Operation Epic Fury. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:23 Alex Karp And, and so the, the, the societal benefit that is going on in Iran, besides the fact that I think I suspect the Iranian people feel like finally someone's on my side and it wasn't the Berkeley faculty that was supposed to like me.
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 1:20 Erik Torenberg Is your view that Iran is neutralized, that this leads to some sort of durable, um, non-violent pact?
- ▶ 1:26 Keith Rabois Everybody off the record wanted Iran to be, to be neutralized, and they were basically blocking any progress. 3 times in the scene
Powering the Next Big Things
- ▶ 6:19 unnamed speaker The other one is that, again, on this selling energy to our friends and allies, the two, the two proxy wars that have been going on under the Biden administration, you know, with Iran funding 24 terror groups, and with the, ah, Russian…
- ▶ 12:02 Doug Burgum The existential threat was Iran getting a nuclear weapon, ah, and losing the AI arms race to China.
Mobilizing the American Industrial Base
- ▶ 3:19 Shyam Sankar The Iranians got very, very close to a bomb.
Autonomy is no longer a moonshot—it’s a market
- ▶ 37:15 Jason Brown Like, the Iranians have provided a, like, a loitering surface air missile system, so I used to be the director of intelligence for Air Forces Central Command, so this used to be, like, this is a problem that I nerd out on, right?
Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startups
- ▶ 10:10 Marc Andreessen Uh, the government regulators applying pressure on banks to basically sanction American citizens and American businesses is sort of the equivalent of like sanctioning the Iranians or the Russians.
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 1:01:21 Ben Horowitz Can no longer study physics in Iran, because then you might be able to build a nuke, would be kind of the conclusion.
From Silicon Valley to the Pentagon: The Future of Defense Innovation
- ▶ 29:52 Brian Schimpf And these have become pervasive technologies where, um, you know, even under sanction, Iran is able to produce very effective loitering munitions and, you know, weaponized drones at very large scales that have caused a huge amount of…
Collaborative Disruption at DoD
- ▶ 6:11 Kathleen Hicks Just this weekend, three American soldiers were killed by Iranian-backed militias in Jordan.
Securing America's Future: How Technology Companies and Washington Are Building A Safer World
- ▶ 9:38 Brian Schimpf So it's gone from these sort of small little drones to now jet powered capabilities that are coming from Iran.
Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
- ▶ 52:47 Marc Andreessen Um, and then apparently even still today, Iran.
Comfort Food, Climate, and the Future of Our Plates
- ▶ 3:12 Alvin Salehi You know, my parents came here from Iran in the seventies, and like most immigrants, they had to rebuild everything from scratch.
AI & The Future of Modern Warfare
- ▶ 8:16 Brandon Tseng Russia, China, uh, Iran, North Korea, they are building up their electronic warfare capabilities.
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 2:24:18 Balaji Srinivasan Or Iran, right?
- ▶ 2:47:03 Balaji Srinivasan Once the state was knocked out and the Americans were considered illegitimate, you had God, you had, you, people fell back on that Leviathan, and she had these sectarian disputes, which of course were fueled by Iran, all these terrorists,…
The Career Changing Magic of Strategic Compartmentalization
- ▶ 0:35 Katie Haun Um, and you were Rhodes Scholar, you have your doctorate from Oxford, and of course, all of these experiences meant that you had a front row seat to some pretty interesting situations, things like the Snowden leaks, North Korea,…
a16z Podcast | Cybersecurity in the Boardroom vs. the Situation Room
- ▶ 10:00 Herb Lynn Alleged American and Israeli cyber attack against the nuclear facilities, enrichment facilities in Iran.
- ▶ 17:23 Matt Spence Is it Iran?
a16z Podcast | Knowledge Builds Technology and Technology Builds Knowledge -- with Joel Mokyr
- ▶ 12:52 Sonal Chokshi You now have a situation where someone anywhere in the world, I think of our, you know, we did a podcast with entrepreneurs in Iran, and there was, there were sanctions in place at the time, and they were creating businesses on the…
a16z Podcast | What's Next for Technology and National Security?
- ▶ 32:17 Marc Andreessen Very excited, fired up, actually, interestingly, heavily female tech entrepreneurs, starting companies, tech companies in Iran that are doing everything, e-commerce and social networking and instant messaging and all these things.
a16z Podcast | Open vs. Closed, Alpha Cities, and the Industries of the Future
a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
- ▶ 1:07 unnamed speaker He wrote the book Startup Rising last year, which was one of the first books to document the phenomenon of startups in the Middle East, and more recently he's written about the impact of software-eating the world and how that's been…
- ▶ 3:57 Chris Schroeder And when I was in Iran a month ago, all the young people wanted to show me on their smart devices, not only how they were all on our social networks, which allows them to see each other as well as to see other parts of the world, all of…
- ▶ 9:08 unnamed speaker In the case, the case of Iran is actually particularly interesting given the recent news about sanctions and the existing groundswell of entrepreneurial and tech activity that's already there. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:40 unnamed speaker You know, Christopher, you've talked about how, um, on one of the podcasts with some of the students in Iran who were building startups that, you know, the thought of doing a startup would be so taboo before. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:07 unnamed speaker For example, in the case of Iran, as sanctions lift, what happens when the eBay, when the local eBay-like competitor is exposed to the actual eBay?
a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
- ▶ 0:08 Sonal Chokshi We have two special guests, including one internationally dialing in from Iran, Mohsen Mulyari, who is a co-founder of a very prominent startup accelerator in Iran called Avatech. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00 Mohsen Malayeri There, there has been a huge change in the past couple of years in Iran, uh, in the startup scene, I should say. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:03 Mohsen Malayeri And in Iran, uh, the top companies were Digicolor, Cafe Bazar, and Apparat. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:51 Chris Schroeder Uh, what I like to use, in effect, in my book, I call them improvisers, because what, what great entrepreneurs do is don't merely make, quote, unquote, the Amazon of the, of Iran. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:57 Mohsen Malayeri But in, in Iran, the whole, the whole culture of doing mentorship is, is new.
- ▶ 18:15 Mohsen Malayeri Uh, entrepreneurs in Iran, uh, that, you know, they, they get on Skype calls, some of them, they travel, and they just stop by, uh, by the accelerator, and they spend hours with the teams. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:36 Chris Schroeder One of the limits on Turkish startups, and I wonder if this has a limit at all with Iran going forward, is that not that many people outside of Turkey speak Turkish. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:17 Chris Schroeder Can you just talk a little bit about how you think we should be thinking about Iran now, and knowing full well that, you know, the next couple of years could change, and it could change badly as well as positively. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:04 Chris Schroeder Can you talk a little bit more about how mobile is changing the dynamics in Iran generally, and for the startup ecosystem that's going to be very much a mobile first ecosystem? 6 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Layering Tech and Culture in Iran
- ▶ 0:12 Sonal Chokshi One of our guests is Nazanin Dineshwar, who runs a web-based startup in Iran called Takfifan, and our other guest is Christopher Schroeder, who wrote a really interesting book last year called Startup Rising, and he can describe more about… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22 Nazanin Daneshwar So the people that are mainly outside of Iran, they really have this feeling, okay, because of all these sanctions being pushed, like, um, to the Iranian generation, they are really far behind on what's going on in the world, but, um, the… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:52 Nazanin Daneshwar When I came back to Iran, nobody even knew the startup world.
- ▶ 8:56 Nazanin Daneshwar And so now pretty much all the mobile phones in Iran can have the possibility to access three G and it's super, super cheap.
- ▶ 10:09 Chris Schroeder Arab world to Turkey and now Iran. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:02 Chris Schroeder Tech startup in the world coming from China, and now there are, you know, a hundred of them, and, and I suspect that that might happen in Iran too, no?
- ▶ 14:24 Chris Schroeder So I've heard a lot about the iBridges gathering, which is one of the largest gatherings of Iranian startups in the rest of the world. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:55 Chris Schroeder I think one of the most important things we have to point out here is that she gets better Skype from Iran than I'm getting from Northeast United States. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:49 Chris Schroeder I want you to dream for me what the Iranian ecosystem is gonna look like. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back
- ▶ 32:56 Marc Andreessen There's like 20 a year of American business people who get to go to Iran, um, on a state department program, and he went and he spent two weeks on the ground in Tehran, um, and he said there is an absolutely vibrant, um, internet startup…
a16z Podcast | Startups as Science Experiments -- Can VC Disrupt Academia?
- ▶ 18:51 Marc Andreessen He just went to, he just got one of the 20 business visas a year to go to Iran. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 1
- ▶ 24:42 Marc Andreessen Most significantly, he actually just got one, there's like, 15 visas a year, ah, for business travelers to Iran, ah, and so he just went to Iran, ah, after he wrote the book, and he just came back, and it turns out in Tehran, there's a… 2 times in the scene