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Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z Jul 22, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:25 Travis Kalanick We have to install these kits on these machines that are in the middle of the Amazon, or on the border of Saudi and Iraq, or like in these crazy wild places, um, and do it fast.

Marc Andreessen on how the internet changed news, politics, and outrage | The a16z Show Apr 22, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:59 Marc Andreessen The first invasion of Iraq and the, and that was the thing that really caused the whole thing to punch through.

Emil Michael: The Department of War Is Moving Faster Than Silicon Valley on AI | The a16z Show Mar 13, 2026 · 1 mention

Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It) Nov 19, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:57 Marc Andreessen I think, you know, and by the way, there's also, like, a post-Iraq, you know, component to it, which is, you know, can we really trust the system that took us into Iraq, you know, which obviously had, you know, big impact on our, on our,… 2 times in the scene

Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software Nov 5, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:06 Eugenia Kuyda domains are still available that are just regular words, and the only words that are available are like vomit.ai and Iraq.ai.

Marc Andreessen: How Movies Explain America Oct 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:05 Marc Andreessen It's, it's not exactly comparable, you know, in Iraq and Vietnam, you know, play different roles and so forth, and the economy, you know, has developed different ways, and, you know, Trump and Nixon are different people and so forth, but,…

Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money Jul 28, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:05:04 Balaji Srinivasan They can, they can synthesize, you know, there was something, maybe, you know, maybe you know this thing, Martin, I think it was called TIA, total information awareness in a rock at a certain point. 2 times in the scene

Modernizing Warfare and Beyond May 6, 2025 · 1 mention

The Dual-Use Founder: Vets Now Building For America Apr 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:00 unnamed speaker But then when we invaded Iraq in 2003, I felt that same call to service decided, uh, it wasn't just a whim and something I shouldn't and couldn't ignore.

Marc & Ben on AI Policy, Safety, Censorship & Unexpected Risks Nov 5, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 13:46 Marc Andreessen This, this logical realm that, that actually used to be referred to, by the way, ironically, as the Cheney doctrine, doctrine, uh, after Dick Cheney, and there was a famous book written about this, and the, the Cheney doctrine, this is 20… 3 times in the scene

Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy Jul 16, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:48 Marc Andreessen Um, and so, uh, Sony was not legally allowed to ship those to, uh, countries that might have their own nuclear programs, um, because, like Iraq, because, uh, you know, at the time, um, uh, because, uh, the chips in them were viewed as too…

From Silicon Valley to the Pentagon: The Future of Defense Innovation Mar 7, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 44:44 Doug Beck I had the privilege a long time ago, uh, of serving in Iraq and Afghanistan with the Joint Special Operations Task Force as part of a, uh, part of a SEAL team.

Autonomy & Defense Policy in the 21st Century Feb 6, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:03 Christian Brose You can go back to what, you know, we've seen play out in Iraq and Syria, um, and even before that.

The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan Nov 16, 2022 · 3 mentions

Blockchain in War Zones Dec 23, 2019 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 5:15 Alex Pruden So shortly after my graduation from, ah, my training, I ended up back in the Middle East, this time in Iraq, and we were sent there because in 2014, the terrorist group known as ISIS had just emerged from the shadows, ah, sweeping through… 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:05 Alex Pruden And that ISIS had perpetrated in Iraq.
  • ▶ 11:37 Alex Pruden And was reflecting on that experience as well as the experiences that I had in Iraq and Afghanistan, and thought about what were the things that we were fighting against in the global war on terror. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:58 Alex Pruden He represents the sons and daughters of my friends who never came back from Afghanistan or Iraq.

a16z Podcast | Autonomy in Service Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:48 Gregory Allen The shift in tactics from the early days of the Iraq war to the more counterinsurgency strategy that we saw really throughout the sort of second half of that conflict was all about the United States saying

a16z Podcast | Centers of Power, War, and History Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:02 Matthew Colford And you make a great point in the book that the administration was really fully intending on recentering Asia as a priority in their foreign policy, but that, you know, fighting two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention the rise of…

a16z Podcast | Politics Over Pragmatism -- On China, Trump, and Smart Guns? Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:27 Evan Osnos Yeah, I worked in the Middle East for a couple of years in Iraq, but really, actually, China was always my focus.

a16z Podcast | The Internet is His Religion Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:49 Jim Gilliam We started making movies and documentaries, and we used the power of organizing people and bringing people together through the internet to change the stories about what was going on in Iraq, what was going on with Fox News, and all of…

a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:39 Chris Schroeder I had, uh, a conversation the other day with a bunch of, uh, young people in Iraq who were drilling me about different valuations of startups now and drilling me 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Tackling Senior Care with Help from Technology Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 14:20 Seth Sternberg And I think one of the best parts in Meebo was when we had, when we originally launched the, ah, we had a lot of soldiers in Iraq still, and we would get all these emails from soldiers in Iraq, and they would tell us, the only way that I'm…
  • ▶ 19:28 Michael Copeland You mentioned, um, the, the moment at Meibo when, um, soldiers in Iraq were saying, like, we used Meibo to communicate with our families, and that was, you know, one of the greatest things about Meibo.

a16z Podcast | Security’s Wakeup Call Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Reinventing Media Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

Culture and Revolution Jul 16, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:04 Ben Horowitz So he did not what we did when we went to Iraq and kind of cut the top off of the country, and then it went crazy and chaos.

Software Secures the World Jul 16, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:08 Martin Casado So I worked, you know, with the intelligence community on cybersecurity from Afghanistan through Iraq.
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