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Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
- ▶ 23:49 Max Levchin If you're checking out in Israel, apparently in a small enough town, you can just show your bag to the cashier, they'll remember, and then they'll get you next time if you forgot your money.
The Opportunity for Global Founders
- ▶ 15:35 Gabriel Vasquez Um, you know, for example, some of the markets that we spend the most time is like the UK, Sweden, um, you know, Israel is very well known for this because historically on a per capita basis, these countries have produced a lot.
Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence
- ▶ 21:33 Anne Neuberger Israel's an incredible capable ally with a capable military intelligence community.
Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
- ▶ 41:08 Marc Rowan Israel, Palestine is not fully an anti-Semitic issue.
Ben Horowitz on American Dynamism and the Future of AI | The a16z Show
- ▶ 15:14 Ben Horowitz Israel's one.
Palantir CTO on The SaaS Apocalypse & Preventing The Next World War | a16z
- ▶ 3:41 Shyam Sankar You have a pogrom in Israel, and certainly after October seventh, I, I, I, it was kind of a radicalizing moment that, like, what is going on here?
- ▶ 18:16 Shyam Sankar Well, the, the origin story of this is really, so I've worked with the Israelis in some capacity since roughly 20 14. 2 times in the scene
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.
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 0:56 Keith Rabois Um, it's pretty obvious, like, this would happen, um, if you went to, visited Israel recently, in the last six, nine months, you could feel the Teutonic Plate shifting. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:34 Keith Rabois He's probably more right than wrong, and so you still, if you're gonna build one for Germany or Europe or Israel or wherever, you're still gonna need a critical density of those 150 people to be able to compete
The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
Is Non-Consensus Investing Overrated?
- ▶ 27:15 Leo Polovets Uh, like we, for example, we invested in defense a lot three, four years ago, and then we, we kept looking, we're basically paused for a year and a half or two, because after the Ukraine and Israel thing, you know, prices just went up like…
Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
- ▶ 0:53 Adam Neumann I was born in Israel, and I, my parents got divorced when I was eight. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:34 Adam Neumann And I remember the day once my mom, we didn't have a lot of money also growing up and doctors in Israel come from Israel as a social medical system.
- ▶ 8:09 Adam Neumann So the big punishment in the Israeli army at the beginning is you don't get to go home on the weekend, because Israel is so small. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:33 Adam Neumann In the US, we actually bought 30% of a publicly traded company in Israel.
The Software Crisis Behind America's Infrastructure
- ▶ 6:18 Leo Kosinski Africa Command out of Stuttgart, Germany, and that was also during the pandemic, but just working with Department of Defense logistics and infrastructure, trying to move around Africa, just the size and scope, and then you add on the…
Mobilizing the American Industrial Base
- ▶ 3:21 Shyam Sankar We've had a pogrom in Israel, you know, and I think it's a real wake-up call to all of America.
Ben Horowitz on Leadership and Culture
- ▶ 23:42 Ben Horowitz You know, we don't speak on, you know, every, like, I have opinions on everything from, you know, Israel to Ukraine, Russia war, to all that stuff, but I'm not the expert in it.
Autonomy is no longer a moonshot—it’s a market
- ▶ 37:55 Jason Brown Right, and so, currently, most of these things that we've seen, like attacks on Israel and everything else, these drones come across, they're not networks, they're not really effectively networked, but the reality is, is that what, what is…
Drone Warfare: The New Rules of Combat Are Here
Jensen Huang & Arthur Mensch: Why Every Nation Needs Its Own AI Strategy
- ▶ 3:10 Jensen Huang And nobody's going to care about, about Israel more than Israel, despite the fact that the technology is general purpose and absolutely true.
How Gusto Used Customer Input to Scale Growth with Tomer London
- ▶ 1:49 Tomer London For me personally, my dad and my mom, they have a small clothing store, uh, back in Israel where I'm from.
Can We Detect a Deepfake?
- ▶ 15:02 Vijay Balasubramaniyan When you get videos, like, you know, we are now working with news media organizations, and 90% of the videos and audios they get from, for example, the Israel-Hamas war,
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 1:35:29 Marc Andreessen So basically, you know, experts showing up in, you know, columns in the newspaper and on TV talking about, like, is there going to be, you know, war here or, you know, what's going to happen with Israel or whatever, all these predictions.
The Future of the American Dream
- ▶ 10:21 Ben Horowitz So in, um, in Judaism, you know, God sort of promises, uh, Israel to the Jews.
- ▶ 15:19 Ben Horowitz Yeah, and look, it's a unified idea in the biggest conflict in the world right now with Israel and Palestine, right?
- ▶ 31:22 Ben Horowitz Well, we see it a lot right now in the Israel-Palestinian conflict where they think there's a certain set of people that say, oh, October seventh was a horrible event and dah, dah, dah, dah.
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 1:40:23 Ben Horowitz You know, around the world, um, you know, the, the Middle East is very, very kind of subject and kind of on board with techno-optimism, um, the UAE, uh, Saudi, Israel, of course, um, you know, many, many countries out there are very…
Tony Robbins on the Future of Health & Longevity
- ▶ 37:05 Tony Robbins Very, to people in Israel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:58 Ben Horowitz Yeah, you know, Tony, on the, uh, on the, uh, kind of Israel-Palestine issue, you had a crazy story in the book about a seminar you were doing on, uh, right when nine 11 happened, um, where you had a, uh, one of the members of the audience…
What is the Future of Hollywood?
- ▶ 2:09:31 Marc Andreessen Now Israel has its own, you know, scene like that. 5 times in the scene
Disrupting the World's Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann
- ▶ 27:28 Adam Neumann In other countries where I grew up in Israel, there's no such thing.
Easing the Housing Crisis by Building Better Tools
- ▶ 1:21 Adena Hefets My dad had immigrated from Israel, um,
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 9:20 Balaji Srinivasan Israel is.
- ▶ 1:45:03 Balaji Srinivasan Fighting, has been fighting, simultaneous conflicts with, ah, tech, with half its population, with Russia, with China, with, to a lesser extent, with Israel, India, Hungary, France, Brazil, with the Brexiteers in Britain, um, with Web…
Better Together: Humanity + Machine Learning
- ▶ 20:21 Frank Chen There's a fabulous company in Israel called OrCam, and look at this product that they make.
a16z Podcast | Cybersecurity in the Boardroom vs. the Situation Room
a16z Podcast | The Law (and Tech) of Warfare
- ▶ 3:43 Benjamin Wittes Hard right in the, in the American political context, and in the Israeli national security vocabulary, the word has rather a different meaning, which is as a kind of dismissive term for generally human rights advocates who use the courts…
a16z Podcast | What's Next for Technology and National Security?
- ▶ 31:56 Marc Andreessen Everybody's familiar with the Israel story. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Ethereum, App Coins, and Beyond
- ▶ 1:09 Vitalik Buterin There was also a project based out of Israel called Mastercoin.
a16z Podcast | On Corporate Venturing & Setting Up 'Innovation Outposts'
- ▶ 7:06 Evangelos Simudis So if relevant work is being done in Silicon Valley and in Israel and Berlin, well, you should consider having presence in each one of these ecosystems.
a16z Podcast | Teams, Trust, and Object Lessons
- ▶ 20:19 Michael Copeland Then Israel has this incredible company formation machine that starts with the military. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Open vs. Closed, Alpha Cities, and the Industries of the Future
a16z Podcast | Mellody Hobson and Ben Horowitz Talk Investing, Career, and Star Wars!
- ▶ 1:51 Ben Horowitz Like, he knows guys, he knows, like, the President of Israel, he knows people, like, who were in the Third Reich, and, and he's 82, so he's like, way too honest.
a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
- ▶ 8:31 Annalise Saxenian Um, so for example, in Israel, they've been able to tap a lot of the military technology that has been funded for decades.