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Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 38:24 Marc Andreessen So, um, anyway, for people tracking Europe, uh, Mario Draghi, um, is the former, I guess, prime minister of Italy, uh, did this thing about a year ago called the Draghi report, which is the report on European competitiveness.
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 55:19 Benedict Evans Like, do I want a Bolognese recipe or do I want to hear Stanley Tucci talking about cooking in Italy?
How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 0:20 Augusto Marietti We knew that if we couldn't race, so we would go back to Italy broke and that was it.
- ▶ 1:52 Augusto Marietti We knew that if we couldn't race, we would go back to Italy broke, and that was it.
- ▶ 5:47 Augusto Marietti So we went back to Italy, um, and we, we, we, we come back with a B-one, which you could be there, we can be here six months. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:55 Augusto Marietti So we went back to Italy, go to the American embassy, blah, blah, blah.
- ▶ 33:12 Augusto Marietti What happened in micros, because I grew up in Italy, and you don't really study a lot of math.
- ▶ 35:54 Augusto Marietti Never visualize myself going back to the airport in Italy and my dad picking him up and say, how's it going?
Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- ▶ 40:57 Steven Sinofsky Like, you know, the, the military sidearm is a Beretta pistol, which is the, the oldest company in the world in Italy. 2 times in the scene
Marc & Ben on AI Policy, Safety, Censorship & Unexpected Risks
- ▶ 1:11:23 Marc Andreessen NVIDIA, the, the news of the week is NVIDIA, just NVIDIA, just passed the total market cap of both the German stock market and Italian stock market combined. 2 times in the scene
Intelligence in the Age of AI with new CTO of the CIA
- ▶ 28:52 Nand Mulchandani This one was grown in the hills of, you know, Normandy, and this one comes from, you know, you know, this part of Italy.
Inside AI Town: What AI Can Teach Us About Being Human
- ▶ 10:31 Martin Casado It's like, the enthusiasts are like, this is really cool, and they use it for fringe stuff, and then, like, the enterprise doesn't understand it, and, like, Italy, like, they ban it or they don't use it, but the, the set of companies that…
What is the Future of Hollywood?
- ▶ 36:40 Marc Andreessen It's from a craftsperson working in a village in Italy somewhere, building it the way that they're making it the way they made it 500 years ago.
Comfort Food, Climate, and the Future of Our Plates
- ▶ 48:37 Julia Collins For me, honestly, so there was a time in my life when I lived on a water buffalo farm in the south of Italy. 2 times in the scene
Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
- ▶ 23:54 Marc Andreessen And this was the, this, you know, this was the rise of fascism in Germany and in Spain and Italy and other places, right?
The State of Apps with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 53:59 Olivia Moore So we're seeing way more apps from China, from Russia, from Italy, really from all over.
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 10:52 Balaji Srinivasan The Italian state is Italy.
- ▶ 2:38:02 Balaji Srinivasan Because the nation state had scale, you know, what we now think of as Italy and like the language Italian, most people in the Italian peninsula 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:38:41 Balaji Srinivasan Garibaldi unified Italy. 4 times in the scene
The Open Source Movement in Fintech
- ▶ 4:59 Angela Strange So eventually you can now source your, the windows from Italy, you can get your toilets from Japan.
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 35:49 Sonal Chokshi It's like the classic discussions around manufacturing, like, you know, this idea that like, it's a, it's a physical product that is made in India, made in China, made in Japan, made in Italy, you know, um, it's very specific, and you're…
a16z Podcast | The API Economy -- The Why, What, and How
- ▶ 2:59 Augusto Marietti So I grew up in Italy. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Why Behind the Weird
- ▶ 1:44 Peter Leeson I think the one that caused the most head scratching was the criminal prosecution of insects and rodents in Renaissance, Italy, France, and Switzerland.
a16z Podcast | Centers of Power, War, and History
- ▶ 14:22 Graham Allison A percent and a half a year of GDP and give it to the Europeans to help rebuild the devastated Europe, including Germany and Italy.
a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
- ▶ 22:11 Reshma Sohoni Um, Spain as well, Italy a little bit also is as those systems crumble.
a16z Podcast | Data Down on the Farm
- ▶ 15:53 Thibaut Scola Which has a culture of a young society ready to embrace new technologies compared to the old world like France or Italy or Portugal.
a16z Podcast | When Software Eats Cars
- ▶ 26:46 Benedict Evans So you're using, you're using Italian software.
a16z Podcast | What Makes the Valley Work
- ▶ 26:47 Marc Andreessen And, you know, there's, there's, you know, there's a place that makes the best clothes, which is Italy.
a16z Podcast | Oculus and the (Mind-Blowing) Reality of Virtual Reality
- ▶ 6:12 Chris Dixon Um, in this case, when you've actually recorded the true three D and you're seeing in true three D, um, going and sitting on a beach in Italy or something for half an hour after I get home from work and like, you want to like, you got home… 2 times in the scene
A Skeptic's View of Crypto (from the Point of View of Monetary Economics)
- ▶ 3:13 Paul Krugman If I was a, a merchant, uh, in Italy, and I wanted to make transactions in Belgium,