Las Vegas, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Las Vegas comes up
Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
- ▶ 48:00 Travis Kalanick and you know, Ben remembers this cause I gave him a preview at first at, at, in Vegas actually.
“How We Can Eliminate Crime” | Ben Horowitz and Garrett Langley
- ▶ 0:45 Garrett Langley Outside of Vegas, the international average is around 47% clearance rate, so you have a coin flip.
- ▶ 1:34 Erik Torenberg Garrett, obviously you, you with Flock Safety and Ben with your work in Las Vegas as well.
- ▶ 8:28 Garrett Langley I think Vegas is a good, we can pick on Vegas, because they've got a pretty good technology stack. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:40 Ben Horowitz So what the Vegas, uh, police say, said, you know, kind of, if you look at it before the drone program, before a flock. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:26 Ben Horowitz Uh, but the community, you know, everybody who lives there, and Vegas is kind of a unique city in that, like, it's got crime tourism. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:55 Erik Torenberg Is, is this repeatable in cities, you know, beyond Vegas and, um, and like in San Francisco, how, how many companies would pay money to make it safer for their employees to, to come into the office every day? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:44 Ben Horowitz Yeah, actually, so in Vegas they have, just to show you how, like, fixable this problem is, they have this, so there's an anti-recidivism program called Hope for Prisoners. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:23 Ben Horowitz So like, it's, it's, it's, by the way, so this, this is one of the things we ran into on the, uh, Tupac case, by the way, uh, was the LAPD did so much stuff to foul the case in Vegas, um, which is why that murder went unsolved for whatever…
Marc Andreessen: How Movies Explain America
- ▶ 1:28 Marc Andreessen You know, there are a handful of cities that have a claim to be, like, the ultimate American city, um, and, you know, New York City is one of those, you know, I think, you know, San Francisco in some ways, you know, where we are is, uh,… 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen on the State of Film and Hollywood
- ▶ 1:19 Marc Andreessen Diamonds Are Forever, which is the one set in Las Vegas. 3 times in the scene
Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
- ▶ 40:16 Erik Torenberg And I, I even remember reading this, this conspiracy theory that it was on purpose to take the value of the franchise to then move to, you know, Las Vegas.
Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
- ▶ 1:05:48 Marc Andreessen Bunch of guys in, um, in, uh, in Las Vegas, uh, who were selling his memorabilia.
Building Cluely: The Viral AI Startup that raised $15M in 10 Weeks w/ Roy Lee
What Comes After Mobile? Meta’s Andrew Bosworth on AI and Consumer Tech
- ▶ 0:50 Andrew Bosworth It's in Vegas, and it's kind of a trip.
Ben Horowitz on Leadership and Culture
- ▶ 24:37 David Ulevitch Uh, and you've really turned Las Vegas into a test bed of the best and newest technologies, uh, for public safety. 6 times in the scene
Las Vegas is Becoming the SAFEST City in America
- ▶ 0:57 Ben Horowitz You know, we've been working together to kind of make Las Vegas both kind of the safest, uh, city in America and the, the best police, the highest tech, using technology to make everybody from citizens 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:35 Sheriff Kevin McMahill Las Vegas is a really, really unique city in the sense that when you look at how the police department was built, um, in 1973, we took the city of Las Vegas Police Department and the Clark County Sheriff's Department and merged them… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:06 Sheriff Kevin McMahill You know, that's a difficult question to answer, um, to give you specific numbers, because it changes weekly, monthly, yearly, but what I will tell you is, and, and one of the things that we very first talked about, if you remember this,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:47 Ben Horowitz People would come to Vegas and just basically commit crimes. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:54 Ben Horowitz Um, and so how are you able to, you know, why is Vegas like, you know, so much better police in terms of actually being able to solve crimes, uh, than other places, given, you know, you've got such a variety of, you know, I, I think one,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:11 Sheriff Kevin McMahill They stood with us and they went out and they made sure that, that everybody in this community understood that Las Vegas is not any one of those other cities. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:09 Ben Horowitz I mean, like, this is the thing that's so, uh, I think core to what we're trying to do in Vegas is, you know, just coffee, ice.
- ▶ 29:31 Sheriff Kevin McMahill Today, now I can deliver a service to the citizens of Las Vegas.
- ▶ 45:13 Ben Horowitz I mean, if Vegas becomes the safest city, that'll be the most incredible thing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:38 Marc Andreessen The, the stuff that you guys are doing in Vegas, um, and the implementation of these technologies and the change to the methods and all the benefits that we've been talking about, like, if you look at the list of the other, you know, 50… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:29 Marc Andreessen This is not a Vegas specific question. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:58 Sheriff Kevin McMahill A lot of that is simply survival, and every major American city has those kinds of communities, including Las Vegas, and so our hope is, is that all of our effort is driven towards sort of breaking a lot of that cycle, and you know, you…
- ▶ 1:09:56 Ben Horowitz Yeah, yeah, such a, such a big important component of the program, and I, and I think that, I mean, you know, like one of the, how integrated you are, not just, you know, with Hope for Prisoners and the DA and so forth, you know, one of… 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 46:09 Marc Andreessen Like the, like the sphere in Las Vegas, like the sphere in Las Vegas, and also like the, the way that, uh, a lot of these new movies and TV shows are filmed now in something they call the volume, uh, which are sound stages that are…
Startup Building: Major Shifts in Tech & Culture
- ▶ 24:48 Ben Horowitz I think in other cities, you know, like in Las Vegas, the police respond. 2 times in the scene
America Needs More Techno-Optimism, with Marc Andreessen and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 19:58 Marc Andreessen I can't say how exciting it's been, at least on the West Coast, how exciting it's been for Las Vegas to get the sphere, um, because, like, it's now impossible to visit Las Vegas without, like, like, everybody's always complaining, the… 3 times in the scene
The China Threat: Silicon Valley and the Great Uncoupling
- ▶ 10:39 Congressman Mike Gallagher Las Vegas rules do not apply.
Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public Safety
- ▶ 3:49 Katherine Boyle We are also very fortunate today to have a special guest, Sheriff Kevin McMahill of Las Vegas, who has been an innovator in this community for 30 years in law enforcement. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:04 David Ulevitch Tell us a little bit about how, how that day changed law enforcement in Las Vegas, how it impacts how you lead today, and even some of the technological changes that, that have been implemented.
- ▶ 7:18 Sheriff Kevin McMahill A day, obviously, that nobody will ever forget here in Las Vegas, and, you know, for a reminder, uh, 58 people died that day, and two subsequent. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:56 Sheriff Kevin McMahill Bad guys know that when you come to Las Vegas, because of our abilities,
- ▶ 13:12 David Ulevitch I think people come to Vegas because it's a great place to come, and they feel safe here, and you've had a lot of, a huge part of that, and you just talked about that a little bit. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:49 Garrett Langley So if I pull up the, the Las Vegas map, you're going to see the sheriff's a 180 or so cameras, and they're going to see all these other dots on the map. 2 times in the scene
Tony Robbins on the Future of Health & Longevity
- ▶ 28:12 Tony Robbins We're, we'll go to Vegas. 3 times in the scene
What is the Future of Hollywood?
- ▶ 1:16:04 Ben Horowitz And the thing that I remember about, uh, Rain Man that he said is, you know, the, the Las Vegas scene just blew his mind that there was something like that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:14:44 Ben Horowitz Friend of mine who I grew up with to the Adele show in, uh, in Las Vegas, uh, over the weekend, and he said, wow, I'm so surprised how down to earth and, like, she curses and does all these kinds of things.
The Risk, Fear, and Preparation Behind Free Solo
- ▶ 33:23 Alex Honnold Um, you know, I, I own a home in Las Vegas,
Founding Stories: Sandbox VR
- ▶ 26:25 Andrew Chen And so, um, so I booked a flight to Vegas, uh, the day that you guys had, had to come in and done the formal, you know, presentation to us. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Gaming Goes Mainstream
- ▶ 11:09 Bobby Kotick And he didn't return my phone calls for a little while, and then he agreed to have breakfast with me at this consumer electronics show in Las Vegas.
a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond
- ▶ 0:04 unnamed speaker Today's episode follows Benedict Evans and Steven Sanofsky's annual visit to the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas to figure out what's hype and what's not.
a16z Podcast | Beyond CES: Connected Home Devices, Voice, and More
- ▶ 0:27 Benedict Evans So the two of us separately went to CES in Las Vegas with another 180, 190,000 other people.
- ▶ 18:51 Steven Sinofsky Now this is a, a relatively new hotel, which all of them in Vegas are, but this one, they already had like what I think is probably the best central automated 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Real Estate -- Ownership, Asset, Economy
- ▶ 15:10 Alex Rampell Flipping condos in Miami or Vegas in 2007, 2008.
a16z Podcast | Getting Network Effects
- ▶ 24:02 Sonal Chokshi It doesn't, it's not Vegas, exactly.
a16z Podcast | Software is What Distinguishes the Hardware Winners
- ▶ 1:28 Steven Sinofsky I love the Vegas thing.
- ▶ 12:56 Michael Copeland Now, you were sitting on the floor, but had they said, ok, Stephen, we can fire this thing up for you and fly you around the, I don't know, Las Vegas if you want, would you have done that?
a16z Podcast | Dell + EMC -- Why the Python Just Ate the Cow
- ▶ 8:54 Ash Ashatosh You know, one was, uh, AWS reinvent in Vegas, where you had a bunch of anarchists asking for freedom.
a16z Podcast | Tech Trends Changing Gaming
- ▶ 26:02 Tim Schafer You see these stories of occasionally a huge band getting rich, and so that kind of keeps the whole system going, because, like, somebody's getting rich, like, it might have always, like a Vegas thing.
The Next 3 Billion in Financial Services
- ▶ 0:07 Angela Strange Now I'm not going to cold call anyone, but cause we're in Vegas, I'm going to take a bet that most of you thought of a name that's on this slide.
Decrypting Crypto: From Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs
- ▶ 5:06 Alex Rampell But since we're in Las Vegas, I thought I'd use the metaphor here. 2 times in the scene
16 Questions About Self Driving Cars
- ▶ 21:11 Frank Chen When you all booked your flights to Vegas, you didn't really pick aircraft.