LeBron James
5 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jul 29, 2017 by Ben Horowitz · said 21 times in 12 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Vijay Balasubramaniyan (3), Earvin "Magic" Johnson (3), James Beshara (2), Ben Horowitz (2), Zach Wiener (1), Tony Robbins (1), Mark Cuban (1), Jeff Jordan (1)
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2026 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2024 3 mentions in 1 episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 8 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped
- a16z Podcast | Sports, Tech, and What We Can All Learn from the Latest Performance Science
- a16z Podcast | When Fantasy Football and Crowdfunding Collide
- a16z Podcast | Eyeballs on the Game
- a16z Podcast | The Business of Continual Change
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2017 2 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about LeBron James, oldest first
Jul 29, 2017
Horowitz: Stacking Multiple Skills Is Easier Than Being World-Best at One
“So, like, if you can put skills together, that's also a big thing. Like, it's really hard to be LeBron James. That's really hard. Like, you have to be the best basketball player in the world. Like, that's super tough. It's a lot easier to be me.”
Jan 2, 2019
ESPN rejected Tilt's pitch for a Magic Johnson-led LeBron dunk campaign
“We mocked something up overnight, and sent it to Ryan. I was like, we need to do this to where Magic Johnson is hosting a crowdfunding campaign, branded ESPN for LeBron, to the, to do the dunk contest. I thought it was, ah, slam dunk. Actually, that was no pun…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Oct 30, 2024 positive
Pindrop proved the LeBron James Paris Olympics audio was a deepfake
“We were called into one of these deep fakes where LeBron James apparently was saying bad things about the coach during the Paris Olympics. It wasn't LeBron James. It was a deep fake. We actually provided his organ his management team the necessary detail so th…”