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Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence
- ▶ 28:39 Ben Mildenhall And it's, it just never became as intuitive as, you know, playing with Legos or like pottery or doing this stuff with your hands or sketching with a pencil.
Tesla and SpaceX Alumni on Elon Musk, Decision Velocity, and the Future of Hard Tech | a16z
- ▶ 20:33 Turner Caldwell Like hoarding your Legos is what we call it, can create an insane amount of churn.
Google DeepMind Developers: How Nano Banana Was Made
- ▶ 19:59 unnamed speaker So when can we generate Lego sets?
- ▶ 52:29 unnamed speaker Um, so you can input a really large amount of content, right, into these LLMs, and, um, some companies, um, you mentioned a few before, um, they will have, like, a 150 page brand guidelines on, like, what you can and cannot do, right, and…
Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
- ▶ 4:12 Chris Dixon And, you know, and really importantly with open source, you can become software becomes like Lego bricks where anyone can take a piece and reuse it.
Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto
- ▶ 5:22 Chris Dixon Um, and so something like story protocol, you get the same kind of Lego effect, Lego brick effect with, with media. 2 times in the scene
Mastering Your Data with Sajith Wickramasekara
- ▶ 20:15 Sajith Wickramasekara Um, like we got our, our early adopters were very attracted to the fact that Benchling was this, you know, this set of Lego bricks that we could kind of put together 2 times in the scene
The Quest for Community-Trained Open Source AI Models
- ▶ 6:55 unnamed speaker There was some kind of, like, electronic Lego, which could do, like, create a circuit, like, create AM radio with, like, just Lego blocks, and those type of toys was, like, so interesting to me because I love tinkering. 2 times in the scene
Big Ideas 2024: The Rise of the Developer as a Buyer in Financial Services with Angela Strange
- ▶ 5:38 Angela Strange And so this, this force shift is taking the as a service layer and exploding it even further, so you can think about it as almost having Lego for banking.
2024 Big Ideas: Anime Games Go Mainstream with Robin Guo
The Open Source Movement in Fintech
- ▶ 4:10 Angela Strange Essentially, Lego, but for banking. 2 times in the scene
Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- ▶ 25:09 Chris Dixon Spam filters the way there is with email clients, you know, or this used to be, um, and just like all the kind of cool stuff that you get, like, and you see in the open source world now where it's like Lego bricks, and you're building… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond
- ▶ 2:33 Benedict Evans Um, the mobile manufacturers, all of the, kind of, the underlying building blocks, all the Lego blocks. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Construction Under Tech -- The Build
- ▶ 19:00 unnamed speaker Like Legos. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
- ▶ 26:50 W. Brian Arthur All of those things existed already, and so it seemed to me that technology has evolved by people not so much discovering something new or inventing, but by putting together different Lego blocks, so to speak, in a new way. 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | When (and How) Biology Becomes Engineering
- ▶ 1:40 Vijay Pande So like one of the things I think we've been seeing a lot in biology is what I would call Legos, that you, biology is big and complicated, and you got, but you got a natural hierarchy there. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:33 Jorge Conde And that's important, because that's where your Lego concept comes into play, because you couldn't, you couldn't build a rudimentary rocket if you didn't know where to put the screws.
a16z Podcast | The API Economy -- The Why, What, and How
- ▶ 14:48 Augusto Marietti I try the Lego, you know, when you have those four dots on top. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Platforming the Future
- ▶ 12:02 Benedict Evans Um, it's like someone took a shipping container full of Lego and dumped it out onto the table or dumped it out onto Sound Hill Road. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Changing Culture of Open Source
- ▶ 28:33 Nadia Eghbal Yeah, and I think of it as having, like, all these, like, easily accessible little Legos, and you can just kind of
a16z Podcast | Produce or Perish! (What We Eat)
- ▶ 18:53 James Rogers Look at them as if they were a Lego and say, what would this be useful for? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:16 Sonal Chokshi What are some of the challenges you have to overcome to be able to create those Legos and 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Software is What Distinguishes the Hardware Winners
- ▶ 0:04 Michael Copeland Smartphone components have become a kind of Lego kit for all kinds of consumer technology.
- ▶ 3:45 Benedict Evans And so what's happened is that all of the components that come out of that industry are there as sort of Lego for technology.
a16z Podcast | A Copernican Update ... In Tech, the Smartphone is the Center
- ▶ 1:12 Benedict Evans It's as though someone took a shipping container of Lego and dumped it on the floor.
- ▶ 4:15 Benedict Evans And so it's as though someone took a shipping container of Lego and dumped it on the floor.
a16z Podcast | Coding as Literacy
- ▶ 4:17 Chris Granger Um, but I came at it from, you could, you could basically characterize my childhood as a quest for Legos. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:54 unnamed speaker You mentioned, Chris, that, that you thought of these as Legos, and I, I think one of the things that you're doing at EVE, and, you know, Pinterest is an example of sort of, you know, complex programming underneath the hood, but that… 2 times in the scene
Pande & Conde: When (and How) Biology Becomes Engineering
- ▶ 1:16 Vijay Pande So, like, one of the things I think we've been seeing a lot in biology is what I would call Legos. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:08 Jorge Conde And that's important, because that's where your Lego concept comes into play, because you couldn't, you couldn't build a rudimentary rocket if you didn't know where to put the screws.
Giovanni Vigna
- ▶ 15:44 Giovanni Vigna This is an important thing, but you can only do this if you have the building blocks, the low-level building blocks that allow you to create LEGO-style countermeasure to a continuously evolving opponent with evolving, ah, tools and…
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2015
- ▶ 8:23 Benedict Evans So it's effectively as though the mobile industry has dumped a shipping container worth of Lego onto the table, and everyone is picking it up and wondering what they can do with it. 2 times in the scene