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AI Is Learning to Hack. Faster Than We Expected.
- ▶ 12:17 Dylan Ayrey There was a foundational Linux library that one of the keys had direct push access to.
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 9:22 Qasar Younis Like, even that sounds trivial, because when you think about, mostly when you think about models, you think about deploying them through a browser or on a phone, and everything's abstracted away, because you have iOS, and you have Android,…
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 36:10 Erik Torenberg And, you know, is it, I don't know, something crazy like rebuilding YouTube from scratch, or rewriting Linux from scratch, or,
Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 25:02 Olivia Moore It passed React, it passed Linux. 2 times in the scene
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 48:35 Benedict Evans Linux is obviously not an option for any normal person.
Building the Real-World Infrastructure for AI, with Google, Cisco & a16z
- ▶ 9:37 Amin Vahdat Like the notion that actually you would scale out on commodity PCs, essentially, the same ones that you could buy off the shelf, running a Linux stack, and that's what you would do for disk, that's what you would do for compute, that's…
Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
- ▶ 3:44 Chris Dixon Um, you know, why did Linux go from a hobby project in the nineties to the dominant operating system on in the world today?
Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future
- ▶ 0:21 Steven Sinofsky It's literally just the ampersand in Linux, which is, it's a background sound.
- ▶ 0:47 Steven Sinofsky So, so I, I actually have a very old person view of what an agent is, which is, it's literally just the ampersand in Linux, which is, it's a background task.
The Current Reality of American AI Policy: From ‘Pause AI’ to ‘Build’
- ▶ 21:39 Anjney Midha Oh, look, I, I don't think this is, this part is actually, is, is playing out beautifully along the same trend lines of all previous computing infrastructure, databases, analytics, operating systems, like Linux.
From the Dot-Com Crash to the AI Era: How Builders Survive Waves of Disruption
- ▶ 0:44 Martin Casado So when VMware came out, I remember like it was the late nineties and I could run like Linux on my, you know, windows and it was the most amazing, magical moment.
Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- ▶ 6:16 Steven Sinofsky Then you start getting out there, and then in servers actually ended up being like, at best case, fifty-fifty, and it's been downhill, and it's all Linux now.
Beyond Leaderboards: LMArena’s Mission to Make AI Reliable
- ▶ 42:50 Ion Stoica But then, you know, although it didn't come from academia, it was Linux, right? 2 times in the scene
Agent Experience: Building an Open Web for the AI Era
- ▶ 35:02 Martin Casado But, but, but namespaces in the Linux kernel had been around for a long time.
Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto
- ▶ 5:01 Chris Dixon But when, you know, Linux went from like zero percent market share in the nineties to
Intelligence in the Age of AI with new CTO of the CIA
- ▶ 31:02 Martin Casado I mean, quite famously, SC Linux came out of the NSA, you know, and they used, kind of, Linux to do it because they required, kind of, like, whatever.
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 44:20 Chris Dixon I think the world just really underestimates how valuable things like Linux are and all, and all of that open source software that, that is the reason why, um, uh, a team with a million dollars can go build a awesome SaaS platform or…
- ▶ 1:30:43 Chris Dixon Like we're trying to, we're political in the sense that Linux is political, I guess.
Safety in Numbers: Keeping AI Open
- ▶ 18:54 Arthur Mensch And that's the reason why, uh, the entire internet runs on Linux.
Doubling Down on Founder-Led Sales with Pilot's Waseem Daher
- ▶ 1:58 Waseem Daher For Linux, this was a problem that my co-founder Jeff had in administering Linux systems while at MIT. 2 times in the scene
AI Food Fights in the Enterprise with Databricks' Ali Ghodsi
- ▶ 15:41 Ali Ghodsi And in some rare cases like Linux and so on, it bypasses, you know, and in that case that would be game changing.
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 2:19:29 Balaji Srinivasan It's just like Google's example of using Linux eventually forced reform on Microsoft, and now they own GitHub or whatever, right?
Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- ▶ 26:10 Chris Dixon In the traditional open source world, meaning like Linux and Apache and all this other stuff, you know, that has been a phenomenal success. 2 times in the scene
Security Markets: The Lay of the Land
- ▶ 0:15 unnamed speaker So, you probably have a refrigerator that, that's got some kind of Linux microkernel in it, or perhaps a Samsung television that's got a microphone and a Linux microkernel in it, ah, but basically all the things that used to be just dumb… 2 times in the scene
What’s with All the Bio M&A in 2019?: A Quick Take
- ▶ 6:21 Frank Chen Talk to me more about platforms, because especially for our software viewers, platforms mean something like Linux, or the Win-Thirty-Two API, or these days AWS.
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks as Emerging Economies (Done Right?)
- ▶ 22:14 Joel Monegro and we got Linux, uh, which was free software and free distribution. 2 times in the scene
Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs
- ▶ 5:04 Ken Kocienda Where I did, uh, uh, Linux software development making, uh, uh, desktop Linux. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:08 Frank Chen Uh, Mozilla, right, the Fire, the Netscape code base, and then Conquer, which was a Linux, um, web browser, and they were both open source, and so talk to me about what it felt like at the time to be looking at open source inside Apple,… 2 times in the scene
Better Together: Humanity + Machine Learning
- ▶ 44:49 Frank Chen Just think about how much progress we've made since Linux got open sourced.
a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
- ▶ 11:36 Chris Dixon Open source started as a political movement in the eighties, and then it morphed into a technology movement, but was in the nineties, through things like Linux, but was dismissed by almost everybody, including Microsoft and other people,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:53 Chris Dixon The fact that it's open, and anyone can take it, and hack it, and fork it, and look at it, and audit it, and do all these things, like, this is why Linux won, right?
a16z Podcast | Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
- ▶ 18:20 Benedict Evans A real-time operating system running like a real operating system on some Linux fork or something.
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Cities -- Analogies
a16z Podcast | Beyond Zero-Sum Thinking in the Game of Tech... and Life
- ▶ 35:16 Marc Andreessen There's a tribe, right, of developers that are interested in having something happen, coming together, by the way, geographically distributed all over the world in a lot of cases, right, and great examples, Linux and the web itself was an…
a16z Podcast | Mental Models for Understanding Crypto Tokens
- ▶ 23:01 Chris Dixon Which is now the incentive being to go join the, you know, work on Ethereum, which in the old days would be like working on Linux.
a16z Podcast | Trends in Cryptocurrencies
- ▶ 16:02 Juan Benet Linux is run by Linus Dorvalds.
a16z Podcast | Why Crypto Tokens Matter
- ▶ 17:48 Chris Dixon The nights and weekends programmers, the people that built Linux, the people that built a lot of the internet, the people that built Wikipedia, you know, all these people, the people that built all the open source projects, there's
a16z Podcast | The Taxonomy of Collective Knowledge
- ▶ 9:19 Jay Komarneni The way human DX essentially works is an open system similar to Linux or Wikipedia to help make any clinical decision.
- ▶ 18:27 Jay Komarneni And really the, as it's called in game design, the idea of the epic meaning with respect to Linux or other open source software projects, it's really people want to create a tool that they themselves can use.
a16z Podcast | Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
- ▶ 6:14 Martin Casado It's actually, from, from my conversations, it's almost somewhat of a contrarian view, because traditionally you're like, open source projects chase after basically the sales dollars that have matured to market, like MySQL, you know, like…
- ▶ 21:15 James Waters Red Hat kinda got lucky and find a commoditizing change, which was Unix to Linux.
a16z Podcast | The Changing Culture of Open Source
- ▶ 24:59 Sonal Chokshi You know, Mike Kern in the early days of Bitcoin, Gavin at Bitcoin, whoever it is, Linus Torvalds for Linux, you know, like we can just keep going.
a16z Podcast | Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols
- ▶ 5:43 Chris Dixon I mean, if you rewind, like, it would have been awesome, you know, like Linux started in whatever, the early nineties. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:24 Chris Dixon I mean, the flip side of it is you go look at like Linux and all these other open source projects. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:42 Olaf Carlson-Wee And, you know, we, you know, the contributors to Linux had to monetize in all sorts of, you know, other supplementary ways, but they're actually building Linux and growing the Linux user base didn't really make them any money directly. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | All About Microservices
- ▶ 19:08 Adrian Cockcroft There's now containers for Windows as well, but originally this was a Linux-based concept.
a16z Podcast | Ethereum, App Coins, and Beyond
- ▶ 17:27 Chris Dixon Like, you seem to take the attitude that, that I would say is very similar to, let's say, how the Linux community approaches things, which is you need to build new features, you need to rapidly fix things, you need to make changes, like… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Selling to Developers & Open Source Business Models
- ▶ 15:32 Martin Casado I've got Linux, which isn't as good, but it's a lot cheaper and you know, you can develop it.
a16z Podcast | Infrastructure... Is Everything
- ▶ 7:52 Martin Casado So, so you could, for example, buy a server, get Linux, and program Linux, but when it came to networking, you basically, you'd buy the hardware, it would come with software that was already written by the vendor, and there was no model at… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What Software Developers (and Therefore Every Company) Need
- ▶ 36:10 Chris Wanstrath So I grew up as like, I was installing Linux, and when I was young, and I was going to InstallFest, and Microsoft is 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development
- ▶ 6:37 Matthew McCullough So these, when we think about projects from before, you're talking about scale here, we have 10 people, a hundred people, maybe a thousand for a really dramatic, big project, but now we're talking about 5544 people, I looked up the number…
a16z Podcast | Quantum Leap
- ▶ 35:16 Ilyas Khan For 40 years, whether it's an operating system, whether it's Linux, or whether there are, um, intermediary systems, whether it's your iPhone, you know, where it's all plug and play,
a16z Podcast | Bitcoin, Greece, and What’s Next for Cryptocurrency
- ▶ 9:11 Brian Armstrong Um, so that's a, I think that's a really interesting early indicator of, um, the amount of developer interest, and if you look at traditionally things that have gotten a lot of developer interest like Linux or Android or whatever, 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | A Conversation With the Inventor of Spark
- ▶ 5:35 Matei Zaharia First of all, it's investing in the development of Spark, uh, you know, much in, in the, in a similar way as to how they've invested in other technologies such as, uh, Java or Linux.
a16z Podcast | Software and Overcoming the Randomness of Birthplace
- ▶ 17:00 Sten Tamkivi Mind you, again, like there are a few hundred people working on Linux, uh, core, and it still ships and releases and works quite well in the majority of the world's web servers.
a16z Podcast | Tools for How We Work Today
- ▶ 3:36 Stuart Butterfield So like, I think Linux is still a large event.
a16z Podcast | Why the Datacenter Needs an Operating System
- ▶ 4:01 Benjamin Heinemann Um, uh, and, uh, that's, that's a Linux, not Windows. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:19 Benjamin Heinemann You would interface through Marathon, you would ask Marathon, you'd say, hey Marathon, launch this task, just like you would tell in a D on Linux, hey, um, run this task when, when, when, when you boot up. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:49 Benjamin Heinemann And that's, that's just the same today where, uh, you know, if you just type PS on say a Linux box, you just do just see the processes, but if you want, you can really dive in and you can say, show me all the threads for those processes as…
- ▶ 16:44 Benjamin Heinemann From, from, from, from, from even, even outside of, of Linux.
a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile
- ▶ 28:17 Benedict Evans Now there are about 1.6 billion PCs and eighty million Macs and probably the same again number of Linux.
a16z Podcast | The (Definite) Optimism of Peter Thiel
- ▶ 38:12 Peter Thiel So Microsoft is a bet that there will never be anything like Linux.
a16z Podcast | The Consumerization of IT
- ▶ 11:38 Florian Leibert Windows over to, uh, Linux. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:59 Peter Levine Um, speaking of, uh, of Linux and containers and kind of the, the kind of trends there, Flo, maybe talk about how open source is impacting your, you know, the, the, the data center and some of the innovations occurring. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:34 Yoram Novak Well, if, if, if, even look at operating system, look at, look at what happened with, with Linux. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Mobile Invades the Data Center
- ▶ 6:29 unnamed speaker And it performs better on Linux x 86 than it does on the IBM mainframe today in terms of transactions per second.
- ▶ 11:23 Ramana Jonnala There was this belief, right, going back to JR's point, which is, what has happened is, DB-II is just better on a Linux platform, on an x-a-d-six hardware, and that sort of a commoditization of the core, you know, platform is, is what is… 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | An Open Source Business Model That Works
- ▶ 21:13 Peter Levine Linux containers or virtualization? 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Datacenter of the Future
- ▶ 3:16 Chris Dixon Now people are saying, no, let's just take complete commodity, Linux, and it's all software.
- ▶ 14:03 Peter Levine You know, it used to be where I had to support Windows and Linux on a machine, therefore virtual machines are important. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:23 Chris Dixon Um, it basically allows you to run an operating system on top of an operating system, which is great for both running Windows on top of Linux, but also in, in a way to partition resources effectively, so you can sort of say, I, right, I… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:49 Peter Levine Linux has taken over the world, right? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | When Your PC Expires, What's Next?
- ▶ 7:04 Steven Sinofsky And, and there, there's no way of sort of retroactively adding those to, um, to the, to the existing, you know, OS's, whether it's Mac OS or Linux or, or Windows.
The End of the Beginning
- ▶ 22:26 Benedict Evans Mac had more share of web servers than Linux, and the World Wide Web was three percent of internet traffic.
10 Years Too Early: On a Tech Career, Business, and Investing
- ▶ 27:31 unnamed speaker This is SQL Server on Linux rented through Azure. 2 times in the scene
Cryptonetworks and Cities: Analogies
An Intro to Crypto: Decentralization, the Big Picture
- ▶ 1:15 Chris Dixon Um, you know, if you talk, if you look, go look at, like, the Microsoft, you know, the, all their discussions in the nineties, they were worried about Java, and they never, Linux never came up, right?
Jason Mars
- ▶ 9:30 Jason Mars so you're talking to a terminal, and there's just a bunch of, ah, Linux, ah, uh, prompts.
Trends in and the Future of Infrastructure
- ▶ 7:32 Martin Casado For example, I can assume they're going to be running Linux, or I can assume that they're going to have adopted some open source that I know. 2 times in the scene