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Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
- ▶ 50:14 Anish Acharya You know, I was in London last week, and we were talking a little about what's possible.
Kavak's Playbook for Rebuilding a Company Around AI
How Decagon Runs 90% of Its Agents on Open-Source Models
- ▶ 58:26 unnamed speaker And how does that scale as, you know, you've, you've launched a lot of new offices recently, you have a new Australia office, London office, your New York office is growing like crazy.
- ▶ 59:27 Ashwin Sreenivas Uh, the other thing is also, we, um, we bring everybody that we hire out to San Francisco for a couple weeks when they start, so they're kind of immersed in the kind of, uh, the original kind of soup of, of culture, uh, and then for every…
Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
- ▶ 34:27 Travis Kalanick We have, I mean, Food Stars in London.
Building Blackstone, Backing Costco, and Working with Munger | Tony James on The a16z Show
- ▶ 41:43 David Haber David Blitzer told this story, um, you know, I think, uh, he was in London,
Grant Lee: Building Gamma’s AI Presentation Company to 100 Million Users
Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
- ▶ 14:55 Eugenia Kuyda Uh, and maybe, I don't know, my designer's really into bird watching in London.
ElevenLabs CEO: Why Voice is the Next AI Interface
- ▶ 6:44 Jennifer Li People more distributed, but you now have centers, I guess, in different locations from London, Warsaw, San Francisco to New York and, and other places. 3 times in the scene
Google DeepMind Lead Researchers on Genie 3 & the Future of World-Building
- ▶ 36:30 Jack Parker-Holder Um, not just for, for a bus example, but I really love this idea of having, when it rains in London a lot, uh, not having to take my dog for the second walk would be great.
The Future of Digital Workers
- ▶ 22:17 Prabhav Jain One is I think moving from London to SF earlier. 2 times in the scene
Jensen Huang & Arthur Mensch: Why Every Nation Needs Its Own AI Strategy
- ▶ 51:29 unnamed speaker We sat down in London at a late night restaurant and kind of sketched out the plan for his Series A.
The Quest for Community-Trained Open Source AI Models
- ▶ 1:03:48 Jeff Schmidt But the diversity of, of the ability to kind of go off on and do a year in London, like, you know, like each one of them are getting to go off and do their own thing.
America Needs More Techno-Optimism, with Marc Andreessen and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 20:23 Marc Andreessen Uh, I, I understand the, the, the thing on the inside is also amazing, and so, um, you know, we clearly can do that, uh, uh, you know, at least in Vegas, um, uh, where Ben lives now, um, you know, I, in London, I think they just gave up on…
Rebuilding the California Dream
- ▶ 5:31 Jan Sramek I think it happened in Florence, and Paris, and London, and New York, and Chicago, and maybe LA, and then it happened in the Bay Area, and when I moved there, I loved it for all of the reasons that, that I just named, and for the reasons…
The Evolution of the Satellite Economy
- ▶ 10:26 John Gedmark You know, they are the size of a, of a school bus, if not like a double decker, you know, big, big red London double decker bus.
Global Investing in Tech: Pattern Recognition, Founder Traits, Momentum | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 11:55 Chris Schroeder I saw companies from Africa, from the Middle East and Southeast Asia that started, you know, day one going to London and started going to
Building Hardware and Taking on the Phone Giants with Carl Pei
- ▶ 27:43 unnamed speaker You now live in London.
Unlocking Creativity with Prompt Engineering
- ▶ 31:28 Guy Parsons There's this very high level debate around kind of artistry, I suppose, and as if everything is either going to be like in the Louvre or, I'm not saying that right, in the Tate, I'm from London, or, you know, or, or in the bin.
The Robot Lawyer Resistance with Joshua Browder of DoNotPay
- ▶ 1:58 Joshua Browder And when I started driving at age 18, I got about 30 parking tickets between the ages of 20, um, in London and also when I moved here to study in college.
Disrupting the World's Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann
- ▶ 13:06 Marc Andreessen Um, and then, you know, over the last 50 years, you know, that, that kind of trend has gone into hyperdrive, and you've had this emergence of what economists call superstar cities, where you've got these specific cities like Washington,…
Why Technology Still Matters with Marc Andreessen
- ▶ 9:18 Marc Andreessen But, uh, the first electric lighting was rolled out in, you know, big cities in Paris and London, you know, something, I forget what it was like, something like 200 years ago now.
- ▶ 44:44 Marc Andreessen London, you know, Paris, these, you know, so these cities, you know, these, these big cities have played this kind of outsized role in economic history, but they've all been based on this idea that you have to get all the smart people…
NFTs and the Creator Economy
- ▶ 2:54 Kayvon Turanian You have bidders from London to the Middle East participating in the auction, um, and every single interaction is public, transparent, and viewable on the blockchain.
"Crypto Startup School" Documentary
- ▶ 7:43 Teddy Cleary Started my career as an interest rate swap trader at Barclays in London. 2 times in the scene
Network Effects: Categories & Debates (2 of 3)
- ▶ 16:01 unnamed speaker Like in Victorian England, London was obviously a disgusting, you know, dirty, terrible, overcrowded place, and yet people would continually move to these cities because that's where all of the opportunity was, and that just kept…
a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond
- ▶ 20:52 Benedict Evans This is my experience in London like seven years ago, except none of it used IEEE standard.
a16z Podcast | The Science and Business of Innovative Medicines
- ▶ 48:05 Vas Narasimhan So we're building up these biome centers in San Francisco and in London, other locations in the Middle East, perhaps in China, just trying to say, we're not going to constrain ourselves with our current locations.
a16z Podcast | From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
- ▶ 31:06 Marc Andreessen And we should, you know, double the number of people who can come to London and see the play. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | When Journalism Goes Global
- ▶ 7:07 Jared Ryle We found that his family, his kids basically, who were not even teenagers at the time, owned these multi-million dollar or multi-million pound properties in London, which they couldn't possibly have afforded.
- ▶ 9:57 Jared Ryle It's a reference to the top seven law firms in London.
a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
- ▶ 59:35 W. Brian Arthur A long time ago, like, 1975, and there were old English cars, Morris miners, driving around, taxis that you wouldn't have seen since the 19 fifties in London, and the Indian economy has gone light years beyond that.
a16z Podcast | What to Know about GDPR
a16z Podcast | Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps
- ▶ 3:33 Jez Humble My first job after college was in 2000 in London working at a startup where I was one of two technical people in the startup.
a16z Podcast | Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis
- ▶ 28:35 Sonal Chokshi When you think about technology as building tools, at the end of the day, our job is to build solutions, and it doesn't mean that it replaces structural things that need to happen as well, but it comes from LinkedIn's program matching, you…
a16z Podcast | Knowledge Builds Technology and Technology Builds Knowledge -- with Joel Mokyr
- ▶ 17:12 Joel Mokyr Remember, transportation at the time was slow and difficult, so if you live in Warsaw and somebody else lives in, in London, they could well be living on the moon, you know, you'd never meet these people.
a16z Podcast | Mastering the Game (with David Oyelowo)
- ▶ 5:10 David Oyelowo And we had a great experience doing it, and one of the, my lasting memories from that film is our makeup artist, who is a lady from London, very affluent lady.
- ▶ 9:30 Ben Horowitz Being from Nigeria and then London, you've played what many people consider the most important African-American in, ah, maybe ever, but certainly in the last, ah, century.
a16z Podcast | Open vs. Closed, Alpha Cities, and the Industries of the Future
- ▶ 16:54 Michael Copeland Are there top tier cities that, that you observed or that are sort of up and comers that we might not kind of recognize immediately, like New York and the Bay area and, you know, London for that matter, or, or Tokyo.
a16z Podcast | When Banking Works Like My Smartphone
- ▶ 0:27 Michael Copeland You guys are based in London, engineering in Estonia.
a16z Podcast | The Year Mobile Began to Truly Dominate Tech
- ▶ 17:22 Benedict Evans But, you know, if you were in, you know, if you were in London, it's like, okay, where should we go on holiday this weekend?
a16z Podcast | The Tiger and the Dragon -- On Tech and Startups in India and China
- ▶ 17:40 Sonal Chokshi DST, which is based in Russia, or technically headquartered in London.
a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
- ▶ 0:02 Michael Copeland I'm Michael Copeland, and we are still in London, and we are lucky to have with us two of London's most interesting and dynamic entrepreneurs and investors, Reshma Sohoni, founding partner of Seedcamp. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:43 Michael Copeland I mean, I have to say it's not, you know, London is the world's largest financial center, kind of bounces back and forth between London and New York.
- ▶ 10:06 Reshma Sohoni What I mean, what I'm seeing a lot is, um, and it's a really, it's a big generational shift, so I think if, if we looked at entrepreneurs from, again, about five years ago or more, there was this sense of, well, if I start in London or I… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:55 Shaq (Shakil Khan) So, uh, you know, having seen this many times over, what happens is U.S. companies say, hey, we need to go into Europe, we need to go international, so let's put our office in London, and let's send Peter or Lucy, who went to Stanford, and… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:10 Shaq (Shakil Khan) We're sitting in a lovely venue in London, and you've got an American Indian in London, and a Pakistani heritage, um, male sitting here. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:32 Michael Copeland And is it London regionally? 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Building Tech Startups in a Place Where Tech Isn’t Everything
- ▶ 0:00 Michael Copeland Welcome to the A-Six-Z podcast here on the road in London, where today Sonal and I are sitting down with three guests to help us talk about entrepreneurial ecosystems and how the effort to build such an ecosystem is playing out here in… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:12 Matt Clifford And I think historically in London, the most ambitious people have wanted to be bankers, and that's had a huge impact on the startup scene, on the technology scene, because of a lot of people who might be founders aren't. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:23 Sonal Chokshi One of the things that I hear a lot of US people say is no company of significance has been started in Europe and London, including London, obviously. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:01 Michael Copeland Do you guys believe that, um, regions develop technology and ideas differently, and if so, what is, what is the sort of, you know, regional flavor of something that's developed here in London or, um, in the UK generally? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:13 Michelle You Maybe that they don't even know to face because they don't know their entrepreneurs, which is very specific to London. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:04 Sonal Chokshi and I really protest ever drinking the Kool-Aid, um, that, um, you're not just so, it's, tech is central, but we're not tech-centric, like, in London and in this ecosystem, um, which I think is actually really important to, to think about…
- ▶ 13:48 Nick Babayan Um, whereas I think in, in a city like London, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:43 Michael Copeland But what can we learn from, from, from you guys, and from sort of what, what you're describing as, you know, yes, there's this huge ambition in Silicon Valley, there's this ability to scale, but clearly, there's something that you guys… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:22 Matt Clifford There is extraordinary talent in, in London and, well, really the broader UK and Europe and, you know, I think very often because that talent hasn't been thinking about startups or even really technology. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:32 Nick Babayan I think that they're particularly excited about London as a, as a potential hub for innovation, um, and, and a lot of the scene that's happening here, um, and, and being able to connect with those startups. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:03 Michael Copeland For those people who aren't here in London right now, and aren't doing business in Europe more broadly, why come? 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | London Calling for Tech Done in a Different Way
- ▶ 0:03 Michael Copeland I'm Michael Copeland here on the road in London.
- ▶ 10:13 Martha Lane Fox I'm about to go to Croydon after this, which is a borough of London where we're launching a project to try and help the whole of Croydon use technology in a really deep way, and we've got really interesting combinations of people coming…
- ▶ 13:26 Michael Copeland I, I assume, I think, has gone elsewhere, and so outside of London, there must be, there are large communities of people, and maybe Martha, this is part of what you're describing, who it's hard to get work, um, the work that's available is…
- ▶ 19:55 Russell Davies But he's doing, him and another friend of ours who's also from London are doing a really interesting Internet of Things startup called Thington, which is, the thing they're thinking about is not the devices, but how do you control multiple… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:49 Martha Lane Fox So central London, big tick, and I live in central London, and I'm lucky I'm rich, so big tick for me, but to Russell's point, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:20 Michael Copeland I know that there's CCTV cameras all over London. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
- ▶ 0:05 Sonal Chokshi today Michael and I are taping another special episode of the A, Six, and Z podcast on the road from London. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:35 Michael Copeland London is, you know, has a reputation. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:16 Eileen Burbage That would sort of, um, support things in remittances and foreign exchange, but maybe there was something about, you know, moving faster to chip and pin, cashless payments, you know, we've had the Oyster card network in London for, I don't…
- ▶ 19:01 Eileen Burbage So one of your portfolio companies based here in London, TransferWise, you know, it's hard to argue that, as you say, you could have done better than what Western Union did. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:29 Eileen Burbage So like Alex mentioned KYC and AML earlier, you know, we're seeing the reason why the fintech sector here is so, um, sort of really, really, uh, interesting and deep within London is because you see a lot of startups also going after these… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:15 Alex Rampell Whether it is, like, if, if Oyster wanted to become a payment card in London,
a16z Podcast | Artificial Intelligence and the 'Space of Possible Minds'
- ▶ 0:10 Sonal Chokshi We're in the heart of London right now. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Quantum Leap
- ▶ 0:00 unnamed speaker Welcome to the A-sixteen-z podcast, London tour edition.
a16z Podcast | Blockchain vs/and Bitcoin
- ▶ 22:09 Adam Ludwin Um, we're out here in San Francisco and our partners are largely large institutions in places like New York and Boston and London.
a16z Podcast | Holy Non Sequiturs, Batman: What Disruption Theory Is ... and Isn't
- ▶ 0:56 Sukhinder Singh Cassidy Valley in 1997 after leaving B-Sky B in, uh, London, and I moved here, uh, and literally slept on a friend's parents' couch in Mill Valley for three months, uh, until I found my first job, um, and was lucky enough to have arrived at the…
a16z Podcast | Hard Forks, Hard Choices for Bitcoin
- ▶ 1:30 Michael Copeland We were lucky to have trapped here in the podcast room, and then we dialed in Morkos from London.
a16z Podcast | Layering Tech and Culture in Iran
- ▶ 1:55 Nazanin Daneshwar Um, I had experience, like, working in, uh, IT and development teams as a team leader in London and Germany, and then I decided to move back to Iran around four years ago. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple Gets Its Music Streaming and Gives News Another Try
- ▶ 7:49 Benedict Evans So like you have your calendar and you can have the time in London and you can have the weather. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Software and Overcoming the Randomness of Birthplace
- ▶ 5:32 Sten Tamkivi Skype was born out of a Swedish and Danish founder working with four Estonian founding engineers soon after there was a first American on the team in Stockholm, and by the time, so it got to like seven people with four nationalities, and…
- ▶ 14:38 Sten Tamkivi Um, it's two people currently here, uh, three in Estonia, one in Switzerland, one in Germany, one in Kiev, Ukraine, one intern working out of London, and one of my co-founders, Silver, just, uh, moved to Medellin from here, and he's now…
- ▶ 19:36 Sten Tamkivi Competition on tech talent and the top engineers in the world, uh, in Silicon Valley has grown to a point where that if you hire a person outside, uh, here, like you go to even Portland or Seattle or Vancouver, or even London or Tokyo,…
a16z Podcast | What the Apple Watch Is -- and Isn't
- ▶ 0:02 Michael Copeland I'm Michael Copeland, and we are here with Benedict Evans back, uh, from London, and you were well outside of the Apple reality distortion field for the watch event yesterday.
a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile
- ▶ 33:28 Benedict Evans You made a piece of software, and yeah, maybe you had to open a sales office in London or Tokyo or something, but basically there was one market, and the dynamics were kind of the same, and the market were across all of them, and so the…
a16z Podcast | Sports, Tech, and What We Can All Learn from the Latest Performance Science
- ▶ 7:23 Mark McClusky yeah, three years later, she won a gold medal in London with her, her partner, Heather Standing, and the pairs, uh, pairs rowing.
- ▶ 15:19 Mark McClusky Eight percent of athletes who competed in London got sick during the Olympics.
- ▶ 37:57 Mark McClusky So, you know, everybody can sort of source beet juice event, unless you're in London in 2012.
a16z Podcast | What Makes the Valley Work
- ▶ 26:37 Marc Andreessen And there's a place that's the best place in the world to run an investment bank, which is, you know, probably either New York or London.
a16z Podcast | Building Marketplaces with the Power of Community
- ▶ 7:25 unnamed speaker So, um, you know, I was, I was talking to, I think a 17 or 18 year old, uh, seller in London this morning who had his own thoughts on it, and, uh, at the end of the day, it's better for us to hear them out than to just make decisions from…
a16z Podcast | The Future Of Television
- ▶ 9:27 Benedict Evans You know, there's this old story that somebody decides that the train service between London and Cambridge is terrible, so they're going to build a bus service, and then they decide that actually to make the economics work, they need to… 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun
- ▶ 0:04 Michael Copeland I'm Michael Copeland, and I'm here with Benedict Evans, um, who's actually just joined Andreessen Horwitz recently, moved all the way from London.
The Case Study of BuzzFeed Tasty and the Evolution of Brand
- ▶ 3:04 unnamed speaker We have offices in London, uh, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, uh, Tokyo, um, LA and New York.
Managing Risk and Uncertainty: The Future of Insurance
- ▶ 1:18 Angela Strange Edward Lloyd set up one of the first coffee stores in London on Tower Street by the port, and it was
- ▶ 3:08 Angela Strange Specifically, the London Fire. 2 times in the scene
3 Common Myths People Have About Crypto
- ▶ 19:36 Catherine (Katie) Haun It goes to Johannesburg, and then it goes up to London, to correspondent banks, all the way back down to South Africa.
Winning Founders & Influencing Everyone: Margit Wennmachers at Startup Grind Europe
- ▶ 19:45 Margit Wennmachers Um, I don't know that I'm qualified to answer this question, because we have not done as many, um, investments in Europe, and it's not because we don't like Europe, um, I'm from here, uh, but, um, it's also very nice in London, I will say.
10 Years Too Early: On a Tech Career, Business, and Investing
- ▶ 23:04 unnamed speaker I think probably we should soon open up to the floor, but one kind of last question for me, and seems relevant given that you're here in London, is sort of, what's your perspective on how the global startup ecosystem is evolving? 4 times in the scene
The Future of Money: Banking on Fintech
- ▶ 14:20 Alex Rampell Why can't you sell seven percent of your house to the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund that has a trillion dollars in assets and might want exposure to London real estate or to Palo Alto real estate?
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2016
- ▶ 19:29 Benedict Evans It lets you buy anything you could get in New York or London or Tokyo. 2 times in the scene
Marketplaces
- ▶ 17:18 Jeff Jordan I got the chance to visit the Science Museum in London, which was a very nice museum.