Manhattan Project

3 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Aug 2, 2023 by Marc Andreessen · said 41 times in 17 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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brought up most by Marc Andreessen (16), Ben Horowitz (8), Dan Wang (3), Katherine Boyle (2), Jeetu Patel (2), Shyam Sankar (1), Palmer Luckey (1), Joel Mokyr (1)

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Aug 2, 2023 positive
What-if
Andreessen: Manhattan Project would have failed without Oppenheimer's parallel detonation strategy
“Which was very prescient and turned out to be the thing that really, I mean, without that, they would not have succeeded and We would be living in a different world today.”
Marc Andreessen Aug 2, 2023 ▶ 1:18:49 Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
Aug 2, 2023 positive
Opinion
Horowitz: Los Alamos was history's greatest concentration of intellectual talent
“It's probably the highest concentration of talent, intellectual talent for sure in the history of the country, maybe the history of the world including, Recruiting John von Neumann you know, as well as, you know, every great physicist who wasn't a Nazi.”
Ben Horowitz Aug 2, 2023 ▶ 1:19:01 Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
Oct 29, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Patel: AI build-out combines internet, space race, and Manhattan Project
“This is, like, the combination of the build-out of the internet, the space race, and the Manhattan Project all put into one, where there's a geopolitical implication of it, there's an economic implication, there's a national security implication, and then ther…”
Jeetu Patel Oct 29, 2025 ▶ 0:03 Building the Real-World Infrastructure for AI, with Google, Cisco & a16z
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