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Inside the Race to Measure Frontier Intelligence
- ▶ 25:18 Erik Torenberg Ben and Mark spend, you know, a bunch of time, um, in DC and with policymakers to try to close that gap.
Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
- ▶ 10:14 Erik Torenberg Or to use, uh, you know, Mark's quote, there are no bad ideas, only early ideas.
Why Top Founders Are Racing Into AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 0:54 Erik Torenberg I want to start with a Mark quote to introduce this new fund.
- ▶ 20:03 Martin Casado I do, I do think that, that, that Marc Andreessen is right.
The State of AI: Models, Moats, and the Consumer Renaissance
- ▶ 16:41 Anish Acharya This is something that Mark says, and he's so right, which is if you look at intelligence as a primitive, let's think now about coding intelligence as a primitive.
How AI Changes the Economics of Innovation
- ▶ 41:47 Martin Casado So you lean startup, and then, you know, Mark and Ben wrote, like, the art of the fat startup.
- ▶ 49:39 Steven Sinofsky Like they just, and Mark does in his, um,
The Opportunity for Global Founders
- ▶ 3:51 Gabriel Vasquez We created a WhatsApp group with Angela, with Marc Andreessen, uh, Alex Rampell and a bunch of other people at the firm.
Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
- ▶ 0:07 Travis Kalanick That wouldn't have gone that way if Ben or Mark was on the board.
- ▶ 1:36 Erik Torenberg I've known Mark and Ben for a long time. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:35 Travis Kalanick And, uh, I get an email from Mark.
- ▶ 8:56 Ben Horowitz so, I, I gave it to Mark and John O'Farrell, um, to do, and then, all I remember, so I remember something different at this point, but I, I got it all from them, so I wasn't there.
- ▶ 11:35 Travis Kalanick and I would meet up with Mark and Ben at this,
- ▶ 13:35 Travis Kalanick Uh, that wouldn't have gone that way if Ben or Mark was on the board.
Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence
- ▶ 33:03 unnamed speaker As our partner Mark often says, we, technology is the dog that caught the bus, and we've never seen before that countries are, you know, kind of feverishly demanding the latest versions of the model because they recognize how competitive…
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 9:03 Benedict Evans So you've always got this accelerating adoption, and you know, when, when, when your boss, my old boss Marc Andreessen was working on Netscape, there were like double digit millions of PCs on the entire planet. 2 times in the scene
Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
- ▶ 0:23 David Haber Andreessen wrote this piece over a decade ago that software is eating the world, and that feels
- ▶ 22:26 David Haber Um, you know, Mark, R.
- ▶ 45:32 Marc Rowan It's something I said to Mark when I, and recently when I visited him, we are the luckiest people in the world.
Ben Horowitz on American Dynamism and the Future of AI | The a16z Show
- ▶ 20:12 Ben Horowitz Uh, but what we saw back then was, well, even though that had been true for decades, it wasn't gonna be true anymore because, uh, as, uh, Mark wrote, my partner, your partner, software is eating the world.
Building Blackstone, Backing Costco, and Working with Munger | Tony James on The a16z Show
- ▶ 1:04:15 David Haber I think Mark and Ben have done a very thoughtful job of trying to make the firm feel like a platform for smart entrepreneurial people to build on top of.
Box CEO on AI Agents & Why Enterprise Can't Keep Up | a16z
- ▶ 53:56 Aaron Levie The, you know, intelligent farming algorithm and, and that, and we just have to, you know, I mean, this is sort of like, like completely, you know, like Marc Andreessen predicted this, you know, 15 years ago of like software is going to…
Why Claude Feels Different (And What That Means for AI) | The a16z Show
- ▶ 24:34 unnamed speaker And we've all seen the famous chart that Mark has tweeted a thousand times, right?
Ben Horowitz on AI Anxiety, Big Tech Transitions & The Future of Startups | a16z
- ▶ 20:02 unnamed speaker And I mentioned this because, uh, Mark got some crap for saying, you know, all the jobs will go away except for one job of venture capital, um, which, which was seen as a self-serving comment. 2 times in the scene
Palantir CTO on The SaaS Apocalypse & Preventing The Next World War | a16z
- ▶ 11:56 Katherine Boyle You know, I think of, like, you know, Marc Andreessen, right?
- ▶ 47:03 Katherine Boyle We, we've had these conversations, Eric and I, uh, with Mark and others about how, you know, the pipeline for the last 10 years has been dour.
Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Years
- ▶ 9:29 unnamed speaker Um, Ben, maybe, uh, transitioning to you, um, you know, you and Mark started the firm in an auspicious time, uh, in the wake of the financial crisis in, in 2009. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:23 unnamed speaker I know you and Mark are spending a lot more time in DC than you ever have.
The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- ▶ 8:52 Alex Rampell Um, so, uh, Microsoft is getting into the space in a meaningful way, and if, if you look at the history of software, I mean, this firm was started by Marc Andreessen. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:28 Alex Rampell Um, and by the way, like, you know, I, I jokingly call Mark the air force because like, if we need a big strike, like we, what do we do? 4 times in the scene
Ben Horowitz on Investing in AI: AI Bubbles, Economic Impact, and VC Acceleration
- ▶ 4:47 unnamed speaker You and Mark are making decisions at the firm level as well.
- ▶ 6:32 unnamed speaker Um, and you and Mark have talked about this and now in retrospect, it's clear that that was the right decision at that point in time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:03 unnamed speaker And Mark comments of, and, and you often say, you know, you gotta, whenever you run something, it's gotta be in the details.
- ▶ 17:48 unnamed speaker Mark
- ▶ 26:56 unnamed speaker Question around just the VC landscape today, because when, when you, you and Mark started the firm 16 years ago, you know, there weren't nearly as many VC firms.
- ▶ 33:27 unnamed speaker And because we asked Mark, we have to ask you, do you plan to be cryogenically frozen? 3 times in the scene
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 15:34 Benedict Evans I remember Marc Andreessen saying, you know, 1997 was not a bubble, 98 was not a bubble, 99 was a bubble.
The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
- ▶ 0:28 Jonathan Swanson A couple decades ago, you had to be Marc Andreessen, Urban Otakosta to have a half dozen assistants, and that cost you half a million dollars.
- ▶ 2:40 Jonathan Swanson You know, a couple decades ago, you had to be Marc Andreessen or Vinod Khosla to have a half dozen assistants, and that cost you half a million dollars.
- ▶ 44:20 Erik Torenberg I think it's interesting to look at how people build out their, you know, like, for example, you know, Mark and Ben funnel everything through A, C, and Z, and are all in on A, C, and Z, and of course have, you know, other intellectual or… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:10 Erik Torenberg A decade ago, Marc Andreessen wrote this blog post on productivity. 6 times in the scene
Rocket Companies CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis
- ▶ 10:01 Varun Krishna Bit problems versus Adams problems that, um, I think Andreessen is very famous for pioneering.
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 38:37 Kevin Rose Feel this way with Mark and Ben, like in, in like that, when you get to sit with them, like, 2 times in the scene
How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 22:03 Augusto Marietti And then, uh, then we had that, that, uh, great sushi with, uh, with Marc Andreessen and you and I, and we sealed the deal.
Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a $100 Billion Business
- ▶ 6:35 Ali Ghodsi You know, I got as much as I could have, uh, you know, out of Ben and Mark and read all of their blogs, all of their books, everybody else's.
- ▶ 45:00 Ali Ghodsi but no, I, I think both, uh, Ben and Mark, uh, always kind of pushed us to think bigger.
Software is Eating Labor
- ▶ 0:30 Alex Rampell Um, and, you know, first, Mark wrote an essay for the Wall Street Journal a long time ago, about 10 years ago, about how software eats the world.
The Person Who Runs HR For 2 Million Federal Workers
- ▶ 1:37 Scott Kupor In case Mark and Ben are listening. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:01 Scott Kupor So the one I love to talk about, as you know, in our conference room in Menlo Park, we have a Solyndra, an old Solyndra, I don't know what it is, a panel or something that Mark kind of somehow picked up at one point in time.
The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
- ▶ 3:58 Katherine Boyle It's like, go back and read Mark's techno-optimist manifesto, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:09 unnamed speaker And, and going back to, you know, Catherine's mention of, of some of the meetings in, in DC, one of the things, you know, senators were asking Mark is, um, just about the U S China, um, sort of AI race and, and what we should do. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:51 unnamed speaker But I just around BLM, around Ukraine, remember, you know, sort of when, when Mark had the current thing discourse, there was a lot of sort of, uh, legible unification, like,
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 23:11 Steven Sinofsky And it was really Mark and Ben at Netscape that changed the velocity of how companies work and the cloud.
Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
- ▶ 35:58 unnamed speaker And I think, um, Mark actually had this great conversation with Eric where he talked about being founder run, where you have this memory of the risks you took to get to where you are today, right?
The Little Tech Agenda for AI
- ▶ 1:02 Colin McCune I mean, look, a ton of credit to Mark and Ben for having sort of the vision on this.
- ▶ 16:07 Colin McCune It's Mark and Ben's story. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:13 Erik Torenberg Mark, um, once told me in a podcast, he told me the joke, which is, uh, man goes to the government, uh, you know, I go to the government because, uh, I have this big problem.
Jack Altman & Martin Casado on the Future of Venture Capital
- ▶ 39:56 Jack Altman One that I thought was, um, a really interesting point from Mark when I talked to him on the podcast was basically around, you know, like how do you sort of drive the right overall aggression of the firm? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:25 Martin Casado And then in these types of way, and this is where Mark, this is, this comes from Mark and Mark is totally right. 2 times in the scene
Substack Cofounder on AI Slop Content & the Decline of Social Media
- ▶ 30:15 Chris Best This actually reminds me of one of the first things Mark Andreessen ever said to me when we were talking about Substack.
Ben Horowitz Shares the a16z Origin Story & Plans for the Future
- ▶ 1:23 Ben Horowitz Yeah, so we're a little different in that we are organized in such a way where, ah, it's not, like, Mark
- ▶ 4:30 Ben Horowitz You know, it's a cottage industry, you know, done by like, you can only learn it through apprenticeship and all the, you know, a lot of concepts, which I think were probably correct at the time, but the, the thing that we believed then and…
- ▶ 21:10 Erik Torenberg I, I know Mark is spending a bunch of time in AI right now.
- ▶ 30:30 Erik Torenberg I'm curious for the next Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen out there who are 20 years or 30 years younger, whatever, they're just starting out, but want to build the next A-si-z, but they're
Can AI Fix Housing and Healthcare Affordability?
- ▶ 2:12 Alex Immerman So our partner, Mark, every year, like clockwork, he sends out this updated chart and it shows consumer goods and services over time.
The Current Reality of American AI Policy: From ‘Pause AI’ to ‘Build’
- ▶ 18:56 Erik Torenberg Mark had this sort of, the Baptist bootlegger.
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 42:33 Steven Sinofsky And then we had to get on the phone with Mark and do the bidding war against Netscape for this, this company in Boston.
From the Dot-Com Crash to the AI Era: How Builders Survive Waves of Disruption
- ▶ 41:57 Jeetu Patel This is Marc Andreessen.
Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy
- ▶ 35:17 Noah Smith The example I always use, of course, is Marc Andreessen, who, uh, is the fastest typist I have ever seen in my life and yet does not 2 times in the scene
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 0:28 Erik Torenberg Uh, we were sort of talking offline about, about, uh, you know, we're talking about the Marx and Ben's, uh, evolution of the media episode.
- ▶ 57:09 Balaji Srinivasan They've lost much of, you know, what, what happened is they just piled up the subscriptions and they got all the wine moms and lost the Andrewsons. 2 times in the scene
AI Content and the War for Your Attention
- ▶ 18:09 Antonio García Martínez And then I think our friend, uh, Marc Andreessen, that you might know, Eric, um, his is the A and the sign behind you, you know, famously said that some people are reality privileged, right?
- ▶ 22:01 Antonio García Martínez And yeah, it's weird because if you talk to, if you talk to like Gen Xers and particularly, I think people like, again, Mark, who came from maybe not like
The Future of Software Development - Vibe Coding, Prompt Engineering & AI Assistants
- ▶ 10:48 Martin Casado So like Ben Horowitz is an infra guy, even, you know, and honestly, I would say Mark is.
Former Microsoft Executive Explains Where We Are in the AI Cycle w/ Anish Acharya & Steven Sinofsky
- ▶ 26:52 Anish Acharya Well, so, so actually Mark makes this point.
Building Cluely: The Viral AI Startup that raised $15M in 10 Weeks w/ Roy Lee
How Fei-Fei Li Is Rebuilding AI for the Real World
- ▶ 3:15 Martin Casado But we were at this, this, one of Mark's fancy dinner, er, lunches, and there's a bunch of AI people, and everybody was so excited about LLMs, right?
How to Enable a Manufacturing Renaissance
- ▶ 9:21 Chris Power Realize that manufacturing and the national security mission were critically important to the country, and, like, how would we ever even attempt to think about building a software company because this was just so important, even though… 2 times in the scene
JD Vance on the Future of America
- ▶ 0:31 J.D. Vance Thanks to, uh, to everybody for having me today, in particular Ben and Mark, and I just got to say hello to Ben, um, and Catherine backstage, but I know, I know apparently Mark has the flu right now. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:39 J.D. Vance I was very moved by Mark's manifesto from a few years ago about America. 2 times in the scene
Ben Horowitz on Leadership and Culture
- ▶ 9:39 David Ulevitch So, you know, you, you and Mark have always had this view toward, you know, orienting the firm, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:35 David Ulevitch Other firms, you know, were investing in China and had all this other activity and, you know, now they might be a little bit Johnny come lately and like excited about defense, but they used to say no way to defense, no way to those things,…
- ▶ 14:42 David Ulevitch but, but you and Mark have said, look, you don't want to have to be here, but you have to be here. 2 times in the scene
Why AI Voice Feels More Human Than Ever
- ▶ 30:16 Anish Acharya Led investor for our firm, where it can give the, the firm's pitch the way that Mark can, and it can negotiate the way that Martine can, and it can, you know, assess the landscape the way Olivia can.
Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto
- ▶ 16:34 David George Mark actually gave me this, uh, this framework, which I like a lot, which is like, is the AI frosting or sugar? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:51 Chris Dixon Yeah, I mean, like, look, I mean, Marc Andreessen had a great blog post, it's like, how do I know they're gonna ban AI, like, medicine?
What DeepSeek Means For The Future Of AI | Tech Veterans Weigh In
- ▶ 19:20 Martin Casado And there's a, there's a special parallel that Marc Andreessen actually reminded me of it too, which people don't tend to see as well, which is in the early days of the internet, like the mid to late nineties, a lot of, um, investors, a…
- ▶ 30:03 Steven Sinofsky And so Marc Andreessen invented the image tag in the browser, and the neat thing that they did in their implementation was progressively render it. 2 times in the scene
How AI Is Changing Warfare, with Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf
- ▶ 33:04 Brian Schimpf I know Mark put out like a post on it at the time.
Jeff Sloan (Global Payments): Placing Multiple Bets on ‘Mosaic of Solutions’
- ▶ 8:27 Jeff Sloan Uh, I agree, and I'm not just saying this because I'm on the A-sixteen Z podcast, but I agree with Marc Andreessen.
Intelligence in the Age of AI with new CTO of the CIA
- ▶ 10:45 Nand Mulchandani And I think on one of your previous podcasts, I think you or Mark talked about this idea of these, these algorithms are built to please you.
Collaborative Disruption at DoD
- ▶ 1:54 Kathleen Hicks Or the National Science Foundation funding the Supercomputing Center, where Marc Andreessen worked on his first web browser.
AI Food Fights in the Enterprise with Databricks' Ali Ghodsi
- ▶ 13:04 Ali Ghodsi These applications, which many of them are obvious, like, you know, Mark talked about it in his, you know, AI will save the world, you know, the lawyer, uh, you know, the teacher, they're like, there's lots of use, everybody knows, uh,…
- ▶ 20:25 Ali Ghodsi Then there's like a bad things that humans can do deliberately because they're malicious, which is the one I think Mark was the most worried about, but I would just say, look, ever since like the invention of the hammer, we started… 3 times in the scene
AI Hardware, Explained.
- ▶ 0:28 unnamed speaker In 2011, Marc Andreessen said, software is eating the world.
Polarizing Talent: Navigating 2023's Landscape
- ▶ 44:33 Steph Smith And if you like this topic as much as I do, make sure to subscribe because we've got a lot more where this comes from, including our next video with Marc Andreessen as he talks about how society is reshuffling due to the rise of remote…
Ben Horowitz on Executive Firing (and Hiring)
- ▶ 19:23 Ali Ghodsi It's on micromanagement by Ivan Horowitz, where you battle, uh, Marc Andreessen.
The Art and Science of Podcasting with Sriram and Aarthi
- ▶ 7:58 Sriram Krishnan But I would say there was definitely an inflection point where Aarti, I remember the first few weeks, she would get all these DMs from India, from here, a lot of women, they would reach out and be like, oh, I'm, I can't believe you're…
- ▶ 45:38 Steph Smith You know, I heard Mark actually talk about this on a recent interview with Vijay, and he talked about Mad Men, which is one of the most popular TV shows of, I think, all time.
Intro to American Dynamism
- ▶ 6:09 Katherine Boyle You know, over 10 years ago, our founder, Marc Andreessen, said that software is eating the world.
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