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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