Mars, Incorporated
also referred to as: mars
8 statements across 6 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Adam Grant · said 62 times in 32 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Kyle Russell (8), Jared Isaacman (8), Doug Bernauer (4), Morgan Brennan (3), Gavin Baker (3), Alex Rampell (3), Steph Smith (2), Rob Reinhart (2)
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2026 24 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
- NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin, and The Race to The Moon | Jared Isaacman on The a16z Show
- The Nuclear Renaissance - Radiant | a16z American Dynamism
- Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply
- Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
- Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- Palantir CTO on The SaaS Apocalypse & Preventing The Next World War | a16z
- Ben Horowitz on Investing in AI: AI Bubbles, Economic Impact, and VC Acceleration
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2025 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
- Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
- Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy
- Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
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2023 8 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Big Ideas 2024: A New Age of Maritime Exploration with Grant Gregory
- The Unanswered Questions of Space: Quantum Entanglement, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy
- The Calculus of Success
- The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- Building for Tomorrow with Jason Feifer
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2022 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2019 17 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Building Worlds with VR, Art, and Narrative
- a16z Podcast | Truce for Mobile, Battle for VR
- a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience
- a16z Podcast | How to Be Original and Make Big Ideas Happen
- a16z Podcast | The Future of Food
- a16z Podcast | What Technology Wants, Needs, Does
- a16z Podcast | From Hidden Figure to Sonic BOOM
- a16z Podcast | Technology, Mobility, and the American Dream
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2018 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2017 2 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Mars, Incorporated, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 positive
The US needs a major space mission to rally national focus
“I think we need to be able to do that, and just like getting to the moon kind of got this country focused on one thing years ago, I think getting to Either Mars, or the asteroids, or whatever it be. I think we need something like that to garner us again, to ma…”
Dec 24, 2023
Maps of Mars and Venus are 50x more detailed than ocean maps
“Most of what we actually know about the ocean seafloor today has been gathered from gravity data from satellites. And so it's a useful starting point, but the resulting resolution that we have is only about two square miles, I think. And when you compare that …”
Jan 7, 2026 bullish
Andreessen: Routine Mars Trips Could Begin Within a Decade
“I think Elon's gonna pull it off. And so I think, you know, I don't know. I don't know exactly. I don't want to predict. This is not a prediction, but I, you know, I would not be surprised if within a decade there's routine trips back and forth.”
May 6, 2026 bullish
Isaacman: Mars soil samples would reveal direct evidence of past microbial life
“I would say that if we went and brought the samples back from Mars which is a program that people have been asking about for a while, was canceled in the last administration because it was super expensive I think the odds are extremely good you'd have direct e…”
May 6, 2026 positive
May 6, 2026 bullish