McDonald's, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where McDonald's comes up
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 46:14 Qasar Younis McDonald's has all these job openings. 2 times in the scene
Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
- ▶ 30:56 Steven Sinofsky It, you know, it's basically like spend 15 minutes at McDonald's and watch people start in the kiosk and give up and then go watch what they really want.
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 56:24 Amjad Masad I remember McDonald's opened, uh, in Jordan, uh, around the time when I was 1314, I took my entire class at McDonald's. 2 times in the scene
Will LLMs Get Us To AGI?
- ▶ 6:59 Vishal Misra I'm going for dinner to McDonald's or I'm going to dinner, blah, blah, blah. 2 times in the scene
Anduril CEO: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?
- ▶ 8:02 Chris Power We just kind of like McDonald's the shit out of them.
Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy
- ▶ 2:01 Dwarkesh Patel And McDonald's and Kohl's make more than ten billion dollars a year, right?
JD Vance on the Future of America
- ▶ 12:35 J.D. Vance So a higher wage at McDonald's means more kiosks, and whatever your views on the wisdom of the minimum wage, I'm not gonna comment on that here, companies innovating in the absence of cheap labor is a good thing.
Jensen Huang & Arthur Mensch: Why Every Nation Needs Its Own AI Strategy
- ▶ 18:46 Jensen Huang Hey, you know, I think McDonald's is pretty good everywhere.
Jeff Sloan (Global Payments): Placing Multiple Bets on ‘Mosaic of Solutions’
- ▶ 11:38 Jeff Sloan You know, one of the last deals I signed before I left was McDonald's. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:27 Jeff Sloan Uh, we were selling with, you know, high physical touching into advanced quick service restaurant environments, like a Burger King, you know, or a McDonald's, which are highly customized IT.
Startup Building: Major Shifts in Tech & Culture
- ▶ 41:59 Ben Horowitz Yeah, it's not like, and when you talk to the people, like, you know, I used to be, or I am friends with the former CEO of McDonald's, and he was like, like, we're not trying to hire forty-five-year-old people with five kids to work at… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:00 Marc Andreessen And if you're in a McDonald's, you register, you know, you measure it by number of Big Macs sold and so forth.
Digital Branding: Lessons from Vogue, Monetizing Social, Creator Tips | Field Notes with Connie Chan
- ▶ 3:41 Susan Plageman How are we going to make it like Coca-Cola or how are we going to make it as big as McDonald's or what have you?
The State of Apps with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 35:43 Olivia Moore And then actually two days later, we saw McDonald's hit number one.
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 2:05:00 Balaji Srinivasan Than, you know, McDonald's eating mainstream America.
Social Tokens for Creators Explained
- ▶ 11:34 Kevin Chou And so I think we'll see that emerge in the NFT space where today we just kind of think about these NFTs as singular items, but what happens when you designed them as sets, uh, and people want to collect them almost like playing, you know,…
a16z Podcast | Principles and Algorithms for Work and Life
- ▶ 1:17 Alex Rampell Like, I actually have tricked him into thinking that McDonald's is normally closed. 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The API Economy -- The Why, What, and How
- ▶ 11:00 Augusto Marietti At an enterprise level, you know, 99.9, they're still monolithic, so it's more a 10 years transition that we'll see, and what Netflix did, it will happen to Coca-Cola, to McDonald's, so there's a lot of value to be unlocked and to help…
a16z Podcast | What Technology Wants, Needs, Does
- ▶ 5:27 Vijay Pande And actually, you know, who knows, maybe your phone GPS couldn't register the check-in to McDonald's and Burger King, and then we would know for risk anyways.
a16z Podcast | We Gotta Talk Pokémon Go
- ▶ 19:21 Anu Hariharan We already know that they announced a partnership with McDonald's. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Tiger and the Dragon -- On Tech and Startups in India and China
- ▶ 13:18 Connie Chan So there are so many places now when you go around China, McDonald's, KSC, where you can pay with your phone by simply showing a QR code from either of these kinds of applications, right?
a16z Podcast | The Future of Food
- ▶ 4:50 Chris Dixon Like the coastal areas where, you know, where, where we live, um, they're buying organic food and cooking it, and that's great, and no one's against that, but the reality is a lot of meals are, are, um, you know, people are fast food, you… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:23 Chris Dixon Um, they go and they get, you know, whatever, Arby's and McDonald's and this kind of stuff.
a16z Podcast | Blockchain vs/and Bitcoin
- ▶ 43:05 Adam Ludwin And then going to McDonald's, and then paying with your smartphone, and getting two dollars off because you bought two dollars of Coke products.
a16z Podcast | What Makes the Valley Work
- ▶ 6:07 Marc Andreessen Like, didn't work over the summer at McDonald's, like, nothing.
a16z Podcast | Selling Tech to Everyone -- Changes Everything
- ▶ 5:10 Benedict Evans So the example that I give in my presentation is if you think back to things like, um, Walmart or McDonald's, which are
a16z Podcast | Building Brands and Running Retail -- Ron Johnson and Tristan Walker Break It Down
- ▶ 24:07 Ron Johnson And they're competing against people like McDonald's and other fast food with a lot of experience.
a16z Podcast | The Promise (and Nightmare) of Cross-Platform Software
- ▶ 14:34 Benedict Evans If you're McDonald's, maybe not.
The Next 3 Billion in Financial Services
- ▶ 2:36 Angela Strange Alice, like hundreds of thousands of Americans, works at McDonald's. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:57 Angela Strange So enter a company like Earning, and what they've been able to do is by linking to Alice's bank account and using other signals like how much time has Alice spent at McDonald's over the last eight days, they can actually front Alice the…
A Whirlwind Tour Through Tech Trends in China
- ▶ 3:49 Connie Chan Ordering McDonald's. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:21 Connie Chan KFC, which has a very different menu in China, decided to launch a coffee service to go up against McDonald's.
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2015
- ▶ 22:21 Benedict Evans First, both McDonald's and Walmart are companies that are fundamentally enabled by trucking and interstate highways. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:32 Benedict Evans We got here in steel vehicles, but we don't think of ourselves as being in the steel business, because steel is just part of the world that everything else gets built on, much as, um, Walmart or McDonald's got built on trucking and don't…
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2014
- ▶ 11:13 Benedict Evans If you flip that comparison on its axis, Walmart and McDonald's were built, among other things, on trucking and interstate highways. 4 times in the scene