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The State of AI: Models, Moats, and the Consumer Renaissance
- ▶ 18:28 Anish Acharya Command Line is, we're sort of in the, the DOS era of AI, and for this technology and its capabilities to sort of fully be embraced by consumers, we're going to need the windows, so to say.
Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 9:22 Qasar Younis Like, even that sounds trivial, because when you think about, mostly when you think about models, you think about deploying them through a browser or on a phone, and everything's abstracted away, because you have iOS, and you have Android,…
Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence
- ▶ 36:17 Ben Horowitz By putting windows on the internet when it wasn't ready to be on the internet, um, because it wasn't built for that kind of idea.
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 14:08 Benedict Evans Windows and iOS did, but they were doing something else. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:36 Benedict Evans No more than, like, Microsoft or Apple could build every Windows app or every iPhone app. 2 times in the scene
Box CEO on the AI Adoption Gap | The a16z Show
- ▶ 23:36 Steven Sinofsky During open source, like, we met in a conference room this big and debated how much open source we could use in Windows or Office.
Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
- ▶ 4:08 Balaji Srinivasan It's, it's like somebody who doesn't change the Windows default desktop wallpaper, right?
- ▶ 56:51 Balaji Srinivasan Windows and Apple are still releasing things.
Atlassian CEO on the SaaS Apocalypse, AI Agents & What Comes Next
- ▶ 5:43 Mike Cannon-Brookes A bunch didn't make it, you know, from, I don't know, Windows to, to the internet era or whatever, whichever era you want to say, no one is going to say, I think that a hundred out of a hundred SaaS companies are going to make it through,…
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 11:28 Benedict Evans And then the second half of the stream is, oh, and here's our API stack that's going to enable 100,000 of new software developers just like Windows.
- ▶ 30:24 Benedict Evans And the app, Windows apps are basically just kind of thin Win-thirty-two wrappers.
- ▶ 48:15 Benedict Evans But the interesting candle example here would be to think about what happened to Microsoft in the 2000, which is the entire dev environment gets away from them and no one builds Windows apps after like 2001 or something, but you need to… 3 times in the scene
Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)
- ▶ 28:30 Alex Rampell Because they owned Windows. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:41 Alex Rampell And then lo and behold, there were like, 10,000 times more, you know, DOS and Windows software products than there were Macintosh software products.
How OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning
- ▶ 37:25 Martin Casado Except for maybe windows.
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on the State of AI
- ▶ 27:55 Ben Horowitz They completely missed that one, but they were still so big from their Windows monopoly, they could build into other things.
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 55:02 Marc Andreessen So did it have Windows at that point, or? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:06 Amjad Masad Yeah, right before Windows. 3 times in the scene
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 42:37 Steven Sinofsky It's not running windows anywhere.
- ▶ 47:37 Steven Sinofsky Cause like the window, there was no business in Microsoft development tools anymore. 2 times in the scene
Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future
- ▶ 30:16 Steven Sinofsky And so Windows comes along. 6 times in the scene
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 10:31 Steven Sinofsky When Microsoft was going through ANS Antitrust, we had a hundred percent share of the Windows market.
- ▶ 41:04 Steven Sinofsky So they think like once a company is like IBM and owns mainframes or as Microsoft and owns windows, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:54 Steven Sinofsky It's like, it's like the profits from office are still the profits of Microsoft with windows and stuff.
From the Dot-Com Crash to the AI Era: How Builders Survive Waves of Disruption
- ▶ 0:44 Martin Casado So when VMware came out, I remember like it was the late nineties and I could run like Linux on my, you know, windows and it was the most amazing, magical moment.
AI Content and the War for Your Attention
- ▶ 26:47 Antonio García Martínez But this is, I mean, again, to quote our friend Balaji, the analogy he cites, um, if you remember what, back when we had windows machines, you would do something called defragmenting the disk. 2 times in the scene
Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- ▶ 1:04 Erik Torenberg And, and before that you spent many years at Microsoft helping lead both, uh, Office and Windows.
- ▶ 28:00 Steven Sinofsky And that was the step when they attached the Windows logo to the PC, something Steve Jobs would never have allowed. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:27 Steven Sinofsky And so Apple, so the PC makers just continued to stamp out routine things for at least three more years until Intel finally invested a bunch of money in the OEMs via pricing to get them to build what today look like laptops for Windows…
What DeepSeek Means For The Future Of AI | Tech Veterans Weigh In
- ▶ 15:36 Steven Sinofsky And what we saw was, like, for a while, building, building one app seemed like a crazy thing, because you had to own Windows, and you had to own Office, and, and then, but then a new app came along that didn't own any of those, and it was…
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 49:37 Marc Andreessen We're just going to assume that everybody has like windows or a Mac, um, or a Unix workstation. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:56 Marc Andreessen And then we, we had other colleagues, um, who, um, you know, who are, you know, very, very famous in the history, um, who developed the Windows version and developed the Mac version.
- ▶ 1:18:15 Marc Andreessen Um, getting to the Windows and the Mac versions were, were a key moment, because, you know, they followed, um,
- ▶ 1:26:56 Ben Horowitz Your TCP IP stack for Windows, all that.
- ▶ 1:52:23 Marc Andreessen Yeah, it's a little frustrating, um, but, you know, again, they have the legal right to do it, but like, it's a little frustrating, um, and, uh, it was fine, and we're, you know, we're competing with them, whatever, but it's a little bit… 2 times in the scene
Marty Chavez (Sixth Street): Finding a Single Source of AI Truth
- ▶ 31:02 Marty Chavez Liable for every bad thing that someone does on a Windows computer, right?
Bringing AI to the Masses with Adam D'Angelo, CEO of Quora
- ▶ 5:18 Adam D'Angelo So this is things like building applications across iOS and Android and Windows and Mac, localization of the interface,
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 25:06 Ben Horowitz I think it originally started probably with windows and PCs, but then, um, you know, kind of over time where if the platform provider 2 times in the scene
2024 Big Ideas: AI-First Games That Never End with Jonathan Lai
- ▶ 9:12 Jonathan Lai And there are millions of people all over the world, um, that adore Cortana, write fan fiction about, you know, Cortana and the Halo universe, um, to the point where I believe Microsoft has integrated Cortana into its core Windows search…
Inside AI Town: What AI Can Teach Us About Being Human
- ▶ 11:21 Martin Casado I'm gonna have my Windows desktop.
Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- ▶ 26:29 Chris Dixon And it just gets this, you know, it starts off, if you go back to, like, when Linux came out in, like, whatever, early nineties, it was definitely worse than Windows, but then it just followed this much faster, like, innovation curve…
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 0:24 Frank Chen Before he came to us at A-sixteen Z, he had a storied career at Microsoft, and unless you're like three years old, you've used his products, Windows and Office.
- ▶ 3:19 Steven Sinofsky The, the first successful version of Office on Windows was, was only two years old.
- ▶ 19:12 Steven Sinofsky Um, and, but, and we were selling Office on the Mac and just started selling it really well on Windows. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:52 Steven Sinofsky Like it had to be a, it had to be a Windows H wind to, to really do this, especially because we wanted to share the code across the products and all this other confusing stuff.
- ▶ 1:04:01 Steven Sinofsky And it was really funny, because, you know, I, you know, a few years later, after Office, 2007, I would move to Windows.
a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
- ▶ 35:48 Ryan Caldbeck I'm stuck in, you know, Excel, Windows, that's, that's what I'm stuck using here.
a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond
- ▶ 18:34 Benedict Evans This is Apple putting QuickTime on Windows. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 9:05 Brian McCullough So it's that sort of chicken and egg thing where people see the web for the first time in the mosaic browser, cause it's easy to use cause you can get it on windows and they say, I want to create a cool thing like what I just saw.
a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- ▶ 22:12 Chris Dixon I mean, it's still, people are still using, you know, I don't know, you go to the, whatever, you go to the United desk, and they've got like a DOS interface, you go here, and they've got Windows, you know, I mean, the government hack was… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:47 Chris Dixon I include, I think Windows is a network, right?
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks
- ▶ 20:39 Chris Dixon So, you know, the equivalent of a hot dog and a hot dog bun is, you know, is Windows and, you know, Quicken or something back in the old days, and like in the modern world it would be Twitter and TweetDeck or something, right? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | B2B2C
- ▶ 2:47 Alex Rampell So you go to WinZip, they were our first client, a decompression, compression software product for Windows.
a16z Podcast | When Is VR's iPhone Moment?
- ▶ 2:40 Darshan Shankar And it's certainly not for everybody, because these headsets are expensive and does require Windows PC, but the good news is there is good content out there today that is sufficiently compelling that people can spend 10 hours a week.
- ▶ 5:21 Chris Dixon and then it's like Windows has to update, and I have to reposition the cameras, and like, you know, that kind of stuff, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:24 Darshan Shankar So we just launched our application on that new platform, and that's Microsoft building the entire software stack to ensure that Windows continues to be the operating system of choice for high-end VR usage.
- ▶ 22:56 Darshan Shankar And each year, as these headsets get double the resolution, or half the price, or doesn't require Windows PC, or doesn't require a 500 dollar graphics card in your PC, that continuous improvement, I'm really excited for that.
a16z Podcast | Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?
- ▶ 10:00 Frank Chen So today we do lots of over-the-air updates to our iPhones and Androids and to Windows.
a16z Podcast | Beyond CES: Connected Home Devices, Voice, and More
- ▶ 26:25 Steven Sinofsky Like, you know, if you're making a Windows laptop, it's, like, cool to continue to have all the legacy plugs and all of the different variants of adapters and plugs built into the machine, and Apple makes these bold choices that really do…
a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- ▶ 0:30 Benedict Evans I'm here with Stephen Sinowski, and we've been talking a fair bit up around the kind of fundamental platform shift that's going on in tech from PC, Wintel, mouse, Windows-based computers to mobile operating systems, and we thought it was…
- ▶ 9:04 Benedict Evans And five years ago, that would have been a Windows app. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:52 Benedict Evans So as you're sitting and looking at that nurse's station, you've got a Windows PC there that has management cost.
- ▶ 20:06 Benedict Evans And we moved the front end from a Windows application that we had to think about all the time and manage an update to a browser. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Platforming the Future
- ▶ 8:45 Benedict Evans I mean, I've, I've had sort of variants of this conversation with Steven Sonofsky, our partner here who used to work, um, ran Office and then ran Windows.
a16z Podcast | Why Crypto Tokens Matter
- ▶ 4:19 Chris Dixon Um, and so that goes back to, you know, windows is a platform, obviously, you know, iOS and iPhone is a platform.
a16z Podcast | Getting Applications Into People's Hands
- ▶ 14:24 Chris Dixon And if you look at windows versus Netscape and all these other things, like every developer network in history has been like just constant battles between the network owner and the different
a16z Podcast | Companies, Networks, Crowds
- ▶ 17:56 Frank Chen What happened out of the eighties was more the rise of client-server computing and Microsoft Windows,
a16z Podcast | Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'
- ▶ 43:26 Reed Hastings You have to be up at, you know, Windows monopoly levels to get to there.
a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- ▶ 2:28 Steven Sinofsky I'm super interested, of course, in the, in the pixel, you know, comparison, pixel plus Android, and then the Windows devices plus the OS there, because they're very similar on the outside, but very different in that the ecosystem around…
- ▶ 9:27 Steven Sinofsky To me, I think, and like now I'm speaking personally, because there is a reach problem when we were doing Surface, like one of the reach problems was I couldn't do a press briefing with somebody that was running a Windows laptop. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:43 Benedict Evans We give up, more or less give up on making phones, but we add touch to Windows.
- ▶ 15:50 Steven Sinofsky So what we did is we put all those in on the Windows side and doing, trying to do the same thing. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | On the Genomics of Disease, From Science to Business
- ▶ 18:52 Malinka Walaliyadde If you think to the nineties, Wintel was a thing, the, you know, Windows and Intel together core marketing, and that took both of those companies to new heights. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Case of Invisible But Audible Innovation
- ▶ 0:05 Kyle Russell I'm joined today by Benedict Evans, our in-house expert on all things mobile and Steven Sanofsky, former head of windows and aspiring amateur photographer.
- ▶ 33:12 Benedict Evans This comes back to what we were saying about the performance issue on the Galaxy Note, which is, in a sense, what we're doing is we're rerunning Mac versus Windows. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | All About Microservices
- ▶ 17:12 Frank Chen The portals of version multiplied by the flavors of Unix multiplied by whatever Windows versions you're supporting, right?
- ▶ 19:08 Adrian Cockcroft There's now containers for Windows as well, but originally this was a Linux-based concept.
a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
a16z Podcast | Software Programs the World
- ▶ 4:42 Marc Andreessen The idea of a platform in the tech industry, as you know, up until, up until, you know, five or 10 years ago, was there is a new chip that has new capabilities, is faster, and then therefore you build a new operating system for it, and…
a16z Podcast | Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
- ▶ 23:32 Alex Rampell Like, they never said, hey, this software product cannot be downloaded onto your Windows PC. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:11 Alex Rampell A Windows version of iTunes, but then the iPod actually started dramatically outselling the Mac and it became this cultural icon with the white headphones and like the dancing, like people in the, the, the background screen and everybody… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Not If, But How -- When Technology is Inevitable (with Kevin Kelly)
- ▶ 17:03 Chris Dixon All the business people in the suits with the windows laptops or whatever, you know, the reality is today, like, why do they fly?
a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
- ▶ 24:13 Balaji Srinivasan Like, 50% of your waking hours, and we're probably going to replace a significant percentage of monitors with VR with something to the two-D world, right, and there's going to be a new Windows that's based in the three-D universe, which…
a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
- ▶ 11:36 Benedict Evans The strategy is Office, and Office and Windows. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
- ▶ 2:27 Benedict Evans And so you could almost, should almost be looking at this and thinking, okay, Windows, Mac, 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:29 Benedict Evans And so you've got the taskbar in Windows, you've got the expose on the Mac, and then you had the multi-split screen thing in Windows eight. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:31 Benedict Evans I mean, this is something we haven't talked about, which is this sort of, it's a transition from, I mean, and it's something that's very interesting when you look at the iPads next to the Surface, um, which is because the Surface comes…
- ▶ 22:28 Steven Sinofsky Like, the Outlook that got updated today that's on my, on my iPad, like, has connections to Facebook events and Evernote, which aren't things that exist in the Outlook that I would use on my Windows desktop. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond
- ▶ 3:10 Benedict Evans Um, and then there's a sort of a third run, third question in here as well, I think, which is sort of Facebook sitting on other people's platform, and the smartphone itself is kind of, is a platform for the internet in a way that Windows… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Investing in (Business and Career) Change
- ▶ 4:32 Marc Andreessen So Microsoft Windows, for example, will do well.
a16z Podcast | Mobile Falls Hard for Virtual Reality
- ▶ 15:49 Benedict Evans Within this for Google, which is like, does, given, like, the kind of, the fundamental shift as we went from, one of the fundamental shifts as we went from the desktop internet to the mobile internet was that the smartphone itself is the…
a16z Podcast | The Year Mobile Began to Truly Dominate Tech
- ▶ 4:23 Benedict Evans Yes, you could write a Windows application that connects to the internet, and yes, there was Steam and so on, but basically the internet experience was in the browser, and on the smartphone it's on the operating system, and you target, you…
- ▶ 7:12 Benedict Evans So Microsoft, Apple has got several multiples of what Windows had had when Windows like 95 was a new thing. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What Comes After the Smartphone
- ▶ 5:17 Benedict Evans Saying that, you know, unlike, say, a web browser on a, either a Windows or a Mac, where the web browser was the platform and the Windows or the Mac computer wasn't really where you were building internet services. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:27 Steven Sinofsky Like once Windows and, and Intel sort of stabilized that itself enabled the web to continue to exist because it gave
a16z Podcast | Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV
- ▶ 11:16 Benedict Evans Um, you know, you can have email and PowerPoint, or you can have email and a web browser, and so you can multitask in a way, again, that you can do on the surface, you know, with Windows, from starting from Windows eight, you had this… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | A Copernican Update ... In Tech, the Smartphone is the Center
- ▶ 7:31 Benedict Evans Is writing down the mobile acquisition from Nokia, and really signalling the end of Windows everywhere, um, as the kind of the driving strategic force of the company that, you know, you can get Office on iPad, that they're neutral as to… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Location, Location, Location -- and Mobile
- ▶ 2:34 Benedict Evans Um, rather it was kind of Windows and Mac OS built up all that kind of stuff over the last 30 years.
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