Minecraft
includes Minecraft Education, Minecraft Education Edition
7 statements across 5 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Dec 8, 2018 by Andrew Chen · said 41 times in 15 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Marc Andreessen (10), Allison Matthews (8), Andrew Chen (5), Tim Schafer (3), Neal Stephenson (3), Justin Bailey (2), Jack Soslow (2), Steph Smith (1)
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2023 20 mentions in 3 episodes 7 per episode
2022 3 mentions in 1 episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 11 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
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- Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience
- a16z Podcast | Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker
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2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Minecraft, oldest first
Dec 8, 2018 positive
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Schafer: AAA Game Studios Would Never Have Created Minecraft
“I don't think a AAA studio would have created Minecraft, for example, you know, and I don't think that followed any sort of rules that existed before it, you know, but I think when people have the ability to kind of make these smaller, personal, more risky pro…”
Jun 7, 2019 positive
Chen: Game studios build network effects via competition, streaming, and UGC
“E-sports and sort of this tournament play and, you know, the competitive aspect, that's one version of this. Being able to create a streamable thing, which then, you know, has a community around you know, your whole product, that's another version of this. And…”
Nov 22, 2022 bearish
Stephenson: Major game studios are actively avoiding crypto and blockchain integration
“Most of the big players in the game industry are being avoidant of crypto and blockchain and there's different reasons for that you know having to do with you know, they may perceive a risk to their brand Or they may see that just the, there could be a lot of …”
Nov 22, 2022 bullish
Stephenson: Major game ecosystems will build cross-platform metaverse bridges in coming years
“I suspect that they're talking to one another about how do we build a bridge from our game or our experience to your game so that a person could go from one to the other. It may take some years to really come together, but I think it will come together.”
Nov 22, 2022 positive
Jun 10, 2023 bullish
Andreessen: Voyager Minecraft bot built on GPT-4 is best-in-class
“This bot basically is built entirely on, on, on black box GPT-IV. So they have not built their own model or perception or planning or anything, you know, any sort of traditional engine you would build to build a bot like this. Instead, they work entirely at th…”