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Building Cluely: The Viral AI Startup that raised $15M in 10 Weeks w/ Roy Lee
How Discord Became a Developer Platform
- ▶ 33:03 Anjani Mitra So if you, there's Minecraft, Roblox, there's The Sims, if given how massive those genres were in a pre-generative world, when you, when you give the generative models to a developer, plus the insane distribution of Discord, two hundred…
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 1:58 Marc Andreessen Minecraft was the first one, um, and then Roblox, uh, and then Kerbal Space Program.
- ▶ 38:11 Marc Andreessen Um, and here again, it's just not, and now this is getting more obvious because, you know, I need to go right through Minecraft, Roblox, there's more and more examples where, like, clearly this has happened.
Classroom 2050: Unleashing AI, XR, Gaming
- ▶ 2:02 Steph Smith We also had Allison Matthews, head of Minecraft Education, who's tailoring the most popular game in the world to empower and teach young people skills like coding or even active citizenship.
- ▶ 13:00 Allison Matthews Minecraft is an immersive, three-D virtual space that's full filled with beautiful biomes and all kinds of animals. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:11 Allison Matthews Minecraft Education.
- ▶ 20:19 Allison Matthews Yeah, so, um, so Minecraft education is now in a 119 countries, and we've got
- ▶ 21:05 Allison Matthews And to your question of the role of the teacher, because the game supports, it's, we've got scaffolded learning experiences in the game, which means if you're stuck, if you don't know Minecraft, or if you don't really understand the lesson, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:59 Romy Drucker And I think Minecraft is a great example, whether it's being used in a classroom or outside of a classroom, to build on top of the skill building and the mindset building that is happening.
- ▶ 37:14 Allison Matthews Okay, so from a gaming perspective, I talk to a lot of parents who are like, yeah, my kids love Minecraft. 2 times in the scene
AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
- ▶ 12:58 Marc Andreessen Um, and it's a, um, it's a Minecraft bot. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:58 Marc Andreessen Um, and so that made no impact on him, but then he has, has clarified for me, actually, that for the things that he uses it for, like actually teaching him, you know, for example, how to code in Minecraft, he's, he, he now has informed me…
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
- ▶ 39:37 Jack Soslow The reason why games like Minecraft have like added pets or villagers and things like that 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:47 Doug McCracken So Minecraft, GTA online, both have really strong skin ecosystems, especially with UGC components, right?
Neal Stephenson on the Future of the Metaverse
- ▶ 8:03 Neal Stephenson I think that the closest things that we currently can see to metaverse-like experiences are games like Fortnite, Roblox, Minecraft, where you've got a bunch of people running around in a space.
- ▶ 12:17 Neal Stephenson On the other hand, there's other games that are, that are popular, extremely popular, which I've, I've already mentioned, you know, Fortnite, um, Minecraft, and so on.
- ▶ 1:03:40 Neal Stephenson It's, you know, it's pretty in your face, like Minecraft, uh, you know, made a pretty strong statement just a couple weeks ago about, um, not wanting to have crypto stuff going on in their, their platform.
How Gaming is Changing the Media Landscape
- ▶ 13:41 Andrew Chen The, the other big change that's happened in the, in the games industry is it seems like we went from a world where people would, you know, buy the 60 dollar, you know, Call of Duty, you know, play a campaign, you know, they play for 30…
What's Next for Esports Startups
- ▶ 8:13 Andrew Chen And so then, you know, all of a sudden, you look at, um, you look at gaming, again, more broadly, and so, you know, you, you'd add Minecraft and Roblox in there, which are very streamable, you know, they're, they're, they're, they're…
- ▶ 14:14 Andrew Chen Right, and so just watching folks build, like, you know, an entire, like, Game of Thrones city inside of Minecraft, and like all the, all the details and all that, you know, is in itself, you know, really, really fun.
- ▶ 31:35 Andrew Chen Minecraft, or, you know, even, even, you know, Second Life, you know, back, back in the day, like these sort of more virtual worldly kind of things.
Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- ▶ 48:58 Olaf Carlson-Wee The universe of video games into Minecraft, right?
a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience
- ▶ 8:41 Darshan Shankar Um, but in terms of, like, user-generated content, allowing people to create, kind of like what Minecraft has accomplished in the past decade, allowing people to create their own virtual worlds and explore it with their friends, we might…
a16z Podcast | Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker
- ▶ 27:20 Marc Andreessen It's just like, you know, it's like, if any of you have kids today, it's like, obviously I'm gonna spend eight hours a day in Minecraft.
a16z Podcast | Tech Trends Changing Gaming
- ▶ 6:15 Tim Schafer Like, there was no, you know, 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, um, people have the ability…
- ▶ 10:50 Tim Schafer Really scripted story-based things to really just emergent type Minecraft things, and now they're doing a story-based version of Minecraft, so it's like, everywhere in between. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:16 Justin Bailey Yeah, that's, that's one of those, like, Minecraft things, too, that, um, came up with Minecraft. 2 times in the scene
What's Next in Consumer Startups?
- ▶ 21:55 Andrew Chen And of course, Minecraft, Roblox, these are virtual worlds that sort of bake both a social network and a content platform all into one.
10 Year Futures (vs. What's Happening Now)
- ▶ 19:09 Benedict Evans You can put Minecraft on the table and move it around with your hands.