Nasdaq
also referred to as: nasdaq exchange
includes Nasdaq 100, NASDAQ Biotechnology Index, Nasdaq Private Market
16 statements across 5 episodes · 9 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Ben Horowitz · said 84 times in 20 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Jeff Jordan (32), Adina Friedman (15), Ben Horowitz (6), Sonal Chokshi (4), Marc Andreessen (3), Alex Rampell (3), Peter Thiel (2), Adam Ludwin (2)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2025 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2019 77 mentions in 14 episodes 6 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Market Shifts
- a16z Podcast | Securing Infrastructure and Enterprise Services
- a16z Podcast | The (Definite) Optimism of Peter Thiel
- a16z Podcast | Blockchain vs/and Bitcoin
- a16z Podcast | Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols
- How to Raise Money from a Venture Investor
- What’s with All the Bio M&A in 2019?: A Quick Take
- a16z Podcast | All About Synthetic Biology
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
Everything said about Nasdaq, oldest first
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Jan 2, 2019 bullish
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NASDAQ partners on Swedish mutual fund and South African proxy voting blockchain pilots
“I have a JV kind of a partnership with a bank in Sweden To prove out the blockchain for mutual fund formation and mutual fund management. And then we have actually a specific use case in South Africa to implement the blockchain for proxy voting in South Africa…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Friedman: NASDAQ Indexes Represent $150 Billion in Assets
“We're a significant indexer ourselves. So we provide indexes that now have a hundred and fifty billion dollars of assets tied to them. So about 60% of that AUM, assets under management, is tied to our benchmark indexes, like the Nasdaq 100, the biotech, the se…”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 positive
NASDAQ integrates blockchain into next-generation market infrastructure
“We've integrated the blockchain now into our next generation market infrastructure technology, so we can basically support any market from pre-trade risk management through to settlement on the blockchain in any market, so including non-financial markets.”
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Nasdaq proposes allowing stock issuers to opt out of National Market System
“One of the things that we are preparing, and we've wrote in our blueprint, is to create, give an issuer a choice. They should be allowed to choose which market structure they want to embrace, so they can choose to be in the national market system, or they coul…”
Jul 9, 2025 bearish
Yahya: Ethereum Layer 1 cannot handle Nasdaq-scale exchange throughput
“If you wanted to build something like the Nasdaq exchange on chain, there's no way you're doing that on Ethereum one. You probably need a blockchain that has the kind of the level of performance that a Solana or a Sui or some of the other kind of More modern o…”
Jan 26, 2026 bullish
George: Aggregate unicorn market cap reached $3.5 trillion, growing 7x in a decade
“If you take the market cap of, you know, the private markets valued above a billion dollars, you know, we could argue are some of them overvalued, undervalued but that whole value in aggregate Is like three and a half trillion dollars, and that's like 11%, thr…”