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Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
- ▶ 37:30 Balaji Srinivasan It may be that it's a little bit like, uh, most people in the NBA are tall to take something that you know a lot about, right? 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz on a16z’s New Media Strategy
- ▶ 37:29 Erik Torenberg You know, we, we hired Richard, another, uh, eighteen-year-old who, uh, you know, we convinced him to go straight from high school to the MBA, i.e. not go to college, or at least not right now.
Inside The Life of Silicon Valley's First Athlete Investor | Magic Johnson
- ▶ 8:48 Earvin "Magic" Johnson Uh, here comes Starbucks, you know, all these things, because he was right in the middle of everything, and then the last thing he did, he reworked my contract to make me one of the highest paid in the NBA,
Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture
- ▶ 32:58 Doge Cubuk You know, one of the jokes we're making is who was the NBA player who was saying that I'm much closer to LeBron James than you are to me.
Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
- ▶ 36:10 Mark Cuban The NBA couldn't even sell the New Orleans franchise. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:50 Mark Cuban Um, Halle is not a top five NBA player, right?
- ▶ 49:53 Mark Cuban So, you know, and then if you're going to a college and they're getting paid now, right, it may be that they're just doing what the coach needs them to do there, which may not match what they need to do in the NBA. 2 times in the scene
Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
- ▶ 1:12:29 Ben Horowitz By the way, the same thing happened with the NBA, um, which is a kind of little known story. 7 times in the scene
Aaron Levie on AI's Enterprise Adoption
- ▶ 48:54 Aaron Levie Uh, did you see the NBA finals video for, from Kalshi?
Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
- ▶ 1:22:01 Ben Horowitz It could be the NBA.
- ▶ 1:52:03 Ben Horowitz Kind of like it, probably the right way to fix it is to spin it out, um, and have it continue to be affiliated with the university, but not run by the university, but run, you know, kind of by owners of the various teams or something, you…
Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter
- ▶ 1:26:57 Ben Horowitz Television ratings are much higher than NBA ratings, um, for, you know, any given game.
Dunking in VR: Inside the Future of Sports
- ▶ 0:29 unnamed speaker We could also go to a different environment, hopping you into an NBA court.
- ▶ 7:22 unnamed speaker So things like hanging out under a gazebo with someone from a few thousand miles away, you know, getting, you're downloading an NBA basketball court to your, to your house.
- ▶ 10:01 unnamed speaker Like we could run an NBA court, like we got crowds, like all of that kind of stuff.
What is the Future of Hollywood?
- ▶ 1:29:54 Ben Horowitz Uh, so there's that part of it, but then there's a second part of it, which actually shrinks the industry quite a bit, which is, let's say that you're the NBA and you want to then license that song.
More Than a Game: Why Are We Obsessed With Sports?
- ▶ 10:23 Que Gaskins And so, um, how that translates to the work that I do today is, is around, I'm in a role now, so the for-profit side of the National Basketball Players Association, it's a company called Think for 50, where we basically think about all 450…
- ▶ 18:26 Que Gaskins You know, Allen's showing up, like, I'm not going to be like Mike, I'm wearing the white tee with the Yankee fitted with Timbs, and that's how I'm coming to the games, and the NBA's like, mm-mm, that's a 50,000 dollar fine, fine, I'll pay…
- ▶ 56:56 Nan Wang Now you have Asian ballers in the NBA because they saw somebody in Jordan that did it.
NFT Uses for Today (and Tomorrow)
- ▶ 3:49 Devin Finzer You saw the launch of NBA Top Shot.
Social Tokens for Creators Explained
- ▶ 2:50 Chris Dixon Yeah, I kind of think of it as, so, you know, we just had Dieter from, from Dapper NBA Top Shot on, um, they're, you know, they're obviously creating NFTs, uh, for a very large community, the NBA, right?
- ▶ 2:50 Chris Dixon Yeah, I kind of think of it as, so, you know, we just had Dieter from, from Dapper NBA Top Shot on, um, they're, you know, they're obviously creating NFTs, uh, for a very large community, the NBA, right?
- ▶ 9:54 Kevin Chou So I think a lot of the, a lot of the, a lot of what I see with NBA Top Shots, for example, is doing some really cool things that we've learned with video games and
- ▶ 14:48 Chris Dixon This is why NBA top shot is so strong.
- ▶ 15:29 Kevin Chou So I think there's, there's obviously people who are large enough where, uh, or large enough, you know, you pick up your favorite NBA athlete or musician, uh, that's global fan communities.
NBA Top Shot and the Flow Blockchain
- ▶ 4:46 Dan Boneh And the sort of NBA top shot is sort of the largest application on the flow blockchain at the moment. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:20 Dan Boneh So I think actually a lot of people are, are really curious, like, uh, what would the negate, the negotiations with the NBA were like, like, uh, how, how easy or difficult was that? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:53 Dieter Shirley Um, we work with an exceptional artist who's created a number of these, um, and, uh, and, and yeah, so this, uh, I think it's a, it's a beautiful thing, and, um, I, I don't know if you can see it entirely, but I think it really does… 2 times in the scene
How Gaming is Changing the Media Landscape
- ▶ 20:10 John Riccitiello Now, where does, you know, at least in my opinion, a lot of people want to talk about investing in e-sports teams or investing in e-sports and drawing an analogy to investing in, I don't know, the NFL or businesses around the NFL or the… 3 times in the scene
Gamers are Entering a New Era of Monetization
- ▶ 0:55 Kevin Chou In fact, sometimes it's as hard to make it in the industry and certain parts of it as it is to become an NBA player.
What's Next for Esports Startups
- ▶ 8:04 Andrew Chen Um, you know, NFL, you know, NBA is, I think, like, you know, really young at, you know, 42 or something like that.
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 31:41 Qasar Younis I can go and try to be an NBA basketball player, but guess what?
a16z Podcast | Eyeballs on the Game
- ▶ 4:38 Zach Wiener I do believe there is a way to do an NBA broadcast that's more interactive, that's gamified, that has other elements to it that gets kids actually watching.
- ▶ 12:32 Yogi Roth Optimize so many parts of the game, then maybe that becomes the niche thing of, let me just tune in when it really matters, specifically in the NFL, where every game comes out in the last few minutes of the game, or the NBA.
- ▶ 18:55 Zach Wiener I mean, LaMelo Ball, 3.5 million followers on Instagram might not even make the NBA, so I think the social cachet that these guys have, that's actually how we decide who we want to cover, not necessarily by who's the best, it's who's the… 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Internet of Taste, Streaming Content to Culture
- ▶ 29:16 Marc Andreessen But if you took them, I mean, if you took them, if you took the NFL, if you took the NBA, if you did news, like at some point, like to the extent that there was some bad long-term battle between like the cable bundle and Netflix, like at… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience
- ▶ 10:52 Jason Rosenthal Because we can watch an NBA game or a football game and like have a tweet stream either on the side of it or on our phones.
a16z Podcast | Truce for Mobile, Battle for VR
- ▶ 17:16 Chris Dixon More people watch the championship than the NBA championship, right?
a16z Podcast | Mapping the Future of Virtual Reality
- ▶ 18:59 Kyle Russell Yeah, no, and this is something where you'll talk to people in the NBA or NFL, and you see on TV when you watch broadcasts, they'll do every hour or two, you'll see
a16z Podcast | Mellody Hobson and Ben Horowitz Talk Investing, Career, and Star Wars!
- ▶ 5:03 Mellody Hobson So the time that we bought it, it was the MBA lockout.
- ▶ 7:32 Ben Horowitz Yeah, they're not always, uh, and they do tend to be prone to panic, and, um, you know, on Madison Square Garden, the NBA lockout could have lasted years, or, you know.
a16z Podcast | Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped
- ▶ 0:10 Michael Copeland The Golden State Warrior was named NBA Finals MVP in the Warriors' victory last season. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:42 Jeff Jordan As some of you may notice, I've, uh, done a little wardrobe change, and I'm wearing my, uh, Warriors NBA championship shirt from last year.
- ▶ 2:44 Andre Iguodala You know, um, when I first came into this league, we have a, um, rookie, rookie transition, uh, program. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:49 Jeff Jordan Um, some of you may remember when I was in high school was an all-star in the NBA, so there's a picture of a, of a now-retired forty-year career that's coming.
- ▶ 13:42 Jeff Jordan Is that happening in the NBA? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:13 Andre Iguodala But it's definitely helped me out, and human behavior, you know, as humans, we are, you know, we're trained to, to be creatures of habit, and we have these certain habits about ourselves, and when you use certain analytics, and you use,…
- ▶ 17:46 Andre Iguodala Um, so virtual reality I saw, um, at the NBA Tech Conference, uh, you kind of put on the headset, and then you can subscribe to, like, a,
a16z Podcast | Sports, Tech, and What We Can All Learn from the Latest Performance Science
- ▶ 2:35 Mark McClusky I mean, if you look at, if you watch game tape of, like, an NBA game from the fifties or sixties, if you watch the Celtics from the sixties, who many people acknowledge was like the greatest team ever.
- ▶ 9:07 Mark McClusky It's, it's the equivalent of, you know, making it to the NFL or NBA or Major League Baseball in the States.
- ▶ 18:31 Mark McClusky So, um, Peter Vint, who works at the USSC, works with some NBA teams, and they now practice free throws just like that.
- ▶ 30:00 Mark McClusky Um, Sport View, which is a, a system in the NBA that captures three-dimensional positional data on every player in the ball and officials 25 times a second during a game. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:20 Mark McClusky We're actually really far behind in the U.S. on a lot of this, and so seeing some of the things that have happened in Australia and the U.K. make their way into major U.S. team sports, I think we're going to see a lot of changes in NBA,…
- ▶ 45:51 unnamed speaker I guess to piggyback off that question, I did, ah, read or hear about some NBA teams this year using chips actually on the players, ah, to monitor them throughout the season.
- ▶ 54:48 unnamed speaker In your, in the book, the odds of playing in the NBA go up massively with each inch. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | When Fantasy Football and Crowdfunding Collide
- ▶ 7:50 Ryan Spoon NBA kicks off tonight.
Derek Belch
- ▶ 18:00 Derek Belch And as a matter of fact, Jeremy Bailenson told the commissioner of the NBA and the NFL at his lab that that's not your play. 2 times in the scene