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The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 9:03 Benedict Evans So you've always got this accelerating adoption, and you know, when, when, when your boss, my old boss Marc Andreessen was working on Netscape, there were like double digit millions of PCs on the entire planet. 2 times in the scene
The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- ▶ 9:00 Alex Rampell He started a company called Netscape. 3 times in the scene
Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger
- ▶ 38:22 Ben Horowitz Um, the things that we had to talk about when we were building Netscape or, or, or Opsware, like, it's, it's amazing.
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 9:29 Benedict Evans And you know, when, when Netscape launched, like Mark Zuckerberg was in junior high or, you know, elementary school or something.
- ▶ 12:58 Benedict Evans You didn't know what Amazon would become, and you didn't know how Netscape was going to work out, and you didn't know what next year's iPhone was going to be, and 10 years ago when we cared about that, but you kind of knew the physical…
- ▶ 28:05 Benedict Evans Like, could you build video edit, professional video editing inside Netscape?
Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
- ▶ 4:10 Marc Andreessen And then, you know, Ben and I in the nineties, you know, we, when we built our company Netscape, like that, that was always front and center for us. 2 times in the scene
"Is there an AI bubble?” Gavin Baker and David George
- ▶ 10:54 Gavin Baker And say that ChatGPT is to AI, has Netscape Navigator was to the internet.
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 23:11 Steven Sinofsky And it was really Mark and Ben at Netscape that changed the velocity of how companies work and the cloud.
- ▶ 52:49 Steven Sinofsky Even four years post Netscape, it was, like, still half the country.
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 42:33 Steven Sinofsky And then we had to get on the phone with Mark and do the bidding war against Netscape for this, this company in Boston.
From the Dot-Com Crash to the AI Era: How Builders Survive Waves of Disruption
- ▶ 19:41 Martin Casado Like, which, which certainly Netscape was, to begin with.
- ▶ 36:08 Raghu Raghuram I mean, go back to Netscape, right?
Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
- ▶ 3:46 Marc Andreessen my company Netscape, our company that, you know, Ben and I built, you know, in the nineties was a major provider of software to, you know, to these companies. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:58 Marc Andreessen The publishing, the publishing system? 3 times in the scene
The Future of Software Development - Vibe Coding, Prompt Engineering & AI Assistants
- ▶ 20:03 Martin Casado Like, Netscape, I remember when it came out, like, it was like a consumer thing, or at least a student in school thing, right? 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
- ▶ 9:42 Marc Andreessen I have, you know, endless stories like Netscape. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:06 Marc Andreessen Remember actually, I actually had a conversation with John Doerr in the mid nineties, um, which is about just, you know, cause KP was an investor in Netscape at the time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:47 Marc Andreessen My company Netscape was always very active with defense and intelligence.
How Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What’s Coming Next
- ▶ 20:34 Ben Horowitz So, so like there was kind of like Netscape and loud cloud. 2 times in the scene
Ben Horowitz on Leadership and Culture
- ▶ 12:47 David Ulevitch I mean, even, even from your Netscape, you know, doing SSL and security days, you guys have always been very, very keen on supporting the national interest and that that's been something you want to talk about that for just a minute.
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 23:42 Marc Andreessen So even a decade later, even a decade after the founding of Netscape, development of Mosaic and finding Netscape in a decade later, it was still considered weird and bizarre. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:29 Marc Andreessen And then, you know, another great kind of stroke of luck in my life was, um, I got a call from, uh, Jim Clark, who's the, you know, co-founder of our company Netscape, um, you know, who was this legendary figure. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:38:44 Ben Horowitz So you started Netscape with Jim Clark.
- ▶ 1:39:19 Marc Andreessen Um, and so we, we start Netscape. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:48:22 Ben Horowitz Yeah, I often think about the alternate universe if, um, you know, if you don't write Mosaic, if it doesn't work, if you don't start Netscape, like, it does seem like we would have had, like, most systems or many systems are proprietary,…
- ▶ 1:54:44 Ben Horowitz Um, we won't tell the Netscape story, which is also a good story, but, um, you know, maybe if you, uh, reply in the comments, you want to hear it, we'll, we'll, we'll consider that one too, but thank you again, and we enjoyed it, and we…
Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen Compare the AI Boom Vs. Internet Boom
- ▶ 0:13 Marc Andreessen Um, so I get this question, you know, because of my role and, you know, Ben, you, you with me at Netscape, you know, we, we get this question a lot because of our role early on with the, with the internet.
Build Your Startup With AI
- ▶ 58:03 Marc Andreessen Um, so I get this question, you know, because of my role in, you know, Ben, you, you with me at Netscape, you know, we get, we get this question a lot because of our role early on with the, with the internet.
Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities
- ▶ 34:50 Ben Horowitz And then people who join that, you know, we had this problem at Netscape in a huge way.
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 24:25 Ben Horowitz So look, I definitely think, and by the way, right, you know, I mean, I should full disclosure, uh, when we were at Netscape, um, we w we were certainly on the side of little tech against big tech and, you know, Microsoft at that time had…
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 2:38 Chris Dixon You know, were a huge part in creating the kind of first era, the commercial era of the internet, starting with Netscape.
- ▶ 27:39 Ben Horowitz Um, and by the way, they did the same thing to us at Netscape.
Security and Privacy for Crypto with Zero-Knowledge Proofs
- ▶ 1:02 Zooko Wilcox This is the first time with the advent of Netscape in, ah, in, ah, in, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:20 Zooko Wilcox But, you can't apply this encryption to blockchain, because all this encryption from Julius Caesar to Alan Turing to Netscape is point to point.
- ▶ 14:00 Zooko Wilcox And so it could turn out that like Netscape,
Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs
- ▶ 6:11 Frank Chen Um, and why don't we get into that story because, as you tell in the book, you sort of started experimenting with the old Netscape code base, right?
a16z Podcast | Talent, Tech Trends, and Culture -- with Ben, Marc, and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 0:41 Tyler Cowen How was it you met at Netscape in 1995? 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 0:02 Chris Dixon This is the A-C-Z podcast, and today we have Brian McCullough, the author of the recent awesome book, which I just read, called How the Internet Happened from Netscape to the iPhone.
- ▶ 1:52 Chris Dixon Yeah, so the book covers sort of Netscape, so ninety-three-ish to, I think,
- ▶ 10:15 Chris Dixon And then you talk about a bunch of interesting companies, obviously sort of the iconic companies, I guess, Netscape, Yahoo, Google, eBay, Amazon.
a16z Podcast | From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
- ▶ 1:06 Sonal Chokshi Mark with Netscape and Martine with Nicera, which came out of Stanford before being acquired by VMware.
- ▶ 10:51 Sonal Chokshi I mean, when I think about Netscape, did you have to do a lot more work based on what you...
a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- ▶ 34:14 Chris Dixon Microsoft Netscape, you know, Facebook Zynga, like Twitter and the Twitter apps, or whatever, right?
- ▶ 53:16 Fred Wilson Well, I mean, it may be a good example, like a lot of interesting core infrastructure came out of Netscape, right? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks
- ▶ 32:20 Chris Dixon This is, you know, I think it was, this is well after Yahoo and Netscape and things like this, and the word, the web, did not appear in the book, right? 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- ▶ 5:55 Benedict Evans Don't get out of the Trojan horse before you're inside the city gates, where, um, where Marc Andreessen said that Netscape was going to turn Windows into a set of badly debugged device drivers, because all of the applications would be done… 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Why Crypto Tokens Matter
- ▶ 4:36 Chris Dixon And so, you know, Microsoft notoriously fought against Netscape,
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 | Competing Against Luck
- ▶ 4:13 Stephen Levy So Mark, it was a couple years before Clay published his book that you were at Mosaic Netscape.
a16z Podcast | The Curious Case of the OpenTable IPO
- ▶ 10:27 Sonal Chokshi And he was on the heels of that.
a16z Podcast | Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'
- ▶ 1:18 Marc Andreessen So, back when my partner Eric Bina and I at University of Illinois in 1992 were first developing what became Mosaic, which was the forerunner to Netscape. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Business of Creativity -- Pixar CFO, IPO, and Beyond!
- ▶ 18:48 Lawrence Levy And the irony sitting here doing the A-sixteen Z is that the reason he thought that was because of Netscape. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What's Next for Technology and National Security?
- ▶ 28:28 Marc Andreessen We had an Air Force officer on staff at my company, Netscape, as part of a sort of exchange effort.
a16z Podcast | Ethereum, App Coins, and Beyond
- ▶ 49:16 Fred Ehrsam It almost feels like Ben Horowitz told this story to Coinbase, uh, one time where he talked about how in the early days of Netscape, they had somebody asked them to come build an, an online virtual shopping mall. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
- ▶ 23:38 Alex Rampell They did a lot of things that were anti-competitive and monopolistic, and they drove WordPerfect out of business, and they drove Netscape out of business. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
- ▶ 16:39 Marc Andreessen Escape in 95 to do VRML, which is VR on the browser.
- ▶ 29:06 Marc Andreessen I first raised venture capital in 1995, uh, with my partner, Jim Clark, from John Doerr, who was actually, you know, an excellent VC for us at Netscape.
a16z Podcast | Mobile Falls Hard for Virtual Reality
- ▶ 22:15 Benedict Evans You know, we keep circling around this question from on mobile of like, we are post Netscape and post PageRank.
a16z Podcast | Hall of Fame Football Meets Venture Capital
- ▶ 1:26 Jeff Jordan I mean, um, the other founder of Andreessen Horowitz is Mark Andreessen, who was the co-founder of Netscape, and he had coined a phrase a few years back, software eats the world.
a16z Podcast | Nobody Discusses Work Software Outside of Work -- and Then There’s Slack
- ▶ 27:47 Stuart Butterfield Um, I don't know if this is the same Microsoft that just wants to kill stuff to, like, Netscape for the sake of killing it, um, uh, whether they view us as that kind of threat or whether there's a possibility to work together, how…
a16z Podcast | The Role of Academia in the Startup World
- ▶ 0:15 Michael Copeland That company was Netscape.
- ▶ 1:17 Chris Dixon Netscape came out of that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:36 Marc Andreessen You know, Netscape was another, there's been a whole bunch of examples like that. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker
- ▶ 15:36 Dan Siroker And I wanted to know if, if what the world feels like now with regards to Bitcoin is how it felt back when you started Netscape.
a16z Podcast | The Rise of the Quasi-IPO
- ▶ 5:21 Benedict Evans In fact, there were, I think, forty million online in 95 when the Netscape, or thirty-eight million when the Netscape IPO happened.
a16z Podcast | Location, Location, Location -- and Mobile
- ▶ 18:33 Steve Cheney But I argue Netscape was that layer, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:40 Benedict Evans And so you had your Windows, or you had your Mac, and you had one icon, which was the internet, and everything appeared within Netscape Navigator.
a16z Podcast | Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back
- ▶ 4:00 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, when we, when we wrote the code for Netscape, when we wrote the code for Mosaic in 1993, I mean, I had never, I, you know, I thought of myself I was like an okay programmer, but I had never heard of the term of a buffer,…
- ▶ 4:18 Marc Andreessen Um, when we, when we invented JavaScript at Netscape in 1995, the concept of cross-site scripting was a complete unknown.
- ▶ 9:26 Michael Copeland And I'm just wondering what the gaps are then between this phase that we're in now, which you've described is, is very much different than the sort of Netscape days and everything was locked in a PC, you know, in a room someplace as…
a16z Podcast | Mobile is Eating the World (and Apple is Gobbling Fastest)
- ▶ 4:29 Benedict Evans Well, I think this is the other thing, that one of the things I keep saying is that, you know, mobile means that we're kind of post Netscape and post PageRank.
a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile
- ▶ 12:00 Michael Copeland But you've described the world that we are in already as this post, you know, Netscape, post PageRank world. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?
- ▶ 0:24 Susan Mernit I'm a former Yahoo, Netscape, and AOL product development executive, and when I moved to Oakland, I started an organization called Hack the Hood that teaches coding and tech skills to low-income young people of color.
a16z Podcast | Beyond Bitcoin -- The Blockchain
- ▶ 3:54 unnamed speaker Mosaic was the first browser, and Nescape is the company which made money, right?
a16z Podcast | Raising Money and Valuing Startups -- What Happens When Things Don't Go As Planned?
- ▶ 9:40 Danny Shader Um, maybe Facebook is the new example of that, but every other major company I knew, you know, I've known, you know, whether or not it was Apple or Netscape or sun or pick your favorite, you know, at whatever era, most Google, they all had…
a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 2
- ▶ 9:34 Ben Horowitz Um, you know, when we were, you know, particularly, and this wasn't as a harsh a lesson at Netscape, but at a, at Opsware and LoudCloud, it was, like, incredibly difficult for us.
a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 1
- ▶ 10:37 Marc Andreessen And so we, we built Netscape, the company we were at in the nineties. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Topic That's Lasted the Entire History of Computing -- Bundling and Unbundling
- ▶ 0:13 Benedict Evans Um, I wrote a blog post on Sunday that started out by quoting, um, was it Jim Barksdale, who supposedly during the Netscape IPA presentations told people that there are only two ways to make money in software, bundling and unbundling.
a16z Podcast | Searching for Mobile’s Own PageRank
- ▶ 0:56 Benedict Evans And, you know, in parallel with that, we're also kind of in like a pre-Netscape phase, because, you know, what happened on the internet was you had the web browser in a box on your screen, and everything happened inside that box.
a16z Podcast | Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun
- ▶ 22:02 Benedict Evans And it was news when there was a new website, you know, it would like, you go to Yahoo, you'd go to, I swear to God, you'd go to Netscape's what's hot page, and it would say, you know, the, um, the Morningwood Arkansas Elementary School…
Company Building in Crypto: A Conversation between Brian Armstrong and Chris Dixon
- ▶ 4:18 Chris Dixon Yeah, um, Mark, Mark Andreessen tells a story where he moved, I think he moved out in 93 for Netscape, and he was absolutely, or actually, he moved out before Netscape, and he was absolutely convinced that he had missed, like, the computer… 2 times in the scene
Winning Founders & Influencing Everyone: Margit Wennmachers at Startup Grind Europe
- ▶ 1:09 Margit Wennmachers If you remember, Netscape had gone public in 1995.
10 Years Too Early: On a Tech Career, Business, and Investing
- ▶ 1:55 unnamed speaker And then from that I went to Netscape, which was my one break, uh, in timing, which was, this was the perfect time to try to disrupt, uh, client server software with this thing called the internet. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:17 unnamed speaker Out of that will come Netscape and later Facebook and later Airbnb.
- ▶ 17:17 unnamed speaker By the way, flashing back to Netscape days, because I'm old now, ah, I get to tell the old people's stories. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:56 unnamed speaker Uh, so get usage, send somebody to collect the value, uh, actually work for Netscape, and it is sort of the new pattern for building an enterprise software company.
- ▶ 39:43 unnamed speaker Yeah, we agree with you that the consumer applications, right, the direct competitors to sort of Facebook and Airbnb and Lyft and Uber, it's not quite time yet, so maybe a year, maybe two, but think about all of the things that we needed… 2 times in the scene
Crypto and Decentralization: Building Blocks
- ▶ 31:29 Chris Dixon This is, you know, I think it was, this is well after Yahoo and Netscape and things like this, and the word, the web, did not appear in the book, right? 2 times in the scene
An Intro to Crypto: Decentralization, the Big Picture
- ▶ 3:41 Elizabeth Stark Has anybody here, does anybody remember, like, having to download Netscape and selecting whether you were in the U.S. or not in the U.S.?
- ▶ 28:34 Elizabeth Stark Um, so 1995 was a year that Netscape IPO'd and the year that was seen as say the web going mainstream. 2 times in the scene
On Career Moves and Business Leadership
- ▶ 2:25 Krisztina “Z” Holly What was your thought process as you decided what you were going to do, and then how you ended up jumping into Netscape? 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon
- ▶ 0:21 Chris Dixon Netscape came out of that.
- ▶ 0:46 Marc Andreessen Which later became Netscape was, was all, was NSF funded.
- ▶ 25:16 Marc Andreessen You know, Netscape was another, there's been a whole bunch of examples like that. 2 times in the scene
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2015
- ▶ 11:35 Benedict Evans As a consequence, we've also moved on from the single unified paradigm of Google, because Google is fundamentally about analyzing links and sending you to web pages, but if the internet is no longer just about web pages, then that PageRank…
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2014
- ▶ 2:16 Benedict Evans Um, we are now post Netscape and post PageRank.