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every year anyone Martin Casado 15Chris Dixon 13Marc Andreessen 10Sonal Chokshi 9Ben Horowitz 4Raghu Raghuram 2Scott Cooper 1Michael Copeland 1Florian Leibert 1
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Is Non-Consensus Investing Overrated?
- ▶ 34:42 Martin Casado So again, I'll go back to my company. 3 times in the scene
From the Dot-Com Crash to the AI Era: How Builders Survive Waves of Disruption
- ▶ 10:12 Raghu Raghuram But if you're, for example, going at a different user, like we were doing with the, the Nesera and, uh, networking. 2 times in the scene
The Future of Software Development - Vibe Coding, Prompt Engineering & AI Assistants
- ▶ 15:30 Martin Casado Uh, and like, for example, my company, like the cloud was out there, but it wasn't sufficiently deployed.
Founders, Media, & Memes: a16z’s Strategy for the Future | a16z LP Summit 2025
- ▶ 29:14 Ben Horowitz Yes, I think succession planning is kind of like a tactic, um, and look, we've already done succession, I, so the original Infra investor in the firm was me, um, and I made some good investments, you know, like Okta and, uh, Databricks,… 2 times in the scene
AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
- ▶ 1:11:40 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, I remember when you were starting your company, there were, you know, like, when we, when we dealt with Martin's first company, Nasira, basically, his company Nasira invented what's now known as software-defined networking,… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | M&A and Innovation, Inside Out
- ▶ 7:53 Martin Casado So, so I have kind of a funny experience with this, which is, you know, Nasir was acquired for a dollar about much
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.
- ▶ 11:20 Marc Andreessen And actually, I think, Nasir, you guys did something very similar.
- ▶ 12:29 unnamed speaker Well, you know, Nysera and before you guys were acquired by VMware, I remember you wrote about how you guys actually had some early adopters, but then you had like sort of a hump, and you talked about too how you had the initial fast and…
a16z Podcast | B2B2C
- ▶ 0:45 Sonal Chokshi We have Martin Casado, who co-founded and was CTO at NYSERA, which was acquired by VMware, where he then served as the SVP and GM of their networking and security business unit.
- ▶ 5:48 Martin Casado Like for example, when we were doing the Sierra of like doing more of an OEM model where you build some core technology, somebody else carries it.
- ▶ 16:21 Martin Casado The product that I worked on NSX for Nasira.
a16z Podcast | Creating a Category, from Pricing to Positioning
- ▶ 0:11 Sonal Chokshi Joining us to have this conversation, we have general partner, Martine Cassato, who helped create the category of software-defined networking through NYSERA and then at VMware, and also recently wrote a post on going to market when no…
a16z Podcast | Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
- ▶ 0:34 Sonal Chokshi And then also moderating this podcast, we have general partner Martin Casado, who himself came out of VMware, which had acquired the company he co-founded and was CTO at previously, NYSERA.
a16z Podcast | Pricing, Pricing, Pricing
- ▶ 0:19 Sonal Chokshi Joining the conversation, our general partner, Martin Casado, who was formerly the co-founder and CTO of Necera, which was later acquired by VMware.
- ▶ 10:19 Scott Cooper So in the Nasira case, presumably there are things that engineers can now do in terms of changes to the network that they couldn't have done before, and that has demonstrable business value, or there's either fewer resources that are…
a16z Podcast | Infrastructure... Is Everything
- ▶ 12:02 Sonal Chokshi And it was NYSERA. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:21 Michael Copeland Um, Ben and Mark invested in Nysera before Andreessen Hortz was even formed, I guess.
a16z Podcast | Hall of Fame Football Meets Venture Capital
- ▶ 22:30 Ben Horowitz Right, so we did, we made an investment in a company called Nasira Networks, and this, this company, the guy, the founder, and, and it was really an interesting idea because everybody in the networking field that I knew thought it would… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Role of Academia in the Startup World
- ▶ 25:55 Marc Andreessen Nasira, you know, for us, Nasira was a recent example of this, uh, where, you know, Scott, uh, uh, you know, uh, Scott and Nick were, were very involved in the formation of the company. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:33 Chris Dixon Um, uh, Nick from, Nick McKeown from, um, NYSERA, actually, he spoke, I thought it was really interesting, I think it was two years ago at our academic round table, and, uh, he's a professor at Stanford. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Consumerization of IT
- ▶ 12:32 Florian Leibert I think with the acquisition of Nasira,
a16z Podcast | Datacenter of the Future
- ▶ 6:46 Chris Dixon So like on the networking level, Nicera was a company that we invested in. 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Where is the Technology That "Matters?" Right Here
- ▶ 1:52 Chris Dixon We were also investors in Nicera. 4 times in the scene
Going to Market When No Market Exists
- ▶ 0:13 Martin Casado I founded a company called Nasira. 2 times in the scene
Software Secures the World
- ▶ 0:23 Martin Casado And then from there, I went to start a company called Nasira, which that was kind of a nine year arc.
- ▶ 16:06 Martin Casado When we were doing Nasira, I think this was in 2011, we had a server that went missing.
Trends in and the Future of Infrastructure
- ▶ 7:59 Martin Casado So I founded a company in 2007 called Nasira. 4 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon
- ▶ 25:34 Marc Andreessen Natsira, you know, for us, Natsira was a recent example of this, where, you know, Scott, uh, you know, Scott and Nick were very involved in the formation of the company, um, but, um, you know, they, they found, they found a good person to… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:35 Chris Dixon Um, uh, Nick from, Nick McKeown from, um, NYSERA actually, he spoke, I thought it was really interesting, I think it was two years ago at our academic round table, and, uh, he's a professor at Stanford. 2 times in the scene