Nigeria, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Nigeria comes up
Ben Horowitz on AI Anxiety, Big Tech Transitions & The Future of Startups | a16z
- ▶ 15:54 Ben Horowitz They're gonna, it's gonna be AI me, and they're gonna tell my finance team to wire, like, you know, five hundred million dollars to Nigeria.
Palantir CTO on The SaaS Apocalypse & Preventing The Next World War | a16z
- ▶ 43:27 Shyam Sankar You know, after we, we fled violence in Nigeria, my dad had a childhood friend who was living in L.A. who sold knickknacks at theme parks.
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 1:02:54 Balaji Srinivasan Actually there's, there's something where in Nigeria, there's a business plan competition.
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 1:41:59 Ben Horowitz In many African countries, you know, uh, Nigeria, uh, Rwanda, Ghana, they were there.
Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
- ▶ 41:26 Ben Horowitz By the way, Nigeria has nothing to do with Somalians, like genetically.
"Crypto Startup School" Documentary
- ▶ 6:38 Tope Alabi I moved to Nigeria, and then eventually started a Bitcoin exchange.
- ▶ 10:36 Tope Alabi We have, like, one guy on the app, he's a, he's an Uber driver, and he has a wife in Nigeria whom he sends money to every week.
Imagining Our Future Through Tech
- ▶ 7:24 Frank Chen The clothing manufacturer is in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and the data analyst is in Lagos, Nigeria.
Making Culture, Making Influence -- Dapper Dan in Silicon Valley
- ▶ 24:38 Dapper Dan Back to Lagos, Nigeria. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Business of Cybercrime
- ▶ 10:28 Jonathan Lusthaus Everyone's familiar with Nigerian types of fraud from the emails, which have a very long history.
- ▶ 23:42 Jonathan Lusthaus Nigeria is another place where 2 times in the scene
Better Together: Humanity + Machine Learning
- ▶ 26:32 Frank Chen Think a dollar, two dollars to first time borrowers in countries like Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria.
a16z Podcast | Fintech for the People
- ▶ 5:34 Matt Flannery Right now we work in Nigeria, Kenya, and Tanzania, and we're about to launch in India.
- ▶ 14:48 Matt Flannery Nigerians are not going to have Visa cards or MasterCards anytime soon, because there's nowhere to swipe them, and people can't get credit scores.
a16z Podcast | The Law (and Tech) of Warfare
- ▶ 26:41 Benjamin Wittes So just to give you a, like, a very tangible example of this that you've, like, all experienced on an email from somebody in Nigeria. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Brains, Bodies, Minds ... and Techno-Religions
- ▶ 38:32 Yuval Noah Harari If the government doesn't need tens of millions of Nigerians to serve as soldiers and workers, maybe it will have not have enough incentive. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Produce or Perish! (What We Eat)
- ▶ 14:48 James Rogers You show up in Nigeria and you give somebody a packet of material that's able to make their tomato last twice as long.
a16z Podcast | Mastering the Game (with David Oyelowo)
- ▶ 1:04 David Oyelowo And, uh, as a child of Nigerian parents myself, having, ah, my sister.
- ▶ 9:30 Ben Horowitz Being from Nigeria and then London, you've played what many people consider the most important African-American in, ah, maybe ever, but certainly in the last, ah, century. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Open vs. Closed, Alpha Cities, and the Industries of the Future
- ▶ 0:56 unnamed speaker Yeah, one of the things, you know, that really intrigues us about the topic of your book is we've covered a lot of different countries and experiences and, and, and how each of those regions encounters tech with voices on the ground in…
a16z Podcast | Things Come Together -- Truths about Tech in Africa
- ▶ 0:54 Sonal Chokshi Spinlet's headquartered in Nigeria, but they're also elsewhere in Africa and also in Europe and in the United States.
- ▶ 2:41 Nanjira Sambuli So, you know, if you get your business working in South Africa, the model will work in Kenya, Nigeria. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:39 unnamed speaker Well, maybe not in Nigeria right now, we have a recession, but people have more income, and they want to, you know, they want to spend money, you know, doing chilled, cool things. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:56 Alan Knott Craig You know, if you're living in, in, in South Africa or Nigeria or Kenya or Zimbabwe or any, any part of Africa, actually any part of the world come to think of it.
a16z Podcast | Bitcoin, Greece, and What’s Next for Cryptocurrency
- ▶ 27:48 Brian Armstrong Like if you're in Nigeria and you want to buy an iPhone, pretty much every website will reject you.
The Future of Money: Banking on Fintech
- ▶ 9:55 Alex Rampell Where, ah, they do lending in Sub-Saharan Africa in Kenya, Tanzania, and also Nigeria.
Supernovas and Novel Insight: Where Machine Learning is Headed Next
- ▶ 11:27 Josh Bloom So the story that I wound up telling is that, you know, if your dad is a Viagra salesman who travels to Nigeria who just won the lottery, um, you probably want to see that email from him, right?