The Pentagon, every mention
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every year anyone David Ignatius 8David Ulevitch 6Marc Andreessen 5Shyam Sankar 4Morgan Brennan 3Matt Spence 3Katherine Boyle 3Sharon Weinberger 2Nand Mulchandani 2Kathleen Hicks 2
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Is Defense the Next Trillion-Dollar Category? | a16z American Dynamism Summit
- ▶ 0:28 unnamed speaker This room is filled with PAEs and PMs from across the Pentagon.
- ▶ 5:32 Honorable Duffy I mean, one of the things that we're finding as we dig down into a traditional industry, and as we look at, you'd mentioned the transition of Defense Security Cooperation Agency under my, ah, jurisdiction now in the Pentagon.
- ▶ 9:21 unnamed speaker Um, Honorable Duffy, this room is filled with PAEs and PMs from across the Pentagon, as well as many founders that are building for the department. 3 times in the scene
Inside The $100M Bet on the Future of Space | Northwood CEO on a16z
- ▶ 29:50 Erik Torenberg Um, what does it mean to say that the Pentagon would rather, you know, buy commercially than build themselves?
Palantir CTO on The SaaS Apocalypse & Preventing The Next World War | a16z
- ▶ 2:31 Shyam Sankar Um, you know, I, I felt like after years of just seeing, uh, the, the, the building, the Pentagon from the inside, seeing how defense was operating, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:04 Shyam Sankar And so when he had an opportunity in the basement of the Pentagon on a project with no resources to go after bringing AI to the department, he leaned all the way in.
Emil Michael: The Department of War Is Moving Faster Than Silicon Valley on AI | The a16z Show
- ▶ 0:30 David Ulevitch There has been an incredibly public discussion about commercial AI models being used in the Pentagon.
- ▶ 3:22 Emil Michael And, uh, I guess we, we, there was some, there was some famous event called the last supper where the, the leaders at the Pentagon said to industry, Hey, there's not gonna be a lot more buying of weapons systems or innovation.
- ▶ 8:55 David Ulevitch Yeah, I think we, we, uh, you know, we, we are the beneficiaries of startups that pitch us their ideas all the time, and because it's American dynamism, we hear about companies that say, look, we're gonna really, you know, we're gonna save…
- ▶ 9:24 David Ulevitch About commercial AI models being used in the Pentagon, including Anthropic, uh, being used inside the department. 3 times in the scene
Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
- ▶ 4:16 Marc Andreessen Uh, my, my first, uh, uh, sales call to the Pentagon was in 1984, um, when I, I don't think I actually owned a suit yet, um, and, uh, and, uh, you know, so 31 years ago, um, and, um, you know, our, our company in that state ended up being… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:30 Katherine Boyle Metro stops at the Pentagon.
- ▶ 26:55 David Ulevitch Um, when you do government, uh, hardware or hardware for, uh, for the Pentagon, um, or across enterprises, it's a much different, um, sales cycle and process.
- ▶ 32:15 Katherine Boyle Um, and, and the customer isn't just the Pentagon, it's also Congress. 2 times in the scene
Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money
- ▶ 1:10:51 Balaji Srinivasan This crypto angle to the drones, because you're going to want the control plane for the drones to be on chain, since that's the part that can't get hacked, whereas the Pentagon can get hacked.
Mobilizing the American Industrial Base
- ▶ 0:37 David Ignatius Uh, you, you proposed 18 theses that you wanna nail to the Pentagon wall, uh, Martin Luther style, uh, demanding innovation.
- ▶ 3:53 David Ignatius System with, with just a few companies that are able to navigate the rules, uh, sort of elaborate procedures of Pentagon procurement. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:32 David Ignatius But I want to come back to the phrase that you used at the beginning, which I'm sure is familiar to most people in the audience, the valley of death, which is what, ah, people trying to sell to the Pentagon describe as the gap between…
- ▶ 11:55 David Ignatius I've talked with Palmer Luckey about his idea that you need to fundamentally change how you manufacture things for the defense market to bring costs down, ah, that, you know, we're building these ridiculously exquisite, is the phrase the… 2 times in the scene
Can the Military Move at Startup Speed? How the Army and Navy Are Rebuilding
- ▶ 37:39 Layla Sturdy Obviously, with the Pentagon, that's different.
How AI Is Changing Warfare, with Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf
- ▶ 16:05 Brian Schimpf The congressional relationships, the Pentagon relationships, the military relationships, like all of this that you need to be able to say, hey, this is, we have the right tech, you can trust us, we can scale, um, we can actually solve…
- ▶ 29:27 Brian Schimpf It is the opposite of how it works in the Pentagon, where every time something has gone wrong, a new process and a new office has been added to check the homework and say no, uh, and they stall progress out.
Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- ▶ 1:01:14 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, and again, there are people in the Pentagon who have been working on this.
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 14:12 Marc Andreessen You know, it's like the Pentagon, we're not going to build new weapon systems in the Pentagon. 2 times in the scene
Intelligence in the Age of AI with new CTO of the CIA
- ▶ 21:55 Nand Mulchandani Pentagon was two and a half years and now CIA, of being on the buy side of technology and seeing all the stuff happening.
- ▶ 40:03 Nand Mulchandani I spent two and a half years at the Pentagon, which was its own gigantic problem in terms of that's where software-defined warfare ideas came.
From Silicon Valley to the Pentagon: The Future of Defense Innovation
Collaborative Disruption at DoD
- ▶ 17:17 Kathleen Hicks Even as open, collaborative leadership within the Pentagon is also essential.
- ▶ 18:10 Kathleen Hicks Thinking differently does not come easy to large organizations, and the Pentagon is no exception.
Securing America's Future: How Technology Companies and Washington Are Building A Safer World
- ▶ 0:26 Morgan Brennan As somebody who's on the other side of that equation, and what I will call, use the word disruptor, in terms of, um, breaking into defense and doing more work with the Pentagon, your thoughts?
- ▶ 6:33 Morgan Brennan In Pentagon parlance, a couple of years, rather than six years, or 10 years, or 20 years, I mean, that's like, that's a very fast pace. 2 times in the scene
Collaborative Disruption at DoD: Kathleen Hicks in Conversation with Sharon Weinberger
- ▶ 6:19 Sharon Weinberger You talked about this long history of cooperation that goes back decades between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon. 2 times in the scene
Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy
- ▶ 6:20 Palmer Luckey We built the Pentagon in 16 months, we completed the Manhattan Project in three years, and we put a man on the moon in under a decade.
AI & The Future of Modern Warfare
- ▶ 13:07 unnamed speaker That's, that's certainly something you would think would interest the U.S. taxpayer, and, ah, the customer, and the, and the Pentagon, or so wherever in, in government, and the U.S. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Competing Against Luck
- ▶ 7:03 Clayton Christensen But he said, I read this theory of you from your work called Disruption, and I wondered if you could come down to the Pentagon and explain what that is to my staff. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What's Next for Technology and National Security?
- ▶ 1:48 Matt Spence Prior to that, Michelle was the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy under Secretary Gates and then Secretary Panetta at the Pentagon.
- ▶ 24:30 Matt Spence Even after you left the Pentagon, people repeated again that we need to give the future a seat at the table. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Art of the Regulatory Hack
- ▶ 1:45 Evan Burfield We have physical space just down from the Pentagon.
a16z Podcast | The Future of Entertainment and What David Petraeus and the Olsen Twins Can Teach Us
- ▶ 13:40 Brian Grazer The military at the Pentagon. 2 times in the scene