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Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
- ▶ 50:34 Max Levchin And like literally, you know, hot second after, we all dispersed YouTube and Yelp and Peter's first major fund and LinkedIn. 3 times in the scene
Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
- ▶ 1:20:23 Erik Torenberg Peter Thiel, a decade ago, you know, famously, you know, sort of talked about how we've had so much progress in bits, but not in atoms and because regulation or for whatever reason, it was just easier in bits.
Jake Paul on Going From YouTube to Boxing to Investing | a16z ft. Anti Fund
Goldman Sachs Chairman on Why Finance Adopts AI Differently | a16z
- ▶ 1:08:47 Lloyd Blankfein And, and with all deference to the success of Peter Thiel, um, um, I think people should make themselves complete people.
Marc Andreessen’s Worldview in 60 Minutes | Live on MTS
- ▶ 58:27 Erik Torenberg Peter Thiel and David Sachs wrote about it, their book, you know, diversity myth in 2 times in the scene
Why Claude Feels Different (And What That Means for AI) | The a16z Show
- ▶ 31:13 unnamed speaker Something to be fixed and ownership might, might, might fix that, but any, I mean, I, I, uh, I love, I think there's this, the power law dynamic that Peter introduced is really fascinating to me because it was like business outcomes and…
How Truemed Is Incentivizing Americans to Invest in Prevention
- ▶ 0:59 Justin Mares So Peter Thiel has this idea of like a secret.
The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
- ▶ 39:15 Erik Torenberg For, for doing, and then they have sort of these, like, you know, um, alumni, almost a chief of staff, just kind of, you know, Peter Thiel, just kind of further.
- ▶ 39:51 Erik Torenberg Teal has done this really well. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:20 Erik Torenberg I think it's interesting to look at how people build out their, you know, like, for example, you know, Mark and Ben funnel everything through A, C, and Z, and are all in on A, C, and Z, and of course have, you know, other intellectual or… 6 times in the scene
Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
- ▶ 9:13 Vlad Tenev And, um, I'm sure you guys have heard Peter Thiel say this thing that, you know, the name of a company is very important.
Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?
- ▶ 27:57 unnamed speaker Like, uh, remember Peter Thiel had this quip a decade ago of like, you know, crypto is libertarian, is more decentralizing, AI is, you know, communist or more centralizing.
Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China
- ▶ 41:53 Erik Torenberg The, um, Peter Thiel quipped, you know, many years ago that he thought, you know, crypto would be libertarian or decentralizing and that, uh, AI would be communist or, or centralizing.
The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
- ▶ 4:37 unnamed speaker You know, uh, Teal's famous line.
Is Non-Consensus Investing Overrated?
- ▶ 0:17 Erik Torenberg Peter Thiel once had a line which was like, the faster the, and higher the up round, the more you should invest because it's like, you know, working.
- ▶ 6:31 Erik Torenberg Peter Thiel once had a line, which was like,
Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy
- ▶ 15:18 Eric Vishria We, uh, have, you know, much, much more increased capabilities, but actually the world does, it's like the, you know, Peter Till called the 1973 test or something.
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 21:00 Balaji Srinivasan Teal talked about distribution years ago before it was quantified with social media.
- ▶ 30:05 Balaji Srinivasan Uh, Peter Thiel would have been probably, they'd be more than 20 years earlier, probably would have been a Supreme Court jurist, right?
- ▶ 1:08:14 Balaji Srinivasan On the other side of things, for example, take Teal and, and Zuck. 4 times in the scene
AI Content and the War for Your Attention
- ▶ 42:41 Antonio García Martínez I mean, I think Peter Thiel famously asked, you know, asked the question, we're promised flying cars
Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
- ▶ 49:04 Erik Torenberg In, in the same way that, uh, Peter Thiel's book in 1995 was maybe, you know, a couple decades prescient into sort of, uh, chronicling college campus activism, it seems like, uh, your, your father's work was, uh, you know, a few decades…
Crypto Experts Explain Stablecoins & the Future Financial System w/ Ali Yahya & Arianna Simpson
Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
- ▶ 20:25 Marc Andreessen Ben saw this more than me, but like when Ben wrote his book, you know, and went on a tour, it's like every, it didn't matter what country he went to, thousands of kids show up, and they want to learn how to, how to do this, and, and look,…
- ▶ 35:25 Marc Andreessen Uh, Peter, um, you know, these guys, you know, really, really led the way on this.
Where Crypto Meets AI with Chris Dixon & David George
- ▶ 35:46 Chris Dixon Yeah, so, um, but, uh, I think, you know, there's this concept, I think it's Peter Thiel's concept of, like, sort of a founder that has a
Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- ▶ 18:46 Marc Andreessen And there, there, I guess what I'd say is this is probably the thing I disagree with the most with my, you know, very close friend, Peter Thiel, um, you know, kind of famously wrote in, in his book, um, it says, you know, basically that… 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 12:27 Marc Andreessen You know, people look back on that, and my friend Peter Thiel in particular looks back on those projects and says, wow, like, those were kind of great achievements, you know, going to the moon and, you know, winning World War II, and,…
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 9:52 Marc Andreessen So Chris, so Peter Thiel has the famous, uh, line, uh, uh, sort of theory that he's been saying for the last several years, which is, um, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:53 Marc Andreessen Um, and this kind of goes a little bit back to our, our Peter Thiel, uh, debate earlier, but this is a different lens.
The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
- ▶ 49:13 Chris Power You know, it's a complex coordination problem to take a, to take a teal, uh, meme.
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 15:36 Balaji Srinivasan Well, actually Peter Thiel and PayPal, they kind of tried to do that.
- ▶ 1:39:51 Balaji Srinivasan And in a sense, by the way, we talked about the V three, you know, Teal has talked about how we can innovate in bits, but not in atoms, right?
- ▶ 1:53:17 Balaji Srinivasan Teal's correct observation.
a16z Podcast | Incenting Innovation Inside, Loonshots to Moonshots
- ▶ 12:13 Sonal Chokshi Yeah, they both talk about it, and they're actually quoting Peter Thiel.
- ▶ 13:54 Safi Bahcall I mean, just as a simple example, Peter Thiel and Ken Howery, who I, I remember Ken Howery was telling me this story, you know, a couple of years ago that when they were first looking at Facebook, everybody was passing on social networks… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | High Growth in Companies (and Tech)
- ▶ 0:56 Chris Dixon There's sort of famous books like Peter Thiel's book, which is from zero to one, kind of the early stages of a startup. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
- ▶ 16:53 Marc Andreessen So question, another very smart guy, Peter Thiel, takes it a step further. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Case Against Education, From Signaling to Rainbow's End
- ▶ 8:58 Marc Andreessen My friend Peter Thiel makes very similar arguments. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | From Jobs to Flying Cars
- ▶ 17:24 Dan Primack There's an old, you know, the Peter Thiel line of they promised us flying cars, which by the way apparently is now coming, so, you know, he must be just 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:36 Dan Primack I'm going to ask one last thing on this kind of general topic, then move on to something new, which is you've talked about how you have a, sometimes an imaginary Peter Thiel actually on your shoulder. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:22 Dan Primack Who's the one other than Peter?
a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech
- ▶ 31:42 Ted Ullyot I think a very positive thing is the role that Peter Thiel has played for tech has been invaluable for tech in that room.
a16z Podcast | Sleep!
- ▶ 3:17 Natasha Tiku If you start looking on Quora, you will see all these like Elon Musk fanboys, Peter Thiel fanboys.
a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
- ▶ 0:45 Marc Andreessen With the exception maybe of Peter Thiel, who has like six other factors in his head that he hasn't told anybody about. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:51 Marc Andreessen I mean, as an example, you know, Mark Zuckerberg raised literally angel money from Peter Thiel was how he got started.
a16z Podcast | On Productivity, Immigration, Trump, and Media
- ▶ 8:44 Ezra Klein Um, there are other people I should note also in Silicon Valley, like Peter Thiel, who do not believe this. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How to Be Original and Make Big Ideas Happen
- ▶ 28:19 Adam Grant If you asked Peter Thiel and Elon Musk to name their favorite childhood books, they both picked Lord of the Rings.
a16z Podcast | Nobody Discusses Work Software Outside of Work -- and Then There’s Slack
- ▶ 6:16 Stuart Butterfield So I'll take the Peter Thiel question first.
a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
- ▶ 18:21 Michael Copeland Are they, are they sort of the Peter Thiel ideal where they dropped out of college and, you know, they're, they're driven by X, Y, or Z?
a16z Podcast | The Role of Academia in the Startup World
- ▶ 6:19 Marc Andreessen Um, at the same time, um, I think it's a fair critique, and I think this is the part of Peter Thiel's critique that I agree with.
- ▶ 41:22 Chris Dixon Often, um, uh, Peter Thiel has talked about how a lot of these, you know, like, Airbnb's a great example where very early on it looked like a really kind of ridiculous idea.
a16z Podcast | Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff
- ▶ 36:03 Sonal Chokshi What do you think about, then, like, Peter Thiel's view on people drop,
a16z Podcast | What Makes the Valley Work
- ▶ 40:26 Marc Andreessen Um, and the third is Peter Thiel just wrote a book called Zero to One, um, which is extraordinary. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Startups as Science Experiments -- Can VC Disrupt Academia?
- ▶ 12:15 Marc Andreessen Um, he's like the ultra left-wing alternative to Peter Thiel would be the way to think about it.
a16z Podcast | Secrets, Power Laws, and Technology – The Ideas of “Zero to One”
- ▶ 0:03 Chris Dixon I'm here today with Blake Masters, who's the co-author of a new book called Zero to One, and his co-author is Peter Thiel, and this is, this came out of a class Peter taught at Stanford, which Blake wrote about, and, um, or blogged about,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:26 Chris Dixon Um, what is the theory as to why, um, you know, this is sort of connects to Peter's, uh, Peter's, uh, Venture Fund has a famous, um, sort of saying that we asked for flying cars and all we got were over a 140 characters referring to like…
- ▶ 15:41 Blake Masters The way we, the way we, uh, open the book is with, uh, what Peter calls his contrarian question, what valuable truth does no one agree with you on?
a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 2
- ▶ 11:55 Ben Horowitz And, uh, but people get very wrapped around the axle on that because there's, you know, it's kind of the thing that Peter Thiel talks about, whereas competition's actually, like, really destructive, and that's, like, the worst kind of…
Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon
- ▶ 5:23 Marc Andreessen Um, at the same time, um, I think it's a fair critique, and I think this is the part of Peter Thiel's critique that I agree with.
- ▶ 46:16 unnamed speaker Peter talked yesterday. 4 times in the scene