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Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply
- ▶ 43:18 Gavin Baker It was this kind of jury rig system of kind of wires that had actually been suggested on the SpaceX subreddit. 2 times in the scene
Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
- ▶ 6:34 Anish Acharya You find your people on Reddit, you find your people on, you know, X or Insta or whatever your network is.
How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer | Alex Blania on a16z
- ▶ 22:37 Alex Blania I, that I think you could leave it after, but it was, um, it was, uh, the change my mind subreddit, um, where the university of Zurich did this thing where they had AIs actually interact with change my mind. 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz on a16z’s New Media Strategy
- ▶ 41:57 Marc Andreessen Do the manic Reddit posters drive you nuts? 2 times in the scene
Why Scale Will Not Solve AGI | Vishal Misra - The a16z Show
- ▶ 25:53 Vishal Misra It has been fed, you know, articles on Reddit or Asimo or whatever. 2 times in the scene
Where does consumer AI stand at the end of 2025?
- ▶ 19:05 Justine Moore People are like, a small number of creators are creating a ton of content and then bringing it out to like TikTok, Instagram, X, Reddit, where it's going massively viral, but it doesn't seem like there's a, as much, um, consumption…
The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm
- ▶ 49:40 Margit Wennmachers At the very end of all the stuff that's been said on Twitter, or, um, Reddit, or, it eventually spills out, and then media is like, oh, what is this thing?
Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
- ▶ 27:20 Eugenia Kuyda Uh, I wake up in the morning, I'm on Twitter or Reddit, I find all these cool prompts. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:59 Eugenia Kuyda I'm a huge user of Reddit, and I find it very exciting because people just join around certain interests, um, and that doesn't happen, happen on other platforms really that much.
- ▶ 45:18 Eugenia Kuyda Why can't you be smart and also go study physics, but I couldn't, but at the same time, I'm just really interested in human condition, what people are doing, and just seeing my mom trying to understand how to copy paste a prompt from…
Google DeepMind Developers: How Nano Banana Was Made
- ▶ 45:01 Justine Moore That's one of my favorite things about these models is just finding, and I'm sure it's really fun for you guys, and you guys probably have much more of a hint than we do about what they can do, but sometimes you'll just see some crazy X or…
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 41:51 Amjad Masad The more human angle of it, it felt like it regressed, and like you had this, uh, sort of, uh, Reddit pitchfork, uh, sort of, uh, movement against, against Sam and OpenAI because they felt like they lost a friend.
- ▶ 53:26 Marc Andreessen Or a code, a code, a user of Reddit, and all of a sudden it's generating incredible software.
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 29:45 Keith Rabois Ideally, but also Reddit, like Reddit's a forty two billion, a forty billion dollar market cap company, no graph. 2 times in the scene
Opendoor CEO: Building the Amazon for Homes
- ▶ 0:08 Kaz (Kaz Nejatian) In a public company, they're discussed on Reddit.
- ▶ 42:04 Kaz (Kaz Nejatian) In a public company, they're discussed on Reddit, and it's heard in the Wall Street Journal.
- ▶ 44:38 Alex Rampell Uh, this was like circulating, speaking of Reddit and, uh, you know, the courage to be disliked.
Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture
- ▶ 16:17 Liam Fedus Isn't like on a Reddit forum or something like you need to actually go produce experimental data, simulation data.
The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
- ▶ 47:24 Eddie Lazzarin I mean, Reddit for many years.
Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
- ▶ 37:48 Dylan Patel I'm, I'm, like, moderating, like, gaming, gaming hardware subreddits, right?
The Death of Search: How Shopping Will Work In The Age of AI
- ▶ 9:21 Justine Moore I'm gonna do, like, all of the research on, like, Reddit or on,
- ▶ 10:44 Alex Rampell It's like, okay, part of it was like, I read this post on Reddit that kind of inspired me. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:19 Justine Moore And if you're busy, you don't have a ton of time to do that research yourself, and you might ask an AI agent that can watch all the TikToks for you, read all of the Reddit posts, and pull in the kind of real consumer feedback, and then… 2 times in the scene
Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
- ▶ 16:07 Chris Dixon I used to spend a lot of time, I don't know, 10 to 15 years ago, just like on subreddits in, in kind of niche communities, partly because I'm interested in that stuff and partly because I think they're very powerful, right?
Dylan Patel on GPT-5’s Router Moment, GPUs vs TPUs, Monetization
- ▶ 9:20 Dylan Patel And there's also a leaderboard on Reddit where people are like,
Google DeepMind Lead Researchers on Genie 3 & the Future of World-Building
- ▶ 4:35 Justine Moore I think you guys, like, I don't know if this was on purpose or not, but you perfectly timed it, uh, when everyone on, like, X and Reddit and everywhere was making those videos of, like, characters walking through games, but they obviously,…
Why AI Characters & Virtual Influencers Are the Next Frontier in Video ft Hedra’s Michael Lingelbach
- ▶ 33:28 Justine Moore There's all these, like, you know, small subreddits or groups where people all around the world have shared interests, like maybe this really specific brand of camera, and for most of those people, it would, they would not have the time,…
This Week in AI: GPT-5 Ships, 4o Pulled Back, Grok Imagine Goes Social
- ▶ 7:18 Justine Moore And I, I think he actually may have announced this on Reddit.
- ▶ 11:09 Justine Moore I'm sure we've all seen the viral Reddit posts about like chat GPT saved my life.
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 14:07 Balaji Srinivasan We just want like a bare domain name, like reddit.com, like a field that we can build up on ourselves and no one tells us what to do.
Building Cluely: The Viral AI Startup that raised $15M in 10 Weeks w/ Roy Lee
Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
- ▶ 1:24:50 Erik Torenberg There's a whole subreddit dedicated to this whole subreddit.
The State of Consumer Tech in the Age of AI
- ▶ 7:13 Justine Moore Create full stories that people are posting on Twitter and Reddit and all of these different places.
- ▶ 10:52 Justine Moore Facebook is, like, the boomer AI slap, and then, like, Reddit and Reels are, like, the younger people AI content.
- ▶ 14:13 Justine Moore Like, enterprise buyers, there's so much of a mandate to have AI now, an AI strategy, and use AI tools, that they're watching places like Twitter and Reddit and all of the AI newsletters, and they're saying, like, hey, this is some random,…
- ▶ 35:34 Justine Moore This reminds me of my favorite post of all time on the Character AI subreddit, which I spent an immense amount of time on, which is, okay, and to set the scene. 4 times in the scene
Building the Next Generation of Conversational AI
- ▶ 58:35 Anjney Midha So the top question on the fan subreddit, does anyone know what the plan is for this tech?
- ▶ 1:11:54 Anjney Midha So I, I just typed Sesame AI into Reddit and I'm just going to read, read out the top headlines to you.
Vibe Coding is Here - How AI is Changing How We Build Online
- ▶ 1:46 Steph Smith There are entire Reddit communities behind this.
DeepSeek, Reasoning Models, and the Future of LLMs
- ▶ 4:09 Marco Mascorro Being trained on, on formats like, like Reddit, or like Stack Overflow, which already has a perfect format where you have a voting mechanism. 2 times in the scene
How Zapier Became Profitable in 3 Years and Scaled to $5B with Wade Foster
- ▶ 29:15 Wade Foster And I would do, kind of, like, the Reddit thing, where I'd, like, write a piece of paper, and I'd say, like, hi so-and-so, and I'd take a picture of myself and, like, send that back to him.
The Quest for Community-Trained Open Source AI Models
- ▶ 9:00 Jeff Schmidt We met actually on, uh, just on Reddit. 2 times in the scene
The Top 100 GenAI Consumer Apps
- ▶ 11:39 Olivia Moore Same thing with Reddit.
7 Ways to Boost Retention (Both Pre- and Post-AI)
- ▶ 23:07 unnamed speaker So old school examples, again, one way to do that on Reddit type of the world is to be a moderator. 2 times in the scene
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 1:12:01 Chris Dixon Like, so there's, there's like what you're seeing now, like Reddit just shut down their, their API.
Inside AI Town: What AI Can Teach Us About Being Human
Dunking in VR: Inside the Future of Sports
- ▶ 4:32 unnamed speaker And that actually ended up happening, like, um, you know, we had, we made a post on Reddit, and there's like a few hundred people that tried it out, and all of a sudden they were in a Discord being like, how can I move around yet?
What is the Future of Hollywood?
- ▶ 1:48:50 Ben Horowitz What I had said, I was referring to, so there was this, uh, kind of, uh, the, the, the kind of Reddit group, uh, on, um, who was, uh, following at that time, GameStop, uh, referred to themself.
- ▶ 1:56:30 Marc Andreessen Like there's like some subreddit or discord group or something or Twitter micro community or like whatever, where you can like go down.
Growth vs Efficiency: Can You Have Both?
More Than a Game: Why Are We Obsessed With Sports?
AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
- ▶ 16:29 Marc Andreessen I mean, there's, there's, you know, you just follow one of the, one of the reddits where people talk about this and there's thousands of, you know, actually useful things that people are doing.
The Marketplace 100: A Glimpse Into the Future of Commerce
- ▶ 42:53 Olivia Moore But I actually went back and looked at a bunch of the very first Reddit posts that got made about StockX in particular, and I was like, why? 3 times in the scene
Unlocking Creativity with Prompt Engineering
- ▶ 3:03 Guy Parsons But on places like Twitter and Reddit, there are people posting like these amazing images, but because of the nature of social media, it's all lost.
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
- ▶ 26:06 Anne Lee Skates These are all really great at facilitating interest space and sometimes even a stranger first relationships and actually deepening those.
Neal Stephenson on the Future of the Metaverse
- ▶ 40:51 Steph Smith Another one is called Stable Diffusion, and I saw this thread this morning of a bunch of Redditors who basically were doing, were using like clip art or very, very simple drawings.
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 41:48 Balaji Srinivasan You look at hacker news and you look at Reddit
From Unknown Title to Viral Game: 12 Growth Lessons From Spellbreak
- ▶ 0:17 Seth Sivak What I'm going to be talking to all you guys about today is basically, um, how we used imager, Reddit, YouTube, and discord to gain pre alpha signups for a new IP from an unknown studio.
- ▶ 4:45 Seth Sivak Um, and that was a big reason why I think we were able to grow is looking at channels like imager, like nine gag, like Reddit, where you can actually still go viral without needing a base to, to build from.
- ▶ 9:21 Seth Sivak I'm posting this to Reddit or whatever it is.
- ▶ 25:23 Seth Sivak send people to be like, Hey, go ask your question in this server or in this discord server, ask this question on Reddit or whatever it is. 8 times in the scene
Gamers are Entering a New Era of Monetization
- ▶ 12:19 Kevin Chou What you see here is what one gamer posted to Reddit.
What's Next for the Internet?
- ▶ 14:05 Chris Dixon I don't know, a hundred, probably a hundred million plus cryptocurrency enthusiasts who have, they have Twitter followers, they have blogs, they have GitHub accounts, they have Reddit karma, um, and they're out proselytizing, and, you…
10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
- ▶ 28:50 Justin Kan Um, my brother, who's, you know, a COO of Cruise, uh, co-founder of Cruise, the self-driving car company, and they're, like, over a thousand people, and, like, Steve, the founder of Reddit, um, you know, they're, like, 400 something…
a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
- ▶ 22:04 Brian Armstrong On the internet, um, to Chris's point about the traditional apps that have succeeded today, anything that's like a like button, an upvote, you know, a star, a follower, whether it's Twitter or, you know, Stack Overflow or any app like…
a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- ▶ 36:25 Chris Dixon They also probably, by the way, disproportionately have Twitter followers, Reddit Karma, Hacker News, Cred, whatever that's called, you know, Google Juice, right?
a16z Podcast | Seeing into the Future -- Making Decisions, Telling Stories
- ▶ 30:17 Chris Dixon It's so potentially great about the internet as you have all of these niche communities, you know, subreddits and, you know, crowdfunding, like, you know, we were investors in, in Oculus, and I don't think Oculus would have ever gotten…
a16z Podcast | What to Know about GDPR
- ▶ 24:23 Steven Sinofsky You know, it might, it actually might show up on some, some Reddit forum somewhere, or it might show up by people sending threatening mail that they have the data, but they need to have, like, an action plan
a16z Podcast | Mental Models for Understanding Crypto Tokens
- ▶ 18:27 Chris Dixon Community and kind of use cases and Reddit forums and a whole bunch of other things, right?
- ▶ 29:05 Nick Tomaino That's how I got involved, and I spend a lot of time in Reddits and Slacks and, and different, uh, forums. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Community and Culture, Online
- ▶ 0:07 Sonal Chokshi Moderated by Chris Dixon, general partner at A-Six-Teen-Z, and including Alex Lay, VP of product at Reddit, Michael Temkin, CEO of Rabbit, and Jeffrey Wu, co-founder and CEO of Human, is all about how our idea of community is changing,…
- ▶ 1:43 Jeffrey Wu There just happened to be, you know, tens of thousands of people on our nootropics, uh, on, on the Reddit platform that were talking about doing citizen science. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:16 Alex Le Reddit actually started off as one community, so we were just a single community of, ah, kind of hackers that were interested in sharing tech news. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:46 Michael Temkin Honestly, it's everything, and that's where the sub-communities come in, so we have, it's usually what happens with Rabbit is people will come from somewhere else, from an asynchronous community like Reddit, if they have a super obscure… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:14 Alex Le Yeah, so with Reddit, we hope that we can map the entire
- ▶ 14:00 Jeffrey Wu I think all, some of these subreddits that, you know, communities on rabbit, you know, hopefully the biohacking community ends up becoming just mainstream culture, just like computing,
a16z Podcast | Why Crypto Tokens Matter
- ▶ 20:21 Fred Ehrsam Namely, we'll go from assembling on bitcointalk.org and r slash ethereum to better threaded GitHub repos or who knows what the next advancement will be.
a16z Podcast | The Blockchain, in Congress
- ▶ 18:24 Congressman Jared Polis I just read the Reddit subreddits on Bitcoin.
a16z Podcast | On Wearables, Quantified Self, and Biohacking
- ▶ 11:08 Sonal Chokshi Well, that's actually really interesting because didn't nootropics sort of spawn on Reddit as a community?
a16z Podcast | Crisis Communications
- ▶ 22:51 Kim Milosevich If you have a big community on Reddit, what are they doing?
a16z Podcast | The Future of... You
- ▶ 5:22 Rob Reinhart Launching with crowdfunding, building an online community, Reddit, our own forums,
- ▶ 8:44 Chris Dixon And if you're not familiar with it, if you go to like, if you go to reddit slash r nootropics, there's a whole community of people who develop what they call their stack, which is sort of their mix of, of different thing, you know,…
a16z Podcast | Welcome to the New Era of Commerce
- ▶ 12:12 James Beshara But there is a subreddit with about 30,000 people just talking about the game every day.
a16z Podcast | Stickers! Filters! Memes! Livestreams!
- ▶ 6:32 Christina Xu Um, they're kind of more like rage faces, if you remember that phenomenon from Reddit a few years ago.
- ▶ 10:32 Connie Chan Um, it was really popular on sites like Reddit or sites like Nightbag.
- ▶ 15:33 Sonal Chokshi You referenced Rage Faces earlier, which were popular on Reddit a few years ago.
a16z Podcast | Truce for Mobile, Battle for VR
- ▶ 10:42 Chris Dixon By the way, like, let's just say, like, the combination of Carmack and Abrish keynotes, like, it was funny because, like, the Oculus Reddit was, like, kind of, you know, they were kind of bummed out for the last four months because Vive…
a16z Podcast | Sleep!
- ▶ 0:30 Sonal Chokshi It's kind of funny because when I see hacker news threads or Reddit threads or, you know, people who are really into biohacking, one of the topics that comes up a lot is how to, I hate this phrase, but how to hack your sleep.
a16z Podcast | Ethereum, App Coins, and Beyond
- ▶ 15:49 Chris Dixon And one other thing I observe is just looking at, like, you know, the Reddit forums, our Ethereum and our Bitcoin, that the, our Ethereum community seems, I would describe it as much more of a computer science developer community, whereas…
- ▶ 36:08 Fred Ehrsam Which is a decentralized, um, news and social network, and the model is instead of having a centralized company sort of create and extract rent from owning that network, so like, you know, Facebook created a Facebook network and makes a…
a16z Podcast | Nootropics and the Best Version of Your Brain, Yourself
- ▶ 8:57 Sakantala Panjshiratna (Saku) Um, the big community of nootropic seizures is the Reddit, the subreddit, all nootropics. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Future of Food
- ▶ 1:15 Michael Copeland Um, so when, when Chris was talking up Soylent, and when, when we started to see sort of the uptake in, like, the Reddit world, for example, um, I was hugely skeptical.
- ▶ 22:05 Rob Reinhart So, uh, in the early days, the community was largely DIYers, people trying to make some, you know, Soylent-esque, uh, product on their own, um, but, you know, since we've been shipping, uh, the community has, uh, has exploded in, in, in…
a16z Podcast | A Podcast about Podcasts
- ▶ 9:54 Roman Mars You know, I think much to the chagrin, I mean, it was of, of Serial, like Serial did not welcome this, but you know, that show I think was propelled because of online communities on Reddit trying to solve the murder, and they did not…
a16z Podcast | Hard Forks, Hard Choices for Bitcoin
a16z Podcast | Establishing Online Identity is Hard -- It Shouldn't Be
- ▶ 4:36 Chris Dixon It sounds very primitive now, um, but it's, but it's funny because it was the best practice until we had Twitter and Reddit and Facebook.
- ▶ 6:34 Chris Dixon Or let's say I want to communicate with a journalist who I follow on Twitter, um, and I know his or her Twitter handle, or I want to share a file with someone I, I met on Reddit, or I want to, uh, or Facebook is an obvious one, um, et…
a16z Podcast | Which Bitcoin Players Matter?
- ▶ 14:49 Nathaniel Popper Local social network called Turinga, uh, which is, you know, this, this local sort of Reddit, Facebook site, and they're, they're using Bitcoin not as a way of transferring large amounts of money, but actually as a way of allowing for…
a16z Podcast | Virtual Reality v Augmented Reality, and What's Next
- ▶ 25:16 Chris Dixon Um, so on the, on the, uh, developer side, so we have, you know, if you go on the, the Reddit forums or an Oculus share, there's tons of kind of indie excitement.
a16z Podcast | Guiding Startup Culture -- The Genius ISMs
- ▶ 29:37 Ilan Zechory I mean, part of what Reddit has been, how, why Reddit has been so successful is they simply have a good algorithm for sorting
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