Russia

21 statements across 20 episodes · 1 bullish · 8 bearish · 17 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Kim Zetter · said 220 times in 86 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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2019 92 mentions in 33 episodes 3 per episode
2018 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
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Everything said about Russia, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Assertion Supported
Zetter: US Authorities Must Wait for Russian Hackers to Travel Abroad
“It's hard to go after Russians. Little cooperation with the government, and so U.S. Authorities have to wait for someone to leave Russia and go, you know, on vacation to Thailand or someplace, and not been there.”
Kim Zetter Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:49 a16z Podcast | How Hacks Happen (Let’s Just Say Mistakes Have Been Made)
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Supported
Khanna: Reverse pipelines supply Russian gas to Ukraine via Western Europe
“The target country for Russia is of course, Ukraine. But now that Russia has built so many, is building so many new pipelines to Europe that circumvent Ukraine, Europe is building what are called reverse pipelines that take the gas that goes from Russia to Ger…”
Parag Khanna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:10 a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Supported
Flournoy: US intelligence community agrees Russia directed WikiLeaks releases
“It's pretty accepted now from the intelligence community community that these leaks were directed by Russia.”
Michelle Flournoy Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:27 a16z Podcast | What's Next for Technology and National Security?
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Partly supported
The U.S. bought half of New Horizons' plutonium fuel from Russia
“Glenn, brokering through the U.S. State Department, Got the U.S. To make an offer to the Russians to buy their plutonium for this mission... For the missing piece of it. It wasn't the entire piece, but it was about half.”
Ivan Linscott Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:33 a16z Podcast | New Year, New Horizons -- Pluto!
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Contradicted
Morell: Russian networks posted en masse minutes after Clinton's 2016 collapse
“So within five minutes of Secretary Clinton falling in New York City on September 11th during the campaign, there were hundreds of thousands of social media postings coming out of Eastern Europe and Russia questioning whether she was healthy enough to be presi…”
Michael Morell Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:49 a16z Podcast | For Your Ears Only
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wittes: US confrontation with Russia will dominate foreign policy for years
“Adversary foreign power. Don't confuse it with anything else. It is led by a person who does not have the United States' best interests at heart, and who wants to reestablish hegemony over a region that involves a lot of countries that don't want to be subject…”
Benjamin Wittes Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 29:36 a16z Podcast | The Law (and Tech) of Warfare
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Opinion
D'Amato: Corporate board focus on China and Russia is a distraction
“They're simply really interested in things that are in the news. So if you look at things like China and Russia that don't impact most organizations, they want to know who's attacking and where they're from, what they're doing. And to be honest with you, that'…”
David D'Amato Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:21 a16z Podcast | Cybersecurity in the Boardroom vs. the Situation Room
Jan 2, 2019
Disclosure
Birkenstock: Ukraine-Russia dispute cost his satellite company $10M in delays
“We caught a, Year delay, which cost us almost ten million dollars because of a diplomatic spat between Ukraine and Russia.”
Dan Birkenstock Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:27 a16z Podcast | Space -- the Near Frontier
Jan 2, 2019
Disclosure
ICIJ's Russian reporters fled Russia before publishing their Vladimir Putin investigation
“I know our Russian reporters, before we published that story in Putin, had left the country. So when we published, they weren't there. They did go back afterwards. Journalists are putting their lives in danger in some cases.”
Jared Ryle Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:53 a16z Podcast | When Journalism Goes Global
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Supported
Reich: A migration from Russia replaced 90% of Britain's population 4,500 years ago
“Was that in this period, beginning about 4500 years ago, there was an absolutely huge population turnover, a massive migration from Russia into Central and Western Europe, where in Germany there was a minimum of 70% population replacement from people who came …”
David Reich Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:51 a16z Podcast | The Scientific Revolution of Ancient DNA
Jan 12, 2023
Assertion Partly supported
Feifer: Russia has used the same election interference playbook for 100 years
“For 100 years, Russia had run the same exact playbook on American elections, and that was to utilize the dominant mode of communication at the time, which could either be newspapers, or radio, or television, or social media, to exacerbate existing tensions in …”
Jason Feifer Jan 12, 2023 ▶ 53:16 Building for Tomorrow with Jason Feifer
Feb 6, 2023 negative
Assertion Supported
Brandon Tseng: Adversaries actively jam U.S. drone GPS and communications
“Russia, China Iran, North Korea, they are building up their electronic warfare capabilities. They are jamming GPS. They are jamming communications, which are traditional assets that we've become so reliant on, our predator drones, our, you know, our smaller ve…”
Brandon Tseng Feb 6, 2023 ▶ 8:16 AI & The Future of Modern Warfare
Feb 6, 2023
What-if
Luckey: Pre-arming Ukraine with advanced weapons would have prevented invasion
“If the Ukrainians had an arsenal of advanced technologically sophisticated weaponry from the start, if we'd been able to equip them and make them a prickly porcupine that nobody wanted to step on, then this conflict likely never would have even started.”
Palmer Luckey Feb 6, 2023 ▶ 16:41 Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy
Feb 6, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Luckey: China and Russia outpace US in adopting commercial tech
“China and Russia and our adversarial nations are not waiting and have, in many ways, been much more successful at adopting commercial technology into their military process.”
Palmer Luckey Feb 6, 2023 ▶ 14:30 Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy
Feb 9, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Russian app Travelboast hit #1 in US after gaining 500M TikTok views
“There's one app that hit number one this year called Travelboast. Which is kind of an interactive map where you can visualize all the places you've been. It originated in Russia, but it ended up with five hundred million views on TikTok because people globally…”
Olivia Moore Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 54:56 The State of Apps with Olivia Moore
Aug 2, 2023
Assertion Contradicted
Horowitz: Fossil fuels account for 70% of Russia's GDP
“70% of, 70% of GDP in Russia, I believe, is fossil fuels.”
Ben Horowitz Aug 2, 2023 ▶ 1:31:26 Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
Oct 21, 2023 negative
What-if
Andreessen: Russia could not fund Ukraine war if nuclear wasn't banned
“Quite frankly, it's one of the reasons why Russia is able to do what it's doing in Ukraine is it has this flow of money from oil you know, which in, in a counterfactual universe where the world by now had cut over to civilian electric Like they wouldn't have t…”
Marc Andreessen Oct 21, 2023 ▶ 9:40 Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist
Nov 12, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Andreessen: Europe funds Russia's war by importing gas after closing nuclear plants
“Europe is effectively funding the Russian war machine by purchasing Russian gas. And the reason they need to purchase Russian gas is because they stopped developing their own gas and they have been shutting down their own nuclear plants.”
Marc Andreessen Nov 12, 2024 ▶ 43:08 Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startups
Jan 28, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Schimpf: Russia retooled defense production and outproduces all of NATO on munitions
“Empirically, Russia, You know, about same duration, about two years to retool their industry against defense production. They are now out producing all of NATO on munitions.”
Brian Schimpf Jan 28, 2025 ▶ 24:02 How AI Is Changing Warfare, with Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf
Sep 29, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Schimpf: Russia outproduces NATO in 155mm artillery munitions after two-year ramp
“Russia today is outproducing NATO on one five five munitions and took about two years.”
Brian Schimpf Sep 29, 2025 ▶ 0:00 Anduril CEO: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?
Mar 10, 2026
Assertion Supported
Moore: Russia Is DeepSeek's Second-Largest Market After China
“So Russia is the number two market for DeepSeek after, after China.”
Olivia Moore Mar 10, 2026 ▶ 12:49 Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
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