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Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
- ▶ 19:25 Alex Rampell But I took Russian in, in high school and college, worked there, lived there for a while.
Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World
- ▶ 53:55 Travis Kalanick Um, I had to emulate what it's like being a capitalist in Russia, which is their number one KPI is called shut the fuck up.
Digital Freedom, AI Regulation, and the Fight for the Western Internet | The a16z Show
- ▶ 8:50 Sarah Rogers You know, Russia and China censored the internet. 3 times in the scene
Palantir CTO on The SaaS Apocalypse & Preventing The Next World War | a16z
- ▶ 3:27 Shyam Sankar You could say, okay, the Russians annexed Crimea in 2014.
- ▶ 48:42 Shyam Sankar Russian tanks can just roll across the border, you know, October seventh, just horrendous barbarism is still possible that these things don't maintain themselves. 2 times in the scene
Emil Michael: The Department of War Is Moving Faster Than Silicon Valley on AI | The a16z Show
- ▶ 16:33 Emil Michael And we're looking at Ukraine and Russia and seeing what's happening there.
Palantir CEO on Iran, AI Weapons and American Domination | a16z American Dynamism Summit
Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 11:50 Olivia Moore Um, two things that are, are, are probably obvious, ah, in terms of how they differ from the rest of the world, ah, would be Russia and China. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:11 Anish Acharya It's interesting though, because both Russia and China, they're outliers because of restrictions around how models can be used, and maybe cultural preferences. 3 times in the scene
Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
- ▶ 52:24 Katherine Boyle You know, China is a, is a supplier in the same way that Russia is a supplier to, to its own side, but that means that their, their industrial bases have been built up in a way that the U.S. industrial base hasn't built up, um, in the past…
- ▶ 1:04:26 Marc Andreessen Um, and so one of the things that you see in, for example, in the, in the Russia-Ukraine conflict is an incredibly high rate of iteration on the battlefield techniques and use of technology on the battlefield. 2 times in the scene
Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
- ▶ 4:34 Eugenia Kuyda Back in Russia, we only had six TV channels.
Marc Andreessen on the State of Film and Hollywood
- ▶ 1:00:16 Marc Andreessen Ayn Rand, of course, being a Jewish refugee from Russia, um, he said, he said in the novel, quote, has the whiff of the gas chamber about it.
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 3:09 Keith Rabois Uh, if you think about the Middle East, on its way to being solved, he'll get Russia and Ukraine solved, I'm pretty sure.
Opendoor CEO: Building the Amazon for Homes
- ▶ 7:12 Alex Rampell Like people in Russia, no Russia anymore, but like all sorts of like, I buy it for parts, so I'm going to go fix it up. 2 times in the scene
The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
Anduril CEO: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?
- ▶ 0:00 Brian Schimpf Russia today is outproducing NATO on one five five munitions and took about two years.
- ▶ 19:56 Brian Schimpf Um, Russia
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 1:19:43 Balaji Srinivasan Because once you determine what is true and false, like, did Russia, you know, collude with Trump, right?
Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
- ▶ 7:56 Marc Andreessen The Russians can spend, by the way, I think the result of it was, I think it was a result of 80,000 dollars of ad spend by the Russians, um, in, in the relevant period of the election. 3 times in the scene
The Software Crisis Behind America's Infrastructure
- ▶ 1:30 Philip Buckendorf Uh, decided to pull out a nuclear energy to become fully dependent on kind of cheap Russian gas.
Powering the Next Big Things
- ▶ 6:19 unnamed speaker The other one is that, again, on this selling energy to our friends and allies, the two, the two proxy wars that have been going on under the Biden administration, you know, with Iran funding 24 terror groups, and with the, ah, Russian…
- ▶ 20:42 Doug Burgum I mean, we're importing uranium from Russia for our 93, ah, nuclear plants, but in.
Mobilizing the American Industrial Base
- ▶ 1:18 Shyam Sankar Um, at, at a very fundamental level, I think everyone, you know, the Chinese, the Russians have given up on communism except for Cuba and the DOD.
Ben Horowitz on Leadership and Culture
- ▶ 23:42 Ben Horowitz You know, we don't speak on, you know, every, like, I have opinions on everything from, you know, Israel to Ukraine, Russia war, to all that stuff, but I'm not the expert in it.
The Dual-Use Founder: Vets Now Building For America
- ▶ 7:36 unnamed speaker I don't want to speak for John, but I think all of us, right, as we look at what has happened in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, right, the new technologies that have been effectively used or ineffectively used by both sides and how that… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:53 Matt Shortal So the Russians had a few issues there.
Drone Warfare: The New Rules of Combat Are Here
- ▶ 14:20 Ryan Tseng Um, and in some cases, despite tremendous amounts of mass being brought to sections of the battlefield, it just turned into grinded out, you know, war of attrition without a lot of movement on either side, and we, we start to see some of…
- ▶ 30:11 Ryan Tseng So Russians, Ukrainians, because of the Ukrainians stop jamming, they, they, they find their self at risk. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:07 Matt Cronin One, uh, where, uh, totalitarian states, China, Russia, et cetera, has dominance over this technology.
Why American Dynamism Is Just Getting Started
- ▶ 2:21 Katherine Boyle The, you know, coupled with things like the war in Ukraine, you know, we launched the thesis three weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in, in twenty-twenty-two.
How to spot an AI Deepfake
- ▶ 16:31 Brian C. Long I don't know, but overlooked in the broader media was when someone used to deep fake in order to call up the chairman of the foreign relations committee for the Senate and manage deep fake a Russian, uh, uh, a Russian member of the…
How AI Is Changing Warfare, with Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf
- ▶ 6:17 unnamed speaker It's like, no, we've all seen the, you know, Ukraine, Russia.
- ▶ 24:02 Brian Schimpf Uh, empirically, Russia, 4 times in the scene
Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startups
- ▶ 10:10 Marc Andreessen Uh, the government regulators applying pressure on banks to basically sanction American citizens and American businesses is sort of the equivalent of like sanctioning the Iranians or the Russians.
- ▶ 43:06 Ben Horowitz Well, they're dependent on Russia. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:46 Marc Andreessen And you see it on, you see that a hundred percent on the ground in Ukraine right now, um, you know, back and forth with the Russians, uh, with, with drone, with drones.
AI, Robotics & the New Global Arms Race
- ▶ 28:12 Marc Andreessen They shut down their nuclear power, and then they got, you know, dependent on Russian energy, um, and now they're hung up.
Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- ▶ 11:39 Ben Horowitz We've got war with Russia.
- ▶ 22:41 Ben Horowitz And, you know, as opposed to, you know, in Stalin's Russia, where if Stalin didn't tell you to build it, you're not building it.
- ▶ 1:02:40 Marc Andreessen They're completely dependent on the Russians and, and, and, and they're actually de-industrializing.
The Top 100 GenAI Consumer Apps
- ▶ 9:49 Olivia Moore Um, but you could be a solo developer in China, in Russia, anywhere.
Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities
- ▶ 43:32 Marc Andreessen And by the way, for people who haven't followed Telegram, it's this very interesting story, and actually, um, Pavel Durov, who's the, uh, there's two brothers, the Durov brothers, uh, who did, uh, VKontakte, which was the social networking…
Startup Building: Major Shifts in Tech & Culture
- ▶ 13:18 Ben Horowitz Um, but then, uh, you know, like other countries, Russia, China are taking the op.
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 1:20:26 Marc Andreessen I mean, look, and this is how we won the Cold War against Russia is our decentralized system just worked better economically, technologically,
- ▶ 1:36:10 Marc Andreessen The, among other things, you know, has led to basically Europe funding Russia's invasion of Ukraine through the, you know, the need for imported energy, because they, they keep shutting down their nuclear plants.
A Nuclear Comeback: Are New Reactors the Answer?
- ▶ 7:53 Dr. Katherine Huff Consistent deliveries of fuel we've seen in, for example, uh, embattled Russia-Ukraine invasion, we've seen that deliveries of fuel are a clear vulnerability.
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 1:05:03 Ben Horowitz The second is the dollar itself, and we've seen we've tried to use that in lieu of military power in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and it, it's been very ineffective.
Tony Robbins on the Future of Health & Longevity
- ▶ 1:14:16 Tony Robbins And most of it comes out of Russia.
Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist
- ▶ 9:40 Marc Andreessen And, you know, 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, from oil, um, you know, which in, in a counterfactual universe where the world by now had cut over…
The Evolution of the Satellite Economy
- ▶ 29:10 John Gedmark The invasion of Ukraine by Russia was a big
What is the Future of Hollywood?
- ▶ 2:12:29 Ben Horowitz And, you know, like, that kind of thing is completely lacking on, say, you know, the, the, uh, Ukraine-Russian war right now.
Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
- ▶ 0:00 Marc Andreessen It feels eerily to me like history is repeating itself, like a lot more directly than I would prefer, exactly like it happened, you know, in Oppenheimer's time with the Russians.
- ▶ 19:42 Ben Horowitz Um, you know, kind of remembering them like my grandfather got to the United States from Russia in. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:10 Marc Andreessen Lenin actually backpedaled on economic communism, and he created this thing called the New Economic Program, the NEP, and he basically invited in America and American business and American business people to basically make money in Russia,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:49 Ben Horowitz So, you know, this gets into, you know, how far these ideas go of like, okay, well, can you, are you allowed to do bad things like be a Russian spy?
- ▶ 51:53 Ben Horowitz They, they definitely gave, uh, the nuclear secrets to the Russians, probably ended up, you know, leading to, like, some set of those, uh, secrets being given, led to unimaginable number of deaths, uh, by the, just extension of, of the… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:44 Marc Andreessen The historical analogy I just wanted to get to is, your point on Deng, which is, is, is, is, is well made, but the, the, like, what Deng did in China is actually quite similar to what Lenin did in the 19 twenties in Russia. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:23 Ben Horowitz Um, you know, including potentially right now, Russia and Ukraine. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:02 Marc Andreessen Um, uh, number two, you know, as we've discussed, like, a lot of them took matters into their own hands, and through a combination of, you know, a combination of, of internal agitation and, and, and in some cases, direct action, um, you… 4 times in the scene
The State of Apps with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 53:59 Olivia Moore So we're seeing way more apps from China, from Russia, from Italy, really from all over. 3 times in the scene
Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy
- ▶ 4:24 Palmer Luckey But at the same time, China and Russia and other smaller states
- ▶ 13:50 Palmer Luckey Well, to truly compete and to keep pace with rivals like China and Russia, the Department of Defense is going to have to enable a large pool of technology companies to scale into production and succeed. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:32 Palmer Luckey I think since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the United States and allied nations have moved swiftly to supply the Ukrainians with the tools and the weapons that they need to defend their freedom and independence. 2 times in the scene
AI & The Future of Modern Warfare
- ▶ 7:15 Brandon Tseng It's why you see Russia, China making comments about, you know, he who leads an AI will rule the world. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:29 unnamed speaker Is what happens when these new technologies enter the battlefield and what it allows for, and what we're seeing, of course, is that, ah, it demonstrates that what we thought was a great power is a not so great power in Russia, and a weak… 2 times in the scene
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 2)
- ▶ 45:26 Ryan McEntush If there was a real conflict between the United States and China or Russia, they would go out for the satellites first.
Building for Tomorrow with Jason Feifer
- ▶ 51:58 Jason Feifer Um, concern about how Russia had interfered, and pundits and politicians all had this word for it, which was unprecedented. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast: Best Clips of 2022
- ▶ 36:44 Chris Power You know, America is so isolated culturally, you know, most Americans view of geopolitics is Russia bad.
The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
- ▶ 16:13 Chris Power Um, but because, you know, America is so isolated culturally, you know, most Americans view of geopolitics is Russia bad.
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 1:45:03 Balaji Srinivasan Fighting, has been fighting, simultaneous conflicts with, ah, tech, with half its population, with Russia, with China, with, to a lesser extent, with Israel, India, Hungary, France, Brazil, with the Brexiteers in Britain, um, with Web…
Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah on the Data Highway Above
- ▶ 10:08 Steve Wozniak That was, there was a space race going on, a competition with Russia to launch, um, you know, orbiting satellites into space and people in the space and, and even to get to the moon.
- ▶ 57:46 Alex Fielding Like, I'm not supposed to say on this podcast anything that sounds or rhymes with Prussia, but, um, when we had an ASAP attack last year in November, and I, I probably shouldn't even go here. 2 times in the scene
Blockchain in War Zones
- ▶ 15:07 Alex Pruden In Russia, where corruption between state officials and oligarchs has stymied the growth of the economy since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
a16z Podcast | The Business of Cybercrime
- ▶ 16:01 Joel de la Garza And there's this melding of sort of criminal enterprise, the government, and the intelligence apparatus in places like Russia.
a16z Podcast | The Scientific Revolution of Ancient DNA
- ▶ 11:00 David Reich And said to me, our colleagues in Russia uncovered a bone, a finger bone, a little pinky bone of a little girl. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:39 David Reich We obtained lots of DNA samples from Germany, ranging in time from 7000 years ago to 3000 years ago, and also DNA samples from Russia and Spain from the same period. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Autonomy in Service
- ▶ 2:50 Gregory Allen So the primary sort of named competitors or potential adversaries in the national security strategy would be China and Russia, and if you look towards the preparations that the militaries are thinking for in their long-term strategy, both… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:08 Gregory Allen There was a recent headline in Defense One, Russia to the United Nations, don't try to stop us from building killer robots, and I wish that was a joke headline, but that's actually a pretty accurate summary of what Russia said at the most… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | When Journalism Goes Global
- ▶ 8:10 John O'Farrell You uncovered some nefarious doings by Russian oligarchs as well? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:53 Jared Ryle I know our Russian reporters, before we published that story in Putin, had left the country.
a16z Podcast | Improv'ing Leadership
- ▶ 6:37 Dick Costolo I remember one time Medvedev, the president of Russia, was at Twitter and 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Space -- the Near Frontier
- ▶ 12:33 Dan Birkenstock Year delay, which cost us almost ten million dollars because of a diplomatic spat between Ukraine and Russia.
- ▶ 13:17 Steve Smith It's the Chinese, the Russians, and the Americans.
a16z Podcast | The Asshole Survival Guide
- ▶ 21:00 Michael Dearing People say this about, you know, doing business, you know, back in the Cold War days, going to China, going to Russia, changed your perspective, and I'm sure it did for people who came from there to here, changed your perspective on, oh,…
a16z Podcast | Competing Against Luck
- ▶ 9:04 Clayton Christensen He crossed that out, and he said, we call that the Russians.
a16z Podcast | Centers of Power, War, and History
- ▶ 22:04 Graham Allison So wait, what does this guy in Sarajevo have to do with Britain and Germany and Russia and France going to war? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Making a (Really) Wild Geo-Engineering Idea Real
- ▶ 26:59 Ross Anderson Funny, funny story is going up there, this is like a protected area, and so you have to get official Russian permission, not just like a regular visa, just to, to actually go to this region. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Cybersecurity in the Boardroom vs. the Situation Room
- ▶ 4:20 Sonal Chokshi And isn't this part of the reason why some of the best and worst attacks come out of Russia?
- ▶ 7:23 David D'Amato 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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:22 Matt Spence Is it Russia?
a16z Podcast | Changing the Conversation about Cybersecurity
- ▶ 11:41 Matthew Olson And I think now about what we see going on, uh, from Russia, for example, that deserves a national response. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Taking the Measure of Tech in Policy -- with Kamala Harris
- ▶ 20:49 Kamala Harris We've all read about that, that it's all open source information, I'm not sharing anything classified, about the Russian hacking of the election of the President of the United States.
a16z Podcast | The Law (and Tech) of Warfare
- ▶ 5:43 Benjamin Wittes Aldrich Ames was a spy at CIA for the Russians, and after the Ames case, the Justice Department quietly went to the Congress and asked the Congress to
- ▶ 16:11 Benjamin Wittes It happened because of the Russian hacking.
- ▶ 29:35 Sonal Chokshi Ok, Russia. 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | For Your Ears Only
- ▶ 15:55 Matt Spence So if you wanted to understand about Russia, you would read a translated version of some Russian newspapers. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:19 Michael Morell During the Cold War, the Russians tried to interfere in U.S. elections, but the Internet wasn't available. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | From Hidden Figure to Sonic BOOM
- ▶ 10:51 Dr. Christine Darden But, that was a reason, in the early seventies, the United States, Russia, and the English and French were planning to build a supersonic passenger plane. 4 times in the scene
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