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Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE Oct 16, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 26:43 Alex Rampell Well, it feels like they're looking at it like, you know, every Samsung phone when it comes out has a better camera for like, you know, a week or a year or whatever than Apple, or like, you know, now the Samsung phone folds in half, or it… 3 times in the scene

The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future? Oct 6, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 39:34 Steven Sinofsky What had happened, what was happening to them already was that Korea had already seen how Japan was successful with TVs, and had already decided LG and Samsung that we're gonna win in TVs. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:02 Steven Sinofsky Like, like, like if they were to be able to sell them here, which, you know, is a challenge, you know, those phones would all be these share leaders, and it wouldn't just be Samsung and the AT&T store, for example.

Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China Sep 22, 2025 · 3 mentions

Dylan Patel on GPT-5’s Router Moment, GPUs vs TPUs, Monetization Aug 18, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 48:53 Dylan Patel I think the world needs Intel because like Samsung is doing worse than Intel on leading edge process development, in my opinion, um, based on even on various customers in the industry having done test chips at like 3 times in the scene

Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem Jun 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:06 Steven Sinofsky The only reason that there are so many amazing Samsung phones is because they've all seen the movie.

Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta's Jason Gardner Nov 28, 2023 · 1 mention

Building Hardware and Taking on the Phone Giants with Carl Pei Apr 6, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:38 unnamed speaker If you're living in the US, there's an 85% chance that your phone is from Apple or Samsung.
  • ▶ 3:21 unnamed speaker I mean, if you look at the companies who do have strong market share in the phone market, you've got Apple, Samsung, Motorola, Google.

Digital Humans and the Story Behind Lil Miquela Mar 31, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:16 Steph Smith She's partnered with the likes of Samsung and Prada, but she's also not real.

Data Security and the Rise of Crypto Jan 30, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:52 Diogo Mónica The current hardware manufacturers that you use, HTC and Samsung, have been adding features to their phones, crypto processors, that have the sole purpose of maintaining safely private keys on your devices.

a16z Podcast | How Many Taps in the Apple (Plus) Tree? Apr 1, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:29 Steven Sinofsky The fact that they will incrementally expand where that, you know, Invisio TV or LG TV or Samsung TV is all goodness.

Security Markets: The Lay of the Land Mar 1, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:15 unnamed speaker So, you probably have a refrigerator that, that's got some kind of Linux microkernel in it, or perhaps a Samsung television that's got a microphone and a Linux microkernel in it, ah, but basically all the things that used to be just dumb…

a16z Podcast | To All the Robots I've Loved Before Feb 26, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:16 unnamed speaker So that's why we project more onto them than like the Samsung monitor that I'm looking at back here because it looks like it has agency in the world.

a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond Feb 26, 2019 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 11:28 Steven Sinofsky And then of course the most extreme of that were these little, uh, 12 inch squares of TV that Samsung did called the wall, which were OLED.
  • ▶ 13:39 Steven Sinofsky Like the Samsungs and the Sonys and the LGs of the world want to be part of that. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:02 Benedict Evans That's Whirlpool and Samsung and LG and that's oven companies.

Better Together: Humanity + Machine Learning Feb 9, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Tesla and the Nature of Disruption Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:49 Benedict Evans Um, in partnership with Google, Samsung and a lot of other people found it really easy to make phones with capacity multi-touch screens.

a16z Podcast | What's at the Core of the Latest Apple Announcement? Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:12 Steven Sinofsky Because this, this new LED one in the middle is actually quite the sandwich problem for, for a Samsung or an LG trying to insert a phone.
  • ▶ 15:47 Benedict Evans Huawei and Samsung show you the one where it came out, but there's always like three where it didn't come out.

a16z Podcast | B2B2C Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:44 Alex Rampell And it would be a mistake just because people go to Best Buy with their wallet open, and if everything there was Samsung and nothing was Apple,

a16z Podcast | When Is VR's iPhone Moment? Jan 2, 2019 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 1:03 Chris Dixon On VR, similarly, you have, on the low end, you have, like, Gear and Daydream, and on the high end, you have the, you know, the Vive and Oculus, but, you know, they're sort of either, on the high end, they're expensive, and you need a lot…
  • ▶ 4:18 Darshan Shankar The Gear VR was Oculus and Samsung building a very cheap, 79, 99 dollar mobile VR headset that could use your existing Samsung smartphone. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:18 Darshan Shankar The Gear VR was Oculus and Samsung building a very cheap, 79, 99 dollar mobile VR headset that could use your existing Samsung smartphone. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:18 Darshan Shankar Oculus, Samsung, Sony with their PlayStation VR, and Microsoft with their new Windows Mixed Reality platform.

a16z Podcast | Beyond CES: Connected Home Devices, Voice, and More Jan 2, 2019 · 17 mentions

  • ▶ 3:17 Steven Sinofsky So, like, one of the ones I saw was, like, a whiteboard, and, you know, Samsung has a TV group. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:32 Benedict Evans When you go to the Google, the LG stand, or the Samsung stand, it's actually kind of interesting. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:08 Steven Sinofsky Memory sticks will go in all of your products, and it was absolutely a board level kind of thing, whereas it, Samsung, just like the whiteboard showed, you know, it's not clear yet that, like, Android has to be in everything, but it is… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:29 Benedict Evans And it only works if you've got a Samsung fridge. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:42 Steven Sinofsky So let's just talk about for a second, because one of the things is, is that that's driving me crazy is just like, yeah, they're, you know, Samsung makes screens, and they make arm chips, so they seem to decide that every little device has…

a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:32 Kyle Russell Uh, there's a within booth with a couple, uh, Gear VR headsets up at the Innovators Pavilion.

a16z Podcast | Culture and/of Design Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:23 unnamed speaker And, uh, you know, like remember the lawsuit Samsung had against Apple about the iPhone?

a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices? Jan 2, 2019 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 5:59 Steven Sinofsky And so at some point, you know, you start to worry, is there going to be like a Samsung arm chip in a Google pixel device in the future that is only theirs first?
  • ▶ 9:08 Benedict Evans Is the reach problem that too many people were buying iPhones, and they felt that no one was making a high-end Android phone, and so they had to make a high-end Android phone, and if that upsets Samsung, well, that's so be it.
  • ▶ 25:57 Benedict Evans Well, this is, so this is a problem Samsung has always had. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Truce for Mobile, Battle for VR Jan 2, 2019 · 21 mentions

  • ▶ 1:08 Kyle Russell Um, the idea being they are taking kind of the mobile approach to VR that Oculus and Samsung had and are 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:20 Chris Dixon The Oculus Rift, which is their high end, high end headset and the Gear VR, which is a partnership with Samsung, which is low end. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:03 Kyle Russell Maybe sometime next year, which is quality, industrial design, feel of materials wise, quality of the 600 dollar Oculus Rift, but with ease of use of, or actually probably easier to use than the Gear VR in that it's not something you have… 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:09 Kyle Russell So hardware that frankly looks like what's in the Galaxy phones that power the Gear VR.
  • ▶ 11:33 Kyle Russell But Samsung and Qualcomm, there's things that are broken that they haven't fixed and slash can't fix because of the control that carriers have on updates being pushed out to the phones.
  • ▶ 12:38 Kyle Russell It's one Facebook and therefore Oculus doesn't want to be dependent on Samsung, one hardware partner to, you know, if they think that a mobile-ish headset not connected to a high-end gaming PC is how this will take off.
  • ▶ 12:57 Kyle Russell That was the Gear VR phone this fall.
  • ▶ 16:47 Kyle Russell That's the Gear VR. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:32 Benedict Evans There's the, how long does it take to get the daydream slash gear VR model to the point that it's almost as good as that? 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Apple and the Case of Invisible But Audible Innovation Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 7:49 Benedict Evans Whereas when you are at Android or at Samsung, you've got that kind of disconnected experience where it's not all linked together.
  • ▶ 26:53 Benedict Evans And so Apple has got like a thing that looks like a Gear VR and a thing that looks like an Oculus running off a Mac Pro.

a16z Podcast | Fintech Revolution or Evolution? Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:32 Angela Strange Alex has already trademarked this human pay versus Apple pay or Samsung's pay.
  • ▶ 23:02 Alex Rampell Whether it's an Apple phone or a Samsung phone would be from like the ultimate buying platform, which would be Amazon.

a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O Jan 2, 2019 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 14:04 Kyle Russell Uh, that all of the big Android OEMs will be able to build a top of, make their own headsets, essentially competing with the Gear VR.
  • ▶ 14:12 Benedict Evans Poor Samsung.
  • ▶ 21:22 Kyle Russell Uh, but now they're kind of pushing in that direction, you know, with a daydream reference design that they're going to give access to, to all the different Android OEMs so they can make their own headsets, basically at this Gear VR tier,…
  • ▶ 22:39 Benedict Evans I sort of said earlier, like, poor Samsung. 4 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Mobile Falls Hard for Virtual Reality Jan 2, 2019 · 18 mentions

  • ▶ 3:58 Benedict Evans It will be done by this second-tier South Korean electronics company, Samsung, and this has been American computer company that you may vaguely remember from the eighties called Apple Computer. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:38 Benedict Evans Um, Samsung basically had the S six S in the S seven. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:00 Benedict Evans Um, and so Samsung has evolved the gear. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:26 Benedict Evans Because, um, so Samsung cloned Nokia. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:26 Benedict Evans There's this great observation that Sundar Pinchai made, who was then running Android and is now running Google, made this kind of point that, you know, when Samsung dominated Android, people said, gee, Sundar, you've got a big problem. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:08 Benedict Evans Samsung is the only one, and they were, yeah, they were there, but they weren't, like, one of the kind of primary creators of cellular technology. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:17 Benedict Evans So Samsung, both at CES and on their stand here, had a demo stand where you had, like, I think, like, 30 or 40 seats, where you go, you queue up, you sit in the seat, you put the gear VR on, the seat, the kind of stand kind of moves…

a16z Podcast | Mapping the Future of Virtual Reality Jan 2, 2019 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 1:08 Chris Dixon Um, there's Gear and Cardboard. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:15 Kyle Russell So last fall we saw the launch of the Gear VR, which is compatible with Samsung phones, and it's kind of the prototypical mobile VR headset.
  • ▶ 33:55 Kyle Russell Uh, well a recent announcement that got me really excited for, uh, what's gonna happen in VR in 2016 is the idea, er, that Samsung is going to be providing, uh, gear VR's to the first 300,000 people who, um, order a Samsung Galaxy S seven,… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:55 Kyle Russell Uh, well a recent announcement that got me really excited for, uh, what's gonna happen in VR in 2016 is the idea, er, that Samsung is going to be providing, uh, gear VR's to the first 300,000 people who, um, order a Samsung Galaxy S seven,… 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Software is What Distinguishes the Hardware Winners Jan 2, 2019 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 1:54 Steven Sinofsky And by seeing all the parts at once, you sort of can connect the dots from like small, like a person making an ingredient technology way over in the faraway boonies, all the way to, you know, like the Samsung people with their monster… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:54 Michael Copeland I mean, is Samsung out there like with something that you feel like breaks that mold or are they running down the same path? 4 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | The Year Mobile Began to Truly Dominate Tech Jan 2, 2019 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 9:11 Benedict Evans Half of the portion of the high end market that they didn't already have away from Samsung. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:21 Benedict Evans And so you have this kind of question of, well, what kind of reach does Google need, and how much does it matter to them that Apple has apparently got a lock on this portion of the market, and that, you know, the new Nexus is not going to…
  • ▶ 14:51 Michael Copeland So, and then that leaves us with Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, and, and Samsung for that matter, but these other players who, who are clearly in the mobile venue and they need to be there, but where are they?
  • ▶ 20:09 Benedict Evans In the course of the year, um, as Cardboard and Oculus and Gear VR and potentially a mobile from Apple and Microsoft's HoloLens and so on.

a16z Podcast | The Present State and Future Possibility of Virtual Reality Jan 2, 2019 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 1:27 Kyle Russell So, recently, uh, Samsung and Oculus released the Gear VR. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:27 Kyle Russell So, recently, uh, Samsung and Oculus released the Gear VR. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:26 Beau Cronin Yeah, that's right, and so I think it's worth saying there is an incredible amount that they got right with the Gear VR.
  • ▶ 39:12 Kyle Russell If you used, uh, the DK two and gone on Oculus share, or if you now have the new gear VR and go, you know, check out the experiences section of the Oculus store.

a16z Podcast | Quantum Leap Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | What Comes After the Smartphone Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:41 Benedict Evans The sort of, the feeling you have in mobile right now is we're kind of at the end of one wave, and we haven't got another wave coming up yet, so we've kind of had the smartphone wars, and Apple and Google both kind of won, and we've had…
  • ▶ 12:13 Benedict Evans New, bigger companies that come in and crush Apple and Google and, and, you know, Samsung and ARM and Qualcomm and so on.

a16z Podcast | Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV Jan 2, 2019 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 3:11 Benedict Evans Whereas whenever Samsung tries to do something like that, it only works with the Samsung apps because developers say, well, why would I support that when it's only on a Samsung phone? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:29 Benedict Evans I mean, Apple has always been pretty secure in its market, and then it sounds like Apple had, as it might be, a half to two-thirds of the high-end, and Samsung had most of the rest. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:05 Benedict Evans The post-PC replacement, which is what Apple and Samsung and everybody else is trying to play in, and Apple has like three-thirds, two-quarters, uh, has like two-quarters to two-thirds of that, and if you look at all the usage stats for…

a16z Podcast | Messaging As the Interface to Everything Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:33 David Pierce It's flinging all across the web, and you can buy things through Pinterest directly now, and you can buy things through, you're going to be able to buy things through Twitter soon, and Apple Pay is everywhere, and Samsung Pay is…

a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language? Jan 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 28:43 Chris Schroeder I mean, even hardware providers like Sony or Samsung, you know, you had to make it in America because that was the market for it. 3 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | For Google, Android is a Tactic and Cloud is a Strategy Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 18:59 Benedict Evans And so you already see this with the, um, the Samsung Galaxy, um, Gear VR, which does, is a partnership with Oculus, or uses some Oculus technology.
  • ▶ 18:59 Benedict Evans And so you already see this with the, um, the Samsung Galaxy, um, Gear VR, which does, is a partnership with Oculus, or uses some Oculus technology.

a16z Podcast | What the Apple Watch Is -- and Isn't Jan 2, 2019 · 4 mentions

a16z Podcast | Searching for Mobile's Third OS Jan 2, 2019 · 6 mentions

a16z Podcast | Mobile is Eating the World (and Apple is Gobbling Fastest) Jan 2, 2019 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 6:04 Benedict Evans You know, Samsung tried, ran into a brick wall at a certain level of share, only really succeeded because they were making big phones, big screen phones, which Apple is now doing, and now Samsung's share has slipped back quite dramatically. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:48 Benedict Evans In precisely the period that you have half a dozen Chinese manufacturers coming into market with really good design and strong brand, which show me is only the most obvious, and what's happening is those guys are killing Samsung, they're… 5 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Virtual Reality v Augmented Reality, and What's Next Jan 2, 2019 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 2:35 Peter Rubin I mean, with the Samsung Gear VR that came out in December, we have a consumer product for sale.
  • ▶ 9:45 Peter Rubin I think we both know that, and I think that while it, it, they position themselves as gaming first, I think they're, they're gonna come out of the gate with a lot of non-gaming entertainment things, just like the Samsung Gear VR had, you… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:26 Peter Rubin And then you have kind of Samsung gear VR, which is a little bit between the two. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:23 Peter Rubin I think there may be seven, uh, things that were built for VR, anything, everything from cardboard to Samsung to, to the DK two. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | The Technology is Ready, So Where is the Internet of Things? Jan 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 3:47 Preethi Kasireddy It's leaving consumers kind of blinded with figuring out how to, how to work this together, and I think what startups and companies like Samsung and LG and Google, what they have to think about is providing whole solutions for consumers.
  • ▶ 12:47 Zal Bilimoria So, so should startups be scared of, um, interoperability, and should they wait for Google, Apple, Samsung, et cetera, to go and create interoperable standards for everything to work together, or should they kind of blaze the trail forward… 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile Jan 2, 2019 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 3:07 Benedict Evans So, I mean, if we go through those sort of one at a time, you know, there's been a question for two or three years as to what was going to happen with Samsung, which had taken half of the Android market by volume and almost all the profits. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:40 Benedict Evans And I think the same thing applies to Firefox OS or JOLO or, um, I've even forgotten what the Samsung one is even called.

a16z Podcast | Apple Takes on Payments and Your Wrist Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:11 Benedict Evans And the obvious takeaway is that this is a competitive problem for Samsung.
  • ▶ 28:10 Benedict Evans If you look at Samsung, which has a device at every half inch increment from two inches to 15 inches, um, or more if you include the TV.
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