San Francisco Bay Area
5 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jul 15, 2017 by Benedict Evans · said 159 times in 80 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2026 13 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- The Opportunity for Global Founders
- Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
- Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
- How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer | Alex Blania on a16z
- The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 14 mentions in 10 episodes 1 per episode
- Marc Andreessen: The US is in a AI Arms Race & It Decides The World's Future
- Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
- Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software
- AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- Rocket Companies CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis
- Opendoor CEO: Building the Amazon for Homes
- The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
- Hey Tech, Come to Healthcare
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 32 mentions in 4 episodes 8 per episode
2023 15 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
- Disrupting the World's Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann
- The 4th Estate: How Media is Changing in Washington, D.C.
- Comfort Food, Climate, and the Future of Our Plates
- Marketplace Breakout Strategies: Take Rates, Defensibility, Payments | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- The Challenge of Replicating Reality with Steve Zhao from SandboxVR
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 13 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Why Technology Still Matters with Marc Andreessen
- Pay Without Borders with Alex Bouaziz (Deel), Darren Murph (GitLab), and Sondre Rasch (Safetywing)
- Rearchitecting the Supply Chain with Ryan Petersen
- The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah on the Data Highway Above
- Two-Sided Networks in Healthcare - a Founder's Playbook
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2019 66 mentions in 43 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Public or Private? Finding the Right Board Seat
- a16z Podcast | Software and Overcoming the Randomness of Birthplace
- a16z Podcast | Beyond Zero-Sum Thinking in the Game of Tech... and Life
- a16z Podcast | Breaking Into Bio
- The a16z Pitch Room: Sandbox VR
- a16z Podcast | The Science and Business of Innovative Medicines
- a16z Podcast | Seeing into the Future -- Making Decisions, Telling Stories
- a16z Podcast | Open vs. Closed, Alpha Cities, and the Industries of the Future
- 35 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2017 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
Everything said about San Francisco Bay Area, oldest first
Jul 15, 2017 positive
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Ross: 80% of future tier-one global cities will be outside the US
“And I think that we're moving toward a world where there are between, between let's call it 10 to 15 tier one cities, alpha cities, you know, places, you know, you can think of sort of the San Francisco Bay Area as one of these. You can think of New York City …”
Jul 27, 2022
Abuzeid: Incredible Health launched supply and demand simultaneously in SF
“So we started with both. We went after supply and demand at the same time, but we stayed geographically very focused, like many other two-sided marketplaces. When we started, we were only live in the San Francisco Bay area.”
Dec 20, 2022 bullish