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The State of AI: Models, Moats, and the Consumer Renaissance
Lighthouse or Landgrab? How to Pick Your AI Sales Strategy
- ▶ 0:12 Joe Schmidt Go after the very obvious companies here in San Francisco that probably have some sort of proof or social value associated with them, or like go out and sell in Ohio.
- ▶ 1:40 Joe Schmidt And for some reason, they all have decided that the only relevant companies for this piece of software are in San Francisco and driving on the one on one freeway. 3 times in the scene
Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
How Decagon Runs 90% of Its Agents on Open-Source Models
- ▶ 58:34 unnamed speaker How do you maintain that culture when you guys are both in San Francisco?
- ▶ 59:27 Ashwin Sreenivas Uh, the other thing is also, we, um, we bring everybody that we hire out to San Francisco for a couple weeks when they start, so they're kind of immersed in the kind of, uh, the original kind of soup of, of culture, uh, and then for every…
Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
- ▶ 5:58 Travis Kalanick So, came down south, this neck of the woods, because I was in San Francisco, and, ah, this little sushi place, I don't remember the name of it,
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 26:50 Qasar Younis People running through a San Francisco office.
- ▶ 33:30 Marc Andreessen It's become, you know, like people in San Francisco are, I think, treated now as routine that they get into self-driving cars.
- ▶ 1:19:36 Qasar Younis The companies are just always looking at the market that's just like within the 30, you know, between San Jose and San Francisco.
Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence
- ▶ 1:03 unnamed speaker Um, lots of things going on at the firm, uh, for a firm that used to historically, uh, be all centered in Menlo Park, and, and we didn't even want to open up a San Francisco office.
- ▶ 7:17 unnamed speaker Particularly because AI is now just getting built in the six block radius in San Francisco.
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 26:24 Benedict Evans These are not San Francisco questions. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen’s Worldview in 60 Minutes | Live on MTS
- ▶ 4:50 Marc Andreessen And, and it's the kind of thing where, you know, if you've, you know, if, you know, if you've lived through, you know, like everybody who, you know, everybody in San Francisco has lived through this for the last decade and seen the… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:56 Marc Andreessen You know, if you live in Silicon Valley or work in San Francisco, you undoubtedly have friends who are, you know, computer programmers, those friends, you know, some percentage of those friends are early adopters of AI coding.
Why Claude Feels Different (And What That Means for AI) | The a16z Show
- ▶ 13:14 unnamed speaker Do you think that there's a preferred model is like, is the gentle builder more of a New York informed model and the technical builders more of an SF informed model?
- ▶ 30:50 unnamed speaker Like I'm going to get left behind while the guys in San Francisco are going to be enormously wealthy.
Building Agents at Home: Homeschooling, Parenting and More | The a16z Show
- ▶ 21:59 Jessie Genet So I could be here in San Francisco, I'm, I live in LA, and I could be like, we need another guy, we need another agent, you guys.
Inside The Life of Silicon Valley's First Athlete Investor | Magic Johnson
- ▶ 1:47 Chris Lyons You know, bring, having you come up to San Francisco talking about venture, uh, expanding the portfolio, and, and we wanted really just to take the time today to, to, because, you know, you are one of the ultimate deal makers, businessmen,…
The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- ▶ 56:26 Anish Acharya It's much more useful to search for a flight from SF to New York on kayak, because I can look across the inventory of every airline.
“How We Can Eliminate Crime” | Ben Horowitz and Garrett Langley
- ▶ 8:50 Garrett Langley San Francisco does as well.
- ▶ 29:55 Erik Torenberg Is, is this repeatable in cities, you know, beyond Vegas and, um, and like in San Francisco, how, how many companies would pay money to make it safer for their employees to, to come into the office every day? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:06 Garrett Langley I think the other thing we're looking at, and we actually, we had a great conversation with the DA here in San Francisco, Jenkins, of just like, there also needs to be some technology and either flocks in a builder or someone should, to… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:47 Ben Horowitz And then, if you're not prosecuting crimes, particularly in San Francisco, we had this where they don't get called in. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:00 Ben Horowitz And by the way, so this is what happened, you know, I had, uh, when the crime went really crazy in San Francisco, I had a long conversation with 3 times in the scene
The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
- ▶ 1:15 Jonathan Swanson Origin story here is, out of school, I worked at the White House, and, uh, I sat, I sat in the West Wing next to the president's executive assistants, and as you might imagine, the EAs in the West Wing were really freaking good, and it set…
Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
- ▶ 13:31 Vlad Tenev And simultaneously, I had moved from New York, which is where our previous company was based, to San Francisco, to start the West Coast Engineering Office. 3 times in the scene
Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
- ▶ 18:35 Marc Andreessen Um, uh, and, and I remember actually a friend of mine was running one of those kind of, you know, at the time, one of the most like culturally advanced, technologically advanced, coolest tech companies in San Francisco.
- ▶ 1:15:39 David Ulevitch Um, you know, if you've been in San Francisco, gotten into Waymo, you already know that, um, autonomy in self-driving cars is absolutely, uh, gonna be, like, the way forward.
Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
- ▶ 22:52 Michael Truell Uh, and, um, and then when they say no after you fly across the world, uh, you make up a dinner with researchers that's happening in SF that they should totally fly to and come to six months later so that you can reignite the conversation…
Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?
- ▶ 58:17 Amjad Masad And that's partly why I moved the company out of SF. 2 times in the scene
Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan: How AI Will Cure All Disease
- ▶ 10:15 Priscilla Chan We have one in San Francisco, one in Chicago, one in New York. 2 times in the scene
Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
- ▶ 21:13 Eugenia Kuyda The, the mini app also knows that I'm a certain age, that I live in San Francisco, that I have kids, these are my fitness goals, and so on, so on.
ElevenLabs CEO: Why Voice is the Next AI Interface
- ▶ 6:32 Jennifer Li Um, as everyone is moving to San Francisco and building in person and locked in, uh, like in the same space, 11 has always been building globally and having 4 times in the scene
Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China
- ▶ 1:13:37 Erik Torenberg Lastly, um, we just talked about New York, um, recently in an episode all in, uh, in San Francisco, you, you, you know, uh, endorsed bringing the, the national guard, you know, Benioff had, had his comments. 7 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: How Movies Explain America
- ▶ 1:28 Marc Andreessen You know, there are a handful of cities that have a claim to be, like, the ultimate American city, um, and, you know, New York City is one of those, you know, I think, you know, San Francisco in some ways, you know, where we are is, uh,…
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 1:19:11 Anish Acharya And an SF, like everyone's recording.
How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 1:47 Augusto Marietti And then we went, we arrived to San Francisco and, um, and we had 90 days to just, uh, make it or break it.
- ▶ 5:26 Martin Casado You had the Quora, like the top Quora post for living on like, 14,000 a year in San Francisco.
- ▶ 6:38 Martin Casado In San Francisco?
- ▶ 9:45 Augusto Marietti No, no, because San Francisco to Onolulu, I think at that time it was like 300 bucks. 2 times in the scene
Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a $100 Billion Business
- ▶ 33:04 Ali Ghodsi I would take the, you know, uh, SF Seattle flight up there.
The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
- ▶ 1:01 Dan Wang Uh, not far away is the California High Speed Rail Project meant to connect San Francisco and, uh, Los Angeles.
- ▶ 4:06 Dan Wang You go outside, subway stations are not very far, there's dense commercial areas, the shops stay open past eight pm, which is not something you can say necessarily about San Francisco. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:28 Dan Wang Often when I'm in San Francisco, I live around Van Ness Avenue.
The Death of Search: How Shopping Will Work In The Age of AI
- ▶ 9:33 Justine Moore And so I think there's a lot of those sorts of things where, like, or buying clothes is another great example where, like, I live in SF, so a lot of people will just order a ton of clothes, try it all on, and then send a ton of it back…
Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
- ▶ 59:47 Mark Cuban You know, you're getting this rejuvenation of San Francisco, and all the spending is pointing there.
How Scale AI is Pioneering the Future of Work
- ▶ 33:30 Ben Scharfstein If you're doing this forward deployed motion to, you know, other companies in San Francisco and there's other 24 year old people there that are people building it, they may not look, you know, look at you the same way as if you're going…
Can AI Fix Housing and Healthcare Affordability?
- ▶ 9:29 Alex Immerman You know, New York, San Francisco, and San Francisco are two markets that have really, uh, struggled with housing supply. 4 times in the scene
Why AI Characters & Virtual Influencers Are the Next Frontier in Video ft Hedra’s Michael Lingelbach
- ▶ 30:56 Michael Lingelbach I don't know about you, but like, I think one of the great tragedies of our time is like the, um, disappearance of local news, especially like, you know, if you live in like a big city, like San Francisco or New York, it's fine.
- ▶ 35:33 Michael Lingelbach I think a lot of people like glorify being a founder, especially in San Francisco.
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 1:06:54 Balaji Srinivasan And, uh, and so, you know, doing all this AI in San Francisco, and publicly making millions or even billions of dollars, and being demographically different with all these immigrants, and being very publicly rich and recognizable in the…
Marc Andreessen: The US is in a AI Arms Race & It Decides The World's Future
- ▶ 19:58 Marc Andreessen And if you, if you haven't tried this yet, if go to, go to, if you ever have the misfortune of finding yourself in San Francisco, uh, take a Waymo.
- ▶ 22:45 Marc Andreessen It's gonna, it's gonna make San Francisco and LA and New York much better off and Austin much better off.
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 43:49 Balaji Srinivasan They wanted to redirect the budget from, that's why there's like, 200 homeless NGOs in, in San Francisco alone.
Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
- ▶ 45:08 Ben Horowitz Um, in the, in 1981, and that was starting in San Francisco, uh, where kind of gay men were kind of getting this very deadly disease, um, and, uh, you know, and, but Randy couldn't write the story about it because there was so much… 2 times in the scene
America's Energy Problem: We Need A New Grid
- ▶ 35:21 Ryan McEntush Um, and I would argue, like, you know, the NRC is, is a big component of why it's expensive, but I think it's also, you know, the same reason that it takes a billion dollars to build a bike lane in San Francisco is why we are not able to…
Building Cluely: The Viral AI Startup that raised $15M in 10 Weeks w/ Roy Lee
What You Missed in AI This Week (Google, Apple, ChatGPT)
- ▶ 10:55 Justine Moore Because SF Street Cleaning, I had to know if it was gonna be the second Monday of the month, and it said, I can't, I don't know that, can I search ChatGPT for you?
The State of Consumer Tech in the Age of AI
- ▶ 42:33 Justine Moore Like, I think a lot of what you're talking about is, like, the SF networking parties where, like, work and personal stuff, like, really blurs. 2 times in the scene
Modernizing Warfare and Beyond
- ▶ 16:51 unnamed speaker Yeah, we, we should get a contingent of folks out to San Francisco to ride in some, some Waymos.
Ben Horowitz on Leadership and Culture
- ▶ 25:34 Ben Horowitz Was interesting, first, because, ah, it had the highest murder solve rate in the country, with 94% of murders get cleared in Las Vegas, and if you compare that, like, San Francisco's like 70, 75%, ah, Chicago's in the thirties.
Autonomy is no longer a moonshot—it’s a market
- ▶ 6:48 Qasar Younis Uh, you know, one is the Waymo approach, which is, you know, you're seeing in San Francisco, uh, which can roughly be described as a heavy, censored, expensive business model, not figured out, no human in the passenger, in the driver's…
- ▶ 17:14 Qasar Younis I mean, the, the, the version of, you know, writing Waymo's in SF, if Waymo's had a huge presence here in, in DC, it would change.
- ▶ 34:19 Qasar Younis Yes, the way that event has happened is, if you go to anybody in, you know, in San Francisco, um, and in the automotive industry, there's no debate about autonomy.
The Future of Digital Workers
- ▶ 22:17 Prabhav Jain One is I think moving from London to SF earlier.
Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto
- ▶ 31:55 Chris Dixon Um, there's a, you know, you can come out to San Francisco, and I think relatively easily, if you're a smart, you know, like, network, network friendly person, like, 2 times in the scene
Reasoning Models Are Remaking Professional Services
- ▶ 33:54 George Sivulka I think, I think San Francisco, like everyone's, you know, talking about like different pricing strategies for AI agents, and I'm like, you know, outside of San Francisco, no one, no one knows what an agent is, uh, at this point in time,… 2 times in the scene
How Gusto Used Customer Input to Scale Growth with Tomer London
- ▶ 7:33 Tomer London And then when we went and, um, um, you know, talk with people, you know, whether it's me literally every day going into a room, closing the door and, uh, picking up a Yelp page, like hairdressers in San Francisco, and then closing the…
The Future of Health Insurance in a Work Remote World
- ▶ 21:02 Chris Ellis They're looking at everybody who's buying individual plans in San Francisco, um, and saying,
Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startups
- ▶ 14:38 Marc Andreessen By the way, that was also been, for example, the city of San Francisco, right?
Can We Detect a Deepfake?
- ▶ 3:41 Vijay Balasubramaniyan Compare this to before the generative AI boom, where John Legend wanted to become the voice of Google Home, and he spent, like, close to 20 hours recording him saying a whole bunch of things, so that Google Home could say, in San…
How Waymo Is Using GenAI to Build a Better Driver
- ▶ 19:27 Dmitry Dolgov We're driving, you know, uh, 24 seven in San Francisco, in Phoenix, you know, a little bit, uh, those are the most mature markets, but also in L.A. and in Austin, and, you know, all of the complexity that you see, you know, just, you know,…
- ▶ 33:57 Dmitry Dolgov I took highway one to San Francisco and I think, you know, went around the city a little bit and like actually finished for Lombard Street.
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 13:49 Marc Andreessen It's even San Jose, which is a more rational city than San Francisco, and I think it's up to, like, I don't know the,
The Top 100 GenAI Consumer Apps
- ▶ 9:09 Steph Smith We're currently actually recording this in San Francisco, where a lot of tech has been built, but we're seeing, you know, like Mistral from France, and like, what else are you seeing in those global dynamics? 2 times in the scene
AI, Robotics & the Future of Manufacturing
- ▶ 54:29 Marc Andreessen So like a lot, a lot of countries, like from a U S perspective, like a lot of other countries may not want, you know, the AI that runs in their country to be an AI that has been quote aligned by, let's say a crop of, you know, millennials…
Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities
- ▶ 6:21 Ben Horowitz And, you know, there may be more talent in Poland that's available to you than talent in San Francisco.
- ▶ 18:52 Ben Horowitz There's still like many, many companies in San Francisco, just as many, but there are definitely fewer kind of engineers, uh, in that both a lot of engineers have moved out and then, um, you know, a lot of the engineers that those…
- ▶ 1:15:18 Ben Horowitz You know, the office space rents haven't dropped that much, at least in kind of San Francisco, New York, things like that.
Startup Building: Major Shifts in Tech & Culture
- ▶ 16:52 Ben Horowitz I know that's the case in San Francisco, which is kind of the closest city to elsewhere. 6 times in the scene
Rebuilding the California Dream
- ▶ 0:17 Katherine Boyle A city between Sacramento and San Francisco, 60,000 acres.
- ▶ 2:58 Jan Sramek And so, we're proposing to do that halfway between San Francisco and, um, Sacramento.
- ▶ 8:46 Katherine Boyle What is your pitch to employers to say, you know, either leave San Francisco or, or come, like, what, what is the pitch that you are going to tell them to come to Solano County? 5 times in the scene
Tony Robbins on the Future of Health & Longevity
- ▶ 35:20 Marc Andreessen We spend, you know, like a billion plus dollars to these, uh, you know, quote unquote homelessness nonprofits in San Francisco every year.
Advancing AI, Approaching VC's & Crypto Scandals: Ask Us Anything!
- ▶ 11:21 Marc Andreessen Here's, you know, here's how to rent a room you can stay in. 2 times in the scene
Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta's Jason Gardner
- ▶ 2:07 Jason Gardner And I had gone out to dinner with my friends in San Francisco or in a sushi restaurant.
- ▶ 10:37 Jason Gardner And specifically, I knew that we had something here was, uh, we were in the Postmates office in San Francisco.
Inside AI Town: What AI Can Teach Us About Being Human
- ▶ 0:21 unnamed speaker A few weeks ago, the A-sixteen Z infrastructure team ran an event in the San Francisco office. 2 times in the scene
Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist
- ▶ 16:45 Ben Horowitz And, um, and now, you know, the, at least, you know, the, the, the kind of poorest people in America, the homeless in San Francisco have better access to information and knowledge than the president of the United States did in, you know,…
What is the Future of Hollywood?
- ▶ 20:55 Marc Andreessen And so, yeah, so, so basically Tesla and, and, and Waymo is, these are great examples, and these are very topical, because, because Waymo finally just got, you know, approval to roll out, you know, full robo taxi service in San Francisco,…
Digital Biology with insitro's Daphne Koller
- ▶ 17:21 Daphne Koller And self-driving cars are still blocking fire trucks in San Francisco.
Are Autonomous Vehicles Finally Here? Buckle up!
- ▶ 0:00 Saswat Panigrahi We are in San Francisco.
- ▶ 1:59 unnamed speaker Alright, before we jump in, I just wanted to say that we took a 60 minute journey around San Francisco, and we saw just about everything.
- ▶ 5:45 Saswat Panigrahi So right now, if we were to begin heavily snowing in SF, which it has, believe it or not last season, there was a little bit of snow, uh, we wouldn't operate it.
- ▶ 22:08 Saswat Panigrahi Um, when we came from Phoenix to SF, we did have some work to do to, you know, adapt, you know, the assertiveness and the driving here is different from the Phoenix driving, but when we went to Los Angeles,
- ▶ 23:17 Saswat Panigrahi So you go to West Hollywood, you're much more like a SF style driving.
- ▶ 37:39 unnamed speaker I'm not even, you know, really processing exactly what happens when a scooter is coming up on the right here, and if I've spent my whole life driving in, driving in SF, which is not the case for me, but some people that is, and then you… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:33 Saswat Panigrahi We are in San Francisco.
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