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Dylan Patel on GPT-5’s Router Moment, GPUs vs TPUs, Monetization
- ▶ 3:57 Guido Appenzeller Maybe, maybe Skype.
How Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What’s Coming Next
- ▶ 12:09 Erik Torenberg You, you guys get, you know, I believe, I believe you put fifty million into, into Skype and there's a big, you know, markup there in that acquisition.
How Zapier Became Profitable in 3 Years and Scaled to $5B with Wade Foster
- ▶ 11:50 Wade Foster And so I jumped on Skype with him and asked him like, hey, where are you running into problems?
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 47:34 Marc Andreessen Um, and the idea for collage today, you would describe it as sort of a forerunner to, to zoom, um, or to, you know, maybe Skype or something like that.
Startup Building: Major Shifts in Tech & Culture
- ▶ 6:37 Marc Andreessen I mean, you remember, you know, Ben, we were obviously involved in Skype, you know, almost 15 years ago now, and they had video calling and, you know, some people used it, but, you know, it was hardly even the main feature of Skype at that… 2 times in the scene
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 49:52 Balaji Srinivasan Uh, who's like early Skype engineer, you know, very prominent investor and so on.
Better Together: Humanity + Machine Learning
- ▶ 13:39 Frank Chen So your iPhone from home sounds different than a Skype call from Estonia.
a16z Podcast | Getting Applications Into People's Hands
- ▶ 6:37 Juan Benet I saw the, the Skype phenomenon. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What Technology Wants, Needs, Does
- ▶ 11:20 Frank Chen Well, so chatbots are the applications that you go to either on a website, or through Facebook Messenger, or through Skype, and you basically have a chat conversation, right?
a16z Podcast | Crisis Communications
- ▶ 0:14 Sonal Chokshi Joining us to have the conversation again, we have Margaret Wenmockers, who heads up marketing at Anderson Horowitz and previously co-founded the OutKast Agency, and we have Kim Milosevic, who is also at OutKast, is on the communications…
a16z Podcast | The Why, How, and When of PR
- ▶ 0:15 Sonal Chokshi And I'm here with Kim Milosevic, who used to work at OutKast, did PR at Skype, and multiple other places, and is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, who covers some of the most interesting companies, actually, in our portfolio.
a16z Podcast | Your Worst Deeds Don’t Define You -- Life and Redemption in Prison
- ▶ 31:49 Shaka Senghor So, I mean, it was like Skyping back on the Jetsons back then.
a16z Podcast | Mapping the Future of Virtual Reality
- ▶ 24:08 Kyle Russell It's also interesting to think of even business use cases where I think we've all had difficulties with Skype or Google Hangouts or, you know, any telepresence, uh, experience where, um, you know, either the connection was bad or, uh, you…
a16z Podcast | When Banking Works Like My Smartphone
- ▶ 3:38 Tavit Henrikos So, you know, consumers have come to expect that, um, everything works the way Skype works the way Uber works.
- ▶ 14:30 Tavit Henrikos Just to kind of go back to your previous point, so, um, I spent a large chunk of my life building up another company called Skype, and Skype today is, I don't know, 12 years old maybe, but Skype owns 40% of long distance calling. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:43 Tavit Henrikos We have Skype calls weekly and, you know, they become adopters of technology.
a16z Podcast | The Year Mobile Began to Truly Dominate Tech
- ▶ 21:35 Benedict Evans Um, and then there's like, you know, as I said, there's not like a, it's not like two years ago when I was, you know, tracking Skype, tracking WhatsApp every day.
a16z Podcast | The Present State and Future Possibility of Virtual Reality
- ▶ 20:24 Kyle Russell this isn't just, it feels so completely removed from the experience of like a Skype call, where sure, you might even see the actual person doing that, but it doesn't feel like they're there.
a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
- ▶ 4:02 Reshma Sohoni So, you know, you do have the Skype founders who've obviously done an incredible amount with Atomico and, and then some, but you have Tavit who left 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:50 Shaq (Shakil Khan) The same thing with Skype, transfer-wise, a building for a global audience, because
- ▶ 33:21 Shaq (Shakil Khan) Who are trying to send remittances for their loved ones or their friends, et cetera, who get charged the most, and TransferWise is doing an amazing job, and I hope this goes down as, you know, one of the biggest companies ever to come out…
a16z Podcast | Building Tech Startups in a Place Where Tech Isn’t Everything
- ▶ 0:24 Michael Copeland Also joining us is Nick Babayan, who ran mobile at Skype and more recently co-founded
- ▶ 4:05 Matt Clifford Maybe the first British company to take funding from Sequoia and, you know, kind of people increasingly look around and they do see the Just Eats and the Kings and the Skypes and the things that happened in London.
- ▶ 5:01 Nick Babayan Well, I mean, I think the list is pretty long of, you know, Spotify and Skype, and I mean, there's, yeah, there's a whole bunch of success stories. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:27 Michelle You So one of my advisors is actually friends with Nick, Mike Bartlett, who worked at Skype as well, and I 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Data Down on the Farm
- ▶ 0:12 Michael Copeland On the line, or on Skype, I should say, is UC Santa Barbara professor, Chandra Krintz, and with us also here at Granular in San Francisco is the CEO of Granular, Sid Gorham, and Thibaut Scola.
a16z Podcast | Making the Case for Permissionless Innovation
- ▶ 5:16 Adam Thierer A lot of people, when I ask this question in public, will say, well, Skype. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
- ▶ 14:28 Mohsen Malayeri Get on, get on a Skype call with them, get, get their insight into what we should be doing here.
- ▶ 18:15 Mohsen Malayeri Uh, entrepreneurs in Iran, uh, that, you know, they, they get on Skype calls, some of them, they travel, and they just stop by, uh, by the accelerator, and they spend hours with the teams.
a16z Podcast | Layering Tech and Culture in Iran
- ▶ 15:55 Chris Schroeder I think one of the most important things we have to point out here is that she gets better Skype from Iran than I'm getting from Northeast United States.
a16z Podcast | Location, Location, Location -- and Mobile
- ▶ 18:48 Benedict Evans And everything happened inside that, and so the internet experience was a web browser and a mouse and a keyboard, and yes, there was Spotify and Skype and what have you around the edges, but basically it was a browser, and the smartphone…
a16z Podcast | Software and Overcoming the Randomness of Birthplace
- ▶ 0:50 Michael Copeland So, Stan, obviously we're here in Silicon Valley, and there is this sort of bias, um, in Silicon Valley, and, you know, at the firm as well, that Silicon Valley is the center of the universe, and you and your career, you are at Skype,…
- ▶ 5:20 Michael Copeland And, and maybe you can also talk a little bit about how that worked out at Skype, because I think, um, you know, for us Americans, there was the sense that Skype was a company here from the Valley, but of course it wasn't. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:10 Sten Tamkivi That's, I think that's a learning that we got from Skype, is that you can build human relationships face-to-face, and then you can maintain them over video calls.
- ▶ 21:24 Michael Copeland You are, you know, we're a Skype veteran back from the early days. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Messaging is the Medium
- ▶ 23:49 Benedict Evans Obviously, you have email sitting inside a client, and then you have things like Spotify and Skype around the sides.
a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile
- ▶ 12:26 Benedict Evans And yes, you had email and Skype and Spotify and a few things around the side, but basically the internet experience was a web browser in a kind of rectangular box on your, on your monitor.
a16z Podcast | Technology and the Opening of Myanmar
- ▶ 7:56 Ethan Zuckerman And with Skype. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Searching for Mobile’s Own PageRank
- ▶ 1:09 Benedict Evans And you had a few exceptions like, you know, Spotify and Skype and stuff, but basically everything happened in the browser.
a16z Podcast | The State of the Bitcoin Ecosystem, and a Theory on Satoshi
- ▶ 7:00 Balaji Srinivasan Um, you know, Bitcoin is inherently viral, like PayPal, like email, like Skype, like Facebook, because when you send Bitcoin to somebody else, you're telling them, download the Bitcoin client. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun
- ▶ 13:42 Benedict Evans You know, there were a few things like Spotify and Skype around the edges, but basically for 20 years, the web, the internet and the web were the same thing.
3 Common Myths People Have About Crypto
- ▶ 33:50 Catherine (Katie) Haun You used to see this old school computer, imagine, or 1994, 1995, imagine if on that day I would have told you, hey, fast forward, you're gonna have a small device in your pocket, you'll be able to download a two-hour movie, watch it on…
Winning Founders & Influencing Everyone: Margit Wennmachers at Startup Grind Europe
- ▶ 3:39 Margit Wennmachers Um, it was the buyout of Skype, um, that we did with Silver Lake and the Canadian pension board, I think. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:43 Margit Wennmachers Skype is an excellent example, right, where, um, folks have been part of Skype, and there now is a Skype mafia, and in the good sense, there's this network of folks, they're doing angel investing, and I think the more successes that are… 2 times in the scene
10 Years Too Early: On a Tech Career, Business, and Investing
- ▶ 14:48 unnamed speaker People also thought that about Skype, um, so thank you Microsoft in both cases, uh, for proving that we were not complete idiots.
- ▶ 44:53 unnamed speaker So, when we invested in Skype, for instance, uh, it came out that, um, they did not own the intellectual property for their software, which is, like, what's a software company got except its intellectual property, and so, like, that looked… 4 times in the scene
Matthew Turk
- ▶ 8:04 Matthew Turk If we're just using Skype or the telephone or something, those sorts of reference aren't so obvious.
- ▶ 9:02 Matthew Turk Skype, or FaceTime, or whatever, and video conference, but all of these have limitations.
- ▶ 12:57 Matthew Turk So the two of these, these two people can collaborate quite successfully on this physical task in a way that's hard to do, again, with just telephone or Skype or something like that.
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2015
- ▶ 11:07 Benedict Evans Say for 20 years, the internet meant a web browser and a mouse and a keyboard, and there were a few things around the side, like email or Spotify or Skype, but fundamentally, most people's internet experience was a web browser and a mouse…