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Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 37:34 Qasar Younis There was a huge, like, and then it, it comes and we, by, by oh seven from the iPhone launch, like it's like four years when you get Uber, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat.
- ▶ 56:48 unnamed speaker So you were talking earlier about how, when, you know, um, the technology got, got so good in mobile that there was a wave of these companies, you know, Uber, WhatsApp, Snap, you know, Airbnb, et cetera, that emerged in quick succession.
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 24:09 Kevin Rose It's the reason why there's a thousand startups that have, you know, my space or you name it or snap or whatever the next one is.
Reid Hoffman on AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Labor
- ▶ 43:11 Alex Rampell Like where did Snap? 2 times in the scene
Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
- ▶ 8:47 Erik Torenberg And when you did it maybe five years ago, maybe more, was that like a snap competitor?
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 37:09 Balaji Srinivasan And then you get Snapchat, and then you get TikTok, and you get all these other competitors.
Building Cluely: The Viral AI Startup that raised $15M in 10 Weeks w/ Roy Lee
- ▶ 20:15 Erik Torenberg You worked at Snap beforehand, among other places. 3 times in the scene
The State of Consumer Tech in the Age of AI
- ▶ 0:32 Erik Torenberg It seems like every few years there was a, there was a breakout starting from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snap, WhatsApp, Tinder, TikTok.
- ▶ 8:26 Bryan Kim Facebook, Twitter, Snap.
- ▶ 18:46 Erik Torenberg Ben Thompson, I think a decade ago at this point, had this blog post called Snapchat's Gingerbread Strategy, where he was basically saying, hey, anything Snap can do, Facebook can do better, but Snap is just gonna keep sort of coming up… 3 times in the scene
Hey Tech, Come to Healthcare
- ▶ 0:57 Steph Smith Yeah, and maybe for folks listening, it'd be helpful to actually clarify what you mean by a consumer company, because when I think consumer company, I might think Snapchat, I might think a sneaker company, we were just talking about shoes,…
The Software Crisis Behind America's Infrastructure
- ▶ 10:19 Philip Buckendorf If you're, if you're training a 25 year old air traffic controller, like that individual grew up with iPad, Snapchat, et cetera, right?
The Top 100 GenAI Products, Ranked and Explained
- ▶ 3:28 Olivia Moore And then post ChatGPT, things that just brought AI to consumer consciousness, so even remember Snapchat's MyAI with that little bot that appeared at the very top of your feed, and like a hundred fifty million people used it, and for a lot…
Marc & Ben on AI Policy, Safety, Censorship & Unexpected Risks
- ▶ 44:10 Ben Horowitz This all happened with, you know, Facebook and Twitter and whatever snap and everything after they had penetrated the world.
The Top 100 GenAI Consumer Apps
- ▶ 8:20 Olivia Moore This is like iMessage usage, Snapchat usage, Instagram usage Really, yeah..
7 Ways to Boost Retention (Both Pre- and Post-AI)
- ▶ 12:52 unnamed speaker And all of, all three of these interact differently, but I'll, I'll give you one example where let's say, uh, Snapchat sends happy Earth Day message. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:39 unnamed speaker What that meant on Snapchat is I sent you a video, not a text, not a chat, a video, a snap, or image, image or video, and you sent me back something in a 24 hour period as well.
Build Your Startup With AI
- ▶ 1:18:00 Ben Horowitz And if you hit any one of those, like you funded, you know, probably the next set of companies, you know, which included things like, you know, Facebook and X and, you know, snap and all these things.
Big Ideas 2024: The Consumer AI Battleground Moves from Model to UX with Alex Immerman
- ▶ 16:02 Alex Immerman Beyond that, much like Uber and Snapchat could not have been predicted when the iPhone came out, we don't know what gen AI will bring, but we're excited.
Growth vs Efficiency: Can You Have Both?
Digital Branding: Lessons from Vogue, Monetizing Social, Creator Tips | Field Notes with Connie Chan
- ▶ 13:41 Connie Chan I mean, during that time there was the app store, there was Facebook, there was Instagram, there was Snapchat.
The Art and Science of Podcasting with Sriram and Aarthi
- ▶ 35:57 Sriram Krishnan We've seen the rise of YouTube, and then Instagram, and then Snapchat, and then TikTok, and then BDL, and, uh, you know, Discord, and, you know, I can keep going on and on. 2 times in the scene
The 1000x Developer with Amjad Masad
- ▶ 1:02:17 Steph Smith And you see this, if you look at the charts of like chat GPT, for example, their speed to ten million users was so much quicker than, you know, Facebook or Snapchat or other, um, other apps in the past.
The State of Apps with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 3:31 Steph Smith And again, I'm feeling kind of old here, but during my era, you know, we're, we're thinking of Facebook, we're thinking of Twitter, um, Instagram, Snapchat, and none of these appeared in the top three. 3 times in the scene
Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy
- ▶ 4:01 Palmer Luckey Uh, there's better computer vision in your Snapchat app if you use Snapchat. 4 times in the scene
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
- ▶ 10:10 Steph Smith Maybe the most prominent example is when Instagram copied Snap Stories.
Growth, Sales, and a New Era of B2B
- ▶ 5:55 unnamed speaker So if someone comes in and they pitches me the next Snapchat, listen, I'm a forty-year-old, like, that grew up in the country, I have no idea if it's good, but if I look at the numbers behind it, I do.
10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
- ▶ 39:58 Justin Kan You go in being like, I'm going to raise series A from Andreessen and we're going to be, you know, this product that just goes the next Snapchat or whatever.
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 6:35 Qasar Younis The iPhone moment in my mind is when you have, um, you know, frankly, the 12 or 24 month period where Instagram, Snapchat, Uber, and WhatsApp are all some,
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 36:37 Chris Dixon Yeah, well, Instagram story, Snapchat would be the most. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Eyeballs on the Game
- ▶ 12:13 Jeff Jordan You've got all these new formats on Snap, on YouTube, on Instagram.
a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- ▶ 10:11 Chris Dixon In the case of mobile they did, but it also unlocked, you know, so you had the, the, the intimacy of the camera allowed for Snapchat.
a16z Podcast | The Basics of Growth 2 -- Engagement & Retention
- ▶ 19:14 Jeff Jordan OfferUp has engagement that's similar to social sites like Instagram and Snap.
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks
- ▶ 3:26 Chris Dixon Take advantage of the fact that you have the phone with you all the time, and you have GPS, and the driver has GPS, or, you know, Snapchat and Instagram, take advantage of the camera that you always have with you, and you can do…
a16z Podcast | The Internet of Taste, Streaming Content to Culture
- ▶ 37:07 Ted Sarandos Even though Facebook and Snapchat.
a16z Podcast | When Is VR's iPhone Moment?
- ▶ 12:11 Darshan Shankar So Snapchat filters, that's the best use case. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Community and Culture, Online
- ▶ 9:25 Alex Le Maybe this is partly coming from the Snapchat effect.
- ▶ 13:15 Chris Dixon That will have all sorts of secondary effects on content, you know, like sports rights deals or something will shift to the internet if presumably ad dollars will flow, there'll be all sorts of business implications, but, you know, and…
a16z Podcast | Putting AI in Medicine, in Practice
- ▶ 20:21 Brandon Ballinger And, and I mean, you need to measure cohorts the same way Instagram or Facebook or Snapchat does.
a16z Podcast | Engineering Intent
- ▶ 6:49 Sonal Chokshi Like on Snapchat and Instagram and everything with filters.
a16z Podcast | Addiction vs Popularity in the Age of Virality
- ▶ 13:30 Derek Thompson Completely adored and considered the center of the universe, and Snapchat celebrities and Instagram influencers and all of this, but it's very likely that
a16z Podcast | QR. AR. VR.
- ▶ 1:55 Kyle Russell People aren't using them to link to things in the real world, but now if you look at all the kind of top social apps, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, they're all baked in there to some extent, typically on the, like, account, uh, identity… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:17 Kyle Russell Yeah, so again, to kind of summarize, Facebook announced that in the same way that they've slowly been kind of taking inspiration from Snapchat with features like stories, and, um, and they acquired this company Masquerade that they do the… 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Build Your Personal Brand
- ▶ 13:29 Margit Wennmachers And then Facebook and Twitter and Snapchat and whatever else there is that they just demand authenticity because it's so easily detectable if it's someone else doing the writing or if these photos are too curated.
a16z Podcast | Culture and/of Design
- ▶ 10:38 Sonal Chokshi Certain newer quote newer type apps like Snapchat, which is really not intuitive for a lot of users from a usability perspective.
a16z Podcast | What's Next for Technology and National Security?
- ▶ 18:28 Marc Andreessen We'll grudgingly concede that PCs were probably good, but, you know, this whole Snapchat, Tesla, Uber, like, I don't know.
a16z Podcast | Stickers! Filters! Memes! Livestreams!
- ▶ 4:29 Sonal Chokshi Which has now been acquired by Snapchat. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:33 Sonal Chokshi And it reminds me a lot of why Snapchat filters took off so much in the U S because there's sort of this layering again, this distortion of your face where you can now add on and layer on other people's expressions or some other filter,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:42 Christina Xu It was kind of like up until very recently with Snapchat, I would say is sort of like one of the first examples of QR codes. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Truce for Mobile, Battle for VR
- ▶ 28:43 Kyle Russell Now it becomes its own social computing system in the same way that, like, Facebook is a social layer on top of the internet, or Twitter, or Snapchat.
a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
- ▶ 48:43 Sonal Chokshi The fact that Snapchat bought it, I think is really telling. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | We Gotta Talk Pokémon Go
- ▶ 4:05 Ryan Hoover Let's take Snapchat as an example. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:38 Kyle Russell I say, I say it's the second app because we've already seen a very popular AR implementation on mobile, and that's Snapchat. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:11 Ryan Hoover Snapchat's seen that 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:43 Sonal Chokshi For me, the most interesting aspect of all of these, from Snapchat filters to the Chewbacca mask 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:46 Ryan Hoover So let's take, you know, Snapchat as one example. 6 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Beyond One Size Fits All for Startup Employee Options
- ▶ 8:57 Ben Horowitz Snapchat, I think is doing a very interesting innovation by having most of the vesting occur later in the fourth year, as opposed to in the first year.
- ▶ 28:04 Ben Horowitz Back-end loaded meaning similar to Snapchat.
a16z Podcast | The Art of the Regulatory Hack
- ▶ 3:57 Evan Burfield Maybe someone's going to invent the next best way after Snapchat and Instagram to share photos, but at a certain point, it feels like you're getting into really incremental improvements, and you've got to be so sharp on your game if you…
- ▶ 13:17 unnamed speaker You're going to Snapchat it, right?
a16z Podcast | On Productivity, Immigration, Trump, and Media
- ▶ 36:23 Ezra Klein So if you've not been following that, you can catch up very quickly, but card stacks cannot be imported to our Snapchat discover product. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond
- ▶ 18:19 Chris Messina I mean, the, the contrast that you might draw then is, is like with Snapchat.
- ▶ 29:32 Benedict Evans And, you know, it's one quarter is direct, and then it's YouTube and Facebook video and Facebook images and Snapchat. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:29 Chris Messina At least when it comes to Snapchat, and I think this is, this is relevant given what I'm trying to sort of anticipate is the next wave of people using the internet and what their expectations and norms will be. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | I Reject the Term Viral Video
- ▶ 23:05 Bailey Richardson I wanna go back to, um, this, like, sort of, this, like, incredible bullshit sensor that young, especially young people have now, and one thing we were talking about just before walking out was how, especially kids today, and I think…
- ▶ 24:30 Casey Neistat For me, literally, um, you know, I rose super, super fast on Snapchat because essentially I was using Snapchat as a tool to daily vlog. 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Disruption in Business... and Life
- ▶ 21:55 Marc Andreessen There's competition, there's disruption, and so in particular there's, there are services like Instagram and Snapchat.
a16z Podcast | Mapping the Future of Virtual Reality
- ▶ 33:40 Kyle Russell Check my updates and maybe send a snap.
a16z Podcast | Things Come Together -- Truths about Tech in Africa
- ▶ 29:57 unnamed speaker So there's Snapchat now, there's all kinds of new things that I can't keep up with.
a16z Podcast | Messaging As the Interface to Everything
- ▶ 3:10 David Pierce Like, you even see it with Snapchat, which built this gigantic user base out of letting people talk to people. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:20 David Pierce Which is not to say it's a bad thing, but between Discover and Stories, like, the, the fundamental aspect of what makes Snapchat Snapchat is changing.
- ▶ 3:20 David Pierce Which is not to say it's a bad thing, but between Discover and Stories, like, the, the fundamental aspect of what makes Snapchat Snapchat is changing.
- ▶ 13:20 David Pierce Campaign trying way too hard to engage millennials on Snapchat, or it's, uh, Taco Bell trying to be funny and missing horribly, all these things.
- ▶ 35:17 Connie Chan I mean, I love Snapchat for that reason, right?
- ▶ 42:41 David Pierce Right, and that's the, that's the funny part about all of this, right, is that it's not, and all of that fear is, is kind of, it's what if fear, which is in a lot of ways useful, and in a lot of ways not useful, uh, because you should…
a16z Podcast | For Google, Android is a Tactic and Cloud is a Strategy
- ▶ 7:33 Benedict Evans I've got no idea where they got that from, because even if you just add up the numbers from Facebook and Snapchat, Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp and so on, you get to about eight or nine hundred billion photographs taken last year.
a16z Podcast | Messaging is the Medium
- ▶ 2:05 Benedict Evans Which is what you see in Instagram, and you see in Snapchat, and you see in Meerkat, and various other things, and Secret, and various other things like that.
- ▶ 7:01 Benedict Evans They're acting as a gatekeeper and a kingmaker, and so what they're doing, in effect, is, is co-opting the next Snapchat. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:10 Benedict Evans Um, you couldn't really do Snapchat either.
a16z Podcast | Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back
- ▶ 8:48 Marc Andreessen Like the, the, the online world, smartphones and iPhones and email and like all these snapchat, all these things are just too useful.
a16z Podcast | Mobile is Eating the World (and Apple is Gobbling Fastest)
- ▶ 12:19 Benedict Evans You know, it's why Snapchat can just appear out of nowhere and grow to be this big business, or Yik Yak, or Secret, or Line, or all these other things can just kind of come out of nowhere.
When Advertising Isn't Enough
- ▶ 22:00 Connie Chan Instagram, Snap, similarly, are trying to make their forays into commerce.
Crypto and Decentralization: Building Blocks
- ▶ 2:35 Chris Dixon Take advantage of the fact that you have the phone with you all the time, and you have GPS, and the driver has GPS, or, you know, Snapchat and Instagram, take advantage of the camera that you always have with you, and you can do…
How 'Going Direct' Changes Everything: for Brands, Retail, Marketing, and Advertising
- ▶ 11:18 unnamed speaker Facebook and Snapchat increasingly are aggregating similar size audiences.
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2016
- ▶ 14:42 Benedict Evans The Spectacles are the unbundled Snapchat app, and so you're moving that app into a new context, and of course they're all built with commodity components from the smartphone supply chain.
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2015
- ▶ 19:45 Benedict Evans 2014, at least eight hundred billion photographs were shared on social networks across Facebook, Snapchat, um, WeChat, and the other major networks.