Sony, every mention

46 scenes, the whole family · ← back to Sony

tap a year for its mentions
00401580302019202020212022202320242025episodesmentions
015302019202020212022202320242025episodes it came up in
002154302019202020212022202320242025episodesmentions per episode

every year anyone Benedict Evans 15Steven Sinofsky 12Kim Zetter 11Marc Andreessen 8Michael Copeland 5Chris Dixon 5John Riccitiello 3Dave Turetsky 3Sonal Chokshi 2Chris Schroeder 2

Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Sony comes up

loading…

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

  • ▶ 29:29 Steven Sinofsky You see even Japan saying, well, we could make Sony TVs in China.
  • ▶ 39:09 Steven Sinofsky Beijing knows what's going on in Tokyo, knows what's going on in Seoul, is paying attention to Singapore, and they really are keyed in, and I, when I was living in China, that was the biggest thing I saw, which was, you know, China was… 2 times in the scene

Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem Jun 18, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 15:11 Steven Sinofsky He actually pushed to do an experiment of like partnering with Sony in Japan.
  • ▶ 25:59 Steven Sinofsky So the ODMs were just, they, in order to compete, they were moving up the food chain, and the American electronics world, whether it was TVs or whatever, we're like, yeah, or Japan, doing it with Sony, we're like, we love this.
  • ▶ 29:43 Steven Sinofsky And I'm like, my Sony fits in an envelope. 2 times in the scene

Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy Jul 16, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:48 Marc Andreessen Um, and so, uh, Sony was not legally allowed to ship those to, uh, countries that might have their own nuclear programs, um, because, like Iraq, because, uh, you know, at the time, um, uh, because, uh, the chips in them were viewed as too…

What is the Future of Hollywood? Oct 1, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 28:13 Marc Andreessen And then Sony, which at the time, what, you know, a lot of people would have said was probably the, you know, kind of the best company in the world. 2 times in the scene

Building Hardware and Taking on the Phone Giants with Carl Pei Apr 6, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:37 Carl Pei So the Sony of the past or the Bang Olufsen of the past, they all had very distinct design languages.

How Gaming is Changing the Media Landscape Mar 16, 2020 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 24:37 John Riccitiello That was, you know, people like Sony and Nintendo, and it was really centered there, and for people my age growing up, that's what you watch, who had the better console. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 35:36 John Riccitiello So what I expect to happen in gaming won't be so much this is a big, um, streaming solution, but people are going to end up with different solutions depending on the content type, and it'll live behind a brand like a Google or a Microsoft…

a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond Feb 26, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | The IQ and EQ of Robots Jan 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 2:11 Dave Turetsky A landmark in the history of consumer robotics was the Sony AIBO robot dog back in the late 19 nineties, early 2000. 3 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | New Upstarts in an Old Industry Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:09 Michael Ovitz Universal to Matsushita Electric, or selling Columbia Pictures to Sony, or CBS Records to Sony, or MGM, you know, is bad debt, or signing Sean Connery who's come off three bad pictures, or negotiating a new kind of deal for Jurassic Park…

a16z Podcast | When Is VR's iPhone Moment? Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 5:19 Benedict Evans Of connecting all of these things together, which is also, incidentally, what, what Sony were doing, 20 years ago. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:52 Steven Sinofsky Because, like, if you looked at Sony way back in the day, like, all of a sudden, everything had a memory stick in it. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:08 Steven Sinofsky And, so I think that it's a great strategy, and it drives a lot of, of interesting things, but the odds of this coalescing are, are very low, and that's why this notion, and the lesson from Sony, or RCA before it, or Whirlpool, they're all…

a16z Podcast | Centers of Power, War, and History Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:20 Matthew Colford I think I can count on one hand the number of DCs and peace deputies committee meetings and principal committee meetings that I remember that were about Asia, and the majority of them were about the Sony hack in North Korea, at least when…

a16z Podcast | Cybersecurity in the Boardroom vs. the Situation Room Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | What's Next for Technology and National Security? Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:20 Marc Andreessen In the wake of the Sony attacks, uh, presuming for the moment that they were from North Korea, from the commercial world wondered if the response to the Sony attacks was to take down the North Korean internet. 2 times in the scene

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

a16z Podcast | Mastering the Game (with David Oyelowo) Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:49 David Oyelowo All I can hope is that this becomes a model for what, because I know we need it, but, you know, I just pray that it attains the level of success that means that we continue there to erode, not just Disney's, but Warner Brothers, Universal,…

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

  • ▶ 5:32 Benedict Evans Um, Sony is kind of really kind of thinking about how to create kind of more of a lifestyle brand around its products. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | The Fundamentals of Security and the Story of Tanium’s Growth Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

a16z Podcast | Software is What Distinguishes the Hardware Winners Jan 2, 2019 · 7 mentions

a16z Podcast | The Present State and Future Possibility of Virtual Reality Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:59 Beau Cronin The other one, of course, is input, and being able to use for both of those systems, and in addition also the, ah, the Sony system that's coming up as well, your hands in a very natural way without really having to think about it, and have…

a16z Podcast | Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Crypto, Security, CS, Quantum Computing, and More with Our New Professor-in-Residence Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:27 Dan Boneh So we've all seen the attacks on, um, Target, where they got a whole bunch of user information, Office of Personnel Management, they got a whole bunch of, of, of information, Sony attacks.

a16z Podcast | Establishing Online Identity is Hard -- It Shouldn't Be Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 7:29 Chris Dixon You know, everything from the Sony hack, which was Sony pictures had all of their email, um, stolen and published online.
  • ▶ 7:29 Chris Dixon You know, everything from the Sony hack, which was Sony pictures had all of their email, um, stolen and published online.

a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language? Jan 2, 2019 · 2 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. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Making Security More Useable Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:33 Todd McKinnon You get the CEO of Sony's email on the public internet, and all of a sudden every CEO in the world is going, how's my security?

a16z Podcast | Getting Security Right Isn’t as Hard as You Think (But the Effort Never Ends) Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:16 Michael Copeland I just saw that WikiLeaks had posted hundreds of thousands of emails and more data from the Sony hack.

a16z Podcast | How Hacks Happen (Let’s Just Say Mistakes Have Been Made) Jan 2, 2019 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 0:34 Sonal Chokshi I mean, I'm talking about big companies from target to the Sony hack.
  • ▶ 13:04 Kim Zetter Um, and also, um, you know, we're seeing different kind of ransom, uh, such as the case of Sony, where, um, they did ask for money, or they appeared to be asking for money in Sony's case, but they weren't looking at, um, preventing Sony 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:33 Kim Zetter In Sony's case, maybe not so.

a16z Podcast | Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back Jan 2, 2019 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:35 Marc Andreessen Um, and then, ah, and then, um, ah, you know, third, that a major corporation, you know, major corporation making, making actually a very funny movie, people haven't seen it, ah, the, the, ah, the North Korean movie is actually quite,… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:42 Michael Copeland Um, it's interesting, like Apple Pay seems to, I still don't know who's like holding the bag if something goes wrong with Apple Pay, but, you know, Target, Home Depot, banks, Sony for that matter, who's holding the bag in the end, do you…

a16z Podcast | Tools for How We Work Today Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:49 Steven Sinofsky The Sony breach doesn't happen, and all this stuff, but people are used to spending all of this time, like, being filers, like, instead of a piler.

a16z Podcast | Crisis Time -- What to Do When Things Go Sideways Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 20:11 Michael Copeland I don't know if you can answer it, Judy, but it's been reported publicly that, um, you were brought in on the Sony case. 2 times in the scene

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

a16z Podcast | Building Brands and Running Retail -- Ron Johnson and Tristan Walker Break It Down Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:35 Michael Copeland Does that then explain why other consumer electronics companies, I will name Sony and Microsoft, didn't succeed with that same retail model?

a16z Podcast | Google I/O -- A Three-Hour Tour (in 30 minutes) Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 1,000 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.