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Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply
- ▶ 42:44 Gavin Baker You know, you'll for sure, I think you'll see probably one in, you know, whether it's Japan, South Korea, who knows?
Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
- ▶ 34:21 Travis Kalanick Uh, we have, like, Kitchen Valley in Korea.
- ▶ 1:09:57 Ben Horowitz Because how are those motherfuckers getting away with that in Korea, when we can't get away with that in the U.S., like all those things.
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 14:41 Qasar Younis But when you talk about collecting data, like, in places like Korea, where they have North, South Korea, where you have North Korea, they don't allow mapping companies, let alone allowing a, you know, an American company to come in and…
Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence
Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 13:45 Olivia Moore I would, Korea has a couple of their own products like Naver and Kakao that have built out nice kind of LLM interfaces. 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 23:48 Marc Andreessen Um, and of course, we'll also, by the way, see, you know, the Koreans are gonna play here.
The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
Anduril CEO: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?
- ▶ 22:33 Chris Power Like it's all German, South Korean, Japanese or whatever, and they're controlled products.
Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
- ▶ 7:36 Dylan Patel Um, and then they were also in parallel trying to go through shell companies to manufacture, uh, at TSMC and acquire memory from Korea and so on and so forth. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:46 Dylan Patel Which is what we have today in, in Korea, um, for the Korean companies.
Oren Cass & Noah Smith Debate the True Impact of Tariffs
- ▶ 4:18 Noah Smith You know, I know, observing countries like Germany and South Korea, where the manufacturing share of industry has remained remarkably high. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:13 Noah Smith We need Europe and Japan and Korea and maybe India, which is the biggest country of them all, uh, to, to partner with us so that we can scale, but that requires some reciprocity, right? 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: The US is in a AI Arms Race & It Decides The World's Future
- ▶ 5:53 Marc Andreessen It's the same thing Korea did.
Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- ▶ 37:18 Steven Sinofsky We have to beat Korea.
Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startups
- ▶ 3:18 Ben Horowitz Uh, and, um, they did, you know, just to give you just like a, a rough idea how much they damaged the U S uh, industry, um, Korea, which is a very small country by comparison has doubled the crypto usage as us.
AI, Robotics & the New Global Arms Race
- ▶ 15:15 Marc Andreessen Um, and basically China is following the exact same trajectory that Germany, Japan, and Korea, um, uh, did before it, which is it, you know, there have been domestic Chinese car companies for a long time now, but, you know, generally…
Mark Casey (Capital Group): Public Market and Macro Perspectives
- ▶ 19:46 Mark Casey Like, if you go to South Korea and look at Kupong, uh, they've got this amazing thing. 3 times in the scene
AI, Robotics & the Future of Manufacturing
- ▶ 1:12:57 Marc Andreessen Um, it was just flat out cheaper, uh, to hire people in, you know, Korea or Vietnam or China or India or other, you know, wherever you go, Mexico, it was just, it was just flat out cheaper.
Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
- ▶ 1:30:35 Marc Andreessen Um, so number one, actually this has already happened, specifically this is happening in Korea. 2 times in the scene
Tony Robbins on the Future of Health & Longevity
- ▶ 1:24:38 Tony Robbins Vista partners and managers, a hundred billion dollars, Vinod Khosla, who's in your category, obviously, uh, Ramsey from Veritas, uh, Michael Kim, you know, is considered, uh, the, the, the king, basically, of Korea, of, of, you know,… 2 times in the scene
2024 Big Ideas: Anime Games Go Mainstream with Robin Guo
What is the Future of Hollywood?
- ▶ 2:03:43 Ben Horowitz Many of the biggest artists are coming out of Mexico, South America, um, Africa, uh, Korea, um, like, in, in forests.
- ▶ 2:09:13 Marc Andreessen And, and by the way, like, look, in film and, actually, especially in television right now, it's like, you know, look, like, you know, the Korean, like, Squid Game was like this, you know, massive breakthrough, but, like, there, there is… 2 times in the scene
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 49:53 Salim Ismail The most roboticized companies in the countries in the world that have the highest penetration of robotics are South Korea, Sweden, Germany, which have the lowest unemployment.
Digital Humans and the Story Behind Lil Miquela
- ▶ 32:21 Steph Smith And actually these virtual influencers, I think are biggest in Korea, um, and parts of Asia, which is interesting.
How Gaming is Changing the Media Landscape
- ▶ 23:52 John Riccitiello A similar thing happened in Korea. 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 30:02 Qasar Younis And when we say Detroit, we mean roughly the automotive centers, Chitgaard included, I mean, I, the, the, uh, Japan and Korea and China included in that.
- ▶ 35:18 Qasar Younis Uh, the German government won't just let Waymo come take over Germany, uh, and let Daimler and BMW go under business, and the same thing is true for Hyundai in Korea, Honda and Toyota in Japan, and the Chinese companies, because there's a…
a16z Podcast | Gaming Goes Mainstream
- ▶ 22:51 Bobby Kotick Probably when we launched, I didn't own Blizzard at the time, but when StarCraft launched, this was a game that in Korea, I think at the height of its popularity, Rob's here, so he'll know the exact number, but I think, you know, this is… 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks as Emerging Economies (Done Right?)
- ▶ 17:06 Chris Berniske Be they in Kenya, be they in the US, be they in Korea.
a16z Podcast | Beyond CES: Connected Home Devices, Voice, and More
- ▶ 5:23 Steven Sinofsky So, what Sony did, and, and interestingly, Sony was very impressive, but, like, massively impressive, but didn't make nearly the breadth of things that are currently made by the Korean companies. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:26 Steven Sinofsky They'll have the, for the Korean market, which is, like, all up Samsung with no seams.
a16z Podcast | Revenge of the Algorithms (Over Data)... Go! No?
- ▶ 0:15 Sonal Chokshi Just to give people some quick context, you don't have to have heard our previous podcast on AlphaGo, but when AlphaGo, the algorithm produced by DeepMind, beat the world champ in Korea in playing
a16z Podcast | Exploding the Map
a16z Podcast | Adjusting to Trade... and Innovation
- ▶ 17:50 Noah Smith TPP and TTIP, which is basically a trade treaty with, you know, Japan and Korea, a trade treaty with Europe.
a16z Podcast | Centers of Power, War, and History
- ▶ 24:03 Graham Allison We only came there to try to help South Korea from being incorporated in part of this Stalinist North Korean regime. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Golden Era of Productivity, Retail, and Supply Chains
- ▶ 28:28 Mark Levinson If you take a look at what's going on now in Europe, or in Korea, uh, or in Taiwan, people expect more of their public officials than their public officials can deliver.
a16z Podcast | Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis
- ▶ 1:08 Tony Blinken It would be the 25th or 24th largest country on earth, bigger than South Korea, bigger than Spain.
a16z Podcast | What's Next for Technology and National Security?
- ▶ 13:52 Michelle Flournoy Great deal of political development occurred, and there, I just came from South Korea, where they literally credit the United States with having given them the foundation first to become a first world economy and second become a vibrant… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Stickers! Filters! Memes! Livestreams!
- ▶ 6:59 Christina Xu So there's a South Korean actor who's got this incredible laugh.
a16z Podcast | The Cloud and The Public Sector
- ▶ 9:57 Teresa Carlson One is in South Korea, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:05 Teresa Carlson We just launched a region in South Korea this year.
a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
- ▶ 26:11 Parag Khanna Either it's the transformation of an existing place, or it's literally breaking ground, building entire new cities from scratch, like Songdo, new economic city in South Korea, which a lot of people look at, Masdar City in Abu Dhabi.
a16z Podcast | Mobile Falls Hard for Virtual Reality
- ▶ 3:58 Benedict Evans It will be done by this second-tier South Korean electronics company, Samsung, and this has been American computer company that you may vaguely remember from the eighties called Apple Computer.
a16z Podcast | London Calling for Tech Done in a Different Way
- ▶ 8:18 Martha Lane Fox You know, you've had South Korea do a huge and incredible job on infrastructure.
a16z Podcast | Holy Non Sequiturs, Batman: What Disruption Theory Is ... and Isn't
- ▶ 2:09 Sukhinder Singh Cassidy And in our case, like China and Korea and Japan and Brazil were in fact very distinct markets for Google.
a16z Podcast | Wall Street's Most Hated Man -- A Conversation With Overstock.com's Patrick Byrne
- ▶ 26:19 Patrick Byrne I started getting, you know, there were things from South Korea and Thailand and stuff.
a16z Podcast | Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff
- ▶ 10:41 John Markoff Look at Korea, same thing.
a16z Podcast | How Hacks Happen (Let’s Just Say Mistakes Have Been Made)
- ▶ 17:53 Kim Zetter The only difference here is that they took it to another level in destroying data and releasing data, and they used, um, some of them, some malware that had been used in attacks against South Korea.
a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile
- ▶ 4:42 Benedict Evans The second is that they are embracing design and brand and marketing in a way that, um, the Korean manufacturers have always struggled to do.
a16z Podcast | Security’s Wakeup Call
- ▶ 25:31 Ash Carter That's the environment in which Japan first rose and prospered, and then South Korea, and then Southeast Asia, and today China and India.
a16z Podcast | The End of Ownership
- ▶ 20:12 Joe Gebbia And probably the most remarkable one that I heard of, or probably the funniest one was, um, I was in Seoul, South Korea.
a16z Podcast | The (Definite) Optimism of Peter Thiel
- ▶ 6:12 Peter Thiel There was one, one day we were in South Korea. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Startups as Science Experiments -- Can VC Disrupt Academia?
- ▶ 14:47 Marc Andreessen Because it just happens to be legal and supported there, and I think stem cell research in, in Korea has been an interesting example.
a16z Podcast | Apple Takes on Payments and Your Wrist
- ▶ 4:17 Benedict Evans It does feel like the, yeah, when you look at the numbers, the fablot has done very well in South Korea, well generally in East Asia,
- ▶ 9:30 Michael Copeland So let's use Japan or Korea as an example. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 1
- ▶ 23:43 Marc Andreessen Uh, one very interesting example is, uh, uh, South Korea, South Korea has, you know, sort of famously been, uh, much more liberal in terms of, uh, uh, legalizing, uh, new, uh, stem cell-based, uh, uh, health, uh, projects.
a16z Podcast | China and Tech
- ▶ 3:36 Benedict Evans Say Japan or South Korea, they're not behind a firewall, and those US companies haven't done any better there.
The End of the Beginning
- ▶ 5:13 Benedict Evans South Korea and the UK, of course, are also well ahead of the USA, um, although other parts of Western Europe, on the other hand, are quite far behind.