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Goldman Sachs Chairman on Why Finance Adopts AI Differently | a16z
- ▶ 1:10:39 Lloyd Blankfein We were at DEFCON II with the then Soviet Union stopping their ships in international waters on their way because of a blockade of Cuba.
Palantir CTO on The SaaS Apocalypse & Preventing The Next World War | a16z
- ▶ 6:19 Shyam Sankar Uh, and I, I think we're kind of coming out of the malaise of having won the cold war or the Soviets having lost it perhaps more accurately. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:55 Shyam Sankar Zumwalt, who was the chief of naval operations, the senior most, uh, uniformed person in the Navy, said, uh, the Navy has three enemies, the Soviet Union, the Air Force, and Hyman Rickover, his own admiral. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 25:06 Marc Andreessen It's very tempting, and I think it's a very good case to be made that we're in, like, a new Cold War that's, you know, that in a lot of ways is like the U.S. versus USSR, um, in the, in the 20th century. 4 times in the scene
Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
- ▶ 0:13 Marc Andreessen Is it important that the world not devolve into a complete Soviet communism everywhere? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:15 Marc Andreessen Yeah, so we actually had this fight, this fight actually happened during the, during the first Cold War with the Soviet Union, um, and there was just this raging debate that started in the, you know, 19 twenties, but like was fully raging… 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: How Movies Explain America
- ▶ 56:09 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, the US is, you know, is kind of variously at odds with not just Germany, but also with Soviet Russia. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:41 Marc Andreessen He, he's not known ever have been a member of the communist party, although again, there's, there's, there's, uh, there's ambiguity there, because the Soviets had a practice of having their best placed assets actually never become members… 3 times in the scene
Opendoor CEO: Building the Amazon for Homes
- ▶ 49:28 Kaz (Kaz Nejatian) I think it's very, like, um, like there isn't a five-year Soviet plan here.
The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
Anduril CEO: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?
- ▶ 0:54 Brian Schimpf Well, I, I think the, um, like, so the US has taken this strategy, uh, over the last 20 or 30 years based on this, like, probably very anomalous and incorrect Gulf War experience, where the US, having prepared to fight on, like, the most…
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 22:04 Balaji Srinivasan As distinct from, let's say, in the fifties or something like that, where in the fifties, because marginal tax rates were at 90% in America, there were a hundred percent in Soviet Russia, you know, go to jail, do not best go, do not… 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: The US is in a AI Arms Race & It Decides The World's Future
- ▶ 30:42 Marc Andreessen Like, all, like, Soviet iconography a hundred years ago was all, like, rockets and skyscrapers and cars and motion and energy, and it was all amazing, and they built all these huge things, and then, you know, liberals, you know, up…
Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy
- ▶ 1:02:06 Noah Smith If that had been Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union, it would have gone differently.
Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- ▶ 42:05 Steven Sinofsky But they didn't think about all of these, like, nobody thought that the dependency would be on, on, you know, sort of the replacement for the Soviet Union in terms of long-time enemy. 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
- ▶ 32:09 Marc Andreessen Uh, in, like, the twenties and thirties, and then, you know, kind of from that time through to, like, basically the 19 sixties, it was just assumed that there was this very deep relationship, and, you know, this Cold War, and of course,… 2 times in the scene
Mobilizing the American Industrial Base
- ▶ 16:10 Shyam Sankar You know, Edward Hall, I wouldn't recommend anyone do this, but Edward Hall had to fake a Soviet intelligence report about missiles in order to get the Minuteman funded.
- ▶ 20:36 Shyam Sankar Uh, you know, the, the, the Soviets irradiated their submariners. 2 times in the scene
Drone Warfare: The New Rules of Combat Are Here
Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startups
- ▶ 21:02 Marc Andreessen And then I, I always quote, there's an old Soviet quote, which is, you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.
- ▶ 25:44 Marc Andreessen There was a, you know, gigantic geopolitical battle in the 20th century between the US and the USSR, and that battle ran for, you know, basically, right, 1917 to 1989. 5 times in the scene
Marc & Ben on AI Policy, Safety, Censorship & Unexpected Risks
- ▶ 55:47 Marc Andreessen China in the same way that the defining conflict of the 20th century was U.S. v. the Soviet Union. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:55 Marc Andreessen Um, it's like, okay, if you, it's, it, again, it's very much like the US versus USSR competition is just, you, you square off the, the weak centralized, strong decentralized system against the strong centralized, weak decentralized system,…
Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- ▶ 13:20 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, with incarnated in the Soviet Union and, you know, people who didn't live through that, I don't, I don't think have a sense of what that was like, but that was a, that really was like an existential life and death thing. 4 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 31:07 Marc Andreessen And so the, the fear of the Defense Department was the Soviets presumably knew where the central switching offices were for like the AT&T network. 2 times in the scene
Startup Building: Major Shifts in Tech & Culture
- ▶ 1:05:54 Marc Andreessen There was another society in the 20th century that had this model and it was, uh, Soviet communism 3 times in the scene
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 1:19:08 Marc Andreessen It was with the USSR, you know, 3040, 50 years ago. 2 times in the scene
Collaborative Disruption at DoD
- ▶ 21:20 Kathleen Hicks Packard said that nine months before the Soviets launched Sputnik, bringing tech competition to the forefront of America's Cold War consciousness, and he said it 12 years before he came to Washington to serve as Deputy Secretary of Defense.
Rebuilding the California Dream
- ▶ 0:58 Jan Sramek Um, the Soviet Empire fell in 91, and so it was a, it was a very special time.
The China Threat: Silicon Valley and the Great Uncoupling
- ▶ 5:41 Congressman Mike Gallagher Having studied the collapse of the Soviet Union, he concluded that the main problem was insufficient commitment to, to ideology, and part of the reason we won the old Cold Wars, because Reagan was quite good at ideological warfare.
- ▶ 12:36 Congressman Jake Auchincloss I just don't think, we would never have allowed CBS, ABC, NBC to be owned by the Soviet Union in the 19 sixties.
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 12:57 Marc Andreessen Um, and in fact, the, the, the Soviets, the USSR actually had that as a mission for a very long time, um, and various other communist regimes. 3 times in the scene
Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
- ▶ 52:35 Marc Andreessen And so the, the, the true, like, for example, for STEM, the truly, the truly representative STEM systems at the educational level and at the professional level for like science and math and engineering were the Soviet Union.
Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist
- ▶ 36:49 Ben Horowitz That reminds me of a interesting conversation I had years ago with a friend of mine who grew up in the Soviet Union.
- ▶ 42:27 Marc Andreessen Um, Apollo was, you know, was a sort of a civilian thing, NASA, but it was in the context of a, of a military arms race with the Soviet Union, um, and a technological arms race with the Soviet Union in a, in a, in a much more militarized… 2 times in the scene
The Evolution of the Satellite Economy
- ▶ 5:04 John Gedmark There was the initial Apollo era, where we were in, it was this massive, almost monolithic government program, and everything was huge and epic in scale by design, because we were trying to compete against the Soviet Union
What is the Future of Hollywood?
- ▶ 1:14:19 Marc Andreessen Uh, maybe you, I think, I know you have some stories in particular, but like the, what was the, let me, what was, what was the, what was the impact of American entertainment, um, when, with, with respect to the, with respect specifically…
- ▶ 1:17:56 Marc Andreessen My, my, my Chinese friends, you know, cause it's, you know, it's always, you know, today it's like the equivalent of the USSR.
Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
- ▶ 6:45 Marc Andreessen And so the whole American production miracle of that era, which, you know, for sure saved the Soviet Union.
- ▶ 10:24 Marc Andreessen And for people, I'll just, uh, there's one very important thing about communism in that era, which is, we know a lot more about what happened, and in particular, uh, the, the affiliation of, of Americans with the Soviet Union in that era. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:28 Marc Andreessen Um, because when Lenin took control of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union immediately fell into a devastating famine, which, which was the direct consequence of basically killing the Kulaks, which basically meant killing all the productive… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:39 Marc Andreessen Um, who was basically an overt communist and Soviet, basically sympathizer. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:15 Marc Andreessen Um, and when I say prevented World War III, I mean that had the bomb not been developed and had both the, you know, had both ultimately the US and the USSR not, not developed the arsenals that they did, um, you know, like it was, it seemed… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:15 Marc Andreessen They saw the Soviets for what they were in the twenties and thirties. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:57 Marc Andreessen And I think the reason that faded, um, is because the Soviet Union actually reopened economically in the 19 twenties. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:01 Marc Andreessen So the Soviets, like Soviet communists developed their own biology. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:39 Marc Andreessen What we know today is McCarthy actually underestimated the level of Soviet penetration in the U.S. government. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:17 Marc Andreessen Um, but also there's this great moment where as a young business person working for his father in the family company at the time, uh, there's this great thing in Wikipedia where he went on vacation to the Soviet Union in 1921 and like came… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:56 Marc Andreessen Yeah, so the case I'll make, and I'll make the strong case for it, the case I'll make is that it is, and I think the movie actually shows this, and the history of the era certainly shows this also, um, and the topics we talked about, about… 3 times in the scene
Classroom 2050: Unleashing AI, XR, Gaming
- ▶ 5:33 Anarupa Ganguly The Soviets had first discovered this in the 19 seventies, so if you kind of, like, think about a rough definition, it's your ability to rotate three-D objects in your mind and maintain perspective of that object.
AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
- ▶ 53:22 Marc Andreessen We're this way across the world, and, you know, look, maybe America's the last country standing, you know, with a free society, and, you know, with, with infrastructure that's not, you know, authoritarian state control, and, you know,…
Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower
- ▶ 28:59 Marc Andreessen That's the Soviet method.
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 24:54 Balaji Srinivasan The uniformed police forces, the boys in blue, in the extremists, it's the Soviet Union of a totally godless state, and so on. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:00:32 Balaji Srinivasan The Soviet Union actually tried making it so that they could work seven days a week.
- ▶ 2:26:01 Balaji Srinivasan That's like how Stalin and like the nomenclature walked around like the Soviet Union.
Scaling Up Blockchains with Zero-Knowledge Proofs
- ▶ 8:10 Alex Gluchowski (Alex G) I was born in the Soviet Union, and as a kid, I, I survived a hyperinflation, uh, lasting for three years, and I could see the society deteriorate because
The Career Changing Magic of Strategic Compartmentalization
- ▶ 43:02 Susan Rice We now have lost that historical triumvirate between the academy, the private sector, and government that enabled us to compete against the Soviet Union.
Why You Should Be Optimistic About the Future
- ▶ 21:28 Marc Andreessen Um, it's become actually a primary, like, you know, if the Cold War between the US and the USSR was like defined by the space race, like at least the, the sort of nascent Cold War with China, um, is actually a lot of it is around five G,…
a16z Podcast | To All the Robots I've Loved Before
- ▶ 24:38 Kate Darling For example, the Soviets, they trained dogs to run under tanks, enemy tanks, and they had explosives attached to them, and they were meant to blow up the tanks. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Business of Cybercrime
- ▶ 9:37 Jonathan Lusthaus So, basically, if we think about sort of former Soviet Union states, they're very well known for the more technical aspects of cybercrime.
- ▶ 14:50 Jonathan Lusthaus I think one of the biggest problems in this area is really, if we think about somewhere like Eastern Europe, particularly former Soviet bloc, what we're seeing is a massive pool of very, very talented people who are highly educated,…
a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
- ▶ 8:59 W. Brian Arthur Professor, we want to point out that in Soviet Union, such a thing not possible, because with socialist planning, we do not make such mistakes.
a16z Podcast | Centers of Power, War, and History
- ▶ 12:36 Matthew Colford An example you give in the book of a relationship that did not escalate into a hot war was the U.S.-Soviet relationship between 1945 and 19 91.
a16z Podcast | Companies, Networks, Crowds
- ▶ 16:11 Andrew McAfee (Andy) Um, Hayek brought up the term the fatal conceit to demolish this idea that we could centrally plan an economy, and he, at the time when a lot of intellectuals in the West were excited about Soviet-style central planning, Hayek wrote one…
a16z Podcast | For Your Ears Only
- ▶ 1:24 Michael Morell All the way to paramilitary activities like providing arms to the freedom fighters in Afghanistan when they were, when they were fighting the Soviet Union.
a16z Podcast | From Jobs to Flying Cars
- ▶ 25:13 Marc Andreessen There was supposed to be, I mean, the military spent 30 years preparing for a giant land war, you know, in, in, on the plains of Germany, like, there was supposed to be this massive military conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union,…
a16z Podcast | From Hidden Figure to Sonic BOOM
- ▶ 0:40 Dr. Christine Darden All of us had gone through drills of hiding under our chairs at school because we were afraid of, ah, the Russians dropping a bomb. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Technology, Mobility, and the American Dream
- ▶ 16:48 Alex Rampell This is how the Soviet Union was partially bankrupted in the Afghani war, which is the amount of money that the incumbents, it's almost like a parallel to entropy where the amount that you have to, to take something down is much, it…
- ▶ 27:17 Tyler Cowen Soviet Union falls, China reforms, India gets wealthier.
a16z Podcast | New Year, New Horizons -- Pluto!
- ▶ 12:01 Ivan Linscott The Russians, under the former Soviet Union, made a significant amount of plutonium, and they had it in storage. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:50 Ivan Linscott Across the bay, and they, they, and they snuck in under the Soviets' surveillance, and they put a box onto the cable that had been designed by MIT, Signal Processing Lab, which would sample the fluctuations in the voltages that were… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
- ▶ 22:52 Alex Rampell I mean, you could argue that Amazon, if Amazon had a, if this were like the Soviet union and they were the only store that was allowed to sell anything, then they would have the ultimate platform because the only way that you could get a…
a16z Podcast | Open vs. Closed, Alpha Cities, and the Industries of the Future
a16z Podcast | When Banking Works Like My Smartphone
- ▶ 21:12 Tavit Henrikos And, you know, I'm, uh, I'd say I'm kind of, um, you know, uh, one thing looking at our research, but I'm also surprised, you know, if I look at my parents who are, uh, who are approaching seven to right now, and they did not grow up with…
a16z Podcast | Building Tech Startups in a Place Where Tech Isn’t Everything
- ▶ 10:40 Nick Babayan Has a different view of privacy from someone who grew up, grew up in a sort of, some former Soviet Republic of two million people.
a16z Podcast | How Hacks Happen (Let’s Just Say Mistakes Have Been Made)
- ▶ 11:25 Kim Zetter I think that, um, uh, you know, because of the economic conditions, a lot of people have, uh, you know, who weren't able to get a job, uh, during certain periods after the fall of the Soviet Union,
a16z Podcast | The Two Big Problems With Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”
- ▶ 1:25 Larry Summers That book managed to miss the fact that the Berlin Wall was going to fall, and the Soviet Union was going to, ah, collapse, and while Piketty's diagnosis
A Skeptic's View of Crypto (from the Point of View of Monetary Economics)
- ▶ 21:02 Paul Krugman It'll be something that people hold in their, in their stashes in, in, uh, uh, in Buenos Aires, or, uh, or actually high denomination euro notes in, in, uh, in, uh, in the former Soviet Union.