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Why Investors Are Rethinking Everything for the AI Era
- ▶ 0:51 Jen Kha PowerLaw used to be just a feature of a cottage industry in venture capital, and now it's systemic throughout, and particularly the three frontier model companies, SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, represent somewhere between three and a half to… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:40 Jen Kha Oh, even the morning of the acquisition announcement, people were still saying that Cursor is dead, and like, they just announced that they were gonna be acquired by SpaceX for six years.
- ▶ 31:56 Jen Kha Like Cursor was, the M&A sale to SpaceX was way bigger than that.
- ▶ 46:28 David George Um, and so I'm excited that I think the next SpaceX AI or OpenAI are probably gonna get created, um, and they'll probably be in those kinds of domains.
Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply
- ▶ 2:51 Gavin Baker SpaceX wins.
- ▶ 5:47 David George Whereas I think open AI is a little more commercial and obviously SpaceX is a little more commercial, but.
- ▶ 11:39 David George And SpaceX was aggressive. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:55 Gavin Baker And, and I do think the entire AI industry, um, like I'd love to see, you know, everybody, SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, say, hey, here are real businesses and real Americans, and like, either name the business or get permission… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:25 David George Um, it's so funny when, whenever I talk about SpaceX and it's, it's obviously near and dear to both our hearts. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:03 Gavin Baker And I do think a distinction that, um, you know, SpaceX really tried to kind of hammer home during their, their IPO is there's a difference between reusability and China. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:12 Gavin Baker I'd say in, you know, now they're part of SpaceX, but that suits Elon and his mindset really, really well.
Why Top Founders Are Racing Into AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 50:53 Martin Casado Like, I would say, actually, one of the greatest legacies of Elon towards this is, is, of course, he's created these great companies, but the amount of entrepreneurs that have come out of SpaceX that, that have, are changing the entire…
- ▶ 52:15 Martin Casado We're in SpaceX.
How Cursor Built One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies
- ▶ 34:04 Sarah Wang I mean, there, there's a funny analogy with our experience on the SpaceX side. 4 times in the scene
The Nuclear Renaissance - Radiant | a16z American Dynamism
- ▶ 3:49 Doug Bernauer I founded Radiant after working at SpaceX for about 12 years. 2 times in the scene
Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
- ▶ 50:55 Ben Horowitz And same, and that's why there's only one SpaceX.
- ▶ 1:04:30 Ben Horowitz Uh, like, like, look, the fact that Elon has taken SpaceX to Starlink to data centers in space, it's just like, nobody would start there.
Jake Paul on Going From YouTube to Boxing to Investing | a16z ft. Anti Fund
The Media Game Has Changed
- ▶ 13:44 Ben Horowitz So it's not like, were people talking about, like, when every Democrat came out and was mad about SpaceX?
- ▶ 29:24 Marc Andreessen The changes that are happening, I mean, of all times, the changes that are happening in tech right now are profound, um, and they're really hard to understand from the outside, and they're really complicated, um, and there's huge amounts…
Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
- ▶ 11:30 Marc Rowan Private markets are 80% of the action going on in the world, and if you think about what's going on, great companies, Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX, Cognition, Cursor, Anderol, on and on and on, every one of those companies is private,…
Is Defense the Next Trillion-Dollar Category? | a16z American Dynamism Summit
- ▶ 4:30 Dino Mavrookas If somebody can't come out of somebody who's building a car for Ford or General Motors or an airplane at Boeing or a rocket ship for SpaceX,
Goldman Sachs Chairman on Why Finance Adopts AI Differently | a16z
- ▶ 1:03:24 David Haber You know, again, I, I know you don't want to predict the future, but, you know, we are on the precipice of, I don't know, some of the largest IPOs ever, you know, with, with SpaceX, with, you know, likely OpenAI, Anthropic, you know,…
NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin, and The Race to The Moon | Jared Isaacman on The a16z Show
- ▶ 17:48 Morgan Brennan Uh, so the, I do want to just, before we move on to other topics, I do want to just get to the human landing system piece of this, because it's Blue Origin, it's SpaceX. 3 times in the scene
Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
- ▶ 42:32 Balaji Srinivasan That's really hard to do because they need basically, you know, Gwynne Shotwell running SpaceX is, and, uh, like Elon doesn't have to look at every single detail because she's so, so, so good, right?
Tesla and SpaceX Alumni on Elon Musk, Decision Velocity, and the Future of Hard Tech | a16z
- ▶ 0:00 Chandler Lujica I interned to SpaceX four times. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:50 Erin Price-Wright As you know, I spend a lot of my time with founders building in the physical world, and one thing that keeps coming up, uh, is how many of them trained at Tesla and SpaceX.
- ▶ 2:02 Chandler Lujica So, with my background being purely in liquid propulsion across SpaceX, and even at UCLA launching liquid rockets, ah, there's a very real way to apply this technology to missile systems, and we're gonna go do it, so.
- ▶ 3:32 Erin Price-Wright So there's so much mythology around Tesla and SpaceX culture, maybe forgetting the buzzwords. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:13 Erin Price-Wright What lesson or experiences did you have, ah, in your previous roles, um, at Tesla and SpaceX that maybe directly changed an outcome or how you thought about things at Galadine and Mariana?
- ▶ 9:24 Chandler Lujica Um, I think, I think chasing critical path and being a firefighter is something that SpaceX and I would assume Tesla engineers do.
- ▶ 11:56 Erin Price-Wright Maybe in terms of like practical or tactical advice, like what are, what is a specific process or rhythm that you've brought from Tesla and SpaceX into your companies?
- ▶ 18:24 Erin Price-Wright Both Tesla and SpaceX are famous for, you know, all nighters, like a very intense work culture, long working hours, like really, these really hard deadlines where, you know, you're trying to do something in six months, which 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:36 Erin Price-Wright So maybe flipping it, what principle from Tesla or SpaceX has not worked for you in your new companies or patterns that you maybe needed to unlearn that didn't apply either because of the domain or because of the size of the company or… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:55 Chandler Lujica It's kind of delaying the implementation of, but, um, the one thing that, that I definitely employed working Starship, um, a little bit on Dragon as well is with, with the fantastic resource that SpaceX has behind it, you can do a lot of…
- ▶ 24:07 Erin Price-Wright Both Tesla and SpaceX are famous for approaching every problem with this kind of factory mindset. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:04 Chandler Lujica It's even happening on, on fixes on Dragon.
- ▶ 32:21 Erin Price-Wright It's, um, one of the most obvious and talked about Tesla and SpaceX principles.
- ▶ 37:54 Erin Price-Wright So something that both Tesla and SpaceX are pretty famous for is the caliber of talent that they're able to hire. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:30 Erin Price-Wright Uh, maybe wrapping up, um, given we're talking about hiring interns and, and young talent, both of you started your careers at Tesla and SpaceX, you know, relatively young. 5 times in the scene
Inside The $100M Bet on the Future of Space | Northwood CEO on a16z
- ▶ 0:27 Erik Torenberg SpaceX was able to bring launch costs down by an order of magnitude of what came before.
- ▶ 16:24 Erik Torenberg SpaceX was able to bring launch costs down by order of magnitude. 5 times in the scene
Palantir CTO on The SaaS Apocalypse & Preventing The Next World War | a16z
- ▶ 31:44 Shyam Sankar You see that with SpaceX.
Emil Michael: The Department of War Is Moving Faster Than Silicon Valley on AI | The a16z Show
- ▶ 21:20 Emil Michael And if you make a better margin because you're able to economize, this is sort of the Elon model and why he was so successful at SpaceX.
The Biggest Bottlenecks For AI: Energy & Cooling
- ▶ 59:41 David George So you had at the same time, you have market need, you had people that figured out how to do this inside of SpaceX and, and, uh, Palantir who have then left to start companies.
AI Is Coming For These 3 Industries In 2026 (a16z Big Ideas)
- ▶ 1:35 Ryan McEntush Another example, you know, people typically talk about is companies like SpaceX or Endrel, these large businesses that need to move incredibly fast and thus vertically integrate.
- ▶ 2:25 Ryan McEntush Even companies like SpaceX, they were pulling propulsion talent from people who worked on, you know, shuttle program and various old school contractors.
Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
- ▶ 29:29 Katherine Boyle Yeah, so I think the thing that's really changed about aerospace that I think we're, we're incredibly excited about is it used to be that everyone had to vertically integrate, um, and sort of space one point O was, was very much… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:31 Katherine Boyle And that's led to so many different founders leaving the Andurils and the SpaceX's and the extraordinary, you know, they, they've sort of graduated with the blessing of, of, of their, of their teams, and they're building things that are,… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:16 Katherine Boyle Well, we always say SpaceX and Palantir walked so that everyone else could run, and I, it's maybe unfair to say that they walked, but both of them had to sue the government.
- ▶ 45:50 Katherine Boyle You know, obviously, SpaceX is a very, um, sophisticated company.
- ▶ 1:13:11 David Ulevitch I mean, if you come out of SpaceX and you were there for, you know, six, seven, eight years 2 times in the scene
Is AI Slowing Down? Nathan Labenz Says We're Asking the Wrong Question
- ▶ 54:51 Nathan Labenz Over at Tesla, over at SpaceX, like, we're solving hard engineering problems on a daily basis, and they seem to be never-ending.
The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
- ▶ 10:50 Katherine Boyle All of those people that, that introduced those books to me, like, 10 years ago when I first moved to the Valley, those people are, like, all American dynamism, hardware, early SpaceX investors, early Palantir, right?
Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
- ▶ 39:47 unnamed speaker Um, is there anyone akin to a Gwynne Shotwell at SpaceX or previously a Tim Cook to Steve Jobs at Apple that is at NVIDIA today?
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 7:53 Balaji Srinivasan For example, SpaceX's network, NASA's state.
- ▶ 23:57 Balaji Srinivasan So they like basically, whereas for us, it's like SpaceX, right?
The U.S. Can’t Build AI Without These Materials
- ▶ 41:58 Ryan McEntush Like, to what Steph Turner's been talking about is like, now we have technology that can actually go and disrupt this, but also as a talent base, people coming from companies like Tesla, SpaceX, Andrel, other sort of hard tech companies…
Crypto Experts Explain Stablecoins & the Future Financial System w/ Ali Yahya & Arianna Simpson
Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
- ▶ 15:13 Marc Andreessen You know, 2010, 22,009, 20 10 was kind of the pivot we now know, which was, you know, the rise of Uber and Lyft, the rise of Airbnb, the rise of Tesla, the rise of SpaceX.
Where Crypto Meets AI with Chris Dixon & David George
- ▶ 5:07 Chris Dixon A lot of their use cases are cross-border, they're like treasury management, so that's like, I think like, um, uh, you know, like SpaceX, like Starlink is like, uses it to move money from one country to another, things like this.
How to Enable a Manufacturing Renaissance
- ▶ 1:21 Chris Power So our customers are the big primes and neoprimes like SpaceX and Android, as well as a lot of the startups in this room that are trying to go fast.
- ▶ 3:18 Chris Power Um, and LA was the perfect place where we could pull enough, uh, software and robotics talent down from Silicon Valley, and with massive companies like, um, SpaceX, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:03 Chris Power Um, and historically, I would say, 10 to 20 years ago, there were companies like SpaceX and Palantir. 2 times in the scene
How Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What’s Coming Next
- ▶ 59:17 Marc Andreessen They're at SpaceX.
The Kill Chain: 2025 Edition
- ▶ 6:28 Christian Brose I mean, ah, certainly Shield, but before that even Palantir, SpaceX, others, um, there were people who were doing this work, but, I mean, just the explosion of interest and energy, ah, you know, frankly, just kind of the strength in… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:19 Katherine Boyle Well, similar to, to SpaceX, I think this year, especially at twenty-twenty-five, I haven't, there, there really hasn't been a day where you haven't broken news about a new program, a new product.
Mobilizing the American Industrial Base
- ▶ 11:12 Shyam Sankar So we're talking about people who grew up directly or indirectly in the school of Tesla and SpaceX,
The Dual-Use Founder: Vets Now Building For America
- ▶ 12:45 Matt Shortal For me, personally, you know, especially at Android, Palantir, you know, I could go to SpaceX,
Autonomy is no longer a moonshot—it’s a market
- ▶ 28:23 Jason Brown I mean, if you, if you look at the top 100 venture backed companies that are doing business with the Department of Defense, and you take SpaceX and Palantir, put it aside, so now the top 98, um, that's ten billion dollars a year of…
Can the Military Move at Startup Speed? How the Army and Navy Are Rebuilding
- ▶ 7:58 Justin Fanelli Uh, SpaceX has, Palantir has, but, uh, number one, we want that to be, uh, more straightforward.
Why American Dynamism Is Just Getting Started
- ▶ 3:03 David Ulevitch (Dee) They sort of saw things like SpaceX starting to like really actually happen, like launch was happening.
- ▶ 12:49 Katherine Boyle and I saw in the early days before we even had a practice, um, where, you know, these, these one-off companies had these extraordinary business models, whether it's something like Andrel or SpaceX or Flock Safety, but they're all very…
How AI Is Changing Warfare, with Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf
- ▶ 19:01 Brian Schimpf It's like you look at like the companies have gotten so used to this where you look at even something like Starliner, where, you know, I think SpaceX had a third the amount of money that Boeing was given to make Starliner work. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:55 Brian Schimpf You know, I think SpaceX really proved this, where they literally built a reusable rocket that you catch with chopsticks commercially.
Jobs of the Future: Where Hardware Meets Software
- ▶ 3:12 Erin Price-Wright There's definitely a spectrum, and I would frankly really credit Elon Musk, both from the SpaceX and Tesla perspective, with a lot for really training up engineers that have fluency in hardware and software.
- ▶ 9:09 Erin Price-Wright So how do companies take the magic that happened when we all got up at five a.m. and watched SpaceX catch a massive multi-story rocket with chopsticks in the air?
AI, Robotics & the New Global Arms Race
- ▶ 11:06 Ben Horowitz Um, and, and by the way, the, the, the best paid, uh, manufacturing workers in the world because they have Tesla and SpaceX stock and so forth, yeah.
AI, Robotics & the Future of Manufacturing
- ▶ 40:28 Ben Horowitz Cause it kind of goes through a lot of the crises he ran into in both SpaceX and Tesla.
A Nuclear Comeback: Are New Reactors the Answer?
- ▶ 20:20 David Ulevitch So Doug worked at SpaceX. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:17 Doug Bernauer That's actually what we ran, um, when we did the Hyperloop project at SpaceX.
From Silicon Valley to the Pentagon: The Future of Defense Innovation
- ▶ 9:17 Brian Schimpf Um, you know, and, and I think companies like SpaceX have dramatically transformed the perception of what are those technologies that are achievable in this new model.
Sharks Never Stop Swimming: A Conversation with Mark Cuban
- ▶ 19:31 David Ulevitch And, you know, we look at SpaceX, it was started by Elon, you know, he had to pour all his money into it before it became SpaceX.
The Declining State of Higher Education
- ▶ 1:06:08 Marc Andreessen And then, you know, my, my, my eight year oldies, you know, he's not ready to work at SpaceX, but, uh, you know, there's this thing called Kerbal Space Program, um, which is this game slash rocket simulator that is actually a full, uh,…
Big Ideas 2024: A New Age of Maritime Exploration with Grant Gregory
- ▶ 8:35 Grant Gregory Uh, and equally, we're seeing people from a lot of the other American dynamism companies like SpaceX, Tesla, and Andrel, they're taking their learnings and experiences and bringing them over to the ocean.
- ▶ 8:48 unnamed speaker And some of those companies, like SpaceX, are specifically in aerospace. 2 times in the scene
Big Ideas in 2024: Programming Medicine’s Final Frontier with Jorge Conde
- ▶ 2:11 Jorge Conde SpaceX's rocket reusability has transformed space travel, lowering costs and expanding horizons.
The Electrification of Everything: From Sky to Sea
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 17:35 Peter Diamandis And, you know, classically for SpaceX, it's making humanity multi-planetary and going to Mars.
Intro to American Dynamism
- ▶ 5:02 Katherine Boyle They were very wary of companies that had to go through the long procurement cycle to work with government, and so there was sort of this meme in Silicon Valley that you can't build a big government business, and if we've seen anything…
Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy
- ▶ 9:38 Palmer Luckey Palantir and SpaceX that were able to become unicorns.
Autonomy & Defense Policy in the 21st Century
- ▶ 8:32 Congressman Mike Gallagher They see the notable successes of, of certain companies, ah, like SpaceX, and, ah, you know, I think there's more people interested in this that, that wouldn't have been deploying capital in that space before.
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 2)
- ▶ 39:51 Ryan McEntush And that might require separating out these vertically integrated businesses like SpaceX that does everything and doing each individual component and building a separate company that handles just that. 6 times in the scene
The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
- ▶ 14:22 Steph Smith I mean, it almost reminds me of those memes that are like expectations versus reality and expectations are like, you have just like this image of, let's say like a SpaceX rocket taking off and you're like,
- ▶ 32:36 Chris Power Um, and I think the other thing is, yeah, incentives really matter, and I think we're probably the only factory on the planet outside of SpaceX that is giving everyone in these roles, you know, the same
- ▶ 41:47 Steph Smith So if you're a SpaceX or an Android buying parts, uh, through Hadrian, do they get access to that data?
- ▶ 56:31 Chris Power Over message, you know, to make sure people understand is that you don't need a hardware or manufacturing background to come into a business like Hadrian or SpaceX or Anduril to be able to, you know, be a competitive candidate or create…
- ▶ 1:12:06 Chris Power Don't have to go and work at SpaceX for 10 years to figure out what the hell is going on and then go start something.
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 2:21:03 Balaji Srinivasan Twitter sounded insanely trivial. 2 times in the scene
Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah on the Data Highway Above
- ▶ 36:00 Dr. Moriba Jah It doesn't belong to SpaceX.
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