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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.