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Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence Sep 4, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:56 Fei-Fei Li One thing that's underappreciated on the website of the demos is the Stanford, uh, 2 times in the scene

Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card Sep 3, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:54 Max Levchin I was on Stanford University grounds and it was like, you know, pouring out of the forties and a bunch of very sad looking cypherpunks telling each other how the Egypt digital payments is not upon us.

Why Top Founders Are Racing Into AI Infrastructure Aug 28, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:29 Raghu Raghuram So the flagship conference for the industries, the one called Hot Chips, is going on in Stanford, and the leading memory ranger said the demand they have today will take them three years of capacity to supply.

How AI Changes the Economics of Innovation Aug 25, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 9:12 Steven Sinofsky From, I didn't, I mean, you're a Stanford guy, I'm not, but like, my state ag school, my state ag school, we didn't have that, but, uh, that's a Cornell joke for us Cornellians, but, but, um, you know, my class, I got taught by one of the… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:31 Steven Sinofsky Like, here's an example of that, a Stanford example. 3 times in the scene

The Opportunity for Global Founders Aug 20, 2026 · 1 mention

Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders Aug 11, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:52 Anish Acharya What did it feel like when you first got in the game back in 2003 coming out of Stanford?
  • ▶ 7:31 Garry Tan Uh, Joe Lonsdale and Stephen Cohen, uh, one of my fraternity brothers at Stanford.
  • ▶ 46:40 Garry Tan Like, if I couldn't have taken algebra in middle school, I couldn't take calculus by senior year, I wouldn't have been able to study engineering at Stanford, and I wouldn't be here doing any of the things I get to do today.

Kavak's Playbook for Rebuilding a Company Around AI Aug 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:59 Ale Massa Like, you can't send these people, like, outside to Stanford to, to learn this because, like, it's new stuff, right?

Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show Jul 21, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:14:29 Qasar Younis No one's like, these are, I don't want to throw judgment on, you know, the people we recruit out of, out of MIT and Stanford, but let's say GMI people are a little different, and they're like, you know, they're like pragmatic people, and…

Jake Paul on Going From YouTube to Boxing to Investing | a16z ft. Anti Fund Jun 22, 2026 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 3:22 Jake Paul We make like such a great team, you know, computer science, Stanford, uh, but his deep, deep networks.
  • ▶ 20:54 Jeff Woo I was, we were just, we were just stopping by Stanford, and Jake's gonna go back to college, and, uh, so that might be an answer that he can actually think about.
  • ▶ 23:22 Jake Paul And yeah, hopefully if I made a lot of good connections at Stanford, uh, my buddies that I would seed seed their, um, genius ideas, but.
  • ▶ 55:42 Jeff Woo Yeah, I, I, I think Peter Thiel in some sense is like, kind of hypocritical when he's like, don't go to college where he had Stanford undergrad, Stanford law school, he got all the badges, right? 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 59:10 Jeff Woo So I think, and like me coming up in Silicon Valley, Stanford, Y Combinator, uh, I think we just got a lot of reps at meeting people, getting pitched things,

Goldman Sachs Chairman on Why Finance Adopts AI Differently | a16z May 12, 2026 · 1 mention

Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show Apr 7, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 18:24 Balaji Srinivasan I, I, I was a professional, you know, bioinformatics, genomic scientist at Sanford, and, you know, I, I taught there and, uh, you know, founded Genomic Summit. 2 times in the scene

Andrew Huberman: Peptides, Sleep Tech, and the End of Obesity Mar 9, 2026 · 4 mentions

Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI Jan 7, 2026 · 1 mention

The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything. Dec 10, 2025 · 2 mentions

The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm Nov 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:14 Marc Andreessen I have to go over to Stanford, I have to talk to a room full of NFL players on how to manage their money, and now that their NFL careers are over.

Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner Nov 21, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 9:47 Vlad Tenev You know, I, I graduated Stanford in 2008 and started grad school, uh, a month before Lehman Brothers went under.
  • ▶ 12:45 Vlad Tenev And, and then you had high frequency disrupt this institutional trading market because suddenly two guys out of MIT or Stanford in our case who could just write code could just disrupt everything. 3 times in the scene

Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It) Nov 19, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:11 Marc Andreessen By the way, you know, Ben mentioned Stanford, the pioneering role of Stanford in all of this. 2 times in the scene

The Brutal Truth About Biotech: Why $2B Per Drug Is Killing Innovation Nov 14, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:30 Elliot Hershberg I spent a lot of time with Michael Fishback, an incredible scientist at Stanford. 2 times in the scene

Rocket Companies CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis Nov 12, 2025 · 1 mention

Grant Lee: Building Gamma’s AI Presentation Company to 100 Million Users Nov 11, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:54 Grant Lee You know, when I was at, um, Sanford, I was lucky enough to have a mentor, David Kelly, who was the founder of IDEO, um, and his story, you know, early on, he was, uh, you know, they invented the first Apple mouse.

Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI? Nov 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:25 unnamed speaker By the way, just on that note, if you were going to Stanford or Harvard, you know, today, 20, 25, just enter, would you major again in computer science or just focus on building something?

Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan: How AI Will Cure All Disease Nov 6, 2025 · 1 mention

Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding Oct 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:06 Marc Andreessen Um, uh, but it, I can get it, I can get up to 40 pages of PDF, but it's a completely coherent, and as far as I can tell for everything I've cross-checked, a completely, like, like, world-class, like, if I hired, you know, for a question…

Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya Oct 22, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:13:10 Anish Acharya Um, if you're somebody that goes to Stanford or maybe Harvard or MIT, like, those people are leaning into CS degrees in a big way, and unfortunately, I think this story has gotten out into broader society that CS is over, engineering is…

How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure Oct 21, 2025 · 2 mentions

Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a $100 Billion Business Oct 15, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:02:21 Ali Ghodsi He does have an engineering degree from Stanford that helped a little bit, but, uh, but he, he's a, he's a sales, you know, true and true sales guy.

Is AI Slowing Down? Nathan Labenz Says We're Asking the Wrong Question Oct 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:24:02 Nathan Labenz There was another one that I did another episode on with a Stanford professor named James Zhao, who created something called the virtual lab.

Opendoor CEO: Building the Amazon for Homes Oct 7, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 18:41 Alex Rampell So, uh, if you are an English professor at Princeton or Stanford, you probably can't afford to buy a house, but the university helps you buy a house where they will subsidize a mortgage. 2 times in the scene

Software is Eating Labor Oct 3, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 22:25 Alex Rampell Does Stanford have any Farsi-speaking nurses that can call me about my pain level?
  • ▶ 24:47 Alex Rampell Am I gonna hire a bunch of, like, you know, expensive Stanford kids in Palo Alto and have to give them 20 different flavors of coconut water and, you know, cater to their millennial needs in order for them to work in the sales operation in…

Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture Sep 30, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 43:29 Anjney Midha Um, you guys both know that I, I, uh, spent some time running evals on a bunch of these models at the Stanford physics lab earlier this year, and the results were that the models are terrible at scientific analysis.
  • ▶ 48:57 Doge Cubuk So, uh, this, you know, includes superconductivity expertise, such as ZX Chan from Stanford on the experimental side, and Steve Kvelson from the theory side.

Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie Sep 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:11 Aaron Levie I'm seeing these 19 and 20 year olds that are like, first of all, I don't know what is in the water at, like, Stanford, MIT, et cetera, right now, but like, everybody's dropping out, so.

Taking Bold Bets: NIH and the Future of Biomedical Science Sep 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:19 Dr. Jay Bhattacharya A colleague of mine at Stanford did, has this like fantastic paper, he published, set of papers he published using an old shingles vaccine.

Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China Sep 22, 2025 · 1 mention

Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics Sep 9, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:49 Mark Cuban Because if I'm MD Anderson, if I'm Stanford, any research hospital, any scientist in healthcare, you're an idiot if you publish it.

Is Non-Consensus Investing Overrated? Sep 4, 2025 · 1 mention

Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future Aug 25, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:19 Steven Sinofsky To the actual published research, like at Stanford, it was like, this is an expert system in deciding on what type of infectious disease you have, as long as you have one of these seven.

Why AI Characters & Virtual Influencers Are the Next Frontier in Video ft Hedra’s Michael Lingelbach Aug 14, 2025 · 1 mention

Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money Jul 28, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:57 Balaji Srinivasan So, um, you know, actually Martin and I are roughly contemporaries at Stanford.
  • ▶ 1:31 Balaji Srinivasan I'm actually, you know, I, I taught machine learning and computational statistics and so on in the context of genomics at Stanford for, uh, you know, the mid-two thousands and then founded a DNA sequencing company.

Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook Jul 25, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:47 Marc Andreessen First public appearance after, uh, in 2017, after she, after she lost it at stage, she gave a talk at Stanford as her first kind of big public out, outing, and, um, she, you know, she said like 20 feet away from me on stage that, you know,…

Aaron Levie on AI's Enterprise Adoption Jul 14, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 36:02 Aaron Levie If you, if you went and recruited from Stanford right now and he said, okay, you Stanford grad have a choice. 2 times in the scene

Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies Jun 12, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 24:37 Marc Andreessen Um, and I, I went over to the Stanford campus, which was Stanford campus, May, 20, 20, Stanford campus completely, completely deserted except for me taking a long walk. 4 times in the scene

How Fei-Fei Li Is Rebuilding AI for the Real World Jun 4, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:25 Fei-Fei Li You know, I joined Stanford in 2009 as a young assistant professor, and Martin was finishing his, uh, uh, PhD there, so I always know, and of course, Martin's advisor, Nick McCune, was a good friend, and I always know Martin went on to… 2 times in the scene

Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z Jun 2, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 8:25 Marc Andreessen and I, I went to, I went to Hillary's, uh, big speech, uh, I went to her first big speech after she lost at Stanford, and she literally said on stage, you know, Donald Trump was only president today because Vladimir Putin had Facebook, and…
  • ▶ 33:00 Marc Andreessen So, like, Stanford, like, spun up, there's this thing called Stanford Research Institute, SRI, that's actually no longer associated with Stanford. 3 times in the scene

7 More Healthy Years: What We Can Learn from Super Agers May 27, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:53 Dr. Eric Topol Yeah, I think the, the, um, ability to look at the organ clocks, which was initially reported here at Stanford by Tony Wyss Corey and his colleagues are now validated and replicated by multiple groups.

Who's Coding Now? - AI and the Future of Software Development May 16, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 40:37 Matt Bornstein I think there are some, you know, some overpriced Stanford PhDs working on that problem.

How to Enable a Manufacturing Renaissance May 1, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:47 Ian Cinnamon Yeah, I mean, 10 years ago I started a company that was building AI and computer vision software for different national security applications, and we built the company in Palo Alto, California, and I remember every single day we were…

Biotech CEO on where we are in the fight to cure cancer Apr 30, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:55 Jonathan Lim So I was pre-med at Stanford, went to back to Montreal where I was born, and then I went to McGill and then went straight into general surgery at New York hospital, and I just loved it.
  • ▶ 12:22 Jonathan Lim This was, uh, uh, basically a, a Stanford travel study program with Bill Durham, who was a faculty member. 2 times in the scene

How Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What’s Coming Next Apr 29, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:11:51 Marc Andreessen So first of all, um, our, our, our, we used to have this discussion with our friend, Andy Ratcliffe, um, you know, who's kind of the master of a venture and, you know, as I said, co-founder of Benchmark and then actually taught venture…

Reasoning Models Are Remaking Professional Services Feb 14, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:27 George Sivulka And at Stanford, maybe the only other thing that I, I took from, like, the, the relative entrepreneurship community there was build a company where there's pain.
  • ▶ 6:20 George Sivulka So, at, at Stanford, there's a class, ah, which is CS-three-thirty, which I think, it's probably still around, ah, but it's, it's like an introduction to meta-learning and multi-task learning. 3 times in the scene

Ben Horowitz in Conversation w/ Dr. Clarence B. Jones, MLK's Advisor and Speechwriter Jan 31, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 24:14 Dr. Clarence B. Jones Jones, I'm the, I'm the, you're president of Stanford University. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 52:38 Ben Horowitz Integration, ok, but, you know, we're gonna have a separate black graduation at Stanford, and that kind of thing. 2 times in the scene

Jobs of the Future: Where Hardware Meets Software Dec 12, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:45 Erin Price-Wright Um, I expect that schools like Stanford and MIT have great engineering departments outside of computer science programs.

How Gusto Used Customer Input to Scale Growth with Tomer London Dec 5, 2024 · 1 mention

The Quest for Community-Trained Open Source AI Models Oct 1, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:26 Jeff Schmidt Um, and maybe for whatever reason, didn't go through the traditional academic sort of, you know, not, not to disparage it, sort of your, your typical Stanford, MIT kind of like path.

“The Future of AI is Here” — Fei-Fei Li Unveils the Next Frontier of AI Sep 20, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 2:35 Justin Johnson So it was obvious you got to go to grad school to do this stuff, and then, um, sort of saw that Fei-Fei was at Stanford, one of the few people in the world at the time who was kind of on that, on that train, and that was just an amazing…
  • ▶ 6:51 Fei-Fei Li So we were riding that wave and that's when I came to Stanford.
  • ▶ 44:45 Fei-Fei Li I've had the privilege of working with the smartest young people in my entire career, right, from, from the top universities, being a professor at Stanford, but the kind of talent that we put together here at, uh, at, uh, World Labs is…

How Waymo Is Using GenAI to Build a Better Driver Aug 5, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:45 Sarah Wang He was an early pioneer in self-driving cars, working with Toyota and Stanford on DARPA's Grand Challenge before joining Google's self-driving car project, which then evolved into Waymo.
  • ▶ 1:24 David George Maybe to start, take us back to Stanford, if you will, and that was when you first started working on the DARPA project, and maybe give us a little bit of your history of how you ended up from there to here. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:57 David George So then, ok, so take us, so at that point, that was the pivotal, that was like the light bulb moment, and then at that point you said, ok, I'm at Stanford, I want to make this my career, right?

Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet) Jun 28, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:41:00 Marc Andreessen Um, the, the, the name Sun actually came from the project at Stanford, which was Stanford University Network, S-U-N. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:47:09 Marc Andreessen And, you know, the, the, the, the broader point, Ben, that you brought up is, is really key, which is like, look, there, there are a small number of universities in the world that, and you'd put certainly Stanford in this category and MIT… 2 times in the scene

Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities May 2, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 46:11 Ben Horowitz Yeah, I had a really interesting conversation with, um, Jan Stojka the other day, the professor at Stanford, and he was saying, you know, like, you, you kind of think, well, like, this isn't that hard a problem.
  • ▶ 1:05:17 Marc Andreessen This is the, this is the online, online fight I'm always having with my friend Andrew Huberman, um, which is, Andrew Huberman is always citing, you know, he's a Stanford professor and has studied all this health stuff, and he's always…

Marty Chavez (Sixth Street): Finding a Single Source of AI Truth Apr 30, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 8:17 Marty Chavez And so I, um, I applied to, uh, to Stanford. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:02 Marty Chavez For full disclosure, I remember late eighties, early nineties, and this program at Stanford, we were, we were the Bayesians, right?

Politics & the Future of Tech Apr 2, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:25:49 Marc Andreessen Um, and by the way, he denies that he's been doing this, but I saw him with my own eyes, uh, when the, uh, US Congressional China Committee came to Stanford,

The Future of AI Is Amazing Mar 5, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:40 Martin Casado So when I joined Stanford to do my PhD in 2003, Sebastian Thrun had just won the DARPA grand challenge, right?

Collaborative Disruption at DoD Mar 5, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:02 Kathleen Hicks Think of DARPA funding early AI research at Stanford, the labs where Vince Cerf and Bob Kahn fathered the internet, and the grand challenges that road-tested technologies used in today's self-driving cars.

Sharks Never Stop Swimming: A Conversation with Mark Cuban Mar 5, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:20 Mark Cuban But when someone from Harvard, or MIT, or Stanford, they always are just there for the commercial, you know.

Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon Feb 28, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:00:52 Chris Dixon Um, and meanwhile, good actors, if you're a top end student out of Stanford, do you want to go into an area with gray, with legal gray area where you just stick to AI or something, right?

The Declining State of Higher Education Feb 1, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:53 Marc Andreessen Parker Pruitt asks, um, given that there are some presidential vacancies at notable universities, and I should pause there and say that I believe that Harvard, uh, Stanford, uh, Penn, and Yale are all currently searching for new presidents.
  • ▶ 1:17:38 Ben Horowitz Yeah, no, like, I mean, and I think that if you look at professor salaries, you know, other than look, if you're a Stanford professor or a Berkeley computer science professor and you help like spawn
  • ▶ 1:24:12 Ben Horowitz The largest one, Stanford, Harvard, Yale.

Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities Jan 23, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 28:37 Ben Horowitz What are under, what are, you know, computer science students from Stanford are heavily recruited, MIT students, so forth.
  • ▶ 1:42:21 Marc Andreessen So anyway, so it, it really, and then, oh, and then I'll just mention like, so our friend Patrick Collison has, you know, his funding philanthropically, uh, program, you know, the, to do independent medical research, uh, associated with…

Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter Jan 13, 2024 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 33:38 Ben Horowitz They used to only hire people from, uh, Stanford and MIT, or I think, or Harvard, Stanford, MIT. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 54:38 Marc Andreessen Um, and this, uh, kicked off in, I think, 2005 when a Stanford professor named John Ioannidis wrote a now famous paper 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:30:44 Ben Horowitz And particularly at the big schools and, and alumni donations, like, so a big part of alumni donations is for sports, as you know, uh, your, your, your father-in-law was a huge, uh, booster, uh, you know, supporter of Stanford and, um, and… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:43:21 Marc Andreessen Um, there are multiple large institutions too that have been identified in public, Stanford and Yale, that now have more administrative staff than they have students.
  • ▶ 1:52:01 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, and there are people, Patrick Collison has a biggest, you know, and his wife have a, have a big new biotech research institute at Stanford along those lines, or associated with Stanford, but it's a separate thing that they're… 2 times in the scene

Tony Robbins on the Future of Health & Longevity Dec 20, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 19:24 Tony Robbins I recently, about three years ago, in the middle of COVID, some doctors from Stanford approached me because they had two of their doctors go to one of my six-day programs I do called Date With Destiny, and they were both clinically… 3 times in the scene

Advancing AI, Approaching VC's & Crypto Scandals: Ask Us Anything! Dec 5, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:55 Ben Horowitz You know, that's actually helps you if you come, if you can come from sort of outer space and network your way all the way to venture capital, that's also, that's more impressive than if you have a Stanford MBA or something like that.
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