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

  • ▶ 6:37 Alex Rampell That's why Starbucks invented Starbucks Pay, because they wanted to stop having to pay. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:37 Alex Rampell That's why Starbucks invented Starbucks Pay, because they wanted to stop having to pay.

Building Blackstone, Backing Costco, and Working with Munger | Tony James on The a16z Show May 5, 2026 · 1 mention

How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer | Alex Blania on a16z Apr 2, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 25:48 Alex Blania How, how do you eventually have this in every Starbucks?
  • ▶ 31:32 Erik Torenberg So people aren't weirded out in a Starbucks or something.
  • ▶ 38:51 Alex Blania Large scale distribution partnerships that could be something like Walmart, you know, or if you, if you're very ambitious, it could be something like Starbucks.

Inside The Life of Silicon Valley's First Athlete Investor | Magic Johnson Feb 11, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 8:48 Earvin "Magic" Johnson Uh, here comes Starbucks, you know, all these things, because he was right in the middle of everything, and then the last thing he did, he reworked my contract to make me one of the highest paid in the NBA,
  • ▶ 11:26 Earvin "Magic" Johnson When you think about customer service, that's what really, it taught me everything I needed to know about customer service, you know, and so, um, having a great partner, and, ah, going into Starbucks stores, and really understanding the…
  • ▶ 18:26 Earvin "Magic" Johnson Howard Schultz and I did Starbucks.
  • ▶ 41:30 Earvin "Magic" Johnson Well, you think about the theaters, you think about Starbucks, all the things that, that, uh, we did,
  • ▶ 58:55 Chris Lyons And, and a number of deals that led you into going, taking one thing, taking your investment in Starbucks, flipping it into Dodgers, just continuing to build.
  • ▶ 59:22 Earvin "Magic" Johnson Are, are you willing to take the risk from, from the money that I did make from Howard Schultz and Starbucks, and again, thank you, Howard, because you, he made me legitimate. 2 times in the scene

How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure Oct 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:04 Augusto Marietti No, we were working out of Starbucks and we were living in Valencia and we were buying rice, beans, and tuna.

Software is Eating Labor Oct 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:19 Alex Rampell Um, this is what I call to, as a, as a homage to, to Starbucks here, the, the tall, grande, venti model of SaaS.

Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech Aug 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:27 Balaji Srinivasan Uh, since Starbucks, uh, Sarbanes-Oxley in the early 2000, uh, which was passed in the wake of Enron.

Jensen Huang & Arthur Mensch: Why Every Nation Needs Its Own AI Strategy Mar 20, 2025 · 1 mention

Zach Perret (Plaid) & Simon Khalaf (Marqeta): New Applications in Fintech Jun 20, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:31 Zach Perret Um, no one's gonna walk into a Starbucks and say, I would like to pay for my three dollar coffee with my bank account.

The State of Apps with Olivia Moore Feb 9, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:57 Steph Smith And they would get my friend, Ed, he would get like Starbucks gift cards or things in return for those activities.

Disrupting the World's Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann Feb 6, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 18:19 Adam Neumann But on top of all of that, we, for a lot of time, I think a lot of people argued, Howard Schultz used to say, Starbucks is the third place. 2 times in the scene

The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan Nov 16, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 57:10 Balaji Srinivasan Uh, another version of this are like Starbucks chains around the world. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:32:37 Balaji Srinivasan Otherwise you have a situation where every coffee you get at Starbucks, you need to put a dipstick in it to see, uh, you know, is this poisonous or not?

Founding Stories: Sandbox VR May 4, 2019 · 2 mentions

3 Ways Startups Are Coming for Established Fintech Companies -- And What To Do About It Mar 9, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 26:47 Alex Rampell So again, new data source, because the phone's in your pocket, and you work at Starbucks, and you're getting paid hourly, and we've seen the phone in your pocket or in your locker in the Starbucks office, and you know, nearby the 2 times in the scene

Security Markets: The Lay of the Land Mar 1, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 7:06 unnamed speaker Indeed, in San Francisco, about a year and a half ago, a bunch of security researchers did a, a study with five dollar Starbucks gift certificates, handing them out in front of a number of different offices, getting people to tone over…
  • ▶ 16:14 unnamed speaker And when you show up at work, you're basically just working from a Starbucks network that's sitting there on the internet.

a16z Podcast | The Hard Things about Security Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:46 Stina Ehrensvärd So two hours before the meeting, I got a message saying, you can't come in, but by the way, we can meet you outside at the local Starbucks. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Data, Insight, and the Customer Experience Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 14:05 Jeff Glueck The bad marketing example in Minority Report is, like, remember when people used to say, oh, the future of mobile marketing is if you're near a Starbucks, you're gonna get a coupon for a Frappuccino. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | The Evolution of Payments Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | QR. AR. VR. Jan 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 11:48 Kyle Russell You're out at a restaurant, and you hold your phone up while on the line at Starbucks, and it says how people specifically rated each product, or you go to Coachella and hold your phone up, and there will be arrows highlighting exactly… 3 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | The Business of Healthcare Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:36 Vijay Pande Sean made a great point that Starbucks spends more on healthcare than spends on coffee beans.

a16z Podcast | The Movement of Money Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:44 Alex Rampell When we first met, I think it was probably five years ago, I remember we met at Starbucks in Palo Alto on a Saturday or a Sunday, and I asked you, you know, who will your customers be because it's going to be really hard to get Walmart to…

a16z Podcast | We Gotta Talk Pokémon Go Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:27 Kyle Russell And then if you checked in enough times, you would beat everyone in the area and become the mayor of Starbucks or Pete's.

a16z Podcast | Fintech Revolution or Evolution? Jan 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:25 Charlie Wurzel We want to try it, but we maybe, it was funny when I went to Sweden, you know, as a cashless society, supposedly the only place that didn't accept a mobile app was Starbucks and Starbucks in the United States is, you know, has a wonderful… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:47 Angela Strange So let's actually talk about, uh, Starbucks.

a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:29 Balaji Srinivasan And right now, we think of mobile as, oh, I can just go to Starbucks, and I can work from there, and it's as much as I could work at home.

a16z Podcast | The Fundamentals of Security and the Story of Tanium’s Growth Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:58 Orion Hindawi They had executives who were sitting in corner offices that had actually bridged in the Starbucks network that was reachable from their corner office into their corporate network because they didn't like web filtering.

a16z Podcast | Mellody Hobson and Ben Horowitz Talk Investing, Career, and Star Wars! Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:30 Ben Horowitz And that's just, you know, like, running a big, ah, investment fund is one thing, but she's also chair, chairwoman of the board at DreamWorks, ah, on the board of some companies you may have heard of, Starbucks and Estee Lauder.

a16z Podcast | Blockchain vs/and Bitcoin Jan 2, 2019 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 4:48 Adam Ludwin Now, technically, there's a very important difference between, say, a gift card issued by Starbucks that wants to function this way, and Bitcoin. 8 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Money, Risk, and Software Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 35:19 Alex Rampell Um, that's up from zero percent 25 years ago, but still, the majority of commerce in the United States and the rest of the world happens offline, and wouldn't it be great if we could say for trial pay, get your Zynga coins for free if you… 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Messaging As the Interface to Everything Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Bitcoin, Greece, and What’s Next for Cryptocurrency Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:15 Brian Armstrong So if you think of it like a one to 10 scale, one being the least frustrated, you have things like people swiping their credit card at Starbucks for a coffee. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Location, Location, Location -- and Mobile Jan 2, 2019 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 6:28 Benedict Evans It's like the, the kind of, the challenge is how do you get past the, um, you know, the old, you walk past Starbucks and it gives you a free coupon story, which we've been all been hearing for 15 years, and the answer was always no, no,…
  • ▶ 8:38 Steve Cheney And so, of course, walking by this, you know, the Starbucks and the latte being, you know, made is a little bit of a, it's a, it's a generic example that's been used even around things like beacons, but actually the reality is you've made… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:01 Steve Cheney This hero icon where you open it up and it will think you're in Starbucks.

a16z Podcast | Ecommerce and the Holiday Shopping Collision Jan 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 11:59 Jeff Jordan They're talking about traffic declines where it really came home to me last Christmas was a Starbucks in their fourth quarter earnings call. 3 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Building Brands and Running Retail -- Ron Johnson and Tristan Walker Break It Down Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:30 Ron Johnson You know, here, uh, in the Bay Area, there's a coffee company called Phil's, which charges about a dollar more a cup than Pete's or Starbucks.

a16z Podcast | Bending Every Pixel to Your Will -- Optimizely and the Next Wave of Internet Tools Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:58 Dan Siroker Even the biggest organizations, you know, companies like Starbucks, a Fortune

a16z Podcast | The Two Big Problems With Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

An Intro to Crypto: Building Companies, from People to Code Jul 15, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:57 Lily Liu And what we've already, uh, at least heard is that, uh, what was, I think Starbucks talked about maybe integrating blockchain to the loyalty program.

10 Year Futures (vs. What's Happening Now) Dec 5, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:36 Benedict Evans Nobody looks at Starbucks and says this is a database company, but they're all enabled by databases.

What Happens When Mobile (Really) Hits the Wallet Jul 16, 2017 · 4 mentions

A Whirlwind Tour Through Tech Trends in China Jul 16, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:52 Connie Chan And because malls are not as built out in a lot of the second and third tier cities, this is their equivalent of meeting up at Starbucks.

Mobile Is Eating the World, 2015 Jul 15, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:54 Benedict Evans Um, while you're standing in the queue in Starbucks.
  • ▶ 10:12 Benedict Evans What this chart is showing you is where people use the internet on their smartphone, and you can see, pulled out in the right here, the proportion of people who only use mobile, who only use the internet on their phone when they're out of…
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