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Inside Moderna’s Biggest mRNA Test Since COVID
- ▶ 11:49 Stéphane Bancel On the technology of mRNA side, what we have known and published, uh, actually with Karolinska, as you know, the institute in Sweden that gave the Nobel Prize for Medicine back in 2015, is that
The Opportunity for Global Founders
- ▶ 15:35 Gabriel Vasquez Um, you know, for example, some of the markets that we spend the most time is like the UK, Sweden, um, you know, Israel is very well known for this because historically on a per capita basis, these countries have produced a lot. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:32 Gabriel Vasquez Um, you know, in, in Sweden, we have seen a lot happen where the, the Swedish government has supported a lot, uh, Lovable and Nagora.
- ▶ 27:58 Gabriel Vasquez So like they, you know, in the, in the case of Sweden, we, we have a founder that we met, the founders of Boy, which is Frederick Yeom and Adam Jaffer. 7 times in the scene
Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence
- ▶ 26:21 Ben Horowitz Snatch up the opportunities in Sweden, or Japan, or, or, or Saudi, or UAE, or that kind of thing.
Ben Horowitz on American Dynamism and the Future of AI | The a16z Show
- ▶ 15:13 Ben Horowitz Sweden is one.
Jensen Huang & Arthur Mensch: Why Every Nation Needs Its Own AI Strategy
- ▶ 2:55 Jensen Huang Nobody's gonna care more about, uh, the Swedish culture and the Swedish language and the Swedish people and the Swedish ecosystem more than Sweden.
The Future of the American Dream
- ▶ 17:41 Ben Horowitz Not anybody can become Swedish. 3 times in the scene
Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
- ▶ 52:28 Ben Horowitz Way more women go into STEM in like Kazakhstan than in Sweden.
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 49:53 Salim Ismail The most roboticized companies in the countries in the world that have the highest penetration of robotics are South Korea, Sweden, Germany, which have the lowest unemployment.
Building Hardware and Taking on the Phone Giants with Carl Pei
- ▶ 27:41 unnamed speaker So you grew up in Sweden.
The 1000x Developer with Amjad Masad
- ▶ 27:52 Amjad Masad Pre YouTube would have been just a kid in Sweden, not a super celebrity, right?
a16z Podcast | The Hard Things about Security
- ▶ 1:27 Martin Casado Actually, it's something I've always wanted to ask you is, what are the biggest differences being a Swedish entrepreneur in Silicon Valley? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:21 Stina Ehrensvärd I was born here in US by Swedish parents, and then the family moved back to Sweden, and my father often presented me in front of 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:38 Martin Casado Is there a cultural difference between working with the U.S. and Sweden? 7 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Market Shifts
- ▶ 23:31 Adina Friedman We're, I have a JV kind of a partnership with a bank in Sweden
a16z Podcast | The Macro and Micro of Parenting
- ▶ 4:41 Fabrizio Zilibatti Comparing Sweden with the United States or China.
a16z Podcast | Brains, Bodies, Minds ... and Techno-Religions
- ▶ 38:07 Yuval Noah Harari In a country like, I don't know, Sweden, I think the traditions of the welfare state and the social democracy will be strong enough 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis
- ▶ 5:53 Sonal Chokshi During the seventies with Idi Amin, my mom's sister went to Sweden and my grandparents went to the UK.
a16z Podcast | Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
- ▶ 0:28 Angela Strange Long experiment of going cashless, which actually landed you in a quasi surgery office, getting a microchip implanted in your hand in Sweden. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 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…
- ▶ 29:14 Angela Strange Um, so I want to come back to your, your experience in Sweden, and one of the things I, stats that I thought was pretty interesting was that, uh, only 20% of the payments in Sweden are cash, whereas if you look in the U.S., that's actually… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:30 Angela Strange I don't think Charlie has totally sold us that, uh, it's time to get implanted with a chip in Sweden, but we'll, we'll have him back 10 years from now to see if, uh, if that's changed.
a16z Podcast | An Economics Take on the Sharing Economy
- ▶ 15:16 Arun Sundararajan This may work in some countries in Europe, like Finland and Sweden, where the population is small, and the tax rates are high, and there's a history of a government-provided safety net.
a16z Podcast | Automation, Jobs, & the Future of Work (and Income)
- ▶ 22:48 Sonal Chokshi It will be interesting, and it's always going to be an early test study, but just like with all studies, when we talk about countries like Sweden and Switzerland, where they're smaller and less diverse, and I'm thinking of an extremely…
a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
- ▶ 8:30 Shaq (Shakil Khan) And there's enough room for American companies, a lot of the time, just to win the USA, because one, it's got population, but two, the revenue per user that you can get, whereas you take a market like Sweden, the reason why Spotify partly… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:56 Shaq (Shakil Khan) Instead of them going, hey, we've done London, let's go tackle USA, I would have done Paris, Munich, Berlin, Copenhagen, Sweden, you suddenly have a huge
- ▶ 27:36 Shaq (Shakil Khan) If you look at Sweden, maternity leave and paternity leave, serious fundamental, um, changes by the government, encouragement of leadership, uh, positions.
a16z Podcast | Software and Overcoming the Randomness of Birthplace
- ▶ 5:32 Sten Tamkivi Skype was born out of a Swedish and Danish founder working with four Estonian founding engineers soon after there was a first American on the team in Stockholm, and by the time, so it got to like seven people with four nationalities, and…
a16z Podcast | The Next Phase of 3D Printing
- ▶ 12:55 unnamed speaker One of them is, um, a DJ synthesizer company, so they're based in Sweden.
When Software Eats the Real (Estate) World
- ▶ 6:39 Alex Rampell So turns out in Sweden, uh, homeowners are paying one and a half percent if they want to sell their house.
Debating Crypto: Katie Haun vs. Paul Krugman
- ▶ 23:38 Paul Krugman And Sweden thinks Krona are not, ah, real money.
A Skeptic's View of Crypto (from the Point of View of Monetary Economics)
- ▶ 8:07 Paul Krugman Sweden is, is contemplating the abolition of cash.
Beyond a Zero-Sum Game: Tech Innovation and China
- ▶ 3:02 Connie Chan This is my very first car of Volvo, and I grew up thinking it was a Swedish brand.
- ▶ 5:33 Connie Chan Chinese brands, American brands, Japanese brands, Swedish brands, German brands, and it's because important inventions will always spread globally because customers want the best product.