Taiwan, every mention
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every year anyone Jacob Helberg 8Katie (Katherine Boyle) 7David Ulevitch 7Dylan Patel 4Congressman Mike Gallagher 4Brian Schimpf 4Marc Andreessen 3Chris Schroeder 2Chris Power 2W. Brian Arthur 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Taiwan comes up
Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence
- ▶ 22:55 unnamed speaker For example, all those North Asian countries that you talked about, I think 15, 20% of the global 2000 are across Japan, Korea, Taiwan.
Inside The $100M Bet on the Future of Space | Northwood CEO on a16z
- ▶ 19:26 Erik Torenberg In a potential Taiwan scenario, there's a version where, you know, ground stations can become targets.
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 27:04 Marc Andreessen And, you know, under, under, under that school of thought, there's sort of, there's sort of, you know, there's, there's the military dimension, which is, you know, this sort of, you know, the, the, the risk of some kind of war in the South…
The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
- ▶ 27:34 Steven Sinofsky And that's, you know, like quanta company in Taiwan that does that.
- ▶ 58:49 unnamed speaker Speaking about foreign policy, um, thinking about the, the short to medium term here, one of the biggest questions, of course, is, is Taiwan in, in 20, 27. 4 times in the scene
Anduril CEO: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?
- ▶ 46:30 Brian Schimpf Um, and I think in the, the recent history, you know, vis-a-vis Ukraine, and I think what would pragmatically happen in Taiwan scenario, there's American support with, 4 times in the scene
Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
- ▶ 17:51 Dylan Patel Now, Hynix is also investing in the U.S., in Illinois, and then Micron's primarily in Japan, the American memory companies primarily in Japan and Taiwan, but they're also expanding in Singapore and the U.S. now.
- ▶ 32:34 Dylan Patel Like, you know, this is, you know, this is, uh, I asked a question in Taiwan once, uh, there was like a, it was, it was Colette, which is the CFO and Jensen CEO.
Oren Cass & Noah Smith Debate the True Impact of Tariffs
Dylan Patel on GPT-5’s Router Moment, GPUs vs TPUs, Monetization
- ▶ 49:32 Dylan Patel Like, they could raise a lot more, but they're, um, they're good Taiwanese people rather than, like, uh, dirty American capitalists. 2 times in the scene
Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy
- ▶ 45:07 Dwarkesh Patel I mean, population has so far been the decisive, uh, factor in terms of which countries are powerful and, um, like the reason China, if US was not involved, the reason China could take over Taiwan, uh, is just that there's 1.4 billion…
America's Energy Problem: We Need A New Grid
- ▶ 28:07 David Ulevitch Um, Taiwan, for instance, turned off their last nuclear reactor. 4 times in the scene
The Dual-Use Founder: Vets Now Building For America
- ▶ 8:39 unnamed speaker And how do we get that tech into Taiwan ahead of an eventual Chinese invasion that hopefully never happens, but, but we certainly need to prepare for.
How to use DeepSeek safely
- ▶ 3:12 AI Security Researcher So this is stuff like, you know, Taiwan or Tiananmen Square, that kind of thing.
Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startups
- ▶ 47:26 Marc Andreessen But, you know, chips are another significant AI bottleneck, and also chips are a big strategic issue for the U.S. because of our dependence on Taiwan and our dependence on China and all of the geopolitics around, around that situation.
AI, Robotics & the New Global Arms Race
- ▶ 13:36 Marc Andreessen To be subverted and used in, you know, if there's ever a war, you know, if we go to war with China over Taiwan or something crazy like that, like these drones could all become weapons that are used against our own soldiers.
A Nuclear Comeback: Are New Reactors the Answer?
- ▶ 15:39 David Ulevitch Huff was referring to, but take, take an island country like Taiwan that does not have its own energy independence. 3 times in the scene
Why America Must Lead in AI Investment
- ▶ 18:26 Todd Young Effort to interrupt those supply chains, say, by the Chinese Communist Party making aggressive actions towards Taiwan.
The China Threat: Silicon Valley and the Great Uncoupling
- ▶ 0:09 Katie (Katherine Boyle) The China threat, um, and this is an audience that would know it well, is a very broad topic, uh, spanning from an app that might be on some people's phones in the room, called TikTok, to Taiwan.
- ▶ 8:37 Katie (Katherine Boyle) Well, speaking of semiconductor strategy, I mean, that is one thing that is top of mind for this audience, for our founders, chip production, you know, it is, it is something that if it is catastrophically disrupted, um, I would love to… 6 times in the scene
Autonomy & Defense Policy in the 21st Century
- ▶ 0:28 Jacob Helberg Europe is facing the bloodiest conflict that it's had since World War II, and Asia faces the looming threat of a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
- ▶ 5:21 Congressman Mike Gallagher We're talking, I think the latest counts were over 88,500 javelins, ah, you know, 700 plus switchblades, you know, over 1500 stingers, and you think about what that would mean if we found ourselves in a conflict with China over Taiwan, ah,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:01 Jacob Helberg Chris, so much has been said about America's industrial over-reliance on Taiwan.
- ▶ 14:25 Jacob Helberg And the topic of supply chains has only grown louder as, ah, President Xi Jinping recently delivered his speech at, ah, the Communist Party Congress, where he irrevocably committed himself to reunifying with Taiwan. 6 times in the scene
The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
- ▶ 4:15 Chris Power So for providing that to a human force in Taiwan or the Ukraine, it's exactly what we want to be sending people to deter, uh, invasions.
- ▶ 22:45 Chris Power Like good luck running compute on GPT-III if there are no chips or China takes Taiwan and then the only chips you can buy have like a bug in them.
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 12:59 unnamed speaker You know, where there, there wasn't like historically this huge necessarily difference from mainland China, or at least there was some difference in a lot of folks in Taiwan came from mainland China because, you know, the Kuomintang and… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
- ▶ 55:44 W. Brian Arthur So they were able to station themselves as a very early manufacturer, a bit like Hong Kong or Taiwan,
a16z Podcast | The Golden Era of Productivity, Retail, and Supply Chains
- ▶ 28:28 Mark Levinson If you take a look at what's going on now in Europe, or in Korea, uh, or in Taiwan, people expect more of their public officials than their public officials can deliver.
a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
- ▶ 25:12 Chris Schroeder My son Jack, who's a teenager, just came back from seven weeks in Taiwan, working for a startup there, and so we went out for Chinese food, and spent hours just getting caught up about what he saw, and I found myself pressing on him, you… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | When Bio Meets Computer Science
- ▶ 3:50 Chris Dixon So in a lot of ways, it's similar to what happened, um, to semiconductors in, I think, around 1980 or so, when you had the advent of fabulous semiconductors, which meant that instead of a semiconductor company having to fabricate their…
Trends in and the Future of Infrastructure
- ▶ 10:45 Martin Casado Most likely there's an ODM in Taiwan that would, you know, take the software that I built and maybe put it on a special board, wrap some sheet metal around it.