Tehran
5 statements across 5 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Marc Andreessen · said 18 times in 7 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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brought up most by Marc Andreessen (9), Chris Schroeder (7), Nazanin Daneshwar (2)
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2019 18 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
- a16z Podcast | Layering Tech and Culture in Iran
- a16z Podcast | Startups as Science Experiments -- Can VC Disrupt Academia?
- a16z Podcast | What's Next for Technology and National Security?
- a16z Podcast | Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back
- a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 1
- a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
Everything said about Tehran, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Andreessen: Tehran hosts a thriving underground high-tech startup scene
“He just went to Iran, ah, after he wrote the book, and he just came back, and it turns out in Tehran, there's a thriving, sort of, underground, high tech startup scene. And there's all these entrepreneurs that want to start all these online businesses”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Andreessen: Women account for 40-50% of Tehran's tech founders
“There's this amazing effectively underground internet startup ecosystem in Tehran. And he said the founders are exactly the same as the kind of people who are sitting at the Koopa Cafe in downtown Palo Alto. He said, interestingly, he said at least 40% and may…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Andreessen: A vibrant underground internet startup scene exists in Tehran
“He went and he spent two weeks on the ground in Tehran and he said there is an absolutely vibrant internet startup scene. Are underground in Tehran, and the kids who are working on these startups are just, like, as excited as can be.”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
European investors and American executives visit Tehran to explore tech opportunities
“There are already, like, lots of Europeans that have visited our office, they have been in Tehran, there are some of them already in Tehran, they have offices. I even heard, like, from a very famous company that I cannot name, one of their top managers, the Am…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Andreessen: Tehran has a thriving startup ecosystem led heavily by women
“It turns out there is a small but thriving tech startup ecosystem seen on the ground in Tehran. Very excited, fired up, actually, interestingly, heavily female tech entrepreneurs, starting companies, tech companies in Iran that are doing everything, e-commerce…”