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every year anyone Ryan McEntush 10Erin Price-Wright 8Steven Sinofsky 7Alex Rampell 3Marc Rowan 2Kaz (Kaz Nejatian) 2Jason Feifer 2Gaurav Dhillon 2Dylan Patel 2Anish Acharya 2
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Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
- ▶ 5:00 Marc Rowan But 1990 was a global recession, a banking crisis, a Texas real estate crisis, a New York real estate crisis, a savings and loan crisis.
- ▶ 42:22 Marc Rowan And when I took over in 2021, one of the things I said is I want to be able to say the same thing in Texas as I say in California.
The Founders Who Left Tesla to Rebuild America | a16z
- ▶ 4:03 Turner Caldwell Build and operate minerals projects, and so we have a copper mine that's operating in southeast Utah that's producing high grade copper materials today, high purity copper materials today, and we're building a lithium refinery in Texas…
- ▶ 19:33 Drew Baglino Uh, and I mean, in my background, I built, I was responsible for building along with my team, uh, the 46 80 program manufacturing facility, a 50 gigawatt hour battery facility in Texas.
Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 2:52 Anish Acharya The Texas tweet. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 35:05 Marc Andreessen You know, there's, there's no AI company that just operates in California or just operates in, you know, Colorado or Texas.
The 2045 Superintelligence Timeline: Epoch AI’s Data-Driven Forecast
- ▶ 28:07 Epoch AI Researcher I, we used ChatGPT agent in our, uh, data center research, because a lot of what we have to do is find permits, which are all going to be on janky county by county databases of error permits for, you know, the county that Abilene, Texas is…
Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
- ▶ 43:09 Katherine Boyle But now you're seeing, you know, states like Texas pass a universal ESA where any parent can opt their, their child out of, out of the, the public school system and receive cash from the state.
The Brutal Truth About Biotech: Why $2B Per Drug Is Killing Innovation
- ▶ 18:54 Elliot Hershberg If you're talking about inventing totally new modalities and sort of growing the pie, um, things on the scale of the recombinant DNA revolution, which is a fundamentally U.S. thing, um, the birth of immunotherapy, which is in Texas, right?
How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 12:27 Augusto Marietti And then he was on the road with his brother, going around with his brother on the road in Texas.
Opendoor CEO: Building the Amazon for Homes
- ▶ 15:51 Kaz (Kaz Nejatian) Which, by the way, we launched this yesterday at Opendoor in Dallas, Texas.
- ▶ 27:22 Alex Rampell And I think Texas, you're not allowed to buy a car unless it's sold at a car dealer.
- ▶ 42:57 Kaz (Kaz Nejatian) Like we just launched, tried before this, the seven day trial of homes in Dallas, Texas.
Software is Eating Labor
- ▶ 3:57 Alex Rampell It's a company in Texas, but this was a joint project of American Airlines and IBM, back when IBM was the, the most powerful, ah, computer company in the world, technology company in the world, because, ah, at least according to ChatGPT, I…
Anduril CEO: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?
- ▶ 30:52 Brian Schimpf So I think you have a natural competitive function on the state side that's not overwhelming, but then I think it's like if people are trying to, you know, maybe California gets more efficient, but it's probably not going to get as…
- ▶ 34:07 Chris Power Um, it's less shiftable than people, people think, especially for the highly skilled jobs, but everything else I think is a grand adventure for probably most of Brian and I's teams of like, hell yeah, let's go two years in Texas or two…
Dylan Patel on GPT-5’s Router Moment, GPUs vs TPUs, Monetization
- ▶ 43:17 Dylan Patel Um, in Texas, if you're willing to, like, be a travel electrician, it's like, it's like oil pay, right? 2 times in the scene
America's Energy Problem: We Need A New Grid
- ▶ 6:28 Ryan McEntush And so there's a lot of these, these policies, interconnections, sort of the, the general term, but like states like Texas have like a much more lenient policy of like, you can build wherever you want.
- ▶ 10:43 Erin Price-Wright Yeah, I think, ah, building on that, I think, I mean, Texas famously, historically had massive grid failures several years ago when, you know, big heat wave came through, the grid couldn't keep up with all the air conditioners that were… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:14 Ryan McEntush That's why you see when the stuff that goes on in Texas, like heat waves and things like that, if they even get it wrong by a couple of degrees, where it's like, it's either, you know, it's like they think it's going to be sort of hot, but…
Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- ▶ 16:22 Steven Sinofsky He then later goes to, um, to, uh, Compaq, which is a famous Texas-based computer maker, um, and does, really helps them drive that whole, whole motion of building in China, and I'll, I'll talk about that maybe in a minute.
- ▶ 21:54 Steven Sinofsky So, you know, Dell and Compaq, which were the two big makers with IBM, were, were in Texas. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:47 Steven Sinofsky I mean, especially when you literally just drive the parts back and forth through Texas.
The Software Crisis Behind America's Infrastructure
- ▶ 39:37 Leo Kosinski You'll see news releases about hacking into water supply systems in places in Texas, and you're under, why is that all happening?
Drone Warfare: The New Rules of Combat Are Here
- ▶ 30:56 Ryan Tseng We validated it, um, at our Texas facilities, and then we pushed it forward, and 24 hours later, um, the, the team took off and then conducted, um, a demonstration that was written about in the Wall Street Journal, where, um, the outcome…
How AI is Reshaping Labor Markets: A $Trillion-Dollar Opportunity Explained
- ▶ 2:41 Alex Rampell It's like you'd go into the travel agent, and they had a, like a green screen computer that connected to a mainframe in Texas, which is where Sabre was.
AI-Powered Acquisitions: A New Playbook
- ▶ 5:21 Joe Schmidt There's another one called Tyler Technologies based out of Texas.
The Future of Health Insurance in a Work Remote World
- ▶ 4:02 Adam Beckman And so we picked a plan out of Texas where Chris was living at the time.
- ▶ 22:05 Chris Ellis Um, you can have a great, you know, Texas-based insurer, but if you have one employee in Georgia, you can't sell the group plan because how do you cover that individual?
The Electric Grid, Explained
- ▶ 0:10 unnamed speaker As Texas gets hit with record heat, the state's power grid can't keep up.
- ▶ 5:08 Ryan McEntush The grid is made up with AC or alternating current, but between these interconnections, there are a different phase, which means that you can't directly connect these interconnections, and they're split up basically as East, Texas, and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:36 Ryan McEntush In these areas, the dominant markets would be California, Texas, the East Coast.
- ▶ 9:41 Ryan McEntush It can be very dangerous very quickly as the winter storms in, in Texas over the last couple years in the East Coast are, are, make really very clear.
- ▶ 14:41 Ryan McEntush Um, Texas famously has a, a way that they handle it. 4 times in the scene
Tony Robbins on the Future of Health & Longevity
- ▶ 28:20 Tony Robbins All right, we're going to Texas.
Classroom 2050: Unleashing AI, XR, Gaming
- ▶ 29:19 Anarupa Ganguly And I'm going to tell you, say, one example, and then, um, uh, tie a bow, but, Umble ISD, small, 45,000 student district in Texas.
Easing the Housing Crisis by Building Better Tools
- ▶ 8:29 Adena Hefets Florida and Texas are our three biggest markets.
Building for Tomorrow with Jason Feifer
- ▶ 25:21 Jason Feifer That is also very similar to something that Henry David Thoreau wrote, uh, in Walden, which is, we are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas, but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to… 2 times in the scene
Pay Without Borders with Alex Bouaziz (Deel), Darren Murph (GitLab), and Sondre Rasch (Safetywing)
- ▶ 1:09:38 Sondre Rasch There's a city being attempted started outside of Texas.
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 1:34:25 Balaji Srinivasan Some governor, right, could put their state on the map by saying, this is a zone where, let's say it's Texas, right?
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 38:17 Steven Sinofsky You know, Mike, he's an outdoorsman, he has a big ranch in Texas,
a16z Podcast | Gaming Goes Mainstream
- ▶ 7:27 Bobby Kotick And my best friend from growing up had just started a hedge fund with this guy from Texas named Richard Rainwater, and they were looking for investments.
a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond
- ▶ 16:37 Steven Sinofsky Because there was California versus, like, Texas and Seattle.
a16z Podcast | All about Bike Sharing
- ▶ 0:06 unnamed speaker This conversation includes, in the order in which you'll hear them, Councilman Lee Kleinman from Dallas, Texas, who's the chairman of the Mobility Solutions, Infrastructure, and Sustainability Committee, Joshua Schenck, the Chief…
a16z Podcast | What Technology Wants, Needs, Does
- ▶ 3:22 Vijay Pande What we're going to see is a lot of disparity between whether you're in California or whether you're in Texas and so on.
a16z Podcast | From Jobs to Flying Cars
- ▶ 14:40 Dan Primack I'm curious, one solution, not a, not a one size fits all, but there's lots of talk, and this particularly comes out of the Valley or out of New York, Texas, etc.,
a16z Podcast | From Data Warehouses to Data Lakes
- ▶ 11:50 Gaurav Dhillon So if we stay on financial sector just for a moment, what's an example is if we want to take a hunch where, you know, we manage some money and we want to take a hunch on the price of gasoline in Houston, Texas, for example, on Labor Day… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | New Year, New Horizons -- Pluto!
- ▶ 21:53 Ivan Linscott He's, uh, out of Texas, right?
a16z Podcast | The Realities of Aging / When Healthcare Is Local
- ▶ 10:13 Renato Valdez-Olmos Like we, we started a partnership with Walmart where we opened up care education centers inside of specific Walmart stores in Texas.
a16z Podcast | Airspace as the Next Internet-Like Platform
- ▶ 33:04 Sonal Chokshi I'm just surprised it wasn't Texas
a16z Podcast | Sports, Tech, and What We Can All Learn from the Latest Performance Science
- ▶ 19:38 Mark McClusky Um, what's happened in football recently, especially Texas has been sort of the epicenter of this, is seven-on-seven football, is, um,
- ▶ 23:07 unnamed speaker By the way, a couple of the quarterbacks you mentioned from the Texas Small Football League in the last couple years?