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a16z Podcast | The Business of Continual Change
- ▶ 17:48 Charles Koch And it's like Edison said, after he'd had 9000 failures trying to develop a new battery, his friend says, gosh, Thomas, I'm so sorry you've had all these failures. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Competing Against Luck
- ▶ 24:54 Marc Andreessen and I think about this, is Thomas Edison, who, with a tremendous track record of success, you know, invents the phonograph. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | From Mind at Play to Making the Information Age
- ▶ 2:38 Jimmy Soni His great, his grandfather was a, uh, was an inventor, uh, actually had filed a patent to improve on the washing machine, um, and so he's inspired by that, and he's a distant cousin of Thomas Edison, so that's kind of in the family lore as…
a16z Podcast | From Jobs to Flying Cars
- ▶ 24:00 Marc Andreessen And my favorite story, there's lots of stories on this, but my favorite example of this is Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, and like literally they didn't quite know what it was going to be for, and they made a list of the use cases… 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience
- ▶ 17:01 Chris Milk Edison thought that the phonograph would be used for sermons because that was his world. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What's Next for Technology and National Security?
- ▶ 19:57 Marc Andreessen As an example, famously, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, which was a fairly good idea. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Truce for Mobile, Battle for VR
- ▶ 27:12 Chris Dixon You know, Thomas Edison, frankly, you know, famously, uh, thought that the best use case for the phonograph was listening to the sermons of the recently deceased.
a16z Podcast | Not If, But How -- When Technology is Inevitable (with Kevin Kelly)
- ▶ 5:30 Kevin Kelly I mean, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, and we have his journals of what he was writing down, what he thought this new ability to record sound was going to be, and his very first idea was that it would be used to record the dying,… 4 times in the scene