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Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply
- ▶ 26:55 Gavin Baker Like I think a lot of it gets laundered through TikTok and it's just tragic because the other thing that's happening is this is re-industrializing America.
The State of AI: Models, Moats, and the Consumer Renaissance
- ▶ 34:49 Anish Acharya So Instagram, TikTok, X, it's very hard to build a new sort of distribution channel off the backs of an existing one.
Jake Paul on Going From YouTube to Boxing to Investing | a16z ft. Anti Fund
Marc Andreessen on how the internet changed news, politics, and outrage | The a16z Show
- ▶ 58:02 Marc Andreessen It's, it's short form video in the form of TikTok, Instagram, and, and, and, and X, you know, short form, you know, reels, uh, or short form video.
OpenClaw, Claude Code, and the Future of Software | Peter Yang on The a16z Show
- ▶ 7:42 unnamed speaker And of course, you know, TikTok is you want to feel entertained.
How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer | Alex Blania on a16z
- ▶ 20:10 Alex Blania TikTok or, you know, all, all these kinds of things, like, people actually really care about them mostly because there is some connection to reality.
Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz on a16z’s New Media Strategy
- ▶ 18:54 Marc Andreessen It's, it's the viral, you know, tweet, it's the viral TikTok, it's the viral Instagram, right?
- ▶ 24:41 Marc Andreessen Obviously, obviously, it's also true that TikTok and Instagram, you know, have just, like, much more reach.
- ▶ 32:31 Marc Andreessen Um, and so a YouTube video, I will say for sure, a short form TikTok or Instagram reel for sure is oral culture. 2 times in the scene
Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 22:38 Olivia Moore Um, I think what worked less about Sora is that because the content was exportable, um, people would take it to TikTok, they would take it to Instagram Reels, they would take it to YouTube,
The Biggest Bottlenecks For AI: Energy & Cooling
- ▶ 15:33 David George And, you know, to put that into context, I think Instagram's like 50 minutes a day and, you know, tick tock like
The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- ▶ 8:49 Alex Rampell Like, they just launched, arguably, a competitor to TikTok.
Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger
- ▶ 13:13 Marc Andreessen And then, you know, the internet version of that is, of course, you know, it's, it's, it's, you know, that kind of moral panic is transferred straight over onto the internet in the form of, you know, of course, you know, short form videos,…
Where does consumer AI stand at the end of 2025?
- ▶ 14:31 unnamed speaker You go in and it has a very TikTok like style of like, here's a trending themes that you might want to generate.
- ▶ 17:07 unnamed speaker And then when I think about social features, Meta, Instagram, what have you, or even TikTok, the two layers of information or the, you know, emotion that it's trying to address to me is for TikTok, entertain me. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:46 Justine Moore Like, some really good ones that go viral regularly on TikTok and other places.
- ▶ 29:54 unnamed speaker Think of TikTok.
- ▶ 41:38 unnamed speaker Just one thing I'm going to do at the end, year end, it's just to plug in like a popular trend I've seen on TikTok where there are people who said, what is the most unhinged thing I said this year?
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 7:31 Benedict Evans And, um, it made possible things that would not have been possible without it, whether that's TikTok or arguably, I think things like online dating.
Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
- ▶ 23:54 Vlad Tenev Juxtapose that with also we were number one in the app store and not just number one in the, in the, in the finance section, but number one overall ahead of Instagram and TikTok.
- ▶ 54:58 Vlad Tenev Your Gen Z or Gen Alpha customer, they're used to Instagram and TikTok.
Rocket Companies CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis
- ▶ 14:06 Alex Rampell It's got like, it's like this very popular TikTok, you know, YouTube short thing, but you can do this.
Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
- ▶ 4:38 Eugenia Kuyda Um, and so then of course now, uh, TV still exists, but when now we watch YouTube and Reels and TikTok, a lot of UGC stuff.
- ▶ 17:59 Eugenia Kuyda We're watching them on Instagram, on TikTok, on YouTube.
- ▶ 23:22 Justine Moore As you know very well, like, teen girls and college-age girls are often early adopters of stuff, and they have been making all of these, like, Nano Banana and Quen image edit prompts of, like, them, like, lying on a couch and the Ghostface… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:41 Eugenia Kuyda Really about just creativity and very raw, um, you know, sometimes weird things like putting a home tape, whatever, home video on, um, online for TikTok. 2 times in the scene
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 6:35 Kevin Rose Because I've looked at stuff and I said, gosh, you know, we got the bigs in the room, you got the TikToks, you got the Instagram still dominating, and then you see some of the folks like, you know, threads that are just like copying and…
Reid Hoffman on AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Labor
- ▶ 40:23 Reid Hoffman You know, and then of course we got, you know, Facebook and Meta and, you know, TikTok and all the rest.
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 29:09 Keith Rabois I think the graph has kind of been weakened by, like TikTok has kind of shown that on social products,
The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
- ▶ 50:37 Eddie Lazzarin Like on Tik Tok, for example, I don't think it matters whether the content was specific, if it's just for entertainment, was specifically produced totally by a machine. 2 times in the scene
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 55:54 Erik Torenberg When we look at mobile, there were big companies built, you know, like Uber and WhatsApp and Instagram and TikTok, but the biggest beneficiaries were Facebook and, and, and Google.
Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
- ▶ 34:29 Dylan Patel Yeah, so, so we, we, uh, I don't know if you've seen these, like, uh, Lee Kuan Yew edits, where they're, like, him, like, saying some, like, fiery speech, and then, like, and then it's, like, some cool music at the end, and it's, like,…
- ▶ 1:12:48 Dylan Patel Um, and presumably tomorrow or, you know, uh, on Friday, there's gonna be announcement about TikTok and all this, but like the ByteDance business, um, you know, huge amounts of data center capacity that Oracle is also gonna lease out, uh,…
The Death of Search: How Shopping Will Work In The Age of AI
- ▶ 15:58 Justine Moore Like, I was watching the, the Bama Rush sorority TikToks this year, and like, every single girl has the on-running shoes, whereas last year they all had the,
- ▶ 33:26 Justine Moore Yeah, so we kind of looked at the, um, range of purchases from, like, the impulse buys, which I think used, I mean, still, they still are, like, the Coke thing, the Coke bottle on the aisle, but often now, for, like, a lot of people,…
- ▶ 34:10 Justine Moore And so, you know, there's, like, algorithms will get better and better to target you with the shirt that shows up on your TikTok feed that somehow has your dog's name, and, and you're gonna buy that more than the other thing, but that's… 2 times in the scene
Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
- ▶ 7:22 Mark Cuban Are you gonna put it on TikTok?
Substack Cofounder on AI Slop Content & the Decline of Social Media
- ▶ 36:09 Chris Best You're like, well, I could scroll TikTok or I could go to the library and flip through some microfiche.
The State of AI: Growth, Fragmentation, and the Next Wave
- ▶ 20:26 Martin Casado And, of course, in the consumer space, like with TikTok, they've
This Week in AI: GPT-5 Ships, 4o Pulled Back, Grok Imagine Goes Social
- ▶ 24:54 Justine Moore You probably want to be going viral on TikTok and Reels, um, versus if you are building a vibe coding platform for, um, designers to prototype new features in an enterprise, or for engineers to make internal tools, um, you might want to…
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 37:09 Balaji Srinivasan And then you get Snapchat, and then you get TikTok, and you get all these other competitors.
Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy
- ▶ 42:29 Dwarkesh Patel I, I have a take about like, I do think so far there's been a lot of negative effects from, you know, widespread TikTok use or whatever that like we're still, you know, like learning about. 4 times in the scene
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 51:18 Balaji Srinivasan So, one way of thinking about it is, you know, the entire 20th century was the centralized century, and even the, the movement from the widescreen to the portrait size, you know, like, like a phone is, you know, like, like nine by 16…
- ▶ 1:35:21 Balaji Srinivasan Let's say that take, you know, Zuck competes with TikTok, right? 2 times in the scene
AI Content and the War for Your Attention
- ▶ 5:44 Antonio García Martínez That said, I've used TikTok and like, like a meth head, like getting into a Fenty fold on the street. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:09 Chris Hayes So when you're on tech talk, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:20 Chris Hayes TikTok, to your point about how scalable the TikTok stuff is, is like, if you make some, like, nifty little gizmo that you can drop shift from China, and you have low overhead, you can sell it to, like, a small number of people on TikTok. 4 times in the scene
Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
- ▶ 1:18:02 Marc Andreessen Um, the cliche of our time is that attention spans are collapsing, and this is the rise of, of social media and TikTok, um, and short form video.
Building Cluely: The Viral AI Startup that raised $15M in 10 Weeks w/ Roy Lee
- ▶ 1:25 Roy Lee I think it's growing increasingly clear that, uh, people on ex-LinkedIn are behind, and there's such a very, extremely small intersection of people who understand how developed the algorithm is on, like, Instagram, TikTok, and people on…
- ▶ 8:37 Roy Lee And five years ago when TikTok came out and, and short form algorithms really started taking over, that shifted the, the, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:05 Roy Lee These contractors get paid per video, and they just are forced to sit in front of a camera and make TikTok and Instagram videos about Cluelay. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:42 Roy Lee You have Instagram, TikTok, and Instagram, TikTok, they love sperm racing. 2 times in the scene
Founders, Media, & Memes: a16z’s Strategy for the Future | a16z LP Summit 2025
- ▶ 10:32 Marc Andreessen Or it's a TikTok video, right?
TikTok & AI Have Changed Education Forever - What it means for Teachers, Students & Parents
- ▶ 16:33 Olivia Moore We have, you found a bunch of like TikTok videos that generate like Sydney Sweeney explaining this.
What You Missed in AI This Week (Google, Apple, ChatGPT)
- ▶ 3:35 Olivia Moore And I think that's why we've seen things like the Stormtrooper vlogs completely blowing up on TikTok and Instagram.
- ▶ 12:05 Justine Moore I did see for the first time a viral Gen Z TikTok featuring Genmojis, which I'm surprised it took that long to hit, because Gen Z loves Genmojis.
- ▶ 28:39 Olivia Moore Social media ads also generated with an AI, an avatar that holds it up for you and sells it on TikTok or Instagram Live.
The State of Consumer Tech in the Age of AI
- ▶ 0:32 Erik Torenberg It seems like every few years there was a, there was a breakout starting from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snap, WhatsApp, Tinder, TikTok.
Where Crypto Meets AI with Chris Dixon & David George
- ▶ 28:28 David George TikTok, and in the case of TikTok, they actually grew through, through paid customer acquisition. 2 times in the scene
Agent Experience: Building an Open Web for the AI Era
- ▶ 10:15 Matt Biilmann Consume our customers sort of experiences there, or is that dueling out to like a TikTok and like an Instagram and to different platforms that just use the web as sort of like this content, bland content repository that's not really like,…
- ▶ 39:07 Matt Biilmann Like there's this guy on, on TikTok building this sci-fi epos with like the Romans and the Persians going to space and like massive, like all with these AI generated videos, but he's really like set this 3 times in the scene
Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto
- ▶ 19:46 Chris Dixon Make your face prettier, like these kind of fun apps, but then they, and they zoom up in the app chart, um, and then TikTok copies it and so forth, right, because it's just not, because again, no network effects.
Can We Detect a Deepfake?
- ▶ 6:41 Vijay Balasubramaniyan Could have a 1502 TikTok video, and that's all that's required.
Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- ▶ 26:56 Ben Horowitz Uh, if you're an artist, you know, the take rates, uh, for your work on, uh, you know, if you're on Instagram, or if you're on TikTok, or whatever, are, are,
Zach Perret (Plaid) & Simon Khalaf (Marqeta): New Applications in Fintech
- ▶ 4:19 Simon Khalaf So right now the most addictive product, well, according to the Senate and the Congress, right, is, ah, TikTok.
The Top 100 GenAI Consumer Apps
- ▶ 3:22 Olivia Moore They get, they go very viral on TikTok, as you can probably imagine.
7 Ways to Boost Retention (Both Pre- and Post-AI)
- ▶ 14:46 unnamed speaker I am so glad I learned it before I learned it on TikTok or Twitter.
Startup Building: Major Shifts in Tech & Culture
- ▶ 26:12 Ben Horowitz I think the truth is actually somewhere in the middle in that, you know, there are these TikTok videos that teach you how to steal a car. 2 times in the scene
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 21:36 Marc Andreessen So Sheen asks, um, in what ways do you see the relationship between Silicon Valley and D.C. evolving in coming years, um, particularly in light of recent regulatory efforts targeting tech giants, and we'll, we'll talk about, uh, we'll talk…
- ▶ 38:58 Ben Horowitz Um, you know, he was very, he tried to ban TikTok and now he's very pro TikTok. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:44:17 Marc Andreessen Um, so Father Time asks, can you give us your thoughts on the recent TikTok legislation? 5 times in the scene
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.
- ▶ 13:07 Congressman Mike Gallagher I just want to foot stomp that and say, yes, there's a concern with TikTok that it can track your location and, uh, your, your browser history. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:22 Katie (Katherine Boyle) Now, speaking of TikTok, I mean, many are concerned about the way that the tech community engaged with China in previous decades, how it engages now.
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 18:04 Chris Dixon Um, but, but you see it in the results, which is if you talk to a TikTok influencer or something, they're always doing these kinds of gymnastics to figure out how to make money.
Big Ideas in 2024: Democratizing “Miracle Drugs” with Julie Yoo
Leveling Up with Roblox's David Baszucki
- ▶ 11:20 David Baszucki You know, ultimately, whether it's Amazon or Netflix or TikTok or YouTube, I think for us the difficult discovery problem is you're trying to optimize tenure enterprise value along with your stock price every year that you get there. 2 times in the scene
Growth vs Efficiency: Can You Have Both?
- ▶ 3:52 Kieran Flanagan These channels, like if you look at the platforms that that's growing, it's like short, short from video, TikTok, YouTube, like these kinds of media channels.
- ▶ 46:22 Bryan Kim Uh, being of consumer mindset, I, I think one of the distributed, distribution channel that works these days is TikTok.
Evolve or Die: The Future of the Creative Process, Artist Authenticity, and the Value of the Music
- ▶ 29:06 Piff Marti Edit the videos I wanted to, create my own vision, create my own treatment, do all these things, and then fall in love with film, while I was making really dope music, threw it on TikTok, and it started blowing up.
- ▶ 54:53 Piff Marti And the goal of all of these platforms, like Instagram, TikTok, Spotify, uh, Apple Music, is to have users use their app as long as possible. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:37 Nicole Wysokoarko You know, you'll, you'll end up being the dinosaur if you're trying to adjust your art to the technology, because at the end of the day, none of those companies, like if you're talking about TikTok, TikTok wasn't created 6 times in the scene
Digital Branding: Lessons from Vogue, Monetizing Social, Creator Tips | Field Notes with Connie Chan
- ▶ 16:34 Susan Plageman And the same thing with Tik Tok.
- ▶ 19:22 Connie Chan Instagram, TikTok, YouTube creators that fall into that bucket of expertise.
Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity (Danny Postma and Sinead Bovell)
- ▶ 20:57 Danny Postma So this is why people keep sharing it on Instagram, on TikTok, it goes viral really fast.
- ▶ 33:12 Danny Postma Where you have less of a mode, hiring TikTok influencers, letting it post it, and it's going really fast due to it.
Digital Humans and the Story Behind Lil Miquela
- ▶ 2:03 Steph Smith OpenAI and TikTok were literally just founded, like their absolute infancy stages.
- ▶ 24:30 Trevor McFedries And so, effectively, if you're creating media on TikTok, right, like, you're not even competing for attention in your, in your following, in your social graph.
- ▶ 42:02 Trevor McFedries Like, it's sort of like TikTok dances and emotes.
The Marketplace 100: A Glimpse Into the Future of Commerce
- ▶ 12:24 Connie Chan Just like those of you who have used tech talk within a couple of swipes within that first day, they can figure out exactly what to show you that will make you happy.
- ▶ 28:39 Olivia Moore And I feel like a lot of sellers on marketplaces in the past maybe year, year and a half have probably tried posting a TikTok or an Instagram reel for the first time.
- ▶ 31:42 Connie Chan And so you're going to see a lot of these large incumbent social apps, whether it's a TikTok or a Facebook 3 times in the scene
The Art and Science of Podcasting with Sriram and Aarthi
- ▶ 29:28 Sriram Krishnan You want to cut it up into short versions for a reels or a TikTok.
- ▶ 35:57 Sriram Krishnan We've seen the rise of YouTube, and then Instagram, and then Snapchat, and then TikTok, and then BDL, and, uh, you know, Discord, and, you know, I can keep going on and on. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:00 Aarthi Ramamurthy TikTok has to look different, feel different.
The Challenge of Replicating Reality with Steve Zhao from SandboxVR
- ▶ 57:31 Steve Zhao Nowadays, people are splicing our videos and putting it on TikTok, and we're getting like, ten million views, fifteen million views, and, and it turns out that what we created was sort of an expression that they can use to, you know, to…
The State of Apps with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 1:07 Steph Smith And that's not TikTok.
- ▶ 2:50 Olivia Moore TikTok, of course, was number two, and then GatsApp was number three.
- ▶ 5:29 Olivia Moore TikTok is kind of in its own world as already a giant company at this point.
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