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Can AI Learn Mathematical Intuition?
Why Every Founder Needs a Story | Replit CEO on a16z
- ▶ 13:22 Erik Torenberg You, you were describing the mental game as a lot of things we'll hear from CEOs is, oh, I don't want to have to tweet. 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen on how the internet changed news, politics, and outrage | The a16z Show
- ▶ 8:18 Marc Andreessen Like, it, like, it, it would have been a completely different experience than the way people lived through, you know, Pearl Harbor in, in, in, in, in, in actually
OpenClaw, Claude Code, and the Future of Software | Peter Yang on The a16z Show
- ▶ 6:22 Peter Yang Yeah, well, first of all, I, I, I tweet all, all kinds of random crap that's, like, not super well thought out. 3 times in the scene
Why Scale Will Not Solve AGI | Vishal Misra - The a16z Show
- ▶ 15:21 Martin Casado And then, and then, and then listen, you dropped a series of papers that kind of broke the internet, like you went super viral on Twitter, like, I mean, people really noticed, um, uh,
How Truemed Is Incentivizing Americans to Invest in Prevention
- ▶ 18:05 Erik Torenberg There's this, uh, you know, there's this Twitter competition for a million dollars for who gets the best article, and there's this, like, uh, so people are doing kind of clickbait stuff, and there's one guy who's like, uh, you know, how to…
The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm
- ▶ 4:07 Margit Wennmachers We couldn't be out talking to press, or be on Twitter at the time, or whatever else, and raise money.
Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a $100 Billion Business
- ▶ 46:18 Ali Ghodsi Then Google, in terms of, you know, how much dilution we can afford per engineer, because they were, at that time, this was like, you know, before the Twitter downsizing, so all the companies were oversized.
Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
- ▶ 7:49 Chris Dixon So you would share to Twitter. 4 times in the scene
Substack Cofounder on AI Slop Content & the Decline of Social Media
- ▶ 1:53 Katherine Boyle There were mass firings, um, you know, Twitter deplatformed a sitting president, um, you know, Facebook as well, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:30 Erik Torenberg It achieves the dream of sort of reaching your audience in the sense of, you know, if you have a 100,000 Twitter followers, but you can't really engage them and you're dependent on the platform and it sort of.
- ▶ 16:48 Chris Best And then the thing that we realized not too long after that was the same was actually true about Twitter and about the social networks, which was, you know, in 2018, 2019, if you wanted to have a successful sub stack, you had to also have… 3 times in the scene
How Scale AI is Pioneering the Future of Work
- ▶ 3:14 Ben Scharfstein And I would say it was probably like an 18 month lag between what you see on Twitter and what's the state of the art and what is actually working in enterprises.
Why AI Characters & Virtual Influencers Are the Next Frontier in Video ft Hedra’s Michael Lingelbach
- ▶ 25:03 Michael Lingelbach There's always this joke where, like, you know, Twitter has this, it's so over Mindshare, right?
This Week in AI: GPT-5 Ships, 4o Pulled Back, Grok Imagine Goes Social
- ▶ 12:42 Justine Moore Genie three took Twitter by storm.
- ▶ 27:16 Justine Moore And also please feel free to ping us here or on Twitter.
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 28:21 Balaji Srinivasan We were just building great stuff and it became so popular that we took away all of the customers of these guys, but it's not like you set up Twitter or Facebook or Google to go and blow up the times and the posts and the journal, right?
- ▶ 32:37 Balaji Srinivasan Twitter was still Twitter.
- ▶ 38:49 Balaji Srinivasan Alright, so this is from 2017, and the interesting thing is, it's the same on both Twitter and Facebook, right?
AI Content and the War for Your Attention
- ▶ 7:02 Chris Hayes Like, and, and is it something that they have to start actively managing in the same way that at scale somewhere like Twitter, right?
How Fei-Fei Li Is Rebuilding AI for the Real World
- ▶ 0:53 Martin Casado I mean, of course, she was on the Twitter board.
Hey Tech, Come to Healthcare
- ▶ 45:11 Steph Smith I think about, you know, if you look at, there's websites where you can look at the very earliest versions of a Google or a Twitter, and you're like, wow, they started there, and so hopefully there's some sort of healthcare equivalent…
Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto
- ▶ 26:54 Chris Dixon And so I think to like today, like, so the interesting thing, right, so when you look at these, the gender of AI, like the negative way to look at it, and you do see some, a lot of this negative sentiment from like the art community and…
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 1:12 Marc Andreessen It's what you get when you click through on a, on a, uh, on a, um, on a Facebook link or a Twitter link, Twitter link or something.
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 20:24 Marc Andreessen Like, Twitter is, what did your cat have for breakfast? 4 times in the scene
The Future of Prosumer: The Rise of “AI Native” Workflows
- ▶ 4:55 Olivia Moore In some ways, it's a little bit of a, and I say this lovingly, like, gimmicky product, because you might use it as like a fun thing to send to a friend or to post on Twitter or something, but you're not likely to do deep work in it.
Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist
- ▶ 1:19:53 Marc Andreessen I, I thought there was, uh, one piece of feedback on Twitter.
More Than a Game: Why Are We Obsessed With Sports?
AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
- ▶ 4:27 Marc Andreessen And so I need to, maybe that's, I'll change my Twitter bio to that tonight.
Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity (Danny Postma and Sinead Bovell)
- ▶ 31:37 Danny Postma My following on Twitter has grown a lot by just showing what is possible in those kinds of sense. 2 times in the scene
The Art and Science of Podcasting with Sriram and Aarthi
- ▶ 1:09 Steph Smith We cover things like the sliding scale of entertainment, information, the difference between an audience and a community, podcast analytics and how those are changing, and even what Sriram has learned from his front row experience at…
- ▶ 29:33 Sriram Krishnan Text out of it and the learnings and put it on Twitter or on Substack. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:23 Steph Smith Like, I don't know how you're always posting in there, finding all these things from Twitter or elsewhere. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:20 Sriram Krishnan The audience can email us or tweet at us at where that was.
Unlocking Creativity with Prompt Engineering
- ▶ 37:56 Steph Smith So I don't know if this is actually the most, but what comes to mind for me, at least as someone who spends a lot of time on Twitter, is memes.
The Robot Lawyer Resistance with Joshua Browder of DoNotPay
- ▶ 10:08 Joshua Browder I, I said that on Twitter that they don't get out of bed at all, and everyone went crazy because they were saying, I once sued a client for 500 dollars, I get out of bed for consumer rights.
The State of Apps with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 3:31 Steph Smith And again, I'm feeling kind of old here, but during my era, you know, we're, we're thinking of Facebook, we're thinking of Twitter, um, Instagram, Snapchat, and none of these appeared in the top three.
- ▶ 22:52 Olivia Moore One of his last tweets about the app before the acquisition said they had had like, ten million downloads and six million in revenue, which is just amazing. 2 times in the scene
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 2)
- ▶ 1:26 Anish Acharya OpenAI, uh, makers of ChatGPT, um, has created this amazing new technology that you've all seen all over Twitter that's doing all of these remarkable things.
Building for Tomorrow with Jason Feifer
- ▶ 52:15 Jason Feifer And, um, they all, they all blamed in one way or another social media, and particularly at the time Facebook, um, and to a lesser degree Twitter on, on the problem.
The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
- ▶ 1:13:55 Steph Smith Your Twitter app or, uh, your own sub stack or whatever it might be, and we can all participate and it does create this like infinite ecosystem on both supply and demand.
- ▶ 1:18:57 Chris Power Uh, you can follow me on Twitter, uh, 21, 12 power.
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 1:00:47 Balaji Srinivasan In return, they are expected to give to the community and then RT or FAV or whatever. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:42 Balaji Srinivasan Lots of folks on Twitter are cranking out what I consider devotional content
AI and the Creator Economy with Karen X Cheng
- ▶ 52:21 Karen X. Cheng In a bad way in that he got like majorly attacked on Twitter for using mid journey art for, um, a magazine article.
Why Technology Still Matters with Marc Andreessen
- ▶ 1:10:07 Marc Andreessen He's, what did he do the other, the other day he tweeted is like, he's got, he's just talking about like, he said, he said the other day on Twitter, he said, um, they have not yet discovered an upper limit on how many launches they can do… 2 times in the scene
Why DAOs Matter for Digital Art
- ▶ 5:18 People Pleaser And it started with one tweet from Leighton Cusack, who was the co-founder of PoolTogether, which is another, uh, DeFi protocol, um, which then turned into a Twitter thread and then a Telegram group, uh, and then eventually formed… 2 times in the scene
Social Tokens for Creators Explained
- ▶ 3:32 Chris Dixon On Twitter, whatever it might be.
The Future of NFTs
- ▶ 0:54 Chris Dixon You could have objects in, you know, something like a video game, let's say like fortnight, or maybe in a sort of a social network, you'd have a profile or some other thing that you kind of feel like you own, or maybe, you know, like a…
Data Security and the Rise of Crypto
- ▶ 0:00 Diogo Mónica What does Jack's Twitter account being compromised, Capital One's data breach, and Facebook's outage have in common?
- ▶ 5:03 Diogo Mónica So we go back to Jack's tweets. 3 times in the scene
Imagining Our Future Through Tech
- ▶ 29:37 Frank Chen So if I were to write the Twitter caption for this video, I would say humanity for the win.
What's Next for the Internet?
- ▶ 2:16 Chris Dixon And so that was a big sort of the, you know, Twitter and Facebook and, you know, all of the, the kind of tagging and all these other new kind of concepts.
- ▶ 22:21 Chris Dixon Um, but the problem with RSS, in my view, I, I was involved in this and invested in a bunch of companies around it, um, is that it didn't have, you, you couldn't make a user experience the way you could with Facebook or Twitter or… 4 times in the scene
Social Networking in 2030: How Could Crypto Change Things?
- ▶ 6:07 Chris Dixon No one will fund an anti-spam solution for Twitter or Facebook.
How to Understand and Choose a Venture Investor
- ▶ 1:33 Frank Chen We also have some questions from Twitter that we're going to interleave into this conversation, so it's not just me. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:23 Scott Cooper You have to find a Facebook or a Google or a Twitter or an Instacart or Airbnb where you can earn 10, 20, 5000 times your money.
- ▶ 20:51 Frank Chen So related question from Twitter. 2 times in the scene
What's Next for Esports Startups
- ▶ 20:24 Andrew Chen Actually, you know, someone was saying, um, on Twitter that, uh, the, you know, any game that can implement Battle Royale will now implement Battle Royale.
Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- ▶ 24:41 Chris Dixon So much, there's so many issues created around platforms, and around trusting platforms, and so you think about, you know, Zynga building on Facebook, and like the hundreds of entrepreneurs who tried to build on top of Twitter, and just… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:42 Olaf Carlson-Wee It's kind of this basic building block, but I can't build Twitter the protocol or Uber the protocol to compete with the centralized web platform unless I have a decentralized file architecture underneath it, which today is not really…
Five Open Problems for the Blockchain Computer
a16z Podcast | Talent, Tech Trends, and Culture -- with Ben, Marc, and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 27:55 Tyler Cowen And Mark, did you really invent the tweet storm? 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 13:29 Chris Dixon You still see that on like Twitter.
a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
- ▶ 26:39 Chris Dixon You would never build on top of, you know, a centralized protocol, because people have now learned, after 2030 years of this, that when you do that, that the platform changes the rules, and you ask everyone who built on top of, you know,… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- ▶ 24:35 Fred Wilson And the things that were kind of happening in the latter part of the last decade where you had like a Facebook come out of nowhere, a Twitter come out of nowhere, YouTube come out of nowhere, where VCs were making a hundred times their…
- ▶ 34:14 Chris Dixon Microsoft Netscape, you know, Facebook Zynga, like Twitter and the Twitter apps, or whatever, right? 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:01 Fred Wilson I wrote about the API and the open ecosystem and all the stuff that was getting built on top of Twitter.
a16z Podcast | When Organic Growth Goes Enterprise
- ▶ 4:16 Andrew Chen These days, maybe the actual platforms have changed, like maybe you'd go to Product Hunt instead, maybe you'd go to Twitter, but, you know, ultimately doing a big announcement, but then getting all the sort of viral word of mouth,
a16z Podcast | Crypto And The Evolution Of Open Source
- ▶ 19:45 Dennis Nazarov I found an image on Twitter.
- ▶ 28:58 Devon Zuegel And it doesn't give you all the information that you could possibly want because it's dependent on Google and Facebook and Twitter and so on, uh, to, to give you the information that they're, they're willing to give, which is pretty…
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks
- ▶ 5:24 Chris Dixon Um, so software developers, um, you know, when they're building on a, on a network like Facebook or Twitter, you know, there's a long history of a whole bunch of software developers who tried to do that. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Improv'ing Leadership
- ▶ 0:03 unnamed speaker In this episode, Dick Costolo, former CEO of Twitter, and A-sixteen Z general partner Peter Levine talk about all things leadership, how to do what you love, why a background in comedy improv might be more useful than you think, and the… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:47 Dick Costolo I mean, even when I left Twitter, it was really starting to impact our ability to deliver the right kinds of things to people. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:54 Dick Costolo Um, it's powering half of Twitter Moments, which is instead of having to craft your own timeline, which takes a lot of time and effort, and going and finding all the accounts to follow, Moments just kind of uses human curation and machine…
- ▶ 22:12 Dick Costolo So, Kelly was, like, one of my trusted advisors at Twitter. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Containing the Monolith -- From Microservices to DevOps
- ▶ 9:42 Florian Leibert Search for Twitter is really easy. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Internet of Taste, Streaming Content to Culture
- ▶ 13:52 Ted Sarandos And so when they started watching it and got so hooked on it and started tweeting about it and posting on Facebook about it,
a16z Podcast | Trends in Cryptocurrencies
- ▶ 6:26 Juan Benet So a lot of the protocols that are going to be able to do that kind of like a Twitter protocol type structure will require a different framing of infrastructure in order to operate in this nice 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:18 Olaf Carlson-Wee So, for example, IPFS and Filecoin could be used extensively by regular people in the same way that when you tweet, that gets stored on Twitter servers, but you don't really think about mechanically how that happened.
a16z Podcast | A New Lab Rises
- ▶ 6:41 Ion Stoica Then, for instance, in the case of Mesos, we work very closely with Twitter. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Why Crypto Tokens Matter
- ▶ 4:26 Chris Dixon Twitter was a platform.
- ▶ 15:07 Fred Ehrsam The money of the internet, but cryptocurrencies theoretically could, or in the same way that, uh, developers are now quite scared of building on the Twitter or the Facebook API, but everyone uses SMTP or HTTP as these, or TCPIP as these…
a16z Podcast | Getting Applications Into People's Hands
- ▶ 14:50 Juan Benet So I think everyone was really sad when Twitter decided to shut down a lot of the developer community and kind of kick out a lot of applications that 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Law (and Tech) of Warfare
- ▶ 31:18 Benjamin Wittes Well, no, and I think I even tweeted an image of it, which people immediately took seriously and believed that something called-
a16z Podcast | The Living Museum
- ▶ 25:34 Adam Martin They're sharing their experience in the museum and what it's meant to them in a, in a deeply personal way, and then those stories, they get shared back with the individual, and they share them with their networks, with their family and…
a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience
- ▶ 10:52 Jason Rosenthal Because we can watch an NBA game or a football game and like have a tweet stream either on the side of it or on our phones.
a16z Podcast | Welcome to the New Era of Commerce
- ▶ 13:50 James Beshara They sold out about a hundred or they, and about an hour and 20 minutes, almost the time it takes for Coachella to, to sell out off of one tweet to their, their user base.
a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- ▶ 10:21 Steven Sinofsky I, I was fascinated by the fact that there were a lot of people on, on Twitter.
a16z Podcast | All About Microservices
- ▶ 16:23 Adrian Cockcroft So what you're seeing now is Twitter and Facebook and Netflix and Google and LinkedIn producing the stuff you actually want to use, which has already been tested at volume.
a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
a16z Podcast | Getting Network Effects
- ▶ 19:25 Anu Hariharan Because if, if I discovered Medium through Twitter or Facebook, then if I really liked it that much, am I coming back to Medium directly, or am I still finding those articles through other sites? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | When Humanity Meets A.I.
- ▶ 36:14 Fei-Fei Li Twitter data during natural disasters.
a16z Podcast | Not If, But How -- When Technology is Inevitable (with Kevin Kelly)
- ▶ 8:50 Chris Dixon So this is your Twitter, everything from your Twitter feed to.
a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
- ▶ 7:10 Kyle Russell For those in our audience who didn't watch the live stream of IO yesterday or follow along on Twitter, I want to quickly lay out the different products and services that were announced.
a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
- ▶ 12:15 Steven Sinofsky And, and for me, like, I'm just, I was writing my blog post, and there's Twitter, right? 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond
- ▶ 32:24 Chris Messina I mean, the places in which Twitter is putting ads, it's just, it's, it's almost sort of uncomfortable.
- ▶ 41:29 Chris Messina I sent them a DM on Twitter last night. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Teams, Trust, and Object Lessons
- ▶ 6:51 Michael Copeland Dick, the team that you described at Twitter, where, like, they stayed focused.
a16z Podcast | I Reject the Term Viral Video
- ▶ 11:22 Casey Neistat Twitter's probably my favorite, and it's my favorite because it's the easiest. 2 times in the scene
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