UC Berkeley

8 statements across 5 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Matei Zaharia · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019
Disclosure
Matei Zaharia interned at Facebook in 2007 when it had 300 employees
“I was a PhD student at UC Berkeley, and we actually started working with Hadoop users back in 2007. And I did, for example, an internship at Facebook when Facebook was only about 300 people and they were just starting to set up Hadoop.”
Matei Zaharia Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:44 a16z Podcast | A Conversation With the Inventor of Spark
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Assertion Supported
Grant: 40 years of research shows assigned devil's advocates rarely work
“If you look at 40 years of research by Charlene Nemeth at Berkeley, she shows that devil's advocates rarely work.”
Adam Grant Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 37:51 a16z Podcast | How to Be Original and Make Big Ideas Happen
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Supported
Stoica: UC Berkeley computer science research labs operate on five-year limits
“So the labs are like one rule is around five years.”
Ion Stoica Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:01 a16z Podcast | A New Lab Rises
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
Stoica: UC Berkeley's AMPLab generates zero patents and commits to open source
“The other thing about what AMLAB and all these labs have done is that they take a very strong stand about being open source and we generate no patents.”
Ion Stoica Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:32 a16z Podcast | A New Lab Rises
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Insight
Stoica: Silicon Valley proximity keeps UC Berkeley research anchored in industry problems
“Academia, it's allowing you to do more experimentation. It's set for that. And at Berkeley, we are in a privileged position. Of course, being close to the Silicon Valley, we have a lot of feedback. From the industry. So we are very anchored in what are the rea…”
Ion Stoica Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:15 a16z Podcast | A New Lab Rises
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stoica: Over 60% of UC Berkeley PhD applicants apply for AI
“When you look at the PhD students who applied to Berkeley, PhD applicants. It turns out that well over 60% are applying for AI.”
Ion Stoica Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:44 a16z Podcast | A New Lab Rises
May 29, 2025 positive
Opinion
Angelopoulos: Industry AI evaluation platforms face skepticism over bias
“The fact that we come from Berkeley and from a university really speaks to our scientific approach in neutrality. I think if it came from an industrial lab, people would always have questions about, oh, well, these people are they also training a model and wha…”
Anastasios Angelopoulos May 29, 2025 ▶ 39:36 Beyond Leaderboards: LMArena’s Mission to Make AI Reliable
Nov 6, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Zuckerberg: The first CZ Biohub united UCSF, Stanford, and UC Berkeley
“So the very first biohub, what we did, there were two kind of interesting things. One was, it was this collaboration between UCSF, Stanford, and Berkeley. And there are all these really smart people at all these different places who previously, I guess in theo…”
Mark Zuckerberg Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 36:12 Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan: How AI Will Cure All Disease
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