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“Every small business should run itself” | Lassie with a16z
- ▶ 12:43 Alex Rampell No, you know, Ashkenazi Jew from, you know, somewhere in Poland, Ukraine, whatever my family's from too.
Emil Michael: The Department of War Is Moving Faster Than Silicon Valley on AI | The a16z Show
- ▶ 16:33 Emil Michael And we're looking at Ukraine and Russia and seeing what's happening there.
Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
- ▶ 37:24 David Ulevitch I think the war in Ukraine really, um, put a very, very bright light 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:46 Katherine Boyle Uh, I think everyone looks to the past conflict and says, oh, well, we look at what happened in Ukraine, and that's what we should build. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:26 unnamed speaker Going deeper on, on China, it seems like a lot of the cultural embracing of American dynamism stems from some of the realities that Catherine mentioned, like, like Ukraine, like COVID, and of course sort of this great power conflict with,…
- ▶ 51:38 Katherine Boyle And because, and the reason why that is so important, um, is because I think a lot of the, the learnings of Ukraine, um, if you have an exquisite system that was hundreds of millions of dollars, and it can be taken out with a thousand… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:26 Marc Andreessen Um, and so one of the things that you see in, for example, in the, in the Russia-Ukraine conflict is an incredibly high rate of iteration on the battlefield techniques and use of technology on the battlefield. 2 times in the scene
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 3:09 Keith Rabois Uh, if you think about the Middle East, on its way to being solved, he'll get Russia and Ukraine solved, I'm pretty sure.
The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
Anduril CEO: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?
- ▶ 1:36 Brian Schimpf Um, and then Ukraine happens and, you know, the reality ended up being much more historically common that these wars are protracted, that they are industrial in scale. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:30 Brian Schimpf Um, and I think in the, the recent history, you know, vis-a-vis Ukraine, and I think what would pragmatically happen in Taiwan scenario, there's American support with,
The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
- ▶ 5:05 Katherine Boyle And he was talking about, um, basically in Ukraine, just how this, like, just-in-time manufacturing then feeds into building things in the trenches very quickly, and basically doing this, this iteration live with, with people who are then… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:51 unnamed speaker But I just around BLM, around Ukraine, remember, you know, sort of when, when Mark had the current thing discourse, there was a lot of sort of, uh, legible unification, like,
Is Non-Consensus Investing Overrated?
- ▶ 27:15 Leo Polovets Uh, like we, for example, we invested in defense a lot three, four years ago, and then we, we kept looking, we're basically paused for a year and a half or two, because after the Ukraine and Israel thing, you know, prices just went up like…
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 1:00:33 Balaji Srinivasan Or here's, here, here's another one, which is Durante, Ukraine, Amazon, like basically Stalin's apologist.
- ▶ 1:01:28 Balaji Srinivasan The Salisbury's primary legacy is killing millions of Ukrainians. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:03 Balaji Srinivasan The Ukraine pro and con, right?
Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money
- ▶ 59:11 Balaji Srinivasan And now with the whole Ukraine controlling drones in your territory thing, 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
- ▶ 36:47 Marc Andreessen Um, and I just, you know, obviously, Ukraine, I just, Ukrainian battlefield is a completely new kind of battlefield because of all this new, you know, drone technology. 2 times in the scene
The Software Crisis Behind America's Infrastructure
- ▶ 6:18 Leo Kosinski Africa Command out of Stuttgart, Germany, and that was also during the pandemic, but just working with Department of Defense logistics and infrastructure, trying to move around Africa, just the size and scope, and then you add on the…
- ▶ 22:25 Leo Kosinski You know, we've, you know, seen that from, I think, day to day, the pandemic, when face masks, masks, or toilet paper, things like that, but for the military, I saw that with support to Ukraine, where there's just munitions and things we…
Powering the Next Big Things
- ▶ 6:19 unnamed speaker The other one is that, again, on this selling energy to our friends and allies, the two, the two proxy wars that have been going on under the Biden administration, you know, with Iran funding 24 terror groups, and with the, ah, Russian…
The Kill Chain: 2025 Edition
- ▶ 3:32 Katherine Boyle Well, and it's interesting you mentioned Indo-Pacific, because so much changed, too, with Ukraine.
- ▶ 5:38 Katherine Boyle I mean, the other thing that's really changed that I, that I think is really extraordinary that we couldn't have, I couldn't have expected post Ukraine is you were in many ways alone.
Ben Horowitz on Leadership and Culture
- ▶ 23:42 Ben Horowitz You know, we don't speak on, you know, every, like, I have opinions on everything from, you know, Israel to Ukraine, Russia war, to all that stuff, but I'm not the expert in it.
The Dual-Use Founder: Vets Now Building For America
- ▶ 7:06 unnamed speaker You know, and I think that's when the DOD first started to realize that it was a totally new threat, it was a totally new thing, and it's, it's something we've seen borne out since then in, ah, you know, pretty much every conflict since…
- ▶ 7:29 Matt Shortal As you brought up Ukraine, I think, obviously, that's changed the whole paradigm in your space, and then also you. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:00 unnamed speaker You know, we had folks actually go over and, you know, assist the Ukrainians and, you know, provide support and services and, you know, technology to them.
- ▶ 26:35 Matt Shortal We look at Ukraine, perfect test case for all three of your, uh, companies there.
Autonomy is no longer a moonshot—it’s a market
- ▶ 36:54 Jason Brown Yeah, you can look at Ukraine, for example, but even beyond Ukraine. 2 times in the scene
Drone Warfare: The New Rules of Combat Are Here
- ▶ 6:50 Ryan Tseng In the, the conflict in, in Ukraine.
- ▶ 7:35 Matt Cronin And, and Adam, one of the things particularly shocked, uh, those observing the Ukraine conflict in particular, is you would see, as writers are referring to, a, say, a commercial quadcopter, like Escadio in some instances, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:20 Ryan Tseng Um, and in some cases, despite tremendous amounts of mass being brought to sections of the battlefield, it just turned into grinded out, you know, war of attrition without a lot of movement on either side, and we, we start to see some of…
- ▶ 15:46 Adam Bry Like the, the vast majority of what's happening in Ukraine is still basically one-to-one.
- ▶ 19:02 Adam Bry If you look in the kind of space that we play, which are small, light quadcopters that weigh a few pounds that are kind of soldier-carried, uh, the Ukrainians today are using these things at the rate of millions per year, literally… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:14 Matt Cronin In Ukraine, you see, you know, drones come up, drones come down, oftentimes they're DJI drones in a matter of minutes or seconds, many times failing in the mission.
- ▶ 27:02 Adam Bry Having said that, candidly, like, our first round of drones in Ukraine basically failed. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:20 Ryan Tseng So, anecdote from Ukraine, um, to, to solve for this environment, which is constantly changing, 5 times in the scene
Can the Military Move at Startup Speed? How the Army and Navy Are Rebuilding
- ▶ 45:56 Alex Miller So we are learning from Ukraine and what's happening over there, and we're actually going to, with Fifth Core and with UCRF, we're actually going to work on how we, we scale up adding non-conventional sensors, non-conventional compute.
Why American Dynamism Is Just Getting Started
- ▶ 2:21 Katherine Boyle The, you know, coupled with things like the war in Ukraine, you know, we launched the thesis three weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in, in twenty-twenty-two. 2 times in the scene
How to spot an AI Deepfake
- ▶ 16:31 Brian C. Long I don't know, but overlooked in the broader media was when someone used to deep fake in order to call up the chairman of the foreign relations committee for the Senate and manage deep fake a Russian, uh, uh, a Russian member of the…
How AI Is Changing Warfare, with Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf
- ▶ 6:17 unnamed speaker It's like, no, we've all seen the, you know, Ukraine, Russia.
- ▶ 10:46 Brian Schimpf Like, turns out invading Ukraine was probably the single biggest shift I've seen in terms of people recognizing that, look, like, there are still bad actors in the world.
- ▶ 11:50 Brian Schimpf You know, I think a lot of the things that were starting to happen in Ukraine, a lot of the great work Palantir did was on things like this, where it was like the targeting process of going from satellite imagery through to, hey, this…
- ▶ 13:33 Brian Schimpf And then the other problem with this is then, as we've seen in Ukraine,
- ▶ 32:16 unnamed speaker Because it seemed to happen a little bit before Ukraine, too, started to shift just before Ukraine. 2 times in the scene
Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startups
- ▶ 43:07 Marc Andreessen The Russian invasion of Ukraine.
- ▶ 54:46 Marc Andreessen And you see it on, you see that a hundred percent on the ground in Ukraine right now, um, you know, back and forth with the Russians, uh, with, with drone, with drones.
Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- ▶ 41:10 Marc Andreessen You can see it on the Ukrainian battlefield. 2 times in the scene
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 1:36:10 Marc Andreessen The, among other things, you know, has led to basically Europe funding Russia's invasion of Ukraine through the, you know, the need for imported energy, because they, they keep shutting down their nuclear plants.
A Nuclear Comeback: Are New Reactors the Answer?
- ▶ 7:53 Dr. Katherine Huff Consistent deliveries of fuel we've seen in, for example, uh, embattled Russia-Ukraine invasion, we've seen that deliveries of fuel are a clear vulnerability.
From Silicon Valley to the Pentagon: The Future of Defense Innovation
- ▶ 29:52 Brian Schimpf And these have become pervasive technologies where, um, you know, even under sanction, Iran is able to produce very effective loitering munitions and, you know, weaponized drones at very large scales that have caused a huge amount of… 5 times in the scene
Securing America's Future: How Technology Companies and Washington Are Building A Safer World
- ▶ 5:17 Brian Schimpf So if we look at, you know, like kind of what we've learned in Ukraine, uh, the,
- ▶ 9:24 Brian Schimpf This mirrors a lot of the types of attacks that we've seen in Ukraine.
Collaborative Disruption at DoD: Kathleen Hicks in Conversation with Sharon Weinberger
- ▶ 1:15 Kathleen Hicks So software-driven Ukraine more than anywhere else has shown the pace, the rapid pace of iteration in terms of the development of the technologies and the capabilities.
- ▶ 9:05 Sharon Weinberger Um, you spoke about both Ukraine and then the challenge from China. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:36 Kathleen Hicks The United States clearly has an advantage in intelligence that's paid off substantially, um, and to the extent that we can help our partners with that, in this case, Ukraine, um, that, you know, that's an area we know is a strength to… 2 times in the scene
The China Threat: Silicon Valley and the Great Uncoupling
- ▶ 0:50 Congressman Mike Gallagher And we tend to discount the possibility that Xi Jinping could do something as stupid as try to take Taiwan by force, because it does look irrational from a Western perspective, but if the collapse of deterrence in Ukraine has taught us… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:01 Congressman Jake Auchincloss So we should also stand for Ukraine.
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 1:05:03 Ben Horowitz The second is the dollar itself, and we've seen we've tried to use that in lieu of military power in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and it, it's been very ineffective.
Tony Robbins on the Future of Health & Longevity
- ▶ 1:14:04 Tony Robbins The Ukraine war has basically shut down the bread basket.
Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist
- ▶ 9:40 Marc Andreessen And, you know, quite frankly, it's one of the reasons why Russia is able to do what it's doing in Ukraine is it has this flow of money from, from oil, um, you know, which in, in a counterfactual universe where the world by now had cut over…
The Evolution of the Satellite Economy
- ▶ 29:10 John Gedmark The invasion of Ukraine by Russia was a big
What is the Future of Hollywood?
- ▶ 2:12:29 Ben Horowitz And, you know, like, that kind of thing is completely lacking on, say, you know, the, the, uh, Ukraine-Russian war right now.
Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
- ▶ 1:21:23 Ben Horowitz Um, you know, including potentially right now, Russia and Ukraine. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:31:18 Marc Andreessen Um, and, and, you know, and a lot of why Russia was able to invade Ukraine is because they, you know, make so much money from, you know, selling, uh, fossil fuels to Europe.
Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy
- ▶ 15:18 Palmer Luckey I think in Ukraine in particular, we've seen that this warfare has really been defined not just by legacy systems, but also by these new systems that are being used in radically new ways.
- ▶ 16:32 Palmer Luckey I think since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the United States and allied nations have moved swiftly to supply the Ukrainians with the tools and the weapons that they need to defend their freedom and independence. 3 times in the scene
AI & The Future of Modern Warfare
- ▶ 1:09 Adam Bry So we've delivered thousands of systems to the Army, to the Marines, uh, to allies, and, and we have hundreds of systems now, uh, being used every day in Ukraine.
- ▶ 13:16 unnamed speaker Um, I want to hit on Ukraine just a minute with our, with our time, ah, we have left, but first, I need you each to comment about your customer.
- ▶ 20:07 unnamed speaker This is AI and the Future of Modern Warfare, and actually just say AI and Warfare Today, and by then I'm talking about what we're seeing on the ground, and before we, ah, came on stage, we were talking about Ukraine, and, ah, much to say… 6 times in the scene
Autonomy & Defense Policy in the 21st Century
- ▶ 0:39 Jacob Helberg We've seen in Ukraine how technology and autonomous systems have changed the nature of modern warfare. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:19 Jacob Helberg I'm curious, how do you think technology has changed the nature of the war in Ukraine, and what are some of the lessons that you think are front and center for defense policy planners? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:55 Christian Brose Um, you know, nothing really matters unless you're able to generate the kind of mass that Mike is talking about that, uh, the Ukrainians need now, and I would say that's kind of the double A ball version of what, you know, I think we're…
- ▶ 14:03 Christian Brose So the answer can't be, you know, well, the Ukrainians are out of javelins, you know, well, in two more years, we'll get them more javelins.
- ▶ 16:40 Congressman Mike Gallagher The lesson of Ukraine is that, uh, deterrence failures are very costly, uh, but failing that, we need to be prepared to go to the mattresses, uh, to defend Taiwan over the long term because it's in our vital national security interest to…
- ▶ 18:39 Christian Brose Um, and I think, you know, what we're seeing in Ukraine right now, the speed that they're innovating, the speed that they're fielding things, um, that should be a lesson that we can take back to ourselves to say,
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 2)
- ▶ 36:54 Ryan McEntush Speaking of military side, in wartime, as an example of, uh, Ukraine, we have sort of near real-time Earth observation and signal intelligence coming from that, and this is essentially, you know, the ultimate height advantage in war. 2 times in the scene
Rearchitecting the Supply Chain with Ryan Petersen
The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
- ▶ 4:05 Chris Power We shipped the Ukrainians, uh, what we thought was three years of inventory of stinger and javelin missiles, which are shoulder mounted, really cheap missiles that can take out a tank or something. 3 times in the scene
Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah on the Data Highway Above
- ▶ 43:37 Dr. Moriba Jah That's not even talking about Earth observation with, I don't know, monitoring climate change, hydrology and agriculture, wars in Ukraine, that sort of stuff.
Scaling Up Blockchains with Zero-Knowledge Proofs
- ▶ 8:04 Alex Gluchowski (Alex G) Uh, I, I got very excited, um, about the economics ideas, the, the political side of it, because I'm coming from Ukraine.
The Career Changing Magic of Strategic Compartmentalization
- ▶ 0:35 Katie Haun Um, and you were Rhodes Scholar, you have your doctorate from Oxford, and of course, all of these experiences meant that you had a front row seat to some pretty interesting situations, things like the Snowden leaks, North Korea,…
a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond
- ▶ 40:57 Steven Sinofsky That had a founder and an employee from a company in Ukraine doing notebooks, like paper notebooks. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Autonomy in Service
- ▶ 3:22 Ryan Tseng So if you look at Russia moving into the Ukraine in the past couple years, there was a huge amount of deception and uncertainty in terms of what was actually happening on the ground.
a16z Podcast | Space -- the Near Frontier
- ▶ 12:33 Dan Birkenstock Year delay, which cost us almost ten million dollars because of a diplomatic spat between Ukraine and Russia.
a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
- ▶ 6:23 Parag Khanna You would think that when Russia wants to cut off supplies to Ukraine and Europe, it would just flick a switch and do that and punish them, right? 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Building Tech Startups in a Place Where Tech Isn’t Everything
- ▶ 10:14 Nick Babayan I mean, the, the first four hires we made were from the Ukraine, Estonia, India, and Hungary.
a16z Podcast | Software and Overcoming the Randomness of Birthplace
- ▶ 14:38 Sten Tamkivi Um, it's two people currently here, uh, three in Estonia, one in Switzerland, one in Germany, one in Kiev, Ukraine, one intern working out of London, and one of my co-founders, Silver, just, uh, moved to Medellin from here, and he's now…
a16z Podcast | Security’s Wakeup Call
- ▶ 24:54 Ash Carter Ah, a lot, Bin Laden, Ray, you know, lots of things have been going on there, and likewise with Russia, Putin, Ukraine, ah, and so forth.