United Kingdom
also referred to as: the uk · u.k. · uk
29 statements across 14 episodes · 10 bullish · 11 bearish · 17 people on the record · first statement Nov 16, 2018 by Benedict Evans · said 250 times in 112 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Benedict Evans (23), Michael Copeland (20), Marc Andreessen (17), Russell Davies (11), Alex Rampell (10), Martha Lane Fox (9), Tavit Henrikos (8), Ben Horowitz (8)
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2026 11 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence
- The Opportunity for Global Founders
- Digital Freedom, AI Regulation, and the Fight for the Western Internet | The a16z Show
- Palantir CTO on The SaaS Apocalypse & Preventing The Next World War | a16z
- Andrew Huberman: Peptides, Sleep Tech, and the End of Obesity
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 20 mentions in 15 episodes 1 per episode
- Marc Andreessen: The US is in a AI Arms Race & It Decides The World's Future
- Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
- The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
- Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?
- Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on the State of AI
- Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- The Death of Search: How Shopping Will Work In The Age of AI
- Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 17 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- Politics & the Future of Tech
- Jeff Sloan (Global Payments): Placing Multiple Bets on ‘Mosaic of Solutions’
- Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- Marc & Ben on AI Policy, Safety, Censorship & Unexpected Risks
- AI, Robotics & the New Global Arms Race
- Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- The China Threat: Silicon Valley and the Great Uncoupling
- The Declining State of Higher Education
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- What is the Future of Hollywood?
- Big Ideas 2024: The Rise of the Developer as a Buyer in Financial Services with Angela Strange
- Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
- Digital Humans and the Story Behind Lil Miquela
- Autonomy & Defense Policy in the 21st Century
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2020 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2019 172 mentions in 61 episodes 3 per episode
- a16z Podcast | London Calling for Tech Done in a Different Way
- a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
- a16z Podcast | Building Tech Startups in a Place Where Tech Isn’t Everything
- a16z Podcast | When Banking Works Like My Smartphone
- a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
- a16z Podcast | Centers of Power, War, and History
- a16z Podcast | Sports, Tech, and What We Can All Learn from the Latest Performance Science
- a16z Podcast | Adjusting to Trade... and Innovation
- 53 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
2017 9 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
Everything said about United Kingdom, oldest first
Nov 16, 2018
Evans: US E-Commerce Penetration Lags Behind China, South Korea, and UK
“Penetration of e-commerce is actually quite a long way behind some other leading markets. China, obviously, is leapfrogging. There's a leapfrogging story there. South Korea and the UK, of course, are also well ahead of the USA although other parts of Western E…”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 positive
McClusky: US sports leagues will see major changes adopting overseas performance tech
“We're actually really far behind in the U.S. On a lot of this, and so seeing some of the things that have happened in Australia and the U.K. Make their way into major U.S. Team sports, I think we're going to see a lot of changes in NBA, NFL.”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Thierer: FDA Restricted 23andMe While the UK Welcomed the Service
“That's clearly been the case with 23 and me, which of course our Food and Drug Administration famously went after the innovators there for their genetic testing service. But over in the UK, they were welcomed with open arms by the government who said, come on …”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Lane Fox: UK has 800,000 unemployed women and 600,000 open tech jobs
“The second thing we're going to do is we're going to work with some corporates to think about how we could encourage the currently 800,000 unemployed women in this country to become part of the 600,000 jobs that we need to fill in the tech sector.”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Lane Fox: Modern tech sector replicates old establishment's exclusionary dynamics
“There's a whole new establishment that's been created, and I would argue it's a new establishment that has replicated the old establishment to a degree that those of us that were quite early into the dot-com boom and then bust here in the UK are properly surpr…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019
Davies: Large enterprises must build in-house digital capabilities
“If digital is going to get widely adopted and transform the economy in the UK and that kind of thing, large organizations are going to have to get it, right, you know. They're not all going to be replaced by an app, and that means they have to learn how to do …”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Clifford: Startups can arbitrage US capital and lower UK engineering salaries
“I think the other thing we're increasingly seeing very strongly with our companies is that the cost of engineering talent in the Valley relative to here means that there is actually, has Ted said, an arbitrage play available of raising US money on US terms and…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019
Khan: UK tech giants Rightmove and Zoopla scaled successfully without international expansion
“Some of our biggest online real estate companies are just UK only. Rightmove and Zoopla, two huge companies, have never really ventured outside the UK. You couldn't do that if you're from Estonia, or if you're from Finland, or if you're from Sweden.”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Khan: Strong UK safety nets make the country less entrepreneurial than US
“The country has never been as entrepreneurial as the USA has, and there's a number of social reasons and governmental reasons. One, we've got even though people may complain, we have a pretty amazing welfare system here, and a pretty amazing healthcare system …”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
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Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Cowen: Brexit pro-remain campaign failed due to poor coordination and arguments
“So you look at the United Kingdom, the forces that wanted Brexit, They mounted a much more effective campaign, and the pro-remain side, which I was sympathetic with, they had very poor arguments in response, they were less well coordinated, they were less will…”
Nov 5, 2024 negative
Andreessen: Non-US Anglosphere nations engage in far more government speech control
“And all four of those other English-speaking countries have, not only do they lack the protections, they have much more government involvement in speech and expression and politics than at least we historically have been willing to tolerate.”
Apr 23, 2025 negative
Vance: Importing cheap labor directly causes economic productivity to stagnate
“And I'd say that if you look in nearly every country from Canada to the UK that imported large amounts of cheap labor, you've seen productivity stagnate. And I don't think that's not a total happenstance. I think that the connection is very direct.”
Jul 3, 2026 negative
Ben Horowitz: Traditional VCs treat capital as their primary product
“Whereas I think other VCs think of the product much more as the money. And so if the product is the money, then the international strategy is, ok, we'll find a team of investors in, say, The UK. And we'll help them raise money. And then we'll take a percentage…”