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The Opportunity for Global Founders
- ▶ 15:35 Gabriel Vasquez Um, you know, for example, some of the markets that we spend the most time is like the UK, Sweden, um, you know, Israel is very well known for this because historically on a per capita basis, these countries have produced a lot. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:54 Gabriel Vasquez So, you know, this is, this is a company that started out of Europe in the UK, but it has Polish founders.
Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence
- ▶ 15:06 unnamed speaker So you take any mature business and you say how much of your revenue comes from even companies like, I mean, countries like UK, a significant chunk is going to come from the very, very top companies in UK, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:14 unnamed speaker Let's say UK or some English-speaking country, right? 2 times in the scene
Digital Freedom, AI Regulation, and the Fight for the Western Internet | The a16z Show
- ▶ 8:41 Sarah Rogers And I think, you know, one question I get when I engage on these freedom of expression issues in places like EU and UK is why are you being so hard on us? 2 times in the scene
Palantir CTO on The SaaS Apocalypse & Preventing The Next World War | a16z
- ▶ 7:09 Shyam Sankar Uh, and Lend Lease provided the mechanism to do that, that we, it took us 18 months to build factories and retool them, and we were able to create capability deterrence that we, we sold to the Brits and to the Soviets, such that when World…
Andrew Huberman: Peptides, Sleep Tech, and the End of Obesity
- ▶ 5:19 Dr. Andrew Huberman More than 80,000 subjects out of the UK that shows, and this is a recent study that shows that the brighter people's days are, and the darker their nights, the healthier they are mentally.
The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
- ▶ 37:36 Russ Fraden I was in the UK in July, uh, and, uh, I went on a bunch of sales calls and I was talking to someone at a bank, very large, very regular European bank is among the most regulated folks in the world.
Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?
- ▶ 25:11 Amjad Masad Uh, two people out of the UK, um, wrote this book about trying to predict what happens, uh, when computer technology matures, right?
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on the State of AI
- ▶ 21:32 Marc Andreessen There's a, there's a startup actually in the UK, uh, in, uh, in, in the world of politics, and, and what, what they found is that, um, they found that language models now are, are good enough, so specifically for, for politics, which is…
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 6:13 Keith Rabois The UK is not.
The Death of Search: How Shopping Will Work In The Age of AI
- ▶ 40:49 Alex Rampell Um, there's a company in the UK called Quidco, which is very, very similar, like these kind of things.
Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
- ▶ 56:14 Mark Cuban There's no UK dream.
Marc Andreessen: The US is in a AI Arms Race & It Decides The World's Future
- ▶ 3:09 Marc Andreessen The UK was the preeminent industrial power. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:19 Marc Andreessen Council estates in the UK, or Section eight, eight H, or whatever it is, housing here.
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 29:41 Balaji Srinivasan So we're a fork of them in, in the same way that like Yale was a fork of Harvard or America was a fork of Britain.
Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
- ▶ 21:35 Marc Andreessen Um, and they're just on this absolute frenzy to regulate and kill, you know, tech in Europe, uh, the UK. 2 times in the scene
The Software Crisis Behind America's Infrastructure
- ▶ 1:04 Philip Buckendorf Grew up in Germany, um, spent some time in the UK, and then, um, pretty much after college, so this is about 20 11, 20 12, um, learned to basically figure out, like, hey, what, what am I gonna do in my twenties?
Powering the Next Big Things
- ▶ 21:59 Doug Burgum Uh, because that, that's the path to the, uh, the future, and if you don't think that, then buy the book from the early 2000 called The Map That Changed the World, about the geologists that mapped Wales, Scotland, and, in the UK, and that…
JD Vance on the Future of America
- ▶ 12:13 J.D. Vance 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.
Agents, Lawyers, and LLMs
- ▶ 15:31 unnamed speaker You know, the world's leading tax experts in UK law or UK tax law are actually at PwC.
How AI is Reshaping Labor Markets: A $Trillion-Dollar Opportunity Explained
- ▶ 8:36 Alex Rampell Of course there are nurses in the UK and France and Angola, like every country on Earth, right?
AI Is Becoming a Regional Race
- ▶ 11:26 Anjney Midha Every country approaches it slightly differently, but the five eyes, the US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, we generally have sort of a, a joint, um,
Marc & Ben on AI Policy, Safety, Censorship & Unexpected Risks
- ▶ 51:17 unnamed speaker Not the way in the UK.
AI, Robotics & the New Global Arms Race
- ▶ 4:15 Marc Andreessen So a lot of what we're talking about here, and maybe even everything you just talked about is primarily in the U.S. or mostly in the U.S. or, you know, some a little bit maybe in the U.K., but mostly here.
Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- ▶ 1:28:27 Marc Andreessen And, and, and look, like, if you want, look, if you're a Democrat, and this was always Clinton's view, by the way, Antonio Blair's view in the UK, um, uh, was, um, look, if you, if you want, if you're a Democrat and you want, you know,…
Jeff Sloan (Global Payments): Placing Multiple Bets on ‘Mosaic of Solutions’
- ▶ 29:08 Jeff Sloan So we had a pretty meaningful, we have a pretty meaningful global payments does, uh, business in the UK. 3 times in the scene
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 1:34:15 Ben Horowitz And the UK, the UK has sort of been flip-flopping on AI policy, and we'll see where they come out. 6 times in the scene
The China Threat: Silicon Valley and the Great Uncoupling
- ▶ 22:55 Congressman Mike Gallagher We need a gold standard free trade agreement with the U.K. post-Brexit that could have a docking provision.
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 1:07:35 Chris Dixon And like, look, we're working, we opened an office in the UK because they seem to be taking a forward-looking approach there towards regulation here. 3 times in the scene
The Declining State of Higher Education
- ▶ 15:47 Marc Andreessen And, you know, basically all prime ministers of the UK basically have that educational background, you know, to this day.
Big Ideas 2024: The Rise of the Developer as a Buyer in Financial Services with Angela Strange
- ▶ 12:58 Angela Strange Um, and you know, the US is a little bit different than some other countries like the UK and even Brazil that have an open banking mandate from the government that banks have to share their data.
What is the Future of Hollywood?
- ▶ 2:04:06 Ben Horowitz Um, I was just, I would say in like hip hop, like UK rap is now kind of probably gone past
- ▶ 2:09:33 Marc Andreessen The UK has its own scene like that. 2 times in the scene
Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
- ▶ 6:51 Marc Andreessen Which maybe we'll talk about and saved Europe, um, right, and saved, you know, Britain and everything else, um, you know, and, you know, potentially, you know, the world, um, you know, the, the entire thing basically played out over the…
Digital Humans and the Story Behind Lil Miquela
- ▶ 1:58 Steph Smith Uh, Britain just voted to leave the EU.
Autonomy & Defense Policy in the 21st Century
- ▶ 15:24 Congressman Mike Gallagher We love the Brits.
a16z Podcast: Best Clips of 2022
- ▶ 2:52 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, there were people who were, like, trained, you know, carriage drivers who all of a sudden were out of jobs, and so there, there was this, like, all of a sudden, this, this huge backlash, and so what happened was, uh, a bunch…
Pay Without Borders with Alex Bouaziz (Deel), Darren Murph (GitLab), and Sondre Rasch (Safetywing)
- ▶ 1:04:48 Alex Bouaziz Like it's, there's a lot of amazing people that left the UK and they had to find the next best place for themselves.
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 1:45:03 Balaji Srinivasan Fighting, has been fighting, simultaneous conflicts with, ah, tech, with half its population, with Russia, with China, with, to a lesser extent, with Israel, India, Hungary, France, Brazil, with the Brexiteers in Britain, um, with Web…
- ▶ 2:15:21 Balaji Srinivasan You could not have turned England into America or the UK into America.
Why Technology Still Matters with Marc Andreessen
- ▶ 23:22 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, there were people who were, like, trained, you know, carriage drivers who all of a sudden were out of jobs, and so there, there was this, like, all of a sudden, this, this huge backlash, and so what happened was a bunch of,…
How Gaming is Changing the Media Landscape
- ▶ 24:47 John Riccitiello Maybe UK-centric business were the best game studios, and they became more important than the platforms.
Four Trends in Consumer Tech
- ▶ 9:58 Connie Chan This is a demo of a UK company that signed a two-year exclusive with Tencent, and they're overlaying all kinds of advertisements and pre-recorded video.
Growth, Sales, and a New Era of B2B
- ▶ 2:26 unnamed speaker Berlin, France, UK, certainly New York, as well as Silicon Valley.
Founding Stories: Synapse
- ▶ 17:26 Angela Strange Um, so like huge credit to some of the new banks that have gotten started in the UK that have been able to do this.
a16z Podcast | How Many Taps in the Apple (Plus) Tree?
- ▶ 10:19 Benedict Evans So in the UK, no one subscribes to magazines. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
- ▶ 18:03 Jeff Jordan In the UK, which for, for whatever cultural reason has been doing grocery delivery for a long time, and it's a much deeper state of penetration, they're starting to have what's called dark stores, where you basically,
a16z Podcast | Stories and Lessons in Enterprise Sales
- ▶ 13:43 Mark Leslie We ran into a very, you know, difficult problem the quarter after we went public, and we were kind of stretching for where can we get some business, and turns out there was an account in UK that was scheduled to do something the following… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Business of Cybercrime
- ▶ 9:58 Jonathan Lusthaus And if we look at the opposite end of that spectrum, if we think about the West and places like the US or the UK,
- ▶ 23:12 Jonathan Lusthaus They're duping victims in the UK, the US, Australia, Germany, wherever it might be.
a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond
- ▶ 35:49 Benedict Evans And it turned out that everyone in Britain gets a kettle.
a16z Podcast | The IQ and EQ of Robots
- ▶ 26:48 Boris Soffman And so we've had, she had studies with University of Bath in the UK where the engagement patterns and the collaboration around Cosmo is unique compared to anything that they'd seen.
a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
- ▶ 52:05 W. Brian Arthur And that hollowed out an enormous amount of traditional workers in the middle of America and certainly in Britain and in other countries. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:40 W. Brian Arthur They had inherited shipyards from the British, etc.
a16z Podcast | Beyond CES: Connected Home Devices, Voice, and More
- ▶ 10:13 Benedict Evans Everyone in the UK has a kettle.
- ▶ 25:12 Benedict Evans So, um, certainly everyone in the UK has an automatic electric kettle.
a16z Podcast | Reinventing Food
- ▶ 13:46 Brian Crowley Listen, when you're trying to change, should have known about it, and we should have been having these conversations, so shame on us, and we're fixing that, but we're planning to launch in the UK next year, and you can imagine the product… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- ▶ 2:58 Benedict Evans Yeah, I mean, the best example I've heard of this is that the UK VAT system, the UK value-added tech system runs on VAX, created by DEC, which I think discontinued it before many of the people listening to this podcast were born, and yet…
a16z Podcast | Exploding the Map
- ▶ 18:43 David Rumsey As soon as Vancouver explored the area around Seattle, all that information went to press in Britain and was widely used.
a16z Podcast | Adjusting to Trade... and Innovation
- ▶ 6:06 Noah Smith Well, one of the big theories about the Industrial Revolution is that a combination of expensive labor in Britain and the Netherlands 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:34 Noah Smith Because on the eve of World War I, Great Britain and Germany were each other's largest trading partners.
a16z Podcast | Centers of Power, War, and History
- ▶ 12:32 Matthew Colford And the British and the French kind of went, well, I don't know, maybe we want to join this other baseball team.
- ▶ 18:49 Graham Allison We then, uh, threaten war, first with Germany, and then with, uh, uh, Britain, about a territorial dispute in Venezuela, where they're trying to settle the dispute.
- ▶ 22:04 Graham Allison So wait, what does this guy in Sarajevo have to do with Britain and Germany and Russia and France going to war? 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | From Mind at Play to Making the Information Age
- ▶ 16:46 Jimmy Soni He focuses on how the U S can better encrypt the messages that it's sending to the Brits. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | From Jobs to Flying Cars
- ▶ 30:15 Marc Andreessen And it was the two cultures at the time actually was sort of the liberal, you know, sort of through the UK lens.
a16z Podcast | Technology, Mobility, and the American Dream
- ▶ 15:39 Tyler Cowen So you look at the United Kingdom, the forces that wanted Brexit, 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'
- ▶ 12:54 Reed Hastings As we were growing the DVD business, we developed new competitors of Walmart doing a DVD rental service, Amazon doing one in the UK, and Blockbuster doing a big one, and so suddenly we were up against three much larger companies in that…
- ▶ 24:56 Reed Hastings We're getting all those Japanese films and British shows, and so, you know, what we want to really do is connect people and not treat them as, you know, that's someone who's by these demographics or that location, but treat them
a16z Podcast | Real Estate -- Ownership, Asset, Economy
- ▶ 28:01 Alex Rampell Real estate as an asset class is, is just very interesting in general in that if you were alive, 300 years ago in Britain, I mean, the South Sea Company was started in 1711.
a16z Podcast | Machine Intelligence, from University to Industry
- ▶ 0:28 unnamed speaker It's based out of the University of Alberta, Canada's Department of Computer Science, and longtime listeners of the podcast will also recall we did a podcast roadshow in the UK with researchers there as well.
a16z Podcast | New Year, New Horizons -- Pluto!
- ▶ 47:34 Ivan Linscott Coupled by the U.S. and a couple by, you know, NASA and a couple by our colleagues in, ah, Britain.
a16z Podcast | Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis
- ▶ 5:53 Sonal Chokshi During the seventies with Idi Amin, my mom's sister went to Sweden and my grandparents went to the UK.
a16z Podcast | The Internet Is Your Movement
- ▶ 6:27 Jim Gilliam They held a referendum on declaring independence from the UK, all kinds of amazing things, but what happened in that very initial campaign was that they'd spent, like, a year, a year and a half trying to, like, pull together all of their…
a16z Podcast | On the Genomics of Disease, From Science to Business
- ▶ 24:28 Malinka Walaliyadde In fact, I think in single-payer systems like the UK or outside, we might see much more adoption of some of these genomic tests.
a16z Podcast | Truce for Mobile, Battle for VR
- ▶ 6:04 Benedict Evans It's like one operator in America, one operator in the UK, one in Germany and so on.
a16z Podcast | Mastering the Game (with David Oyelowo)
- ▶ 11:01 David Oyelowo Yes, exactly, um, and I think that these films got made to give us context as to how we got to this moment, and so through doing those, those movies, I got this unexpected education, unexpected love, actually, for African-American history,…
a16z Podcast | Airspace as the Next Internet-Like Platform
- ▶ 3:18 Jonathan Downey They were in the UK. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
- ▶ 6:34 Benedict Evans I mean, I remember using, when Google Maps launched, and there was a sort of a period of a couple of years where Google Maps didn't work at all in the UK unless you put the postcode in.
a16z Podcast | The Cloud and The Public Sector
- ▶ 7:45 Teresa Carlson Liam Maxwell, who's the CTO of the UK government, sort of started the same kind of trend in the UK where he said, we are spending way too much money on tech and not getting the benefits.
a16z Podcast | The Art of the Regulatory Hack
- ▶ 33:53 Evan Burfield We talked about cybersecurity, but he's the only person, we handed him a, I don't think I will be wearing that, but we have, uh, we have British phone booths. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | On Productivity, Immigration, Trump, and Media
- ▶ 0:04 Sonal Chokshi And today Michael and I are in Washington, DC, and we are doing our very first of our podcasts on the road, our second road trip from the UK last year.
a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
- ▶ 10:13 Parag Khanna Switzerland has a large share of these stateless superpowers, as does Singapore and some of the offshore British jurisdictions. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Future of Money and Monetization
- ▶ 2:16 Kristo Käärmann So we took the way, unlike Uber or Airbnb, to be a fully licensed money service in the UK before we even, uh, before we even got started.
- ▶ 4:26 Alex Rampell So, I mean, how do you think about, I mean, I've, I've noticed a lot of marketing campaigns for you in my limited time here in the UK. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Reinventing Insurance
- ▶ 18:12 Mike Paulus And there was, there was a company in the UK called drive like a girl.
a16z Podcast | When Banking Works Like My Smartphone
- ▶ 4:19 Angela Strange And you look at banks, you have your checking account, you have your lending, and some of the fees are transparent, but interestingly, checking accounts, which are advertised as free, account for it's eight billion of costs, and that's… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:38 Tavit Henrikos Both ways, you know, so today would be really cool if we, if we take TransferWise and we take, um, in the UK funding circle and, and someone else and, you know, we could actually, you know, put the new skin on top of the services and offer…
- ▶ 19:00 Tavit Henrikos Fintech probably has more kind of traction and more companies in UK, but, and I think that, you know, and regulation is, is slightly better in UK as well. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:54 Tavit Henrikos So we have five percent market share in UK and, uh, I think it's, uh, 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Nobody Discusses Work Software Outside of Work -- and Then There’s Slack
- ▶ 14:23 Stuart Butterfield Um, Japan was our number two country, both for paid seats and daily active users, until it got dislodged by the UK and Germany.
a16z Podcast | Mellody Hobson and Ben Horowitz Talk Investing, Career, and Star Wars!
- ▶ 36:52 Mellody Hobson So in this, in the country of Britain, they are the outsource provider for search and rescue for the country. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
- ▶ 0:36 Michael Copeland Extremely aggressive, and you will, you will note from Reshma's accent that she is also from the U.S., but has been here for 14 years and is drinking tea, so maybe she is British after all.
- ▶ 2:54 Shaq (Shakil Khan) One of the biggest, biggest success stories that ever came out of, um, the UK in the last 15 years was a company called Money Supermarket.
- ▶ 5:13 Shaq (Shakil Khan) I think, um, one way of looking at it, the difference between the US investment banks and the UK investment banks, I don't actually know anyone who's like, I need to get into Goldman Sachs London. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:11 Michael Copeland oh yeah, that's a Berlin company because I can tell from these characteristics or that's a, you know, UK company, but are, are problems solved differently than say in San Francisco or Silicon Valley? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:54 Michael Copeland What's the natural, the, the natural path, and if you're a successful company, um, startup in, in the UK, do you hit the rest of Western Europe first because it's close? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:28 Shaq (Shakil Khan) US is far similar to UK than France will ever be. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:12 Shaq (Shakil Khan) And secondly, failure in Britain, and even till now, it's, it's getting better and better, is not encouraged.
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