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Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
- ▶ 20:51 Alex Rampell Or if you go to Walmart offline, it's like, you know, you get greeted by the very nice greeter.
Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
- ▶ 17:42 Steven Sinofsky Or, or Walmart.
Building Blackstone, Backing Costco, and Working with Munger | Tony James on The a16z Show
- ▶ 23:26 Tony James And before Amazon, it was Walmart. 2 times in the scene
Why Claude Feels Different (And What That Means for AI) | The a16z Show
- ▶ 27:25 unnamed speaker Like you can go to Walmart and buy a hairdryer for five bucks.
How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer | Alex Blania on a16z
- ▶ 38:51 Alex Blania Large scale distribution partnerships that could be something like Walmart, you know, or if you, if you're very ambitious, it could be something like Starbucks.
Atlassian CEO on the SaaS Apocalypse, AI Agents & What Comes Next
- ▶ 34:21 Alex Rampell Like, we got Walmart.
How Truemed Is Incentivizing Americans to Invest in Prevention
- ▶ 13:05 Justin Mares Things like Costco and Walmart are the two largest sellers of organic products in the country.
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 53:45 Benedict Evans And so you could kind of do like an imagine if here of like, step one is, um, you know, you're, you're a manager at a Walmart in the Bay Area or DC or whatever it is. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: How Movies Explain America
- ▶ 1:15:43 Katherine Boyle Like the thesis is slightly different than what it was in the nineties, which is that like, you know, like Walmart is destroying you. 2 times in the scene
Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money
- ▶ 40:10 Balaji Srinivasan That's going to be a huge, huge, huge thing, and that, that maps to KYC, that maps to, like, in a bad way, you know, the, the glass cases in Walmart, right?
Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
- ▶ 1:16:05 Marc Andreessen Um, and then over the course of the last 30 years, you know, all of those kind of general purpose stores, department stores have gotten wrecked and replaced by barbell on the barbell that you got Walmart and Amazon on the one side of the,…
Hey Tech, Come to Healthcare
- ▶ 17:51 Vijay Pande And same from Walmart and healthcare is really the right care at the right place at the right time.
- ▶ 33:06 Steph Smith Um, but then you also see interesting cases like Dollar Generals getting into healthcare because they just have so many locations, or you see Walmart try, but then they're closing their clinics. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:07 Daisy Wolf I mean, I, there are great people who work at all these companies, and we don't want to disparage them in any way, but it feels like with the Walmart health of the world, it was almost a play to get you to stay in Walmart a little longer…
Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software
- ▶ 44:24 Marc Andreessen Like, you know, it's like, it's like all the same stuff, you know, there's Walmart.
How Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What’s Coming Next
- ▶ 1:04:58 Marc Andreessen So high scale, Amazon, Walmart, 2 times in the scene
Jensen Huang & Arthur Mensch: Why Every Nation Needs Its Own AI Strategy
- ▶ 19:07 Jensen Huang And, and so I think it's terrific that you have Walmart everywhere that you can count on everywhere.
America Needs More Techno-Optimism, with Marc Andreessen and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 29:12 Marc Andreessen Think about, think about Walmart or whatever, any, any, any public company, uh, where, you know, in theory there are shareholders, but what, what really what there are is there are millions and millions of shareholders that are incredibly… 3 times in the scene
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 39:56 Salim Ismail Okay, so we looked at every one of the Fortune 100, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Walmart unit, and said, okay, to what extent one to four are they purpose-driven?
Marketplace Breakout Strategies: Take Rates, Defensibility, Payments | Field Notes by Connie Chan
Pay Without Borders with Alex Bouaziz (Deel), Darren Murph (GitLab), and Sondre Rasch (Safetywing)
- ▶ 48:16 Sondre Rasch Walmart, highest paid engineers.
How Gaming is Changing the Media Landscape
- ▶ 15:33 John Riccitiello Um, just like your music, um, just like the, the films you buy, you're not going down, you know, to, you know, some retailer, Walmart, and buying a whole bunch of DVDs, you're not buying a whole bunch of videocassettes, and the game…
What's Next for the Internet?
- ▶ 40:06 Jonah Peretti There's like a hundred SKU line of tasty products at Walmart.
Software Eats Care Delivery
a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
- ▶ 16:11 Ryan Caldbeck You're competing with Walmart.
- ▶ 36:27 Jeff Jordan Walmart's diving in. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:50 Sonal Chokshi They also have their own labs.
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks as Emerging Economies (Done Right?)
- ▶ 14:35 Joel Monegro Uh, previously in, in a more traditional world, when we, uh, had companies go public, it was a lot of the same, uh, philosophy of you, you're a customer of Walmart, Walmart goes public, you can buy stock in Walmart, and then every time… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- ▶ 39:04 Chris Dixon But eventually it'll flip, and it'll be like, Amazon is commerce, and Walmart is,
a16z Podcast | What's at the Core of the Latest Apple Announcement?
- ▶ 6:19 Steven Sinofsky Like, when you go into Walmart, there's not gonna be a 1500 dollar phone staring at you, and I, I suspect that even when you go into the Apple store, you're not really gonna see the low-end ones that are, you're not gonna be able to buy…
a16z Podcast | The Case Study of Dollar General and Surviving (Thriving!) Retail
- ▶ 18:01 Jeff Jordan And how did you coexist with Walmart at the time, which was also exploding, featuring everyday values in rural America? 9 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
- ▶ 1:00:12 Sonal Chokshi I mean, just yesterday, Walmart announced us buying Flipkart, which that's kind of an inversion of the typical model that would have happened before.
a16z Podcast | The API Economy -- The Why, What, and How
- ▶ 23:02 Laura Behrens-Wu You're also competing with the retail giants like Amazon, Walmart, Target, and then the other benefit like access to data at scale
a16z Podcast | Space -- the Near Frontier
- ▶ 8:10 Dan Birkenstock The types of, uh, uh, products that come from these companies are not yet as simple as a shrink wrap box that you get at Walmart.
a16z Podcast | The Evolution of Payments
- ▶ 14:49 Alex Rampell Whereas the concentrated benefit is that .3 cents to Walmart of Australia times a million.
a16z Podcast | The Asshole Survival Guide
- ▶ 5:40 Bob Sutton So the first time I think I ever heard Michael say that is, uh, we were visiting walmart.com doing a project together from Stanford.
a16z Podcast | Adjusting to Trade... and Innovation
- ▶ 28:09 Sonal Chokshi When I think of the reverse, that you could say limit trade, and this is like the protectionist argument that comes up sometimes, I think about it disproportionately affecting poor people because they're the ones who go to Walmart to buy… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Golden Era of Productivity, Retail, and Supply Chains
- ▶ 13:15 Mark Levinson It was the Walmart of its day.
a16z Podcast | From Jobs to Flying Cars
- ▶ 7:42 Marc Andreessen One is Walmart, and now, and now Amazon, and of course now there's, there's waves of retail bankruptcies, ah, as, as consumer shopping behavior is shifting online.
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…
a16z Podcast | The Movement of Money
- ▶ 3:44 Alex Rampell When we first met, I think it was probably five years ago, I remember we met at Starbucks in Palo Alto on a Saturday or a Sunday, and I asked you, you know, who will your customers be because it's going to be really hard to get Walmart to…
a16z Podcast | The Realities of Aging / When Healthcare Is Local
- ▶ 10:13 Renato Valdez-Olmos Like we, we started a partnership with Walmart where we opened up care education centers inside of specific Walmart stores in Texas. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:10 Renato Valdez-Olmos Designing the, the Walmart experience specifically was kind of, kind of funny because we went from a completely offline system, right?
a16z Podcast | We Gotta Talk Pokémon Go
- ▶ 27:09 Kyle Russell Um, people have talked about how hedge hedge funds could, uh, make bets on different markets by just looking at how many cars are in a Walmart parking lot at any given time.
a16z Podcast | Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
- ▶ 7:45 Alex Rampell And if Walmart wants to displace that and they're saying, hey, you're not going to get one percent cash back anymore and you have to go switch 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Scaling Companies and Culture
- ▶ 4:35 Lars Dalgaard or it's, uh, you know, Walmart.
a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
- ▶ 1:30 Alex Rampell I think it's like Amazon, Walmart. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Beyond Lean Startups
a16z Podcast | Dell + EMC -- Why the Python Just Ate the Cow
- ▶ 10:35 Ash Ashatosh And I think this is the evidence and back to your point about, you know, where, where does Dell, you have to be the biggest Walmart around.
a16z Podcast | Money, Risk, and Software
- ▶ 14:34 Alex Rampell Um, so the market failure that you have happen is I go to Walmart, I want to buy something, it stretches my budget a little bit, and I know that if I charge it on my credit card, I'm kind of going to get ripped off, or maybe I'm not, I… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:21 Alex Rampell Can you imagine doing that at Walmart? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Connecting People with Digital Work, the Gig Economy, and More
- ▶ 9:59 Laila Janah I think that the social benefit created by Facebook has been enormous, and I think that there is a new wave of companies that are resulting in some net positive effects that we didn't see, you know, in the prior wave of the biggest…
a16z Podcast | When Software Eats Cars
- ▶ 10:06 Benedict Evans So, you know, I think Carl Sagan said that it was easy to predict mass ownership of cars, but hard to predict Walmart.
a16z Podcast | Getting Security Right Isn’t as Hard as You Think (But the Effort Never Ends)
- ▶ 20:10 Orion Hindawi I don't know that they have the wherewithal or that they should be trying to build the expertise to deal with the same attacks that a Target or a Walmart are trying to deal with.
a16z Podcast | Public or Private? Finding the Right Board Seat
- ▶ 0:20 Michael Copeland Uh, she sits on the boards today of AOL, Real Networks, and coupons.com, has been on a lot of other boards, including eBay and Walmart.
- ▶ 11:52 Dawn Lepore Um, it's interesting, when I was interviewing for the Walmart board, somebody asked me the best question I've ever been asked in an interview, and I actually use it. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Building a Better Board
- ▶ 3:59 Raul Vasquez Um, in my background, I was, I had a chance to work at walmart.com for seven years, three years as the CEO, and then I had a chance to lead a third of the stores for Walmart. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:19 Raul Vasquez I, I've learned a lot watching the people on the boards, and Walmart had kind of a board partnership program where you could also, if you were a senior executive there, get to know the board members, and I would say that's another way to,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:35 Raul Vasquez Ah, when, when I left Walmart, one of the things that I found really intriguing is just the shift that is taking place in retail overall.
a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile
- ▶ 34:40 Benedict Evans It's like a terrible analogy, but you know, again, like if you're running a supermarket in Germany, you're not scared of Walmart. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops
- ▶ 2:09 Mike Smith There's so much of my job today that seems so less complicated than the job I had at Walmart because of the range of product that we had at Walmart from diamonds to ready to assemble furniture to big screen TVs to chimneys. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:56 Mike Smith I mean, it almost turned into sort of a big PR issue for Walmart, and so I was, uh, glad that,
- ▶ 42:42 Mike Smith Uh, at Walmart, I was used to managing VP-level people that, you know, they challenged me, and that was just the way it was.
a16z Podcast | Selling Tech to Everyone -- Changes Everything
- ▶ 5:10 Benedict Evans So the example that I give in my presentation is if you think back to things like, um, Walmart or McDonald's, which are
a16z Podcast | Everything You Need to Know About Amazon
- ▶ 4:04 Benedict Evans And so it's a little bit looking at Walmart in 1960 and saying, well, you've got five stores, man. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:44 Benedict Evans And for Amazon, you've got exactly the opposite story, that instead of taking, putting a hundred and fifty billion dollars in the bank, he's put a hundred and fifty billion dollars into building new warehouses, and AWS, and new countries,…
- ▶ 11:21 Benedict Evans This is the next Walmart and the next Sears robot combined.
a16z Podcast | Building Brands and Running Retail -- Ron Johnson and Tristan Walker Break It Down
- ▶ 19:48 Ron Johnson Now, you know, people like Amazon are actually the Walmart of the internet.
a16z Podcast | Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun
- ▶ 6:32 Benedict Evans Um, now imagine you are Marks and Spencers, or Target, or Bank of America, or Carrefour, or, um, Aldi, or, or Walmart. 2 times in the scene
The Case Study of BuzzFeed Tasty and the Evolution of Brand
- ▶ 11:35 unnamed speaker Walmart is an amazing example of a brand that's had loyalty to its customer. 6 times in the scene
When Advertising Isn't Enough
- ▶ 22:39 Connie Chan Tasty is partnering with Walmart to sell actual physical kitchen goods.
The End of the Beginning
- ▶ 3:05 Benedict Evans If you buy exactly the same thing from Walmart, then we call that marketing, and somehow that's not the same thing, but of course it is the same thing, because what we're really talking about, the job to be done, is what you pay to reach a…
- ▶ 8:58 Benedict Evans So does Walmart.
Distribution, Channel & Partnerships
- ▶ 21:23 Alex Rampell They also sell at Walmart.
Online to Offline 2.0: Experiments and Examples from China
The Next 3 Billion in Financial Services
- ▶ 2:41 Angela Strange McDonald's is the second largest employer of minimum wage workers after Walmart. 2 times in the scene
10 Year Futures (vs. What's Happening Now)
- ▶ 17:20 Benedict Evans There's an old saying that it was easy to predict mass car ownership, but hard to predict Walmart.
The Future of Money: Banking on Fintech
- ▶ 0:08 Alex Rampell Um, you know, Walmart is the largest company by revenue on the planet, or at least it is for now. 3 times in the scene
What Happens When Mobile (Really) Hits the Wallet
- ▶ 0:06 Alex Rampell Walmart is to Amazon as Chase is to whom. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:37 Alex Rampell They don't know what you bought at Walmart. 2 times in the scene
How 'Going Direct' Changes Everything: for Brands, Retail, Marketing, and Advertising
16 Questions About Self Driving Cars
- ▶ 27:59 Frank Chen What was hard to predict was Walmart. 2 times in the scene
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2016
- ▶ 20:39 Benedict Evans So you've disintermediated Walmart, but you've also disintermediated an ad agency. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:53 Benedict Evans But we wouldn't have predicted Walmart, and we wouldn't have predicted freeways, we wouldn't have predicted all the other changes that happened to cities as a result of cars, for better and for worse.
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2015
- ▶ 22:21 Benedict Evans First, both McDonald's and Walmart are companies that are fundamentally enabled by trucking and interstate highways.
- ▶ 24:00 Benedict Evans And if you go back and compare them with Walmart, here you see Amazon's revenue since foundation and then Walmart's revenue back since the, um, the mid eighties. 3 times in the scene
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2014
- ▶ 11:13 Benedict Evans If you flip that comparison on its axis, Walmart and McDonald's were built, among other things, on trucking and interstate highways. 3 times in the scene