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Inside the Race to Measure Frontier Intelligence
- ▶ 25:18 Erik Torenberg Ben and Mark spend, you know, a bunch of time, um, in DC and with policymakers to try to close that gap.
Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
The Media Game Has Changed
- ▶ 11:18 Ben Horowitz To your point, so we, so we were just in Washington, and so we were with, like, all, all the kind of Washington people senators and whatnot. 3 times in the scene
Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
- ▶ 41:44 Marc Rowan Ultimately, the public faux pas at testimony in D.C.,
Ben Horowitz on American Dynamism and the Future of AI | The a16z Show
- ▶ 6:53 David Ulevitch You know, along with it came a big presence in, in Washington.
- ▶ 9:07 David Ulevitch Um, and then we'll talk broader about policy in Washington. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:18 David Ulevitch How, you know, obviously we're here in DC.
Palantir CEO on Iran, AI Weapons and American Domination | a16z American Dynamism Summit
Andrew Huberman: Peptides, Sleep Tech, and the End of Obesity
- ▶ 8:26 Dr. Andrew Huberman Um, I got a call from Washington and said, we didn't cut the money for that, we cut the money for the other thing, and I thought, ok, so it's like it's, but the messaging has been deliberately broad on both sides.
Inside The Life of Silicon Valley's First Athlete Investor | Magic Johnson
- ▶ 39:40 Earvin "Magic" Johnson And, ah, we were just at a conference in D.C., and we made, 2 times in the scene
Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Years
- ▶ 23:23 unnamed speaker I know you and Mark are spending a lot more time in DC than you ever have.
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 24:26 unnamed speaker How are you thinking and talking about this topic with, with folks in DC? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:31 Marc Andreessen Um, I, there's very little mood in DC on either side of the aisle, uh, to really, you know, essentially there's very little, there's very little interest in doing anything that would prevent us from beating China. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:18 Marc Andreessen By the way, a fair amount of our cons are actually aimed at Washington, um, because again, it's like if you're a policymaker in Washington, and you're sitting there 3003 thousand miles away, and your entire information source is like East… 3 times in the scene
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
The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm
- ▶ 30:36 Ben Horowitz But with Time to Build, like, the number of people in, like, Washington and the entrepreneurial community and so forth that are like, yeah, we're taking this, this is the blueprint, we're moving on it.
Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
- ▶ 5:11 Marc Andreessen By the way, for a variety of reasons, including, you know, reasons that people feel very strongly about, we could talk about for a long time, but, you know, just a much greater degree of contention and, you know, escalating in some cases… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:21 Katherine Boyle I moved to the Valley in 2014, but I moved from Washington, D.C. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:18 Katherine Boyle Uh, do you and I, and, and Mark, we're, we're just in Washington, um, talking to, to senators and, and members of, members of the House who are very engaged on this year's NDAA.
- ▶ 38:02 David Ulevitch A lot of, a lot of the, the work that, uh, Catherine and I and Mark and, and, and Ben and others do inside the firm in Washington.
- ▶ 51:18 Katherine Boyle Um, you know, if, if, if you go to Washington, there's all this talk now about what is, what is known as attributable systems, which are systems where, you know, you're not spending millions and millions of dollars building out of
- ▶ 1:03:19 Katherine Boyle So there really is sort of, I think, a Soviet-style, uh, procurement system that's still at work inside of the Department of War, and there's many good people in Washington trying to change that to allow for this American dynamism to…
Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?
- ▶ 5:08 Amjad Masad We're going to scare everyone, you know, uh, DC will descend on Silicon Valley.
Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China
- ▶ 1:25 David Sacks We're happy to comply, but people, you know, Washington won't tell us what they are. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:28 David Sacks That was just a stepping stone to their real goal, which was to get an approval, a system of pre-approvals in Washington before you can release new models. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:48 David Sacks Um, and it really speaks to the cultural divide between Silicon Valley and, and Washington. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on the State of AI
- ▶ 34:56 Erik Torenberg Last month we were in D.C., and one of the big questions that Senator has is, 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: How Movies Explain America
- ▶ 1:05:39 Katherine Boyle And actually the real villains are the national security hawks and the people in Washington and the bureaucrats.
Marc Andreessen on the State of Film and Hollywood
- ▶ 46:53 Marc Andreessen You know, that you heard in the Valley and in Washington and elsewhere, which is, wow, the young staff is really radicalized, right?
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 6:05 Keith Rabois This is like back in the day when you'd count the ships, you know, kind of an artifact of history where you count the ships showing up at a port and the report back to DC.
The Person Who Runs HR For 2 Million Federal Workers
- ▶ 0:59 Katherine Boyle Both of you have very different backgrounds coming to Washington than what we've previously seen, but we are seeing this, I would call it a renaissance, of people in the private sector, particularly people in tech with tech backgrounds,
- ▶ 8:11 Katherine Boyle I mean, there's always been the joke that Washington is a town of lawyers, right? 2 times in the scene
The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
- ▶ 4:55 Katherine Boyle We were just in Washington DC, um, with Mark, and, and a senator who I won't name was, was, you know, in the meeting, and was talking about what could be very valuable for the defense world.
- ▶ 13:09 unnamed speaker And, and going back to, you know, Catherine's mention of, of some of the meetings in, in DC, one of the things, you know, senators were asking Mark is, um, just about the U S China, um, sort of AI race and, and what we should do.
The Little Tech Agenda for AI
- ▶ 0:00 Colin McCune There have been these big institutional players in D.C. in the state capitals for a very long time.
- ▶ 1:18 Colin McCune And I think what we realized was there have been these big institutional players that have been in DC in the state capitals for a very long time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:59 Colin McCune Um, we're very, very effective at influencing think tanks and nonprofit organizations in D.C. and the state capitals to sort of push us in a direction where, um, people are very fearful about the technology. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:22 Colin McCune Donate five dollars, and we're going to, you know, and we'll make sure that we take care of this in Washington for you.
- ▶ 43:32 Colin McCune You know, sometimes in D.C., a lot of times in D.C., perception is reality.
The Current Reality of American AI Policy: From ‘Pause AI’ to ‘Build’
- ▶ 9:53 Anjney Midha A lot of Washington was like shocked.
- ▶ 17:48 Anjney Midha And, and I think to those of us who had interacted with DC before and regulation before it, like the second and third order, third order effects were much more
- ▶ 20:04 Anjney Midha It's, and, and I think that was the core problem is DC is a system, like a self-contained system and the value is a self-contained system. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:19 Anjney Midha Now the question is how, and I think that's what we have to help DC with the hard work of like implementing this stuff.
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 0:09 Steven Sinofsky DC is the zero-sum game. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:00 Steven Sinofsky It was quite a remarkable statement, but it, it really gets to the heart of, of sort of the way that it, you know, DC is the zero sum game. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:09 Balaji Srinivasan But the actual monopoly is at the DC level, where there wasn't a practical switching option between things, so they could just mess up the platform choices all the time, and us being the apps on that platform, if you think of the state as…
Marc Andreessen: The US is in a AI Arms Race & It Decides The World's Future
- ▶ 17:01 Marc Andreessen Um, and so, you know, and, and by the way, a lot of this is happening right now in, in, in Washington.
- ▶ 31:02 Marc Andreessen And there's, and there's a bunch of, by the way, there's a bunch of, of, of leaders of that party in Washington that are now, you know, pushing that quite hard.
Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
- ▶ 3:34 Marc Andreessen They basically didn't have delivery outside the Washington area, um, and so it was, it was very much a local paper, even though it covered the, you know, cover the national government.
Crypto Experts Explain Stablecoins & the Future Financial System w/ Ali Yahya & Arianna Simpson
- ▶ 15:15 Arianna Simpson Very involved in DC and, and trying to kind of push the ball forward for the whole industry.
Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
- ▶ 25:27 Marc Andreessen And by the way, in both directions, like the Valley companies never thought it was important to go to DC. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:35 Marc Andreessen And in fact, what happened, if you go to DC, and if you talk to people who were, if you talk to people who run the defense intelligence agencies in DC, almost every topic that they talk about or think about has a major tech component to it. 2 times in the scene
Where Crypto Meets AI with Chris Dixon & David George
- ▶ 2:03 Chris Dixon Yeah, I mean, the way I've been sort of, at least in like, so sort of like when we go to DC, for example, explaining blockchains is, and stable coins, is it's essentially digital services where you remove the intermediaries, so you can…
Sovereign AI: Why Nations Are Building Their Own Models
- ▶ 14:36 Anish Acharya Just a year before DeepSea came out, you had a number of, like, tech leaders in Washington testifying that China was, like, five to six years behind the US, with confidence, on the record.
Modernizing Warfare and Beyond
- ▶ 2:53 Qasar Younis Uh, before we had a big DC presence, and before we kind of knew what we were doing here, uh, that was really our gateway, and I think for lots of companies, I think in many ways we're like a poster child in that, like we have a real…
- ▶ 6:03 unnamed speaker So, I mean, we're here focused on bridging gaps between technology and Washington.
- ▶ 16:59 Liz Young McNally Or bring them to DC. 3 times in the scene
The Software Crisis Behind America's Infrastructure
- ▶ 2:45 Philip Buckendorf Our second daughter was just born here in DC, uh, last week.
- ▶ 11:00 Leila Hay We're here at the American Dynamism Summit in Washington, D.C. 2 times in the scene
The Kill Chain: 2025 Edition
- ▶ 6:55 Christian Brose I think, uh, the conversation in Washington has changed completely, uh, around, uh, the types of companies that can do this work, and frankly, now the expectation that we need them to do this work.
Ben Horowitz on Leadership and Culture
- ▶ 0:26 David Ulevitch I would say Washington is going through just an incredible moment of transformation. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:19 David Ulevitch Uh, do you think that with all the people coming into Washington who are not traditional Washington insiders, they're going to bring, are they going to be able to bring that kind of an approach? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:23 David Ulevitch Um, we'll talk about how we have a DC office here in just a minute, but you were doing things that no other venture capital firm has ever done.
- ▶ 14:31 David Ulevitch Um, and every time you've come back, our firm's presence in DC has grown. 6 times in the scene
Autonomy is no longer a moonshot—it’s a market
- ▶ 0:59 Qasar Younis Um, yeah, we started it eight, nine years ago, and, uh, and we started our DC presence, uh, probably five, six years ago at this point. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:20 Qasar Younis You know, uh, everything from, you know, a PAC and setting up a DC office. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:14 Qasar Younis I mean, the, the, the version of, you know, writing Waymo's in SF, if Waymo's had a huge presence here in, in DC, it would change. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:23 Qasar Younis Obviously, we have a DC office and, and the entire, you know, working with the DoD and the primes is just a different business.
- ▶ 30:56 Qasar Younis So, like, if you know people at the DIU and you come from DC, then 2 times in the scene
Can the Military Move at Startup Speed? How the Army and Navy Are Rebuilding
- ▶ 37:42 Layla Sturdy You all are making a lot of strides to change that, but I, I'd love your perspective on, like, how do we get closer together between Silicon Valley and Washington and kind of get that risk appetite up a little bit?
Why American Dynamism Is Just Getting Started
- ▶ 0:47 Katherine Boyle If there's an executive department in Washington that exists to regulate or oversee an industry, that is likely American dynamism.
- ▶ 9:00 Katherine Boyle It was not shocking to Washington. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:02 Katherine Boyle I always say if there's an executive department in Washington that exists to regulate or oversee an industry, that is likely American dynamism. 3 times in the scene
Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startups
- ▶ 23:31 Ben Horowitz That's not broadly the case, uh, in Washington.
- ▶ 34:47 Marc Andreessen And then, uh, just in terms of the political dynamic in Washington, the Fit-Twenty-One, the Fit-Twenty-One bill passed through the House with, uh, all but three Republicans voting for it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:30 Marc Andreessen What's, what's our view of the prospects for AI in, in, in Washington now?
- ▶ 47:40 Marc Andreessen I would say there's been a, you gotta say, in Washington a growing bipartisan awareness over the last six to eight years that it's important to sort of get chip production going in the U.S. again.
Marc & Ben on AI Policy, Safety, Censorship & Unexpected Risks
- ▶ 4:42 Marc Andreessen Um, sort of playing, playing, playing in the, in, in this area, um, trying to do various kind of nefarious things, um, you know, had actually infiltrated Washington. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:17 Marc Andreessen I think the sort of, um, fear and anxiety in Washington around this, these topics spiked probably about a year ago, um, late in 20, um, three. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:02 Marc Andreessen Well, let me just note, let me just note, I, I think all the, all the stuff we just discussed, as far as I can tell, has just totally run out of steam in Washington.
- ▶ 33:17 Ben Horowitz I, I think there's still, um, in the, well, in Washington, it's running out of steam, in the White House, in the Biden White House in particular, I think that there's still this idea of takeoff, um, and particularly in the, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:23 Marc Andreessen The companies have no friends in Washington.
- ▶ 1:12:37 Ben Horowitz When we are in Washington and when we, uh, kind of talk to the people who are confused on these issues is that, you know, people imagine, oh, it's AI, it's been invented.
- ▶ 1:15:13 Marc Andreessen So one is in my discussions in D.C., this is actually the thing they care about the most.
AI, Robotics & the New Global Arms Race
- ▶ 27:35 Marc Andreessen th th th this is a big thing, and then, you know, this, I, I guess I would say, like, you know, I think people in Washington we talk to are, you know, kind of, you know, learning about this, starting to wrap their head around it, um, it,…
Truth Terminal - The AI Bot That Became a Crypto Millionaire
- ▶ 33:10 Ben Horowitz Um, making progress on in DC, but have been struggling with, you know, mightily really under, uh, you know, this current, the current White House, you know, not, you know, I want to be careful, you know, not Democrats, not Republicans, uh,…
Mark Casey (Capital Group): Public Market and Macro Perspectives
- ▶ 6:00 Mark Casey And you kind of would look at it and say, well, Wall Street hates this, and Washington D.C. hates this, but like three billion people a day go spend 40 minutes on these sites, and it's actually, all those numbers are growing.
Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- ▶ 1:49 Ben Horowitz You know, maybe there's one or two other people at our level of expertise in the whole world, just because, you know, we do it all day long, we work with startups, we see the impact of the policies, and then we've been in Washington, um,…
- ▶ 1:00:55 Marc Andreessen And, you know, they move their headquarters to DC and they put, you know, CEOs and who are like lawyers and lobbyists.
- ▶ 1:26:05 Ben Horowitz Bush, Reagan, uh, Nixon, Jimmy Carter, whatever you don't like about them, just know that whatever strength they have is really, like, special and outsized, and I think that's, you know, our time in Washington has been kind of a reminder…
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 17:42 Marc Andreessen And I've, I've been telling, and I've actually, you know, we've, we've been spending a lot of time in Washington lately, and I've actually been telling the story to a lot of current senators, um, and basically in, in encouraging them to…
- ▶ 1:06:59 Marc Andreessen So this is actually my first trip to Washington DC, um, as, uh, we, uh, we, we, we issued this grant.
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 18:40 Marc Andreessen They're in Washington, you know, all the time and have been for several years now, basically lobbying to have regulatory barriers such that they can function.
The Future of the American Dream
- ▶ 44:28 Marc Andreessen Um, and there's some office in DC somewhere and there's like two people sitting in it
Startup Building: Major Shifts in Tech & Culture
- ▶ 18:00 Marc Andreessen Cause that also bears like in places like, you know, San Francisco as an example, but many others, I mean, there's also this great, well, actually Washington DC has a very potent case of this cause a lot of federal agencies that never went… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:53 Marc Andreessen Um, this is a big topic in Washington because this has led to, this has led us to you.
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 0:05 Ben Horowitz Big tech has been present in Washington, but big tech's interests are not only very different than kind of startup innovation, innovators' interests, but we think also kind of divergent from America's interest as a whole.
- ▶ 2:55 Ben Horowitz The software industry's life, um, you know, Washington just hasn't been that interested in tech or in regulating tech for the most part, uh, but starting kind of in the mid-two thousands, uh, as software ate the world and tech started to… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:01 Marc Andreessen Kate asked, tech leaders have spent hundreds of millions lobbying in DC, right? 5 times in the scene
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