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The Opportunity for Global Founders
- ▶ 2:51 Angela Strange And not long after, I remember I got a WhatsApp from Gabriel, who had joined A-Succeed Z, totally on a different team. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:28 Elena Burger Um, and so it sounds like, you know, the, this finds its origins in a WhatsApp group.
- ▶ 33:35 Gabriel Vasquez So, you know, it was pretty much like the continue to execute on the WhatsApp strategy, funny enough, but, um, you know, we, I, I think these, these local ecosystems had a wave, a first wave of entrepreneurs that got to some sort of scale…
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 37:34 Qasar Younis There was a huge, like, and then it, it comes and we, by, by oh seven from the iPhone launch, like it's like four years when you get Uber, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat.
- ▶ 56:48 unnamed speaker So you were talking earlier about how, when, you know, um, the technology got, got so good in mobile that there was a wave of these companies, you know, Uber, WhatsApp, Snap, you know, Airbnb, et cetera, that emerged in quick succession.
OpenClaw, Claude Code, and the Future of Software | Peter Yang on The a16z Show
- ▶ 7:37 unnamed speaker But I also think that, you know, WhatsApp is you want to feel connected and Slack is you want to feel productive.
How to Reorg After AI Changes Everything | Block's Owen Jennings on the a16z Show
- ▶ 21:41 Owen Jennings You know, WhatsApp or Signal or whatever to my, um, to my employees.
Why Scale Will Not Solve AGI | Vishal Misra - The a16z Show
- ▶ 15:07 Martin Casado So, okay, so, I mean, it, it, it seemed pretty conclusive to me at that time, and then you went quiet for a while, and then I, I still remember the WhatsApp text.
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 6:00 Erik Torenberg Whereas they look at something like mobile and say, Hey, you know, there were big companies like Uber and snap and, and, uh, Instagram and WhatsApp, but these were,
The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
- ▶ 16:08 Jonathan Swanson With a human assistant, we may have done this in the past, where I'm like, hey, I wanna work out, meditate, eat clean, send me a ping on WhatsApp every day, and I'll just reply, yes, no, yes, no, whether I did it.
Emmett Shear on Building AI That Actually Cares: Beyond Control and Steering
- ▶ 56:35 Emmett Shear It lives in a WhatsApp room.
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 55:54 Erik Torenberg When we look at mobile, there were big companies built, you know, like Uber and WhatsApp and Instagram and TikTok, but the biggest beneficiaries were Facebook and, and, and Google.
AI Content and the War for Your Attention
- ▶ 12:16 Chris Hayes Things are happening in private Facebook groups, signal chats, WhatsApp chats, like sort of try to re basically to kind of re reclaim a private space that's not public space, um, is one of the sort of bigger trends happening.
- ▶ 16:08 Chris Hayes Now, obviously WhatsApp, which Meta owns is, you know, incredibly valuable company.
Giving New Life to Unstructured Data with LLMs and Agents
- ▶ 16:20 Anant Bhardwaj So just think of, I was working with a bank in India, and now given that AI is, has become reasonably reliable, they are offering entire lending over WhatsApp. 4 times in the scene
The State of Consumer Tech in the Age of AI
- ▶ 0:32 Erik Torenberg It seems like every few years there was a, there was a breakout starting from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snap, WhatsApp, Tinder, TikTok.
Where Crypto Meets AI with Chris Dixon & David George
- ▶ 1:57 David George Like, I think you called it, you know, WhatsApp moment for money, like what do you mean by that, and what are, what are some of the big use cases? 3 times in the scene
What Comes After Mobile? Meta’s Andrew Bosworth on AI and Consumer Tech
- ▶ 26:55 Andrew Bosworth Here's, here's an entire search interface that we couldn't do before in WhatsApp.
Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities
- ▶ 43:20 Marc Andreessen Um, and then WhatsApp was a 15 plus billion dollar sale with 50 people.
The Declining State of Higher Education
- ▶ 1:02:27 Ben Horowitz Um, and so, you know, that, that's also something that's getting decoupled via, you know, social networking and, um, you know, private WhatsApp groups and chat groups and these kinds of things.
Redefining Partnership with Adam Neumann
- ▶ 8:01 Adam Neumann He then worked in Netflix and was in charge of moving them to the iPhone and to the phone, so he saw that transition, and his last job was at Meta for WhatsApp.
Competing in a Crowd of Incumbents with Mercury's Immad Akhund
- ▶ 17:06 Immad Akhund Like, founders follow each other on Twitter, they have, we're in WhatsApp groups, we're in Slack groups, like, there's a lot of ways that founders and investors talk to each other, uh, so that, yeah, it wasn't, I think if you, I don't…
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 12:43 Salim Ismail The second is buy them like Facebook bought Instagram and WhatsApp, et cetera.
The Art and Science of Podcasting with Sriram and Aarthi
- ▶ 35:13 Steph Smith You've been creating these WhatsApp chats with a bunch of creators and, uh, they're great.
AI and the Creator Economy with Karen X Cheng
- ▶ 21:35 Karen X. Cheng Most companies will have different strengths, and then they'll continue to be able to differentiate by sort of specializing in that, but I do imagine that some of these companies are gonna buy other companies, and then so they'll like, you…
Why You Should Be Optimistic About the Future
- ▶ 23:16 Marc Andreessen So like Facebook groups and all these, all these, all these other things, you know, WhatsApp groups and all these other things people do with social networks and games and all these other things.
Social Networking in 2030: How Could Crypto Change Things?
- ▶ 6:49 Chris Dixon You probably use, I bet you use WhatsApp and a bunch of other thing, you know, Apple texting and things more than use email or as much or, so anyway, so this is another way to look at it.
- ▶ 12:36 Chris Dixon So finally, you know, this is not just social networking, so all of the things I've said here today, I use social networking as an example because it's, you know, the most prominent, but, you know, hospitality, services like Airbnb,…
3 Ways Startups Are Coming for Established Fintech Companies -- And What To Do About It
- ▶ 45:20 Alex Rampell WhatsApp, seven percent chance, or whatever it was, I think it was seven percent of Facebook's fully diluted market cap was spent on WhatsApp. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 6:35 Qasar Younis The iPhone moment in my mind is when you have, um, you know, frankly, the 12 or 24 month period where Instagram, Snapchat, Uber, and WhatsApp are all some,
a16z Podcast | The Basics of Growth 2 -- Engagement & Retention
- ▶ 18:44 Jeff Jordan WhatsApp had a smile.
a16z Podcast | When Journalism Goes Global
- ▶ 16:24 Jared Ryle We use all these open source software that anyone can use, like WIRE, even WhatsApp.
a16z Podcast | Platforming the Future
- ▶ 13:54 Benedict Evans But everyone is using, like, two or three of them, and that kind of rolled out in, like, 2008, nine, 10, and that gave us Instagram and WhatsApp and, like, a hundred other smaller ones.
a16z Podcast | The Strategies and Tactics of Big
- ▶ 13:03 Steven Sinofsky You know, between WhatsApp and Instagram, Oculus, and so on, that are, are run as very distinct entities, and they don't overlay some grand strategy about what's going to go where, and who's going to do what, when, and tie all the pieces… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:46 Steven Sinofsky and you watch how that they've dealt with WhatsApp and Instagram, and they've kept them
a16z Podcast | Companies, Networks, Crowds
- ▶ 3:25 Eric Brynjolfsson The classic examples, you know, a telephone or fax machine, WhatsApp, Facebook, and you can have supply-side economies of scale.
a16z Podcast | The Realities of Aging / When Healthcare Is Local
- ▶ 14:05 Renato Valdez-Olmos But our care professionals use Facebook, they use WhatsApp and that's about it.
a16z Podcast | Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis
- ▶ 18:17 Lena Sergi Attar One Syrian refugee that I'm in connection with in Istanbul, she says WhatsApp is everything. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Stickers! Filters! Memes! Livestreams!
- ▶ 13:24 Sonal Chokshi Firsthand, what you guys describe, I'm comparing it to WhatsApp and what happens with my cousins and relatives in India.
a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
- ▶ 8:25 James Currier I use WhatsApp to do useful things.
- ▶ 18:56 Sonal Chokshi But then at the end of the day, my WhatsApp group only has like, 20 people in it, and it's incredibly engaged compared to my Facebook group. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:32 Sonal Chokshi Oh, my cousins and I use Bitmoji on WhatsApp.
a16z Podcast | Getting Network Effects
- ▶ 12:38 Anu Hariharan So for example, WhatsApp, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:22 Jeff Jordan WhatsApp, no.
a16z Podcast | Beyond One Size Fits All for Startup Employee Options
- ▶ 21:23 Ben Horowitz You do get into a weird thing for potential employees and recruiting, so I think we might do a disservice to the industry by doing that, but there might need to be, say, four or five standard flavors depending on, you know, how you think… 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Widgetification of Everything
- ▶ 19:35 Kyle Russell The problem with the platformification discussion is that it's all these little things like now phone can be taken over by WhatsApp or Citrix or what have you, and it looks like the native phone app, but it also has additional features…
a16z Podcast | On Corporate Venturing & Setting Up 'Innovation Outposts'
- ▶ 27:36 Sonal Chokshi Facebook's also experimenting the way Google is in the sense that when they acquired WhatsApp, they made sure that Jan Coombe had a seat on the board.
a16z Podcast | E-commerce, Payments, & More in India's Evolving Retail Landscape
- ▶ 31:53 Kunal Bahl I think, uh, look, in India, messaging is largely driven by WhatsApp, and given there aren't many APIs available right now, there's a lot, not a lot companies can do.
a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond
- ▶ 13:15 Chris Messina Yeah, so, so the number that they gave was essentially that combined, uh, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, uh, have, I think, about sixty billion messages sent, I think, monthly. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Future of Money and Monetization
- ▶ 17:48 James Beshara I don't know what, ah, what potential would be unlocked by removing that tax, but I do know that if Facebook taxed you 25 cents every time that you wrote a, a, a Facebook post or, or uploaded a photo on Instagram, they charge you 25 cents,…
a16z Podcast | Things Come Together -- Truths about Tech in Africa
- ▶ 29:16 Sonal Chokshi I mean, what I am curious about is whether you see people doing a lot more stuff over messaging the way we've talked about, like what's happening with WeChat in China or WhatsApp in India and elsewhere. 16 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Year Mobile Began to Truly Dominate Tech
- ▶ 2:25 Benedict Evans No, it's not like two years ago where you were going, wow, look at WhatsApp, look at Instagram.
- ▶ 21:35 Benedict Evans Um, and then there's like, you know, as I said, there's not like a, it's not like two years ago when I was, you know, tracking Skype, tracking WhatsApp every day.
a16z Podcast | What Comes After the Smartphone
- ▶ 1:41 Benedict Evans The sort of, the feeling you have in mobile right now is we're kind of at the end of one wave, and we haven't got another wave coming up yet, so we've kind of had the smartphone wars, and Apple and Google both kind of won, and we've had…
a16z Podcast | When Bio Meets Computer Science
- ▶ 4:19 Chris Dixon You know, in the nineties you had to spend, raise tens of millions of dollars, set up your own data center, you know, build your own kind of back-end systems, and then you had things like AWS, and, you know, famously, you know, you have…
a16z Podcast | The Rise of the Quasi-IPO
- ▶ 24:44 Benedict Evans What comes with that is a generational change in the scale of the opportunity and in the addressable market, and you see that in kind of sort of radical things like, you know, WhatsApp going to seven or eight hundred million users with a…
a16z Podcast | For Google, Android is a Tactic and Cloud is a Strategy
- ▶ 7:33 Benedict Evans I've got no idea where they got that from, because even if you just add up the numbers from Facebook and Snapchat, Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp and so on, you get to about eight or nine hundred billion photographs taken last year.
a16z Podcast | Messaging is the Medium
- ▶ 1:18 Benedict Evans And this is why we've seen in the last two or three years an explosion of social messaging apps of various kinds from WhatsApp onwards. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:59 Benedict Evans You know, because the great criticism that was made is, well, they bought Instagram for whatever it was, one percent of the value of the company, and then they bought Facebook for, so then they bought WhatsApp for, say, 10% of the value of…
a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile
- ▶ 19:15 Benedict Evans And that's a problem for, and to change how you might share things, and that's obviously a problem for Facebook, because a smartphone is a social platform in the way that the web browser wasn't, and so, you know, the thing that's emerged… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Technology and the Opening of Myanmar
- ▶ 7:52 David Madden That competes with WhatsApp and Line.
a16z Podcast | For Buzzfeed Sharing is the Metric that Matters
- ▶ 8:09 Chris Dixon You know, the rise of Pinterest and WhatsApp and all sorts of other interesting things.
a16z Podcast | Trigger, Action, Reward, Investment -- Four Steps for Habit-Forming Products
a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 1
- ▶ 12:12 Marc Andreessen And then like Google and Facebook are like number two and three, you know, three and four, and then like WhatsApp is going to do it, and then there's going to be a whole bunch of others.
a16z Podcast | The Topic That's Lasted the Entire History of Computing -- Bundling and Unbundling
- ▶ 1:01 Benedict Evans And so you see WhatsApp and Instagram unbundling Facebook, and you see Facebook unbundling itself.
a16z Podcast | The Apple WWDC 2014 Deep Dive
- ▶ 5:27 Benedict Evans Well, you know, this is, you know, there is going to be a share this photo to Facebook button, and a share this photo to Instagram button, and a, you know, send this link via WhatsApp button, and a whole bunch of other things that, of…
a16z Podcast | China and Tech
- ▶ 5:23 Chris Dixon Like what will be that, does that have implications for WhatsApp, for example? 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Searching for Mobile’s Own PageRank
- ▶ 3:24 Benedict Evans Um, so, I mean, you see this really obviously with WhatsApp, because it taps into the phone book, it taps into the photo library, and to push notifications, gets icon on the home screen, and there's a whole bunch of other applications…
a16z Podcast | Where is the Technology That "Matters?" Right Here
- ▶ 11:33 Benedict Evans You see WhatsApp get to 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun
- ▶ 20:47 Benedict Evans And you can see that in a very small way in the acquisition of WhatsApp, which was like a fantastic case study of everything that's going on online. 2 times in the scene
Winning Founders & Influencing Everyone: Margit Wennmachers at Startup Grind Europe
- ▶ 22:59 Margit Wennmachers Let's take, uh, WhatsApp company. 4 times in the scene
10 Years Too Early: On a Tech Career, Business, and Investing
- ▶ 45:13 unnamed speaker But, you know, think about Skype at that time, which is, it was, you know, uh, probably one of the most powerful companies in the ecosystem, but at the exact time when WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger and all of these alternatives for…
10 Year Futures (vs. What's Happening Now)
- ▶ 4:13 Benedict Evans Then they're all, except for Apple, controlled by founders, and that's really crucial, because it's being controlled by founders that means that, um, Mark Zuckerberg could decide to spend 10% of the company buying WhatsApp, and nobody…
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2015
- ▶ 16:05 Benedict Evans I think an even clearer example is WhatsApp.
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2014
- ▶ 4:23 Benedict Evans Even more dramatically, WhatsApp is doing almost as many messages a year as an entire global SMS system, and it's doing that with just 30 engineers.