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How Open Source Became AI's Backbone | Inferact with a16z
- ▶ 44:47 Matt Bornstein Because it doesn't, you know, it's almost tempting if you're, if you're sort of, you know, in the White House to say,
Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence
- ▶ 5:08 Anne Neuberger You know, what I saw happen in the years in the Intelligence Community and then the White House is technology moved from being a tool of diplomacy of national power to the arena of it, where the supply chain for chips was not a technology…
- ▶ 30:15 Anne Neuberger I saw that in the White House, where my nightmare was the ransomware attacks against, you know, rural hospitals in America.
The Media Game Has Changed
- ▶ 38:35 Marc Andreessen Are you important enough to, like, be in the White House?
Marc Andreessen’s Worldview in 60 Minutes | Live on MTS
- ▶ 47:58 Marc Andreessen Um, it, it is really fun, by the way, to have the official White House X account being, uh, tweeting, uh, uh, transcripts of interviews with, uh, U.S., uh, intelligence officers apparently relaying accounts that they've had, so I will be… 2 times in the scene
From $0 to $11B: The ElevenLabs Story
- ▶ 4:05 ElevenLabs Employee I was working at the White House for President Biden, and an 11 Labs investor told me that I should do
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 1:10:59 Marc Andreessen Committee for the Triple Revolution, Johnson White House, or whatever, you'll, this thing will pop up.
The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
- ▶ 1:15 Jonathan Swanson Origin story here is, out of school, I worked at the White House, and, uh, I sat, I sat in the West Wing next to the president's executive assistants, and as you might imagine, the EAs in the West Wing were really freaking good, and it set… 2 times in the scene
Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China
- ▶ 7:28 David Sacks I remember, um, back in, I think it was in March, we had a crypto summit at the White House, and, um, 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: How Movies Explain America
- ▶ 1:07:18 Marc Andreessen Uh, which was, which was, which was based on a real life thing that happened, which was, uh, Oppenheimer after the war visited Harry Truman at the, in the White House.
The Person Who Runs HR For 2 Million Federal Workers
- ▶ 25:37 Greg Barbaccia If you work, walk through the white house complex, it looks like a suburban dealership.
Anduril CEO: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?
- ▶ 22:49 Marc Andreessen And so, and so if you guys were in the, you know, White House or Congress, um, Brian, let's go back to your supply chain point.
Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
- ▶ 55:53 Mark Cuban Joe Biden told this to me, of all people, um, when, during the Obama administration, they invited us from Shark Tank to go do a thing for entrepreneurship at the White House.
The Little Tech Agenda for AI
- ▶ 15:24 Matt Perault And I think it was a group of five, three, five, seven companies who went into the White House and negotiated voluntary commitments. 2 times in the scene
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 1:37:07 Balaji Srinivasan So instead, what they get is a White House press pass, and, you know, it's a press control state.
Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
- ▶ 19:03 Marc Andreessen And so you've got a Russian spy in the White House and like all the other, you know, kind of, you know, that sort of political activation that took place at, at that time, um, you know, which, and by the way, that political activation was…
- ▶ 31:53 Marc Andreessen Um, or, or another version of this is, you know, who's in the White House determines how people feel about the economy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:11 Marc Andreessen Um, and so like, you know, even, even in those days, like how much of this was, oh, and then of course it also turns out Bob Woodward had been a Navy intelligence officer prior to being a reporter who had actually met, uh, Mark felt the…
- ▶ 52:22 Marc Andreessen He's talking to them in the White House and he's invited them to the cabinet meetings and he's having them over for dinner.
- ▶ 1:30:35 Ben Horowitz I think that's right, although there's like this subtlety to it where there's, you know, there's power in the White House, and then there's power in Congress, and then there's power in the press, and power in academia, um, and the other… 2 times in the scene
How Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What’s Coming Next
- ▶ 54:09 Ben Horowitz Um, he's recently joined the, uh, the admin, the presidential administration in the white house.
Ben Horowitz on Leadership and Culture
- ▶ 4:13 Ben Horowitz You know, particularly in the case of the, the White House and the administration, because Trump was president before, ah, I think their experience at that time in talking to Jared and, in talking to, ah, the president,
Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startups
- ▶ 2:11 Ben Horowitz Unarguably the worst, uh, four years in our career in terms of, uh, White House policy as it related to technology and, you know, probably to business more broadly. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:00 Ben Horowitz And those Democrats, just to give you an idea how brave they were, went against the White House. 3 times in the scene
Marc & Ben on AI Policy, Safety, Censorship & Unexpected Risks
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 48:09 Ben Horowitz There were some from the White House, uh, et cetera, et cetera. 2 times in the scene
Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- ▶ 2:19 Ben Horowitz Um, we did, uh, uh, meet with White House, many White House officials, um, including Jeff Zeitz, the Chief of Staff, um, and, uh, Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor, Gina Raimondo, the Commerce Secretary, and so forth.
- ▶ 4:20 Marc Andreessen I was the third wheel on the, on the first presidential webcast, which was Bill Clinton in the White House and me out here and actually at an auditorium actually in the, in the, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:01 Ben Horowitz Um, and you know, the, uh, the administration in the form of the SEC and the FDIC to be specific, which are appointees from the White House, um, have just fought us every step of the way and using very nefarious means.
- ▶ 38:13 Marc Andreessen It's been intensely frustrating that it's been impossible to make progress in this with the White House.
- ▶ 41:34 Ben Horowitz Yeah, and so, um, what have we seen so far, uh, from the Biden administration, uh, you know, the White House in particular? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:25 Ben Horowitz Like I said, there's many people in the White House, and you know, it's kind of yet to be fought out, and we'll see how it goes, but it's, it's a, it's certainly extremely worrisome.
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 19:52 Ben Horowitz Um, the issues and the things that, you know, you face as somebody in Congress or somebody in the White House, um, in trying to figure out what the right policy is.
- ▶ 29:56 Marc Andreessen Um, and it's gonna have, you know, both, both what happens in the, in the White House and what happens in the Congress is gonna have big consequences for everything we've just been discussing. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:45:16 Marc Andreessen So this is like super bipartisan, and then it's, you know, the, the, the head of that committee is a Republican, uh, Mike Gallagher, and, and, you know, he immediately, and he worked in a bipartisan way with his committee members, but, you…
Why America Must Lead in AI Investment
- ▶ 4:05 Todd Young We agree that there needs to be some resident expertise within, ah, the White House on an ongoing basis, ah, that other departments of government look to when it comes to, ah, ah, issues surrounding artificial intelligence.
The Unanswered Questions of Space: Quantum Entanglement, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy
- ▶ 2:05 John Mather So we have something, uh, that, uh, Joe Biden released at the White House on, uh, July 11th last year, and it shows, uh, right, quite a few remarkable things.
Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
- ▶ 50:52 Marc Andreessen It was at least in the 400, you know, sort of 400, you know, meaning, you know, senior placed Soviet assets in, you know, significant government positions, uh, including very senior positions, by the way, including into the White House,…
Modernizing America's Safety Net Through Public Interest Technology
- ▶ 7:16 unnamed speaker We were named by the White House as a community partner in the launch of the Affordable Connectivity Program this summer, and we've been a marketing channel for ISPs to be able to reach low-income families with a discounted or free home…
Why Technology Still Matters with Marc Andreessen
- ▶ 1:26:36 Marc Andreessen A lot of presidents come into the White House, right, for the first time, and they're like, wow, I have all these ideas on how to make the government better.
The Career Changing Magic of Strategic Compartmentalization
- ▶ 2:19 Susan Rice I'd started the job having worked at the White House previously.
a16z Podcast | The Hard Things about Security
- ▶ 25:35 Stina Ehrensvärd And then, a few weeks later, I was invited to the White House to meet with his security advisors, and I completely bummed that you need to go through an ID verification process to get into the White House. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | When Journalism Goes Global
- ▶ 14:22 Jared Ryle David Cameron, who was the British Prime Minister, was visiting the White House, and he was reacting to our stories, and he was saying, this is the kind of information that should be public.
a16z Podcast | Improv'ing Leadership
- ▶ 13:20 Dick Costolo I'm like, I'm in the middle of my Monday morning staff meeting, and she goes, it's the White House! 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Centers of Power, War, and History
- ▶ 27:14 Matthew Colford In the book, you mention this idea that you'd been kicking around to establish the White House Council of Historical Advisors.
a16z Podcast | Cybersecurity in the Boardroom vs. the Situation Room
- ▶ 0:21 Sonal Chokshi And A-Six and Z policy team partner Matt Spence, who among other things previously spent time at the White House working with the National Security Council.
a16z Podcast | Changing the Conversation about Cybersecurity
- ▶ 2:58 Matt Spence And Nathaniel, turning to you is in your perspective, both kind of in industry and the White House, what are some of the major technological breakthroughs that you think we've seen since maybe like the early 2000 when there was last so…
- ▶ 9:16 Nathaniel Gleicher But what's interesting about it is it's really easy to break into the White House, or at least jump the fence at the White House.
a16z Podcast | Tech Policy and the Courts
- ▶ 0:03 Sonal Chokshi We talk a lot about tech policy issues in the news and elsewhere, but we tend to focus only on what the president and the White House, also known as the executive branch, as well as what the Senate and House of Representatives, aka the…
a16z Podcast | For Your Ears Only
- ▶ 11:11 Matt Spence The president of China was visiting the White House, one of the most important geopolitical relationships we have.
- ▶ 15:20 Matt Spence And the other thing that I saw in the seven years that I was in the White House and Defense Department is how much more important open source information is.
a16z Podcast | Of Policy, Capital, and the Startup Ecosystem
- ▶ 1:20 Bobby Franklin When you have an election, and particularly when you have results of election, where the White House and Capitol Hill, both House and Senate, are all now controlled by the same party, there's this, uh, optimism that, okay, less gridlock. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:02 Bobby Franklin So from the White House perspective, having a new administration, it's first all about your cabinet picks. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech
- ▶ 0:21 Sonal Chokshi Matt Spence, who is in the White House, and then the DOD is part of the Obama administration, and Matt
- ▶ 6:02 Ted Ullyot In other words, Republicans majorities in the Senate and House only went so far because they could pass a bill that abides their views, and then it would get vetoed the minute it got to the White House. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | New Year, New Horizons -- Pluto!
- ▶ 13:30 Ivan Linscott Congress and the White House and all of those other problems that pop up day to day that you would otherwise, any one of which could have stalled us for, for too long.
a16z Podcast | What's Next for Technology and National Security?
- ▶ 0:34 Matt Spence Before coming to the firm, when I was working at the White House at the National Security Council, and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, I had the great privilege to work with Michelle Flournoy. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | On Government as Software Builder, Not Just Buyer
- ▶ 1:04 unnamed speaker Uh, so we are essentially a startup, uh, that's embedded inside the white house and as part of a team of teams working across government to help improve some of the core citizen facing services of the United States government.
a16z Podcast | Airspace as the Next Internet-Like Platform
- ▶ 36:53 Samuel Hammond I'd love to get in on that, but, uh, I, I look too close to the White House.
a16z Podcast | The Art of the Regulatory Hack
- ▶ 1:42 Evan Burfield We have physical space four blocks from the White House.
a16z Podcast | Beyond Lean Startups
a16z Podcast | A Whirlwind Tour of Policy Issues in Tech
- ▶ 20:30 Julie Samuels Um, I think that by default, the White House does this, everyone does this.