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Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
- ▶ 50:34 Max Levchin And like literally, you know, hot second after, we all dispersed YouTube and Yelp and Peter's first major fund and LinkedIn.
The State of AI: Models, Moats, and the Consumer Renaissance
- ▶ 18:55 Anish Acharya You know, if you think of this concept of the digitally native entrepreneur, if you're not a programmer, the way that's historically shown up is you're a YouTube creator. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:21 Anish Acharya It's a 25 year old who previously would have been a YouTube creator and now is building SaaS for their neighborhood or their city or their high school or whatever else it is.
How Whatnot's Live Shopping Beats Traditional E-Commerce
- ▶ 3:35 Grant LaFontaine Like, Pokemon cards, and I worked at YouTube for a long time, and so I did video, and then I worked, um, I was, I was working at Facebook, and I was working on marketplace stuff,
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 51:20 Qasar Younis Now you got that data from online, maybe YouTube videos, couple of other places.
- ▶ 58:53 Qasar Younis Uh, Google still succeeded through, you know, search and YouTube and, and, and other web apps and other folks learned and used open source products and then ultimately closed source products and ultimately venture backed products.
Why Every Founder Needs a Story | Replit CEO on a16z
- ▶ 0:26 Amjad Masad I think Instagram, Facebook still, YouTube,
- ▶ 20:59 Amjad Masad You know, YouTube is where you get to the early majority. 2 times in the scene
Jake Paul on Going From YouTube to Boxing to Investing | a16z ft. Anti Fund
- ▶ 0:17 Media Commentator 2 Jake Paul is one of the biggest YouTubers and influencers on the planet.
- ▶ 23:45 unnamed speaker Well, I was gonna ask, if you were 22 today, in twenty-twenty-six, or 18 even, could you run the same playbook, or is there something about what you did, um, you know, on YouTube, or, or sort of these new platforms when you were younger… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:07 Jake Paul Some people love my Ranch YouTube videos and, like, only know about that and don't even, uh, but I also have, I'm on an A-sixteen Z podcast where, like,
- ▶ 38:51 Jake Paul it is, it is pretty wild, and, um, I think the streaming culture is, like, really interesting, and probably not the best for society, because, like, there's so many of these kids watching, and I actually feel like what I was doing on…
- ▶ 57:23 Jeff Woo Become the best YouTuber.
The Media Game Has Changed
- ▶ 2:07 Marc Andreessen So in the nineties, when I was coming, when Ben and I were coming up, um, and so, you know, in, in, in those days, you know, it's pre, pre blogs, pre YouTube, all this stuff.
- ▶ 40:09 Marc Andreessen What percentage have you seen Alex, you know, on YouTube doing his thing?
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 11:00 Benedict Evans And then unfortunately everybody buys iPhones and starts, and then they get three G and people start watching YouTube and the whole network goes down because they just don't have capacity to do that.
- ▶ 18:19 Benedict Evans There doesn't seem to be sort of levers you can pull and a strategy plate, a position you can get into where Instagram is, or YouTube is, or Google search is.
- ▶ 31:04 Benedict Evans Um, much more contemporary example would be to point to something like YouTube, or indeed point to Spotify.
- ▶ 36:10 Erik Torenberg And, you know, is it, I don't know, something crazy like rebuilding YouTube from scratch, or rewriting Linux from scratch, or,
Marc Andreessen’s Worldview in 60 Minutes | Live on MTS
- ▶ 3:15 Marc Andreessen Yeah, so there's this really brilliant, there's this really brilliant, uh, guy, Gadsad, exactly how they're pronouncing it, Gadsad, um, and, um, and, uh, you know, very brilliant guy, and it's obviously lots of YouTube videos and books and…
- ▶ 57:25 Marc Andreessen Um, and so, um, so, so, so part of it is that divide, and so the, the, the boomers had, um, uh, by the way, there's this great YouTube account, there's this amazing video on this, there's this great YouTube account called Academic Agent, 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen on how the internet changed news, politics, and outrage | The a16z Show
- ▶ 4:58 Marc Andreessen That, you know, the other, the other part of it is streaming and now there's obviously streaming on X, but also, you know, there's streaming on other platforms, you know, YouTube and Twitch and so forth.
- ▶ 18:46 Marc Andreessen Um, and so, but just the edges of the past get sanded off in retrospect, but it's just like, it's really significant, like, if you just, like, the easiest thing to do, the easiest thing is just go on YouTube and watch old episodes of a TV…
Box CEO on the AI Adoption Gap | The a16z Show
- ▶ 53:37 Aaron Levie But, but you know, it's, it's pretty different, and I'm, I'm going to wait for all the comments to come in on YouTube to call you out on this.
OpenClaw, Claude Code, and the Future of Software | Peter Yang on The a16z Show
- ▶ 0:59 unnamed speaker Um, and then we went our separate ways and, um, you know, I rediscovered, um, Peter from his prolific posts on X and your YouTube and, you know, you've got a little bit of a Clark Kent Superman thing going cause you've still got a day job,…
- ▶ 2:17 Peter Yang It, like, pulls analytics for me across, um, YouTube and, like, my Mercury banking account.
- ▶ 23:26 unnamed speaker Well, dude, I think this is like, you know, for 10 years, there's this moral panic about the kids want to be YouTubers. 4 times in the scene
How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer | Alex Blania on a16z
- ▶ 19:01 Alex Blania The, the whole model for video platforms, I think is about to break because there's a couple of dimensions to their problem, but one, if, if, if, if the, if the creation of content is, is becoming super scalable, like for example, I, I… 6 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz on a16z’s New Media Strategy
- ▶ 18:59 Marc Andreessen It's the, it's the, it's the viral Facebook post, it's the viral substack, it's the viral YouTube video.
- ▶ 32:31 Marc Andreessen Um, and so a YouTube video, I will say for sure, a short form TikTok or Instagram reel for sure is oral culture. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:09 Erik Torenberg And so for every platform that we have, we have a, you know, with Substack, podcast, Instagram, you know, uh, X, YouTube, et cetera, we have, uh, expert running it.
- ▶ 45:34 Marc Andreessen And then it started metastasizing into things like, um, you know, like YouTube comments.
Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 22:38 Olivia Moore Um, I think what worked less about Sora is that because the content was exportable, um, people would take it to TikTok, they would take it to Instagram Reels, they would take it to YouTube,
Inside The Life of Silicon Valley's First Athlete Investor | Magic Johnson
- ▶ 47:31 Chris Lyons Yep, so much, even like what happened with YouTube a couple weeks ago, YouTube TV, when they shut off ESPN for a couple weeks, and, and Disney, and everybody was like, no, hold on a second.
- ▶ 47:31 Chris Lyons Yep, so much, even like what happened with YouTube a couple weeks ago, YouTube TV, when they shut off ESPN for a couple weeks, and, and Disney, and everybody was like, no, hold on a second.
The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- ▶ 38:55 Alex Rampell I like to figure out historical subscriber data on, of YouTubers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:56 Alex Rampell Like, the number of subscribers that MrBeast had five years ago, like, the number of subscribers today, you just go to YouTube, you see exactly what that is.
Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger
- ▶ 53:08 Marc Andreessen You know, they've seen, you know, a thousand hours of YouTube videos from all the great, you know, people in tech talking about how to do everything.
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 3:48 Marc Andreessen Um, there's an interview, you can read an interview, or you can watch an interview on YouTube with, uh, these two authors, McCullough and Pitts, and you can watch an interview, I think, with McCullough on YouTube from like, I don't know,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:40 Marc Andreessen Um, who say, yeah, I, you know, most of what I know about this topic I learned from you guys because I listened to the podcast, I read the articles, I watched the YouTube channel.
Where does consumer AI stand at the end of 2025?
- ▶ 5:15 unnamed speaker We can just put up amazing YouTube video and say, give me an image that, image that explains this.
- ▶ 20:51 unnamed speaker Social product is where consumption and creation both live together and the output of it is not native to other platforms like TikTok, like YouTube shorts.
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 3:30 Benedict Evans And there's, like, 200 YouTube commenters underneath saying, you know, this more, and he doesn't understand how big this is.
- ▶ 36:20 Benedict Evans You know, YouTube didn't start as YouTube. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:59 Benedict Evans And maps changed, probably, and YouTube changed a bit. 2 times in the scene
How OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning
- ▶ 47:11 Sherman Wu Um, uh, it's been, it's, it's been crazy seeing the, the, uh, uh, reception to it, by the way, like it's, uh, the, I think the video where Christina on my team demos agent builder is like one of the most viewed videos on our YouTube…
Rocket Companies CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis
- ▶ 14:06 Alex Rampell It's got like, it's like this very popular TikTok, you know, YouTube short thing, but you can do this.
Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
- ▶ 4:38 Eugenia Kuyda Um, and so then of course now, uh, TV still exists, but when now we watch YouTube and Reels and TikTok, a lot of UGC stuff.
- ▶ 11:38 Anish Acharya Yeah, I mean, look, I, I think that the YouTube metaphor is the right one that Eugenia outlined, you know, which is that we would have said in 2007 that a hundred cable channels is enough or six in your case. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:59 Eugenia Kuyda We're watching them on Instagram, on TikTok, on YouTube.
- ▶ 28:30 Eugenia Kuyda I guess I'm always going back to, um, how magical, uh, YouTube felt in the very beginning and all of these platforms where it was all,
- ▶ 30:32 Eugenia Kuyda If you're really thinking about it as YouTube, that's sort of the last frontier.
"Is there an AI bubble?” Gavin Baker and David George
- ▶ 30:39 Gavin Baker I think that debate is over because humanoids can kind of learn, you know, from watching YouTube videos, and then it's easier for a human being, um, you know, to put on a suit and show the robot how to do it.
Marc Andreessen: How Movies Explain America
- ▶ 49:09 Marc Andreessen Uh, sort of affair and all of the outrage, uh, it is worth going on YouTube and just, yeah, looking at clips from a, uh, Jimmy Kimball show 20 years ago, which was literally called The Man Show.
How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 2:08 Augusto Marietti It was the founding YouTube teams. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:25 Augusto Marietti It was myself and Travis Kalanick, and there were the three YouTube investors.
Marc Andreessen on the State of Film and Hollywood
- ▶ 16:04 Marc Andreessen Um, there, there's actually a term, there's actually my, my favorite term for it in Hollywood is there's a YouTube channel called Critical Drinker, uh, where he's a, uh, he's a movie reviewer, um, uh, is, is quite funny, and, and the…
- ▶ 1:04:11 Marc Andreessen Um, it was the first video, and this was like pre-streaming, pre-YouTube, pre, you know, years before all of that.
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 13:52 Keith Rabois So their strategy is going to be at some point, they're going to try to take advantage of all this personal data from your Gmail, from your YouTube videos, you know, from all the different products they have, and then therefore make a much…
- ▶ 28:42 Keith Rabois Um, and then, you know, they acquired some things like YouTube, whatever, but like launched a coherent product.
Is AI Slowing Down? Nathan Labenz Says We're Asking the Wrong Question
- ▶ 51:23 Nathan Labenz Like we can take our two, uh, feeds right now, you know, take a snapshot of you, a snapshot of me, put them both into nano banana and say, generate the thumbnail for the YouTube preview.
Opendoor CEO: Building the Amazon for Homes
- ▶ 44:26 Alex Rampell Um, I, I think a lot of it, I, I think, uh, when I first heard that he was taking the job, I think I sent you my YouTube video.
The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
- ▶ 29:35 Katherine Boyle Hundreds of YouTube videos, right?
The Death of Search: How Shopping Will Work In The Age of AI
- ▶ 26:42 Justine Moore From YouTube, from people watching the video. 2 times in the scene
Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
- ▶ 1:18 Chris Dixon Um, during the, you know, the kind of the rise of the internet in the nineties and 2000, that's when you had things like YouTube and Facebook and
- ▶ 13:15 Chris Dixon You know, mid journey influencers, YouTube videos, websites, how to guides.
- ▶ 32:22 Chris Dixon And it took 10 to 15 years before you had things like YouTube and, you know, modern social networking and things that really just couldn't have existed. 4 times in the scene
Is Non-Consensus Investing Overrated?
- ▶ 34:02 Erik Torenberg I mean, remember YouTube, Instagram were considered, you know, very expensive acquisitions at, at, uh, you know, just a few billion dollars.
Substack Cofounder on AI Slop Content & the Decline of Social Media
- ▶ 10:27 Chris Best People have massive followings who are, who are very successful, who say, I have this idea for a thing that I could make.
- ▶ 15:27 Chris Best We'd always imagine, you know, we'd look, even then I think we looked at YouTube as the, something that was like maybe the closest version to this thing that, that already existed.
- ▶ 24:26 Chris Best I mean, we're, we, we're building a live product that basically feels like, you know, I do a, feels like doing a FaceTime call and then magically turns into a highly produced podcast and a YouTube video and a series of short form clips and…
- ▶ 41:32 Andrew Chen And then we're going to go down the same thing with like YouTube, YouTube stars and, you know, streamers or, you know, whatever.
Why AI Characters & Virtual Influencers Are the Next Frontier in Video ft Hedra’s Michael Lingelbach
- ▶ 12:32 Justine Moore A bunch of intros to, like, my YouTube videos and tutorials now are actually my Hedra avatar using the voice that I've cloned on Hedra.
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 15:21 Balaji Srinivasan Well, the actual regulator of speech or what have you said, YouTube or Facebook.
- ▶ 26:54 Steven Sinofsky But this is, this is like what the New York Times, your favorite, NYT, what they said when Google acquired YouTube. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:40 Balaji Srinivasan Like Google had Google video, but it had to buy YouTube for 1.6 bill, which certainly caused, I'm sure some churning internally by the Google video guys.
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 34:45 Balaji Srinivasan X-Day was also the liberation of Meta and liberation of YouTube, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:48 Balaji Srinivasan YouTube's uncensored.
Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
- ▶ 38:23 Marc Andreessen Um, many hours of YouTube video to watch.
- ▶ 58:42 Marc Andreessen Um, cause he was, you know, famously actually in a WWF match actually fighting, um, which, which is on YouTube.
- ▶ 1:18:45 Marc Andreessen Um, and you can go on, you know, you can go on YouTube and you can watch, you know, in some cases now, you know, in some cases now these are running six, seven, 2 times in the scene
Building Cluely: The Viral AI Startup that raised $15M in 10 Weeks w/ Roy Lee
Founders, Media, & Memes: a16z’s Strategy for the Future | a16z LP Summit 2025
- ▶ 12:52 Marc Andreessen Um, and, and what's amazing by the way about it, if you talk to like, if you talk to like, you know, Joe Rogan or Lex Friedman or whatever, you know, they, they get these stats from YouTube about completion rates, and like it's, they have…
What Is an AI Agent?
- ▶ 3:09 Matt Bornstein Couple of years ago about, about agents, which I can describe a little bit, but the really funny part was on the YouTube recommended videos to watch next.
Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto
- ▶ 24:58 Chris Dixon And so, um, so anyway, so those, so you sort of saw the internet play out that way, um, and that, in that case, it took probably 15, it was probably 2000, you know, 93 was mosaic, and 2000, I would say five-ish was sort of YouTube, and…
Marc & Ben on AI Policy, Safety, Censorship & Unexpected Risks
- ▶ 1:17:50 Ben Horowitz Uh, the blockchain, have those blockchains be integrated with the social media, you know, companies, YouTube, uh, et cetera, uh, Google, whatnot, meta, and then you don't trust things that aren't signed.
AI, Robotics & the New Global Arms Race
- ▶ 18:30 Marc Andreessen And, and, and you can see this, if you, the easiest thing here is just go on YouTube and look for video reviews of the new, uh, Xiaomi, uh, car.
- ▶ 23:19 Marc Andreessen Again, you can go on YouTube and see videos of this thing, and then I, I, I now own, I now own one, and I can tell you, like, this thing, it does, it does, the videos are real.
Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- ▶ 50:41 Marc Andreessen This stuff all over, by the way, all over the world, this stuff is in YouTube videos.
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 23:57 Andrew Chen Yeah, I think, I think the new, the new formats are definitely interesting always because you could imagine when, you know, uh, user generated content and getting content online, when YouTube comes out, um, in, uh, you know, gets popular… 4 times in the scene
Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities
- ▶ 38:43 Marc Andreessen And if you, if you basically like it, by the way, and then Google search, Google search plus YouTube is like most of the revenue.
Startup Building: Major Shifts in Tech & Culture
- ▶ 4:52 Marc Andreessen So sadly, Ben just got us banned on YouTube, so we will see you all on Rumble.
- ▶ 6:57 Marc Andreessen Also, of course, cause podcasts and YouTube and so forth like this format to take off.
- ▶ 54:05 Marc Andreessen Yeah, you know, I think we can get ourselves another YouTube strike here, um, by coming off for child labor.
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 17:45 Chris Dixon Uh, social networks outside of YouTube take all the, take all the money.
- ▶ 37:22 Chris Dixon So as broadband grew, people created YouTube and video sites and that created new applications.
2024 Big Ideas: Anime Games Go Mainstream with Robin Guo
2024 Big Ideas: AI-First Games That Never End with Jonathan Lai
- ▶ 10:43 Jonathan Lai Like their entire YouTube channel is dedicated to how to create the most, like, lifelike or the most badass, um, character for each of these games.
Advancing AI, Approaching VC's & Crypto Scandals: Ask Us Anything!
- ▶ 13:46 Marc Andreessen So, um, uh, so this is basically, I think that if I have the question right, this is basically the phenomenon of sort of branded creators, individuals, uh, people with individual brands, um, who are kind of big, you know, either, you know,…
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