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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…