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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where YouTube comes up
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.