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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Zoom comes up
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 34:56 Benedict Evans Um, I mean, I think the, you know, the enterprise version of this would be, you know, you've got all our Zoom calls with clients recorded, and you've got all the flows of emails in and out of Salesforce, and you can see all of the…
Ben Horowitz on AI Anxiety, Big Tech Transitions & The Future of Startups | a16z
- ▶ 15:52 Ben Horowitz oh my god, somebody's gonna go on a Zoom. 2 times in the scene
Palantir CTO on The SaaS Apocalypse & Preventing The Next World War | a16z
- ▶ 26:18 Shyam Sankar And what they were talking about was zoom and teams and how that enabled them to go remote.
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 1:20:17 unnamed speaker My subliminal zoom background wasn't, uh, sending you the positive vibes.
The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
- ▶ 43:55 Jonathan Swanson I mean, this is one of our visions at Athena is that you can have digital assistants that listen to you and work with you and are connected to your Zoom and your inbox and your calendar and can be mining all of that digital exhaust for…
Grant Lee: Building Gamma’s AI Presentation Company to 100 Million Users
- ▶ 0:22 unnamed speaker He just drops off the Zoom call.
- ▶ 1:43 Grant Lee This is the end of 20 20 where most of, you know, fundraising was just done over Zoom. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:42 Grant Lee One is, you know, the way we share information obviously changed, you know, peak pandemic, of course, so much work shifted to virtual or like, you know, over Zoom.
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 22:11 Alex Rampell It's like Zoom had a higher market cap than Exxon, right?
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 23:59 Martin Casado Zoom was a great early example of this.
- ▶ 38:56 Aaron Levie Uh, once you have zoom, you don't need five other video conferencing tools.
Health Tech Founders: The Future of Care Is Personalized, Proactive—and AI-Powered
- ▶ 21:14 Daniel Reid Cahn And the image in our mind was the therapy Turing test or the zoom Turing test. 3 times in the scene
Former Microsoft Executive Explains Where We Are in the AI Cycle w/ Anish Acharya & Steven Sinofsky
- ▶ 26:23 Steven Sinofsky Those things are done over Zoom.
Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
- ▶ 24:18 Marc Andreessen and so I had just, I was at my dining table with a chair, and after about eight hours of Zoom calls, the entire side of my body from my neck all the way down to my ankles would be basically seized up and in pain.
- ▶ 1:23:18 Marc Andreessen and, you know, be with your kids, your grandkids, and like be on the golf course, and it's just like this amazing thing, but you put yourself in the, in the, in the, in the shoes of a newly graduated, you know, college grad who's, you…
The Ultimate AI Video Stack: Up-to-Date Best Tools to Make Content With AI
- ▶ 7:30 Justine Moore Uh, so start frame, upload image, pick a screenshot I generated of myself, Ghibli style, on a Zoom, and then for audio, um, script, you can either generate speech, um, in the platform, you can record audio, uh, or you can upload audio,…
Mobilizing the American Industrial Base
- ▶ 10:46 Shyam Sankar Zoom.
"Death of a Salesforce”: Why AI Will Transform the Next Generation of Sales Tech
- ▶ 6:39 unnamed speaker Maybe it's a zoom call or just a regular phone call.
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 47:34 Marc Andreessen Um, and the idea for collage today, you would describe it as sort of a forerunner to, to zoom, um, or to, you know, maybe Skype or something like that.
The Future of Prosumer: The Rise of “AI Native” Workflows
- ▶ 2:01 Justine Moore Yeah, my favorite example of just kind of like the skeuomorphic gone wrong is like the Zoom happy hour.
Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities
- ▶ 8:42 Ben Horowitz Um, I think most people can't pay attention on a zoom for more than, you know, 45 minutes or so tops.
- ▶ 13:51 Ben Horowitz Um, so it's, uh, I missed the phrase of Zoom or remote work or anything, right?
- ▶ 17:28 Marc Andreessen oh my God, we can just move everybody online, move everybody to Zoom, and the company keeps operating, right?
- ▶ 1:02:02 Marc Andreessen No, they're just like on a big screen, just on a big Zoom, you know, it's just like a, basically an eight hour shift on a Zoom screen, and they talk to whoever walks up to it. 2 times in the scene
Startup Building: Major Shifts in Tech & Culture
- ▶ 6:51 Marc Andreessen Um, starting in 2020, it was sort of remarkable to see everybody discover webcams and Zoom and video conferencing and all these things.
- ▶ 1:14:53 Marc Andreessen Um, I want people to feel bonded to the company so that it's just not another, you know, they're just not, it's just not another interchangeable thing where they can log off Zoom on Friday and log in another Zoom on Monday and they just… 2 times in the scene
Tony Robbins on the Future of Health & Longevity
- ▶ 29:04 Tony Robbins You know, I, I went to, you know, to our friends over there at Zoom and got them to expand the volume from a thousand people to 25,000, and all of a sudden we started growing.
Redefining Partnership with Adam Neumann
- ▶ 4:37 Adam Neumann Set of employees on their Zoom screen. 2 times in the scene
Competing in a Crowd of Incumbents with Mercury's Immad Akhund
- ▶ 12:53 Immad Akhund Slack or, um, Zoom or, you know, all of those things existed.
Dunking in VR: Inside the Future of Sports
- ▶ 5:35 unnamed speaker And I, I mean, even on zoom, I'm constantly thinking about the fact that like, this cannot be the end state, like this box that we have, like floating heads, like that cannot be the best that we get to in terms of communication and digital…
Polarizing Talent: Navigating 2023's Landscape
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 37:27 Salim Ismail So these are all the peer-to-peer collaborative technologies like Asana, Slack, Zoom, Yammer, Chatter.
Future of Resale: AI Styling, Live Video, Social Marketplaces | Field Notes by Connie Chan
Global Investing in Tech: Pattern Recognition, Founder Traits, Momentum | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 19:18 Chris Schroeder Even before Zoom and COVID, um, I spent a lot of time in my day to day, not only reading, I'd read, you know, profound amounts of things and whatever, but I interview people every day.
Marketplace Tactics: Metrics, Growth vs. Focus, Business Strategy | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 0:50 Connie Chan And we know a lot of people right now, even today are doing interviews on zoom. 3 times in the scene
Building Hardware and Taking on the Phone Giants with Carl Pei
- ▶ 27:35 unnamed speaker You've taken zoom calls, um, in different places around the world.
The Robot Lawyer Resistance with Joshua Browder of DoNotPay
- ▶ 19:04 Joshua Browder And the same is true with these Zoom court hearings and sometimes filing of documents online. 3 times in the scene
The State of Apps with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 4:21 Olivia Moore FinTech, more utility or, or business apps like Zoom, and then traditional media apps like kind of HBO Max.
Disrupting the World's Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann
- ▶ 31:34 Marc Andreessen Um, and so, and, and Slack and so forth. 3 times in the scene
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
- ▶ 17:36 Anne Lee Skates So many interactions and first encounters occur online, whether it's over Zoom or meeting a like-minded friend with similar interests over Twitter or TikTok or in a Discord group or a game. 3 times in the scene
Building for Tomorrow with Jason Feifer
- ▶ 26:50 Steph Smith And I think you see the same thing where people jump on zoom calls and they're like, let's have a happy hour.
Pay Without Borders with Alex Bouaziz (Deel), Darren Murph (GitLab), and Sondre Rasch (Safetywing)
- ▶ 17:43 Steph Smith and we'll, we'll bond, right? 5 times in the scene
Neal Stephenson on the Future of the Metaverse
- ▶ 21:45 Steph Smith I want to ask you a question about, uh, you can apply this to AR, to VR, or even something like a Zoom call, but 2 times in the scene
Why Technology Still Matters with Marc Andreessen
- ▶ 45:06 Marc Andreessen All of a sudden, for the first time in 4000 years, we now have both the technology in the form of the internet, and Zoom, and webcams, and remote work, and collaboration tools, and Slack, and all these, you know, amazing, you know,…
B2C2B in Digital Health, a founder's playbook
The Future of NFTs
- ▶ 1:32 Chris Dixon I can, I can put it in my zoom background.
We Don't All Need to Learn to Code
- ▶ 15:27 David Ulevitch If you think about the big breakout companies in the last few years, Slack or Zoom, they all start with individual teams embracing a product like Slack, then other teams embrace it.
a16z Podcast | Finding Go-to-Market Fit in the Enterprise
- ▶ 29:04 Peter Levine Uh, Zoom is a great example.
a16z Podcast | Independents on the Board
- ▶ 12:05 Ann Miura-Ko On the Zoom board, I chaired the nominating corporate governance committee, and so that job is you're supposed to, you have to recruit and hire in independent directors.
- ▶ 14:32 Ann Miura-Ko There were a couple things we did, um, on the Zoom board when we onboarded two directors that were just tips I'll pass along.