Amazon Alexa
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2026 47 mentions in 27 episodes 2 per episode
- OpenAI’s $50 Billion Fundraise, AI Advertising Game Theory, Apple’s AI Wearable Pin
- Dario’s Choice and Anthropic’s Future, Apple’s AI Devices, Netflix Loses WBD
- Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
- The Allure of AI Love + Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? — With Joanna Stern
- Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
- AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball
- WWDC Reactions, Claude Fable 5 Debuts, McAfee Eyes ESPN Mega Deal | Diet TBPN
- Voice AI’s Big Moment: Top Researcher on Why Everything Is Changing (Neil Zeghidour, Gradium AI)
- 19 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 200 mentions in 49 episodes 4 per episode
- How Amazon Rebuilt Alexa From The Ground Up
- Amazon's Panos Panay: The Reality of Building Alexa Plus and AI Assistants
- Amazon Head Of Prime on Tariffs, Alexa Plus Rollout, and AI Differentiation — With Jamil Ghani
- AI Device Wars Heat Up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers
- OpenAI and AMD's Megadeal, Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s Bumpy Start. Meta vs. Apple
- He went viral at 11 y/o—built the world's best dictation app, then raised a $30M Series A. | Tana... · PMF Show
- What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations — With M.G. Siegler
- Why AI Voice Feels More Human Than Ever
- 41 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 50 mentions in 26 episodes 2 per episode
- Amazon's Longterm AI Vision — With AWS VP Matt Wood
- Neuralink's First Patient Controls Computers With His Mind — With Noland Arbaugh
- BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner | NVDA, Chips, AI Compute Build Out, AI Impact on Big Tech | E03 · Bg2 Pod
- Sonos: John MacFarlane
- $100B Founder Breaks Down The Biggest AI Business Opportunities For 2025
- Episode 716 | Positioning Against Incumbents, Changing Your H1, H...
- AWS VP of AI and Data Swami Sivasubramanian — GenAI's Growth Potential
- Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters
- 18 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 50 mentions in 31 episodes 2 per episode
- Bundling/Unbundling AI
- "Will This Smart Home Automation Pitch Impress Venture Capitalists?"
- Google’s Weird Year + Neeva Goes to Snowflake — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
- Amazon Reveals Its AI Master Plan — With Matt Wood
- E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act
- Big Ideas in 2024: Voice-First Apps Will Become Integral to Our Lives with Anish Acharya
- AI Keynote: Six Bold Predictions About The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
- E147: TED goes woke, Canada's Nazi blunder, AI adds vision, plus: who owns OpenAI?
- 23 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 19 mentions in 12 episodes 2 per episode
- They Showed Up to Inspect a Factory That Did Not Exist Yet
- What it takes to become a top 1% PM | Ian McAllister (Uber, Amazon, Airbnb)
- Episode 640 | Hot Take Tuesday: Recession and Bootstrappers, Chat...
- Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison: What does Clubhouse do now to regain mindshare? | | 20VC #929 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- University of Michigan Students Pitch Us Their Startups | $5000 Prize Money (#396)
- How Amazon Reinvents with Artificial Intelligence
- Is AI Dangerously Overhyped? — With Gary Marcus
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 31 mentions in 15 episodes 2 per episode
- 30 Years of Surveillance Footage Later: Privacy Is Already Dead
- Episode 564 | Running a Business with 10,000 Paid Subscribers
- Frameworks to Become a Billionaire with HubSpot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah | My First Million #197
- #114 Noreena Hertz: The Crisis of Loneliness
- Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, "How Much is Pomp Worth?", and More
- MFM #161: Why Michael Saylor Believes Bitcoin is Hope
- #127 Best of 2021: Conversations of the Year
- The Meta reality
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 12 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- Episode 487 | Startup Roundtable Discussing Hey.com, Leadpages’ Acquisition, and More Hot Topics
- Why 'Life Has No Purpose' Is the Most Freeing Thing You Can Believe
- Dialpad CEO "We'll break $100m in 2020, comfortable burning $1m/mo, $45m in bank"
- Somesh Dash, IVP on learnings from the crisis of 2002 & 2008 and investing in resilient companies
- Fireside Chat: Jerome Pesenti (Head of AI, Facebook) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- Mohit Gulati, ITI Fund on why Hyper-investment is not a sure shot success for startups?
- NLP—The Most Important Field of ML // Clement Delangue, Hugging Face (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
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2019 79 mentions in 19 episodes 4 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond
- a16z Podcast | Beyond CES: Connected Home Devices, Voice, and More
- a16z Podcast | The IQ and EQ of Robots
- a16z Podcast | Culture and/of Design
- a16z Podcast | Tech Policy and the Courts
- Imagining Our Future Through Tech
- Social Networking in 2030: How Could Crypto Change Things?
- 5 Key Learnings About Intelligent Agents // Dennis Mortensen, x.ai (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- 11 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 34 mentions in 19 episodes 2 per episode
- Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- 1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"
- 20VC: Behind The Scenes of a $Bn IPO Process, What Startups Can Learn From Teddy Roosevelt's "Five Minute Meetings" and What John Lennon Teaches Founders About Storytelling with Howard Lerman, Founder & CEO @ Yext
- Fireside Chat: Chris Dixon, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- 20VC: Why Brands Can Have The Same Revenue Multiples As Enterprise Companies & The Right Way To Think About Amazon In Today's World of Commerce with Eurie Kim, General Partner @ Forerunner Ventures
- 20VC: Why Too Many People Give Up Too Quickly, Why You Should Never Start A Venture Without Owning The Underlying Data & Why We Have Over-Estimated The Ability of Automation with Dennis Mortensen, Founder & CEO @ X.ai
- 1164 Want Your Own Alexa, Without Amazon Influence? Mycroft Raises $8m For Opensource Voice Stack
- A New Approach to Machine Intelligence // Ben Vigoda, Gamalon (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- 11 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 31 mentions in 18 episodes 2 per episode
- Artist Lauren McCarthy Will Be Your Home's Brain · Y Combinator
- Mobile Is Eating the World, 2016
- AI and a Different Type of Competitive Advantage // Omar Tawakol, Voicera (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- VC Fireside Chat // Rebecca Lynn, Canvas Ventures (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- 20VC: Lightspeed's Nicole Quinn on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, Why M&A Has Not Been This Exciting For A Long Time & Why Amazon Is Never Your Friend
- 20VC: Betaworks' John Borthwick on Why The VC Model Is So Inefficient, Why Venture Fund Cycles Are Too Short & Why Frontier Tech Could Only Have Been Disappointing Over The Last Year
- 889 1% of Humanity Uses This Bootstrapped Tool, $100m+ Revenue
- 885 Auction Marketplace will Sell $500m This Year, Takes 25% As Revenue
- 10 more episodes that year, every mention in 2017 →
2016 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Mythbuster: Is Mobile Dying? Is AR/VR Overhyped? Is The Excitement Around Bots Justified with Sean Flynn, Partner @ Shasta Ventures
- 20VC: Sam Lessin on Why Bots Will Change Business & The Internet Has Mostly Failed
- 20VC: Do VC's Really Hustle Enough? The Takeaways From Watching Twitter Scale From 30 to 2,500 & Why Chris Sacca Is Like Yoda with Ryan Sarver, Partner @ Redpoint
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
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8 statements about Amazon Alexa, every show
Coogan: Cheap Pricing and Baseline Features Drove Alexa and Google Home's Distribution
“The success of the Alexa and the Google home is just like check the boxes on features and make it super, super cheap and you'll just get crazy distribution. And people will put up with some of the other, other junk.”
Ramaswamy: Google assigned thousands of employees to voice assistant development
“And Google actually put a multi-thousand person team to work on this, both in search, but also within my team. The shopping team, for example, had an assistant. We had partnerships with companies like Walmart. We took it seriously”
Ramaswamy: Generative AI surpasses voice assistants by synthesizing multi-page summaries
“The power of generative AI now, I think, comes from the fact that you can understand multiple pages, and you can write a fluid answer for way more queries than what the Assistant could ever do. Remember, with the Assistant, whether it's on Alexa or on Google p…”
Kapoor claims his venture launched the first AI culinary Alexa service
“And we bring in AI into that and a lot of machine learning into that. And that's something which started as an audio first something that we did on Amazon Alexa.
Podcast Host: Yeah.
Sanjeev Kapoor: Yeah.
Sanjeev Kapoor: So that's something which it's something…”
McCarthy monitors participants' home cameras to act as a human Amazon Alexa
“I'm trying to become
like Amazon Alexa.
So, but I'm making a service, it's called Lauren.
and so the idea is that I will come into your home and set up all these devices and cameras
and then I'll watch you and, ah, you know, control your home for you and tr…”
Alina Cohen: Amazon Alexa is the most straightforward platform to develop on
“I've developed for a lot of platforms before, and this was by far the most straightforward Forward Development Experience”
Alina Cohen: Amazon Alexa provides greenfield app opportunities like early Facebook
“And it reminds me of the Facebook platform back in the day in that there's just so much greenfield opportunity. There's so much opportunity to leverage the growth of Alexa to grow your own app.”