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Inside Trump's Science Agenda: Anti-Science Claims, Fauci's Damage, DEI & China w/ Michael Kratsios
- ▶ 3:15 Michael Kratsios If we look back and think about the Manhattan Project or Apollo, um, these are sort of seismic events that, that only the U.S. government could bring together the ecosystem to, to achieve.
- ▶ 22:06 David Friedberg The Human Genome Project, Manhattan Project, Apollo Moon Mission. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:36 David Friedberg Human Genome Project, Manhattan Project, Apollo, and so on.
World Models, JEPA And The Path To Sample-Efficient RL · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:47 unnamed speaker Because, like, it's a complete, it would be, we definitely wouldn't have the Apollo missions, right?
Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
- ▶ 32:28 David Senra NASA's Apollo program began in 1961 and put 12 men on the moon 2 times in the scene
🚀 SpaceX IPO Liftoff | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 21:02 John Coogan Musk, Musk pointed out, had barely improved since Apollo, while every other technology from computing and the internet to intercontinental flight had been transformed by newcomers and open competition.
NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin, and The Race to The Moon | Jared Isaacman on The a16z Show
- ▶ 14:36 Jared Isaacman We had Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and an awful lot of Apollo missions before 11.
Artemis II, Jamie Dimon’s “American Dream,” Snap’s Crucible Moment | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:09 unnamed speaker Remember that Apollo did not result in durable progress in space. 3 times in the scene
Is Meta Really Addictive?, Jetsons Prediction, Artemis II: Back to the Moon | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 30:35 unnamed speaker NASA is set to launch four astronauts around the moon, the deepest human space flight since the final Apollo lunar landing on in 1972.
Bret Taylor of Sierra on AI agents, outcome-based pricing, and the OpenAI board
- ▶ 1:38:56 Bret Taylor It won't quite be like the, you know, Apollo landing, but, you know, I remember, you know, uh, the Kasparov, you know, chess match, and, and I certainly, you know, things like AlphaGo were really meaningful.
How AI Is Changing Warfare | Palantir CTO · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 1:18:54 Sham Sankar Like, don't forget that Edward Hall built the Minuteman, and Schriever was the Air Force General that oversaw our ICBMs, and that we call it the Apollo program, but it was actually Gene Krantz's program, and the primacy of those people and…
A Short History of America Nationalizing its Companies
- ▶ 4:18 unnamed speaker Like, the Apollo program was not some, it wasn't a private entity that got nationalized.
Why this Billionaire Just Took Over NASA · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 15:07 Jared Isaacman We, we, we won, and no one's been back since, ah, you know, since, ah, the Apollo, ah, you know, our Apollo series of, of moon landings.
- ▶ 23:19 Jared Isaacman I, you go back to the space race across Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo, do you know how, what our average launch cadence was between missions?
How Google DeepMind Operates & Experiments — With Lila Ibrahim and James Manyika
- ▶ 1:37 Lila Ibrahim The golden era of Bell Labs, but also government programs like the Apollo program, and even more recently, Pixar.
The AI Frontier: from Gemini 3 Deep Think distilling to Flash — Jeff Dean
The AI chip squeeze, Dirty Soda mania, OCC approves Palmer Luckey’s Erebor | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:57 unnamed speaker More than what we spent on the Apollo moon program, two hundred and fifty seven billion.
2026 trends: Gas turbines, Texas’ load queue and China electrifies
- ▶ 30:01 Nat Bullard Apollo project, the highways, broadband build out, and then the tech capex. 3 times in the scene
Anthropic releases method to 10× Claude Code / Opus 4.5
- ▶ 6:48 Greg Isenberg So, you know, a vague request might be something like, list the last three Apollo missions and some facts about them. 2 times in the scene
Marc Benioff on AI Agents' Biggest Problem
- ▶ 11:04 Marc Benioff He worked at JPL on the Apollo mission.
China vs America: The Battle for Global Dominance Explained | Dan Wang interview · Invest Like The Best
The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
Quantum’s SpaceX Moment? Ashlee Vance on PsiQuantum’s Moonshot · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 17:53 Pete Shadbolt And I always think about that situation in, in the Apollo program where you would have just walked those people out the front of the building, pointed up at the moon,
Weekly Recap: Mark Cuban, Kanye’s Wild Mansion Makeover, China Heads to the Moon, Money in Clipping
- ▶ 31:06 Jordi Hays NASA can justifiably point to its Artemis program and say it's attempting to learn the lessons from Apollo that the program was canceled because it was not sustainable.
Commercial Space: Innovation, Market Challenges & Startup Success with Caylan Space
- ▶ 5:43 Kenny Vassigh So imagine 50 years ago through the Apollo program, government owned, NASA owned, NASA did everything, and now we have a startups that are trying to send landers and rovers to the lunar surface.
- ▶ 9:30 Kenny Vassigh Everything, right, with Apollo going to shuttle or space station, and now we're in this, I call it the Wright brothers moment of commercial space.
Greg Brockman on OpenAI's Road to AGI
- ▶ 56:35 Greg Brockman It's like projects like the, like the New Deal, like pale in comparison, you know, the Apollo program pale in comparison to what we're doing right now.
Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:23:14 Jason Lemkin Apollo was 4.4%. 5 times in the scene
Winning the AI Race Part 2: Vice President JD Vance
35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest and beyond | Bob Baxley
- ▶ 1:21:56 Bob Baxley I, I'm also, I am a fan of astronomy and space, but I'm a particular fan of the Apollo program because I viewed the Apollo program and the moon landings as the greatest peacetime accomplishment of mankind ever. 2 times in the scene
Sovereign AI: Why Nations Are Building Their Own Models
- ▶ 12:48 Guido Appenzeller So I think basically having the government drive all of AI strategy, you know, Manhattan-style project or Apollo project, pick your favorite successful project there, I can't see that working.
Bond crisis looming? GOP abandons DOGE, Google disrupts Search with AI, OpenAI buys Jony Ive's IO
- ▶ 1:30:17 David Friedberg Then there was the Apollo project. 2 times in the scene
How to Win in the Age of AI and Autonomy | Shyam Sankar on TBPN
- ▶ 12:36 Shyam Sankar You know, it was Gene Kranz who led the Apollo program. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:28 Shyam Sankar He always had in mind a broader commercial market that was going to drive the price performance that was needed, even though in 1969, something like 96% of his revenue came from the Apollo program and DoD.
He Called It a 10-Year Project Before They Even Had a Prototype
- ▶ 5:29 Russell Brand I think we spend more time computing the rounding of the, of the window edges than we did on the entire computation of like the Apollo mission or something, you know, nine orders of magnitude cheaper does make some difference.
Mobilizing the American Industrial Base
- ▶ 2:08 Shyam Sankar Intel in like, I think, 68, 69, 96% of Intel sales were to the Apollo program and to the DoD.
Henry Singleton: The Greatest Capital Allocator in History [Outliers]
- ▶ 17:15 Shane Parrish Among the acquisitions were companies like Ryan Aeronautical, which made an unmanned aircraft, Kiernan Optics, which produced the windows for the Apollo spacecraft through which astronauts saw Earth from space for the very first time, and…
Delian Asparouhov on Stranded Astronauts, NASA in Crisis, and Corporate Espionage.
- ▶ 1:10 Delian Asparouhov And like, look, if there were like Apollo days or like space shuttle days and like, you know, they were stuck up there for an extended period of time, people would a hundred percent be using like the word stranded.
#48 Will This Space Startup Make It off the Ground?
- ▶ 0:01 Vanessa Clark One of the things that's really frustrating, I mean, what progress have we seen NASA do really since that Apollo mission?
- ▶ 6:43 Vanessa Clark I mean, what progress have we seen NASA do, really, since the Apollo mission? 2 times in the scene
Rolex (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:20:32 David Rosenthal Which brings us to the Apollo missions.
- ▶ 2:20:56 David Rosenthal But even though Omega was standard issue on the Apollo missions,
- ▶ 2:21:02 David Rosenthal Not all of the Apollo astronauts chose to wear their standard-issue watches, so if you go to Rolex headquarters, there is an incredible signed picture from Apollo 13, you know, the Apollo 13 mission, the Tom Hanks movie, signed by…
- ▶ 2:21:38 David Rosenthal So Jack, and I think maybe some of the other astronauts too, preferred GMT masters and wore their GMT masters during the Apollo missions.
Stargate, Executive Orders, TikTok, DOGE, Public Valuations | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 35:53 Brad Gerstner It's truly an Apollo scale project. 2 times in the scene
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 1:26:56 David Rosenthal Yeah, and what I read is that the accuracy with which that laser needs to hit the drop of molten tin is more precise than the calculations to send the Apollo missions to the moon.
Market Predictions, Rates & Inflation, DOGE, CES, AI Compute | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 1:12:27 Brad Gerstner You know, more money than we've ever seen invested in anything other than perhaps the Apollo project on a, on inflation adjusted basis to make sure that we're in the lead.
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn & Paypal Founder: Trump Administration, Elon Musk and DOGE | E1239 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:41 Reid Hoffman What we really need to be doing is doing the, ah, Apollo projects on the right kinds of clean energy, and we're now gonna, we're gonna now go, you know, 10 X down onto that, including all versions of nuclear, as well as everything else,…
What is the TRUMP BUBBLE? (ep11)
- ▶ 6:25 Jordi Hays Manhattan Project, Apollo program. 2 times in the scene
Elon Musk and The Early Days of SpaceX
- ▶ 2:54 David Senra Three decades had passed since Apollo's heyday, and surely he thought that NASA must be well on its way to going to Mars.
- ▶ 12:25 David Senra So the success of NASA's Apollo moon program in the 19 sixties had spurred a wave of student interest in math and science.
- ▶ 43:46 David Senra Polo program.
- ▶ 58:06 David Senra He could not understand why humans had remained stuck in low earth orbit since Apollo.
Ep19. State of Venture, AI Scaling, Elections | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner, & Jamin Ball · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 1:48 Bill Gurley A study of skipped range sensitivities and allowable errors in exit conditions applicable to Apollo missions. 2 times in the scene
NASA Astronaut Woody Hoburg | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 14:14 Woody Hoburg From the moon than Apollo did. 3 times in the scene
Elon Musk | All-In Summit 2024
What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About
- ▶ 1:31 William Saunders Was the path that like OpenAI was on more like the Apollo program or more like the Titanic? 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 12:19 Marc Andreessen Yeah, so people look back, you know, this movie Oppenheimer that just swept the Oscars, which is, of course, an extraordinary movie, you know, tells sort of the Manhattan Project story, um, and then there's, you know, the famous Apollo… 2 times in the scene
Ep 87: Dr. Cliff Winston — Deregulate Lawyers, Deregulate Airlines & Let Markets Correct Themselves · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 5:52 Joe Lonsdale Like, they were able to do certain things in the fifties and sixties with moon landing program, with, with the highways.
Is AI a platform shift or a paradigm shift? With Benedict Evans
- ▶ 25:48 Benedict Evans I think the kind of the fundamental intellectual challenge is that if you took the specs for the Apollo program and gave them to Isaac Newton, he could have done the mass and told you whether it would get to the moon. 3 times in the scene
Varda's Landing, Peter Thiel, & the Future of El Segundo, Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 4:01 Delian Asparouhov You know, I think a part of why, you know, the Apollo era, you know, while it had a lot of success, ultimately didn't turn into a, you know, sort of permanent,
Ep 77: Mike Solana on Exposing Corruption, Saving San Francisco, and Building a New Media Empire · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 27:48 Mike Solana Apollo happened.
3D printing a housing revolution with Jason Ballard of ICON
- ▶ 31:03 Jason Ballard You know, the, the new Artemis program, which is kind of like the successor, at least the spiritual successor to the Apollo program from the, from the sixties, ah, wants to return to the Moon, but this time it's like, we want to return to…
Shooting for the moon with Steve Altemus of Intuitive Machines
- ▶ 2:14 Steve Altemus Uh, we've been there in Apollo.
- ▶ 20:26 Steve Altemus So we built an entire mini Apollo program, if you will, one that you could operate the mission from a mission control. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:15 Steve Altemus It's incredibly exciting to be, you know, people as aerospace engineers used to say, man, it was, it would have been a great time to be alive during the Apollo program.
AI and Everything Else
- ▶ 14:35 Benedict Evans You know, the, the, the, the metaphor I like is that it's, that the, um, the people building the Apollo program knew how far away the moon was, and they knew what gravity was, and they had a theory of orbital mechanics, and they knew how…
Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist
- ▶ 41:52 Marc Andreessen Um, there is a third model, and this is the one that people often talk about, um, you know, as sort of an aspiration, which is this idea of these very large societal projects, and in, in, in the U.S., you know, we talk in particular about… 4 times in the scene
The Evolution of the Satellite Economy
- ▶ 5:04 John Gedmark There was the initial Apollo era, where we were in, it was this massive, almost monolithic government program, and everything was huge and epic in scale by design, because we were trying to compete against the Soviet Union
Marc Benioff: The Future of San Francisco and What He Would Do if in Charge | E1064 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:49 Marc Benioff We worked on the Apollo mission as well, and he's got some incredible plans for Salesforce in the AGI world, so I'm excited about that.
Google's DeepMind Wants To Make Human-Level Artificial Intelligence, Says Its Chief Business Officer
- ▶ 31:48 Colin Murdock I think the comparison that, uh, I often hear is actually of the Apollo project, the space project. 2 times in the scene
Rey Flemings: A Different Definition of Success
- ▶ 46:50 Rey Flemings The Apollo space program, the moon shot, was 5.2 billion man hours to put a man on the moon. 2 times in the scene
Unbundling ChatGPT
- ▶ 9:20 Benedict Evans And you can, we had a theory of what rockets were doing, and you could get the spec for the Apollo rocket and show it to Isaac Newton, and he could do the maths and tell you whether it would get to the moon or not.
Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:29:58 Ben Gilbert Gemini and Apollo.
- ▶ 1:31:13 Ben Gilbert Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, yep.
Data Visibility & Control | BigID Co-Founder & CEO Dimitri Sirota
- ▶ 26:21 Dimitri Sirota It's like, it's like, you know, like Apollo mission, right?
Advance market commitments to decarbonize heavy industry
- ▶ 10:24 Varun Sivaram In the 19 sixties, uh, NASA provided the early market for integrated circuits in the Apollo mission.
Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah on the Data Highway Above
- ▶ 1:21:07 Alex Fielding When it was, and it was weird, it's too, it was too early when we did Apollo.
E102: Elon closes Twitter deal, $META uncertainty, Zuck's historic bet, big tech decline & more
- ▶ 37:05 Chamath Palihapitiya The only thing that I could find in history that is comparable to what Meta has basically said they're going to spend is the entire Apollo program, which cost in today's dollars, a quarter of a trillion as well. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:30 Chamath Palihapitiya The Boeing program, even the Apollo 13 program for that quantum of spend.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 19:59 David Rosenthal Jeff grew up in Houston during the Apollo era.
Elon Musk: Twitter's bot problem, SpaceX's grand plan, Tesla stories & more
Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler
- ▶ 20:40 Will Marshall It's radios, it's microprocessors for the Apollo program, and they developed all this stuff themselves.
E35: Biogen's controversial Alzheimer's drug approval, the billionaire space race, Bitcoin & more
- ▶ 37:33 Chamath Palihapitiya I think, I think back to what we said before, the US is an incredible balance sheet, and, uh, what Friedberg said is so true, which is like, coming out of the Apollo program,
#108 Thomas Zurbuchen: Adventures in Astrophysics
- ▶ 1:13:42 Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen And they grew up in a place where, you know, after Apollo and which kind of NASA was the only game in town together with some contractors that also worked on with other agencies on big systems, but you know, in a contracting relationship…
E27: The Great Inflation Debate, Amazon gets spicy on Twitter, rethinking supply chains & more
- ▶ 57:34 David Friedberg So if you go back and you think about like the Manhattan project and the Apollo mission, you know, those were very expensive government programs that have a very specific mandate, but because there were big investments and difficult…
E26: State of Venture Capital, plus fan questions on longevity, decentralization & quantum computing
- ▶ 32:02 David Friedberg It was the case with Apollo Project.
E8: TikTok + Oracle, how privacy loss will impact society, economy & COVID outlooks for 2021
- ▶ 1:07:48 David Friedberg It doesn't, if, if governments are like, it's a crisis, let's put a billion dollars into this, like we did in the Apollo program, we will get that done.
Sam Sicilia – Seizing on a Long Time Horizon at HostPlus (EP.103)
- ▶ 5:18 Sam Sicilia I have early memories sitting in front of a black and white television on the floor of my primary school, watching the Apollo lunar mission.
a16z Podcast | What's in the Water at the George Church Lab?
- ▶ 37:39 George Church Is instead of saying failure is not an option, which was one of the Apollo slogans, we say, fail fast, just pick yourself up quickly, have a bunch of things going in parallel, find the low hanging fruit empirically, as well as…
a16z Podcast | When (and How) Biology Becomes Engineering
- ▶ 13:07 Vijay Pande And, uh, you know, towards that, I think when I think about it, uh, like my favorite paradigm is something like the Apollo mission. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:18 Jorge Conde So just to put this from the perspective of industry and from entrepreneurship, how does entrepreneur a get value for great value for creating Apollo one? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | When Will Genomics Live Up to the Hype?
- ▶ 2:09 Carlos Araya The Human Genome Project is really, or was really, biology's Apollo program. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | On Government as Software Builder, Not Just Buyer
- ▶ 21:41 unnamed speaker The U.S. had just come through World War II, uh, had just completed the Manhattan Project, had launched the Apollo Project, and was building, like, the space program, the nuclear industry, and the, you know, the military as we know it…
Sam Altman on Choosing Projects, Creating Value, and Finding Purpose · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:21 Sam Altman Um, like, like, I don't think I'd ever, it's hard to imagine I would ever get tired of, like, reading books about the Apollo program.
1125 He's Sold $5m+ Of Magical Pad w/ 1,014 Needles Athletes Use to Kill Pain
- ▶ 18:01 Brad Smith Back in the sixties, it was used as the inertial guidance system in the first Apollo spacecraft.
1008 WePay CEO on $1b+ in Transaction Volume Helping Your Favorite Online Platforms Process Payments
- ▶ 18:55 Bill Clerico And it's about the stories of the Apollo program and kind of his leadership of the space program through this, you know, with this crazy challenge to put a man on the moon and all the difficulties and pressures and team dynamics that come…
Pande & Conde: When (and How) Biology Becomes Engineering
- ▶ 12:43 Vijay Pande And, uh, you know, towards that, I think, when I think about it, uh, like, my favorite paradigm is something like the Apollo mission. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:53 Jorge Conde So just to put this from the perspective of industry and from entrepreneurship, how does entrepreneur A get value for, create value for creating Apollo one? 2 times in the scene
#18 Naval Ravikant: The Angel Philosopher
- ▶ 1:37:48 Naval Ravikant Uh, it's a reference to Saturn five rocket, uh, that took, uh, the Apollo missions into space.
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