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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.
The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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…
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