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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Apollo Program comes up on the a16z Podcast, All-In, TBPN, Acquired, 20VC
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?