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