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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