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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Civilization comes up on Acquired, My First Million, 20VC, Another Podcast, All-In
Roblox’s David Baszucki Built the Biggest Playground on Earth
- ▶ 13:25 David Senra Were you playing these games like Civilization?
$100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH)
- ▶ 17:26 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) Also in game, my favorite game of all time is Civilization One, the original Sid Meier's game, which is obviously about world building. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Inside Bending Spoons Acquisition Machine: Evernote, Eventbrite, Vimeo | How Evernote Evaluates Acquisitions and New Product Ideas | How Evernote Mastered Product Launches, User Retention and Monetisation with Federico Simionato
- ▶ 58:35 Federico Simionato It looks like Civilization, the game, but it's mobile, it's a bit simpler.
Daniel Ek, Spotify | David Senra
Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
- ▶ 1:55:18 John Coogan You could, eventually everyone will have one and we'll be all communicating via neural link, but in the short term, let's just cure blindness and, you know, um, and help people who are paraplegic, uh, use the computer and play civilization…
JD Vance's AI Speech, Techno-Optimists vs Doomers, Tariffs, AI Court Cases with Naval Ravikant
- ▶ 2:59 Jason Calacanis I was not on my ample tune playing civilization.
Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos
- ▶ 1:19:17 John Coogan It's like, I mean, there's like a whole like age of empires, then there's civilization.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 7:33 David Rosenthal One, turn-based strategy video games, most particularly Sid Meier's Civilization.
- ▶ 7:58 David Rosenthal So, let's start with Civilization.
- ▶ 8:06 Ben Gilbert Civilization is a video game upon which, but I decided not to.
- ▶ 8:15 David Rosenthal So, September, 1991, when Mark is seven years old, Civilization, or Civ, as its fans call it, comes out for PCs, and young Mark gets hooked.
- ▶ 8:27 David Rosenthal And for those of you who haven't played Civ,
- ▶ 8:49 David Rosenthal And despite that sort of nefarious sounding nature to the last one there especially, Siv and four X games
- ▶ 10:49 David Rosenthal So, playing Civ and other video games when he's young, PC games, leads young Mark to want to learn how to program himself.
- ▶ 2:48:58 David Rosenthal Kind of like calling it all the way back to civilization and the Forex strategy game.
He Sold His Company For $15M, Then Got A Job At McDonald’s
- ▶ 34:42 Shaan Puri And now the guy's like playing civilization, using his brain to control the computer game.
Episode 719 | How to Test Pricing, Lifetime Deals, and Building S...
- ▶ 22:40 Rob Walling If you don't know who Sid Meier is, you don't know the games he made, it's, it's fine, but it's like really cool if you know Civilization, right?
E171: DOJ sues Apple, AI arms race, Reddit IPO, Realtor settlement & more
- ▶ 1:13:37 Chamath Palihapitiya He was able to play civilization, the game, which I guess was really hard.
Why do we care about games?
- ▶ 5:05 Benedict Evans So, I mean, I remember when I was at boarding school in the early nineties that, you know, there was sort of one boy per house who had a PC and you could, you know, there would be 10 people crowded in the room watching, watching you play… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Anduril Founder, Palmer Luckey: "I Am Here To Build a $50Bn Company", How Palmer Evaluates His Relationship To Money Pre & Post Oculus' $2.3Bn Exit & Why The US DOD Needs To Be More Like China in It's Approach
- ▶ 22:10 Palmer Luckey I mean, it's actually not all that much different than playing a game of civilization.
20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation with Daniel Gross, Founder & Pioneer, Head of AI
- ▶ 13:55 Daniel Gross You're literally like opting in to solve problems for hours or civilization.
Gaming Studio Founders - Patrick Moberg and Holly Liu · Y Combinator
20VC: YC's Daniel Gross on How YC Can Democratise AI & Reduce Incumbency Advantages, Why ML Enabled Software Will Eat The Software That Ate The World & Whether AI Will Produce Independent Companies or Be Technology within Incumbents
- ▶ 9:59 Daniel Gross I always like to think of playing civilization as a kid. 2 times in the scene