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20VC 1 
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Dilbert comes up on the Knowledge Project, the a16z Podcast, All-In, Lenny's Podcast, My First Million
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
- ▶ 8:31 Anish Acharya You know, the white collar manager, the abstraction is like some Dilbert-esque manager who's just shuffling paper all day long.
Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet
- ▶ 54:14 Marc Andreessen But the fact that I was a cartoonist who understood business made me like spectacularly great at making Dilbert. 4 times in the scene
Coinbase CEO's Top 3 Crypto Trends for 2026 + More from Davos!
- ▶ 1:17:21 Jason Calacanis Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, but huge fan.
Tobi Lütke: 21 Years of Building Shopify
- ▶ 13:27 Tobi Lütke The Toronto office, uh, there was a fairly big project to build the features to add to Shopify so, uh, you could use it for running a supermarket because, you know, just they decided that the supermarket industry is very large and we…
Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing — Grokipedia
How Elon Works
- ▶ 56:24 David Senra It was like being in a Dilbert cartoon, Elon says.
Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
- ▶ 18:56 Marc Andreessen And so, you know, the sort of famous, not the famous, um, there's a famous Dilbert, uh, which is, uh, Dilbert's boss pitches Dilbert on, they're going to go start a company together. 4 times in the scene
These are the Top 1% Leadership Principles I Could Find
- ▶ 7:15 Codie Sanchez If following a company rule is obviously ridiculous in a particular situation, such that it would make for a great Dilbert cartoon, then the rules should change. 2 times in the scene
E147: TED goes woke, Canada's Nazi blunder, AI adds vision, plus: who owns OpenAI?
- ▶ 39:01 Jason Calacanis Uh, the Dilbert guy on, and I thought that was a pretty engaging, interesting conversation.
Growth vs. Efficiency: How to Weatherproof Your SaaS Startup for Tougher Times | Christoph Janz
- ▶ 16:44 Christoph Janz And if you think that somehow sounds a bit like a Dilbert comic, it's because there actually is a Dilbert comic, um, saying where the guy says, we have to learn to do more with less. 2 times in the scene
E97: SPAC updates, public/private market overview, Putin's end game & more
- ▶ 58:43 Jason Calacanis I don't know if you guys saw in a related story that all this ESG stuff is kind of coming to a head, but Dilbert got canceled this week in like, 200 newspapers.
What It's Like to Be Rich & How to Respond to Growth Plateaus | My First Million #188
- ▶ 1:16 Shaan Puri Then there's, you know, Scott Adams, the guy who started Dilbert or writes the Dilbert comic.
The paradox of Apple
- ▶ 22:51 Benedict Evans A much larger proportion of people have a smartphone as their only device, and I think kind of the killer statistic here is that the vast majority of smartphone use, even in developed countries, so in the US and the UK, is on Wi-Fi,…
E6: Big Tech antitrust aftermath, potential effects of an M&A clampdown on Silicon Valley & more
- ▶ 57:01 Chamath Palihapitiya Scott Adams, who wrote the Dilbert comics.
What Does It Take To Become Rich? How Some People Make Millions! My First Million Podcast 04-02-2020
- ▶ 31:48 Shaan Puri Scott Adams, who's the creator of Dilbert, was talking about this when Trump was running. 2 times in the scene
#70 Scott Adams: Avoiding Loserthink
- ▶ 1:00 Shane Parrish Today, I'm speaking with Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of Loser Thing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:57 Scott Adams I would say I'm the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, an author, and recently I've been writing a lot about influence and persuasion and politics and 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:01 Shane Parrish What do you think made Dilbert so successful? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:27 Scott Adams You know, Dilbert is a major enterprise.
- ▶ 20:09 Scott Adams I made a promise to myself early on when Dilber started to be successful, and I said to myself, I'm not going to be the guy who complains.
a16z Podcast | The Role of Academia in the Startup World
- ▶ 31:43 Marc Andreessen Um, and, uh, there was just a Dilbert cartoon that kind of immortalized this where the pointy haired boss, you know, goes up to Dilbert and he says, I've got a great idea for a startup, and now all I need is an engineer and some funding.
#1524 When does a startup founder need a COO?
- ▶ 0:40 Andrew Warner I always thought of, of the management part of business as like the guys in Dilbert that you, that you laughed at.
Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon
- ▶ 31:25 Marc Andreessen Um, and, uh, there was just a Dilbert cartoon that kind of immortalized this where the pointy haired boss, you know, goes up to Dilbert and he says, I've got a great idea for a startup, and now all I need is an engineer and some funding. 2 times in the scene
Why Marketing is All About Data // Nitay Joffe, ActionIQ [FirstMark's Data Driven]
- ▶ 16:52 Nitay Joffe So, to finish things off, as you can tell, I'm a Dilbert fan.
James Altucher: Ideas, Investing and Entrepreneurs
- ▶ 24:03 James Altucher Um, I don't know, even just this week, I have Scott Adams on, and it was his second visit to my podcast, and I consider, you know, he wrote, he writes the cartoon Dilbert, and I consider him a friend now, like, uh, it's, it's great knowing…
Panel: Big data and VCs (Accel, IA Ventures, Data Collective) // Data Driven NYC #8// Oct 2012
#214 How To Produce Like A Linchpin By Understanding Your Lizard Brain – with Seth Godin
- ▶ 37:39 Seth Godin Be Dilbert.