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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Doom comes up on the a16z Podcast, TBPN, Acquired, Startups For the Rest of Us, Latent Space
Washington Hones in on AI Safety, What Are AI Doomers Proposing | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 26:34 John Coogan So they made the fruit fly play Doom. 2 times in the scene
World Models, JEPA And The Path To Sample-Efficient RL · Y Combinator
- ▶ 49:53 unnamed speaker And it's basically, he took these like, um, open AI gym, classic, uh, games, car racing, and I think doom as well.
Inside xAI: Building Grok Imagine in 3 Months, Videogen vs World Models, and Video Agents— Ethan He
- ▶ 29:44 Shawn Wang Um, and you can play Doom, you can do Firefox. 2 times in the scene
The Agent Harness: Building Secure Sandboxes for Autonomous AI Workloads
- ▶ 1:03:37 Ivan Borzin That either one needs less compute or doesn't use GPUs or doesn't, like, I don't know whether there's things that we've seen where, you know, we've seen things with wet where, where people can have like fake human brains and it learns how…
Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:06 Rory O'Driscoll First doom.
Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew
- ▶ 2:02:11 John Coogan Like, uh, like no one accuses like John Carmack of being satanic by, I mean, I guess people did when he released doom, but in doom, it's like, you're clearly playing as a 2 times in the scene
How LABUBU made BILLIONS
- ▶ 28:00 John Coogan You know, people, people throw the satanic panic around a lot, like, white monster, monster energy drink, there's like a whole six, six, six, it's satanic, but it's always unclear if it's like, the, the founders are, are like poking fun at… 2 times in the scene
From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 2:26 Abhinav Asthana I graduated to Doom soon after.
Google DeepMind Lead Researchers on Genie 3 & the Future of World-Building
- ▶ 2:39 Jack Parker-Holder Um, which is the Doom paper, uh, as, as people know it, which I think you guys also wrote, uh, a nice piece, uh, on straight after that came out.
- ▶ 4:17 Shlomi Fruchter Um, I think that's kind of sparked the imagination of many people when, when the Doom kind of simulation came out, and here we really wanted to push it to somewhere.
Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- ▶ 1:40:17 unnamed speaker It's a doom clone.
ELON MUSK's New Grok 4 Is Here! - We Break it Down
- ▶ 25:28 unnamed speaker It's a Doom clone.
Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 9:33 Jensen Huang How do I make, you know, Doom faster?
Personal benchmarks vs HumanEval - with Nicholas Carlini of DeepMind
- ▶ 1:44 unnamed speaker And so like a doom clone in JavaScript.
Episode 726 | Selling 29,000 Copies, Information vs. Motivation,...
- ▶ 19:39 Rob Walling My next topic stems around a quote from John Romero, who is the co-creator of id Software, and co-creator of Doom, and Quake, several other games.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:09:00 David Rosenthal That was enabled, you know, Doom came before and was really just like the genius of Carmack as a programmer to enable a first person shooter to happen on a,
Episode 719 | How to Test Pricing, Lifetime Deals, and Building S...
- ▶ 22:57 Rob Walling Another one is Masters of Doom, which is a story of id Software that made Doom and Quake and Wolfenstein
How Discord Became a Developer Platform
- ▶ 14:17 Jason Citrin I think id Software popularized this in the early days with Doom.
Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:58 Mario Schlosser And, um, the guys who invented doom, for example, would have probably figured out a clever algorithm there.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang · Acquired
- ▶ 57:48 Jensen Huang Uh, decided to use acceleration, because remember, Doom was completely software rendered, and the NVIDIA philosophy was that although general purpose computing is a fabulous thing, it's going to enable software and IT and everything, um,…
- ▶ 58:23 Jensen Huang I mean, quite frankly, if you look at, look at Doom, ah, the performance of Doom was really hard to achieve, even with accelerators at the time.
- ▶ 58:37 David Rosenthal The problem with Doom though was
Amjad Masad: How I Founded Replit; Zuck's Famous Saying; Will TikTok be banned? | E987 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:06 Amjad Masad He, he made Doom.
a16z Podcast: Best Clips of 2022
- ▶ 11:46 Neal Stephenson Doom came out the year after Snow Crash was published, and it's kind of almost hard to remember a time when there weren't games like Doom, meaning games where your screen is a, a flat window into a three-dimensional world. 3 times in the scene
Why are chips interesting again?
- ▶ 13:17 Jay Goldberg Yeah, my, my, yeah, my teenage son is, is a big, big into video games, and he's always telling me about some new port of Doom, like the 19 nineties video game Doom, that you can now play on a pregnancy test, or on a, a, a Christmas… 2 times in the scene
Alienware: Frank Azor and Nelson Gonzalez
- ▶ 8:52 Nelson Gonzalez The game that really got me going, the first time I saw it, was Doom. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:17 Frank Azor You had, uh, obviously, you know, John Carmack at id developing the Doom series and the Quake series.
Neal Stephenson on the Future of the Metaverse
- ▶ 15:58 Neal Stephenson Doom came out the year after Snow Crash was published, and it's kind of almost hard to remember a time when there weren't games like Doom, meaning games where your screen is a flat window into a three-dimensional world. 3 times in the scene
Episode 635 | Where Are They Now? Catching up with TinySeed Tales...
The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories · Acquired
- ▶ 24:08 David Rosenthal Giant wave led by doom and home adoption of PCs.
Nvidia: The GPU Company (1993-2006) · Acquired
- ▶ 36:57 David Rosenthal Kids want to play games on PCs with Doom.
E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more
- ▶ 35:07 Jason Calacanis But the other one that was very interesting was the ESRB, which is the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, because video games like Mortal Kombat and those and Doom were
AgentRisk Has $27m in AUM, Better Version of Family Office?
- ▶ 18:07 John Vlachogiannis The one is called Masters of Doom, and it's how the, uh, ID software that creators of Doom and Quake, uh, started, uh, their whole business, and it's like eye-opening, and the other is, uh, like a virgin from, uh, Richard Branson, how he…
a16z Podcast | When Is VR's iPhone Moment?
- ▶ 2:07 Darshan Shankar Have VR versions, so Doom, Fallout.
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein
- ▶ 4:10 John Epstein Of course, but back then, um, you know, it was, uh, people were playing Quake and Doom, and it was kind of hard to find players, uh, if they weren't on your LAN.