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The State of AI: Models, Moats, and the Consumer Renaissance Aug 26, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:28 Anish Acharya Command Line is, we're sort of in the, the DOS era of AI, and for this technology and its capabilities to sort of fully be embraced by consumers, we're going to need the windows, so to say.

How AI Changes the Economics of Innovation Aug 25, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:00 Steven Sinofsky And people are using it on Apple II computers and this new kind of computer called CPM, which is the origin of DOS.

Wiz: $6M Seed → $32B Exit | Inside the Biggest Cybersecurity Deal Ever · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:32 Gilly Raanan You know, I got, uh, you know, a Commodore 64, and, you know, it was pre-Windows, pre-DOS era, and

Inside the Trillion-Dollar AI Buildout | Dylan Patel Interview · Invest Like The Best Sep 30, 2025 · 1 mention

Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future Aug 25, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:42 Steven Sinofsky The, the first word processors in, in, in the DOS era, the character mode era, they all implemented their own print drivers and clipboard.

Benchmark vs a16z: Why Stage Specific Firms Win · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 8, 2025 · 1 mention

Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet) Jun 28, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 49:41 Marc Andreessen We're not going to support not DOS. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 58:06 Marc Andreessen Um, and so to, to, to transition it from a text based, you know, kind of text prompt DOS kind of, kind of situation to be, to be full graph web pages.

David Luan: Why Nvidia Will Enter the Model Space & Models Will Enter the Chip Space | E1169 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 24, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 55:38 David Luan We're going to, you know, it's gonna, it's gonna feel like the same transition from, like, DOS slash command line to the GUI, but from GUI to agents.

Starbucks (with Howard Schultz) · Acquired Jun 4, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 58:38 Ben Gilbert I mean, the, eventually, when they did get point-of-sale terminals, they were DOS-based all the way through like, in, like like like like,,,, in in like like in like in, like like, like like in like, in like, in like,
  • ▶ 1:58:26 David Rosenthal You had been on pen and paper, then you moved to DOS.

Furqan Rydhan on What It's Like Co-founding a $20B Company | My First Million #180 May 12, 2021 · 1 mention

Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography Apr 27, 2019 · 1 mention

Squarespace: Anthony Casalena Mar 4, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:42 Steven Sinofsky So like iMessage is all that humankind can accomplish in the world of communicating with other humans and we're completely done, which like was literally by my pitch for why we needed a Windows word processor in the late eighties was…
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