John Boyd
person on 10 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes · said 45 times in 19 episodes since 2017
the a16z Podcast 14 
Invest Like the Best 9 
American Optimist 5 
20VC 4 
Cheeky Pint 3 
All-In 3 
TBPN 3 
Capital Allocators 2 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1 
In Depth 1
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2026 22 mentions in 6 episodes 4 per episode
- How AI Is Changing Warfare | Palantir CTO · Invest Like The Best
- Palantir CTO on The SaaS Apocalypse & Preventing The Next World War | a16z
- Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz on a16z’s New Media Strategy
- Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
- America’s $700 Billion Defense Tech Rebuild
- Palantir CTO: We Need More Heretics · Joe Lonsdale
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2025 10 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- How to Win in the Age of AI and Autonomy | Shyam Sankar on TBPN
- Mobilizing the American Industrial Base
- The Stablecoin Future, Milei's Memecoin, DOGE for the DoD, Grok 3, Why Stripe Stays Private
- How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi)
- Founders, Media, & Memes: a16z’s Strategy for the Future | a16z LP Summit 2025
- Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down
- The Future of Defense Technology
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2023 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2022 3 mentions in 1 episode
2020 2 mentions in 1 episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 2 mentions in 1 episode
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Sankar: John Boyd's dichotomy separates seeking status from achieving impact
“So John Boyd's advice to other officers other uniformed service members is always like, look, you can either be somebody, or you can do something, but you can't really have both, and if you're gonna be somebody, you gotta play this game, and it's all kind of t…”
Baumgartner: Military OODA Loop Framework Applies to Crisis Allocation
“A way of approaching that is with an OODA loop, and that's an acronym for Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act. It's from the Air Force, Colonel John Boyd. He designed it as a framework for pilots who were facing dogfights, and so you can use both of those as anal…”