John Markoff
person on 5 shows · 4 statements across 2 episodes · said 12 times in 5 episodes since 2017
the a16z Podcast 6 
Latent Space 2 
My First Million 2 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1 
American Optimist 1
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the a16z Podcast 6Latent Space 2My First Million 2the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1American Optimist 1
2025 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2024 6 mentions in 1 episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
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Andreessen: The first NYT article on Mosaic featured uninvolved supervisors
“The bad news is it featured my boss and my boss's boss. Who had nothing to do with the project?”
Markoff backed away from his alarmist stance on AI job loss
“I was an alarmist. And gradually, over the last four or five years, I've come way over.”
Markoff: Offshore call center jobs are returning to US data centers as software
“Because of falling cost of telecommunication, many of those jobs were outsourced to the Philippines and India. And now you have this Freakonomics reverse thing happening where those jobs are coming back to run in U.S. Data centers as software, not as U.S. Work…”
Markoff: Consumers will eventually prefer talking to machines over humans for efficiency
“First people will hate talking to machines, and then just like ATMs and bank tellers, they'll realize that it's a more efficient way to get the information you want. And we will spend much of our time talking to machines.”