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TBPN 24 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 22 
BG2 Pod 19 
No Priors 19 
Top Founders 16 
Big Technology 9 
In Depth 7 
My First Million 7 
Capital Allocators 7 
How I Built This 7 
Innovators & Investors 6 
Cheeky Pint 6 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 6 
We Live to Build 5 
the Knowledge Project 4 
the Neon Show 4 
A Product Market Fit Show 4 
All-In 4 
Mixergy 3 
American Optimist 3 
Lenny's Podcast 3 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 3 
Sourcery 3
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Linux comes up on the a16z Podcast, Latent Space, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast, 20VC, the MAD Podcast
GPT-6 Astra: How I’d Make Money With It
- ▶ 17:00 Michael Shemelis I, um, I have a PS four lying around and I was wondering if I can, I boot Linux on a PS four and run agents on it. 5 times in the scene
How Chess.com Became the World’s Biggest Chess Community with CEO Erik Allebest
- ▶ 7:53 Erik Allebest They're kind of the, I would say the Linux of, uh, you know, they exist for a really important reason.
AI Is Learning to Hack. Faster Than We Expected.
- ▶ 12:17 Dylan Ayrey There was a foundational Linux library that one of the keys had direct push access to.
Open Source vs. Closed Source, NVIDIA Backs SSI, YC Startup School Fills Stadium | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 16:00 unnamed speaker You got Adobe, Capital One, Cisco, Cloudflare, Cognition, CrowdStrike, Databricks, Dell, uh, IBM, Linux, Microsoft.
Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA · Y Combinator
- ▶ 28:34 Jensen Huang And, and, um, uh, in a lot of ways, open claw to me was very Linux moment to me.
- ▶ 40:03 Jensen Huang If not for open, if not for Linux, if not for Kubernetes, if not for all of these, you know, platform, if not for, uh, TensorFlow or more important, uh, PyTorch, right?
DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control
- ▶ 38:51 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) Yes, on Linux. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:07 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) And I will also apply it in reverse on my own accord that if I know something about programming, about using Ruby or about using Linux, 5 times in the scene
AI Agents Hack Hugging Face, White House Promotes Science’s Golden Age | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:43 Jordi Hays Google's V-A JavaScript engine, very important to secure, the Linux kernel, for example.
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 9:22 Qasar Younis Like, even that sounds trivial, because when you think about, mostly when you think about models, you think about deploying them through a browser or on a phone, and everything's abstracted away, because you have iOS, and you have Android,…
Hyperscalers Are Out of Capacity? | MongoDB CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Brian Armstrong: Bitcoin, Banks & The New Rules Of Money | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:31:37 Nikhil Kamath We had this phase where there was Microsoft available and there was Linux available.
🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences
- ▶ 1:15:31 Rafa Gomez-Bombarelli And if you're a Linux
The Future of AI Infra: from Kubernetes to Agent Sandboxes — Akshat Bubna, Modal CTO
- ▶ 32:50 unnamed speaker It used to involve a full sidecar, but now you have eBPF in the Linux kernel.
AI’s True Cyber Risk: Fable, Mythos, China, and The Rest — With Alex Stamos
- ▶ 7:20 Alex Stamos And so, yes, you can trick Fable into doing certain things, but you can't trick it into doing the really powerful Mythos stuff, which is like grind on the Linux kernel for all day and find a bunch of bugs, which will cost you hundreds of…
Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- ▶ 2:08:11 Alex Stamos And so, yes, you can trick Fable into doing certain things, but you can't trick it into doing the really powerful Mythos stuff, which is like grind on the Linux kernel for all day and find a bunch of bugs, which will cost you hundreds of…
DeepSeek Raises at $50B | The Rise of Open Source vs OpenAI & Anthropic | OpenAI Builds Own Chip · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:41 unnamed speaker Open source in, in inference and training is not free, unlike Linux.
The GPU Myth: State of AI Compute 2026 | Stephen Balaban
- ▶ 53:25 Stephen Balaban When we do onboarding, for example, I used to do this thing in what's called Lambda one-on-one and we would show a picture of like a Linux penguin.
Claude Fable 5 is BANNED. What to do?
- ▶ 10:12 Greg Isenberg A 128 gigabyte of memory decides to stay on 24 seven, it runs Linux, and it's really becoming, ah, the default for AI box on your desk, for people who are, you know, serious.
The Most AI-Pilled CEO We Know · Y Combinator
- ▶ 35:45 unnamed speaker There's still not a lot of people that use Linux, by the way.
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 36:10 Erik Torenberg And, you know, is it, I don't know, something crazy like rebuilding YouTube from scratch, or rewriting Linux from scratch, or,
⚡️Making DeepSeek v4 outperform Opus 4.7 with Taste — @AhmadAwais , CommandCode.ai
- ▶ 38:38 Ahmad Awais One is like Linux where you build your own drivers, like Pi.
GitHub’s Agent Era: 14x Commits, 200M Developers, Copilot’s Next Act — Kyle Daigle
- ▶ 1:19:54 Kyle Daigle Like, um, you know, a Mac device or a Linux device and you're like, okay, I don't use windows.
Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?
- ▶ 44:51 Jason Calacanis So like Linux for your desktop never really took off because the interface was never polished.
The Right Way To Build AI Agents — With NVIDIA's Adel El Hallak and ServiceNow's Joe Davis
- ▶ 8:54 Adel El Hallak Like, you look at Linux, it surpassed Linux, it surpassed React in a few weeks, right? 2 times in the scene
AI Agents Need Computers: 74% MoM Growth, 850K/Day Runs, & New Agent Cloud — Ivan Burazin, Daytona
- ▶ 13:00 Ivan Burazin So it was very, it was basically just a Linux box that you could change that, that you could define number of CPUs, disk and RAM.
- ▶ 35:38 Ivan Burazin So computer use, um, either Mac or Windows or Linux. 4 times in the scene
The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
- ▶ 5:10 Shawn Wang You added patches to the links kernel this week?
- ▶ 53:25 Jake Cooper You'd like a lay box that speaks Linux, right? 2 times in the scene
The Agent Harness: Building Secure Sandboxes for Autonomous AI Workloads
- ▶ 13:55 Ivan Borzin And then it does have to fire up a, you know, Windows, a Mac, a Linux sort of desktop or a browser to go through the thing.
- ▶ 45:25 Ivan Borzin It's not just a Linux CPU box.
- ▶ 49:37 Ivan Borzin I need a Linux.
The $1M+ Solo AI Agent Business (Full Course)
- ▶ 33:12 unnamed speaker Um, so just real quick and go Claude code install command for Linux.
Making $$ with AI Agents
What comes after smartphones, with Evan Spiegel of Snap
- ▶ 7:46 Evan Spiegel Uh, on Linux was really difficult to do, but it's way more performant than trying to repurpose Android, right? 2 times in the scene
How to Make Claude Code Your AI Engineering Team · Y Combinator
Hermes Agent: The New OpenClaw?
- ▶ 7:19 unnamed speaker And if you're on Linux, Mac OS, or even windows subsystem for Linux, it's just this one line command. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic’s Mythos Dilemma, Violence Against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta
- ▶ 11:15 Alex Kantrowitz Mythos also reportedly found several potential exploits in the Linux kernel, but was unable to exploit any of them because of Linux's defense 2 times in the scene
Andy Jassy’s Shareholder Letter, Meek Mill Joins the AI Race| Diet TBPN
- ▶ 5:54 unnamed speaker When we launched EC two or compute service, it was a single instance in one availability zone, Linux only with no auto scaling, load balancing, block storage, or private networking.
Extreme Harness Engineering: 1M LOC, 1B toks/day, 0% human code or review — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI
- ▶ 29:37 unnamed speaker I think like the, the only argument I have against this is basically scale testing, which obviously the larger pieces of software like Linux, MySQL,
- ▶ 36:24 Ryan Lopopolo I open Linux twice a day and, ah, you know, say yes, no to these things.
How I use iMessage and AI to run my life
- ▶ 17:29 unnamed speaker I really compare it to, like, Linux versus macOS. 5 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
- ▶ 33:13 Marc Andreessen For those of us who are older, there was this whole thing that was very important in the world of software, basically from, like, 1970 to, I don't know, it still is very important, but, like, 19, from 1970 through to, like, basically the…
AI Is Coming for Your Memes, Crypto’s Quantum Clock, Axios Hack| Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:41 Tyler Cosgrove They built separate versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
The Axios Supply Chain Attack Explained
- ▶ 4:33 unnamed speaker They built separate versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Bezos' $100B AI Plan, Nvida Chip Smuggling, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 18:58 unnamed speaker A couple thousand dollars on a Mac book and a lot of open source software because you're using Python and Linux and these things.
Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI
- ▶ 49:50 Andrej Karpathy So for example, in operating systems, you have like closed, so like, you know, windows and macOS, these are large software projects, kind of like what LLMs are going to become and there's Linux, but Linux is very easy. 4 times in the scene
I fixed OpenClaw so it actually works (full setup)
- ▶ 10:29 Moritz Kremb So it's, it then kind of becomes a question, you know, it's like, why would you use a Linux over, uh, over windows?
NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:26 Jason Lemkin Like why now Jensen said it's the most GitHub stars per unit time, faster than Linux, faster than anything.
Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
- ▶ 24:39 Benedict Evans OpenClaw is kind of interesting to me because it looks a lot kind of like desktop Linux, in that, like, suddenly you, you've been having to use this monolithic thing from these big companies where you couldn't really get your hands on the… 2 times in the scene
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- ▶ 13:36 Felix Rieseberg Um, so what we can do with the VM is because it's a, it's a Linux system.
$100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH)
- ▶ 1:13:57 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) That turned out as well as it could have, but it did inspire me to explore new terrain, and if I hadn't, if I hadn't had that experience, would I build my own Linux distribution that is now used by tens of thousands of people? 3 times in the scene
Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 25:02 Olivia Moore It passed React, it passed Linux. 2 times in the scene
Cursor's Third Era: Cloud Agents — ft. Sam Whitmore, Jonas Nelle, Cursor
- ▶ 31:44 unnamed speaker Like a Linux VM.
The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:05 Jerry Murdock People couldn't afford to build websites with, uh, Sun, Sun servers and Oracle databases, which were expensive, but the lamp sack came out, which was Linux, Apache, web server, um, MySQL database and PHP front end development tool.
What The Citrini Selloff Says About the Stock Market
- ▶ 12:07 John Coogan Photoshop that people use on Linux, and they've never really gotten adoption.
Kim K's New Energy Drink, Citrini Discourse Rages On, the $100B Meta-AMD Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 9:27 John Coogan There's, there's an open source Photoshop that people use on Linux, and they've never really gotten adoption.
FULL INTERVIEW: Dylan Patel Says We’re Still Underestimating AI
- ▶ 30:13 unnamed speaker It's North Korea's Linux distribution.
One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation
- ▶ 1:01:59 David Soria Parra Look at like, what's the problems of HDMI and Linux? 2 times in the scene
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 48:35 Benedict Evans Linux is obviously not an option for any normal person.
The Future of Venture: Massive VC's Vision for Longevity and Impact
- ▶ 34:20 Ari Newman I was a self-taught Linux admin and we had
After LLMs: Spatial Intelligence and World Models — Fei-Fei Li & Justin Johnson, World Labs
- ▶ 17:22 Justin Johnson So one of the, like, one of the data sets that we, that we trained on for this one was the, the, um, the Linux source code, right?
The State of AI: A Field Trip to TBPN’s Aura Farm + Today’s Top Tech Stories | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 16:52 John Coogan And that's sort of what Linux, how Linux works. 2 times in the scene
Satya Nadella describes how lessons from Microsoft’s history apply to today’s boom
- ▶ 1:02:30 John Collison oh, it's a place you can run your SQL server, and then fully embracing Linux later on and things like that. 3 times in the scene
Blue Origin Lands Rocket, Valve Drops Steam Machine, Cantor Group Surges | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 8:23 Jordi Hays They all run on Linux.
The Founder Who Mastered Timing Ft Sachin Aggarwal | StackGen
- ▶ 34:50 Sachin Aggarwal I went to understand what is Linux kernels and
Building the Real-World Infrastructure for AI, with Google, Cisco & a16z
- ▶ 9:37 Amin Vahdat Like the notion that actually you would scale out on commodity PCs, essentially, the same ones that you could buy off the shelf, running a Linux stack, and that's what you would do for disk, that's what you would do for compute, that's…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Live on TBPN
- ▶ 12:31 Satya Nadella You run Linux?
The antidote to AI fatigue — Answer.ai Solveit
- ▶ 11:50 Jeremy Howard But behind the scenes, we've actually launched a persistent Linux Docker container for you and attached it to a unique URL for you.
Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 53:07 Marc Andreessen They had their own versions of Unix, and they made a lot of money on those, and then Linux, you know, same story, Linux came along, looked like a toy, um, and then, you know, 10 years later, it was better than all the proprietary ones, and…
Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption
- ▶ 30:14 unnamed speaker So we do microcontrollers, Linux computers, so think about any microcontroller you can think of.
The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:18 Amjad Masad Um, the way, ah, software engineering agents are trained today is they're trained on standard Linux environment. 2 times in the scene
Booz Allen CTO: AI in Government, Autonomous Driving, Quantum's Promise
Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
- ▶ 3:44 Chris Dixon Um, you know, why did Linux go from a hobby project in the nineties to the dominant operating system on in the world today?
He quit his job, went all-in on AI agents—then grew to 100K users & a $30M Series A in a year. | ... · PMF Show
- ▶ 3:28 Soham Ganatra Like, what you could think of Composio in a way is, like, we, we do the same thing very, in a very specific manner, specifically for, like, agents in the Linux.
Ashlee Vance: Stories from Elon, Palmer Luckey, Bryan Johnson & Priscilla Chan · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 23:37 Ashlee Vance It was just running, like, streaming Linux,
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- ▶ 1:03:56 Benedict Evans You weren't going to buy a Linux computer.
⚡️Launching Ona: Coding Agent with Fully Sandboxed Cloud Environment
- ▶ 14:03 Johannes (Johannes Landgraf) And I think that is, as you, as you mentioned, huge difference from, from folks like Bolt who use web containers, um, is that everything that runs on Linux runs on Ona. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:28 Shawn Wang I ran my Linux box from you.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:00:37 David Rosenthal And Android did the same thing with Linux.
- ▶ 4:00:39 David Rosenthal They wrestled Linux into a battery-powered mobile device that fits in your pocket.
Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future
- ▶ 0:21 Steven Sinofsky It's literally just the ampersand in Linux, which is, it's a background sound.
- ▶ 0:47 Steven Sinofsky So, so I, I actually have a very old person view of what an agent is, which is, it's literally just the ampersand in Linux, which is, it's a background task.
Long Live Context Engineering - with Jeff Huber of Chroma
- ▶ 53:13 Shawn Wang Rust, like, like, you know, like Linux kernel, what are we talking here?
Greg Brockman on OpenAI's Road to AGI
- ▶ 31:20 unnamed speaker There's an analogy that I make to like the Linux kernel OS rings as well.
The Current Reality of American AI Policy: From ‘Pause AI’ to ‘Build’
- ▶ 21:39 Anjney Midha Oh, look, I, I don't think this is, this part is actually, is, is playing out beautifully along the same trend lines of all previous computing infrastructure, databases, analytics, operating systems, like Linux.
Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
- ▶ 58:55 John Coogan Is this a Linux scale opportunity?
Microsoft’s Cloud Outpaces Its AI Growth
- ▶ 6:10 unnamed speaker You just want a Linux box with a CPU to host a website.
From the Dot-Com Crash to the AI Era: How Builders Survive Waves of Disruption
- ▶ 0:44 Martin Casado So when VMware came out, I remember like it was the late nineties and I could run like Linux on my, you know, windows and it was the most amazing, magical moment.
⚡️OpenCode: Claude Code but Open Source, with Any Model, and frontier TUI - with Dax Reed (@thdxr)
China Open-Source, Compute Arms Race, Reordering Global Trade | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 10:13 Bill Gurley And you can imagine when, um, most of the world accuses you of IP theft that, that embracing something like Linux and all the other software, open source products, um, seems very appealing, right?
- ▶ 16:14 Sunny Madra That's what you sort of got out of Linux and say Red Hat, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:22 Bill Gurley You know, is Linux American? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:51 Bill Gurley And eventually they all moved to Linux and MySQL.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:17:53 David Rosenthal Yeah, the open source Linux company.
⚡️Warp 2.0: the Agentic Development Environment - Zach Lloyd and Ben Holmes
- ▶ 49:57 Zach Lloyd It's free to try on every platform, Mac, Linux, Windows.
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:30 Andrej Karpathy And it's kind of interesting to me that the ecosystem is shaping in a very similar kind of way where you have a few closed source providers like Windows or Mac OS, and then you have an open source alternative like Linux, and I think for,… 2 times in the scene
Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- ▶ 6:16 Steven Sinofsky Then you start getting out there, and then in servers actually ended up being like, at best case, fifty-fifty, and it's been downhill, and it's all Linux now.
Building Long-Term Success through Operator-Led Investing in AI-Enabled SaaS
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