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every year every show the a16z Podcast 121 Latent Space 51 the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 44 20VC 40 the MAD Podcast 35 Acquired 28 David Senra 27 Another Podcast 24 
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
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 50:35 Steve Ballmer Well, remember, by this time, we're not through our IBM competition, and we got Linux competition now on the docket, because Linux is competing with Windows Server.
- ▶ 50:47 Steve Ballmer Linux is competing with Windows, and there's a thing called OpenOffice.
- ▶ 51:58 Steve Ballmer I mean, people say that they might mean Azure, AWS, or in the old days, Windows, or Windows Server, or Unix, uh, then Linux.
- ▶ 55:55 Steve Ballmer Linux is right there on the horizon.
- ▶ 57:25 Ben Gilbert We're still in this death grip for enterprise developers or this death fight against IBM, and yet there's now Linux and the web for these more sort of like independent or platform of the future looking developers and
- ▶ 57:52 Steve Ballmer There's some infrastructure on top of Linux that people are using to write
- ▶ 1:21:02 Steve Ballmer You become a different kind of a platform because you're running other people's Linux and whatever.
Beyond Leaderboards: LMArena’s Mission to Make AI Reliable
- ▶ 42:50 Ion Stoica But then, you know, although it didn't come from academia, it was Linux, right? 2 times in the scene
How BrightHive is Unlocking the Power of AI to Transform Data-Driven Work
- ▶ 28:33 Suzanne El-Moursi Um, I got my first master's in computer science, um, back when, you know, very different languages were being taught, uh, C++ and, and, and Java and, um, Linux and mainframe.
Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive)
- ▶ 43:28 Jeremy Howard It'll be like, oh, it didn't seem to work, and it knows exactly what happened, because it just saw it, and it'll be, you know, like, oh, I see actually you're running on this version of Linux, you know, that version, you have this issue.
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)
- ▶ 55:52 Nabeel S. Qureshi That process alone for an engineer, it used to take a long time, especially pre-vive coding and, and managing all those cron jobs and doing this on a Linux VM somewhere inside the customer's tenant was a huge pain, right?
- ▶ 1:04:36 Nabeel S. Qureshi And it was just, like, the, the, the point here was just, like, if you're not, like, a mega, you know, Linux nerd, hardcore computer person, then we don't want you here, even if you actually passed all the tests just because you like to…
Voice AI Masterclass — Kwindla Hultman Kramer and swyx
- ▶ 17:28 Kwindla Hultman Kramer Compiling the Linux curl in, like, 1999.
EP7 Nationalistic Interests, Humanitarian Efforts & Future of AI ft Vinayak Hegde
- ▶ 5:01 Vinayak Hegde Uh, so we built a solution on top of Linux and that was like my first startup.
He Called It a 10-Year Project Before They Even Had a Prototype
- ▶ 5:07 Russell Brand And it ran a version of Unix that isn't particularly different than the Linux I run today.
Why Every Agent needs Open Source Cloud Sandboxes
- ▶ 24:26 Vasek Mlejnsky So whatever you can run on a Linux, you can run inside the sandbox.
- ▶ 54:23 Vasek Mlejnsky I, I think for real computer use, you really want to support more platforms than just Linux.
20VC: Foundation Models: Who Wins & Who Loses | How Economies and Labour Markets Need to Change in a World of AI | China vs the US in an AI Race: What You Need to Know | Rich Socher, Founder @ You.com
- ▶ 53:57 Harry Stebbings You really, how do you think about the distribution of value between closed source and open source, and do you not think it follows the, like, the, the latest of Linux?
Vizio: William Wang
- ▶ 25:09 William Wang Linux-based software for us.
SF Compute: Commoditizing Compute
- ▶ 1:09:21 Evan Conrad This is like low-level systems, or low-level Linux-y people. 2 times in the scene
The Most UNDERRATED Use Case in AI | Jeff Huber on TBPN April 8th
- ▶ 5:19 John Coogan Do you think, um, there's an opportunity to build a company like Red Hat in Linux, but for LLM implementation on top of something like Llama?
Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 20:24 Bill Gurley If you look on most of the major open source product, uh, products and look at the management page and who the sponsors are for these, like Linux, you know, you'll see many of the major Chinese companies have been there and been supporting… 2 times in the scene
Building Manus AI (first ever Manus Meetup)
- ▶ 34:06 unnamed speaker Uh, in the future, actually, we, we are not just a, kind of create a minimax-based virtual machine for Linux.
No Priors Ep 106 | With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke
- ▶ 42:17 Thomas Dohmke What has won, uh, iPhone or Android, uh, Windows or Linux, um, or Mac OS for that matter.
Agent Experience: Building an Open Web for the AI Era
- ▶ 35:02 Martin Casado But, but, but namespaces in the Linux kernel had been around for a long time.
Browserbase: Browser Infrastructure For Your AI Agents
- ▶ 33:16 unnamed speaker They wrote a custom fork of Linux or something that let them save the system state and clone it.
Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto
- ▶ 5:01 Chris Dixon But when, you know, Linux went from like zero percent market share in the nineties to
smol agents are all you need
- ▶ 19:01 Swyx (Marcos Swix) Usually it's a virtual machine, you know, like a, like a Linux instance or something.
Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:01 Fabien Pinckaers Oh, I, I'm passionate about open source, you know, Linux stuff and so on, so I did a e-commerce with a Linux t-shirt and ties and Debian and everything, and I sold, I actually sold a lot, but it was really painful to, to post all these…
- ▶ 1:14:00 Fabien Pinckaers Fast forward today, it's only Windows, iOS, and Linux.
The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
- ▶ 53:53 Bret Taylor And so, you know, in general, I think we've gone from these protocols defined in a document to basically open source code that becomes an implicit standard, like systems calls and Linux, like.
DeepSeek, Open Source, Tariffs, DOGE, Market Impact | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 7:09 Bill Gurley And so you ended up with very special versions of Linux and whatnot where things are just ripped out and ripped out and ripped out.
- ▶ 22:04 Bill Gurley If you look at all of the major projects like Linux or MySQL, and most of these, um, open source projects have a website, and you can see who the leading donors are, and just go to the Linux one. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:13 Bill Gurley So one, you know, I, I was being provocative when I said foreign, and you could read China, but if you think about it, like Linux doesn't have a geography, right?
Jonathan Ross: DeepSeek Special - How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | E1253 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:54 Jonathan Ross Linux won back when people didn't trust open source. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:50 Jonathan Ross You know, LLMs, um, is a little bit like you look at an open source, um, project, software project, like, um, Linux or something. 3 times in the scene
DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy
- ▶ 1:22:11 John Coogan I mean, but that's the nature of, like, the Linux wars and versus, like, Microsoft, like, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:40:13 John Coogan I, I think you could also say, like, well, you know, Microsoft also had, you know, Windows that they charged a lot of money for, and then Linux was open source, and that didn't really change the model. 2 times in the scene
Inside Theory Ventures: Tomasz Tunguz’s $688M Thesis on Go-To-Market Disruption · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 23:52 Tomasz Tunguz Like a Linux command line utility called rsync that allowed you to synchronize the status of two different folders.
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 1:48:24 Alfred Lin Um, and just like, you know, Google built a great business that is pretty close source on open, on open source software, like Linux.
- ▶ 1:52:34 Alfred Lin More and more people learned how to program in HTML and Python and wrote, and Linux, and learn how to use Linux to build, uh, today, and that happened with cloud and mobile.
AI Engineering for Art - with comfyanonymous
- ▶ 34:13 comfyanonymous (Comfy) Like, on Linux, it works fine. 3 times in the scene
Satya Nadella | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 1:21:14 Satya Nadella I mean, I think he talks openly and very eloquently about how he wants to be the Linux of LLMs. 2 times in the scene
10 - Investing in Early-Stage Cybersecurity and Enterprise Software Startups with Rain Capital Partner David Cross
- ▶ 6:56 David Cross Do you need the same thing if you're a Windows laptop shop versus a Linux server environment?
0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
- ▶ 20:41 Shawn Wang This is all, basically the task involved, as I understand it, it's mapping every single Linux syscall to some kind of WebAssembly implementation.
The new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Computer Use, and Building SOTA Agents — with Erik Schluntz, Anthropic
- ▶ 30:42 Erik Schluntz I think examples are really good in things like descriptions, like so many, like just using the Linux command line, like how many times I do like dash dash help or look at the man page or something.
WTF is Artificial Intelligence Really? | Yann LeCun x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF Ep #4 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:26:52 Yann LeCun Um, for the same reason that the world of, you know, embedded devices and operating system is dominated by Linux. 2 times in the scene
Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:12 Dan Fougere They tried it with AppDynamics, and they had a Linux update happen, and
Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 31:21 Amjad Masad And so it has access to all, all the packages across all languages, including Linux and, and all of that.
Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
- ▶ 3:10:56 John Coogan So the creator of Linux, uh, Kakashi says the creator of Linux has publicly voiced what I've been saying for the past two years. 2 times in the scene
Can AI Infrastructure Work Like Magic? Erik Bernhardsson, CEO, Modal
- ▶ 51:47 Erik Bernhardsson And there's such amazing technical talent in Europe, especially like low level stuff, you know, Linux, containers, like whatever, like the kind of stuff that we need.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 37:26 David Rosenthal A rich web app as one of these projects, you know, fully built on the LAMP stack, and he had probably used the LAMP stack, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP for course match.
- ▶ 38:36 Ben Gilbert And this is all just, like, free and something you could cobble together and upload onto some Linux web hosting, and boom.
- ▶ 5:43:27 Ben Gilbert Oh, Linux is open source, and this is the free standard that everybody uses, and there's just sort of a foundation behind it all.
Building the Silicon Brain - Drew Houston of Dropbox
- ▶ 50:07 Drew Houston So, like, things were Linux and really good, and there was a good balance of trade, too, where, like, people would contribute their code and then also benefit from the community returning the favor.
Zuck Just Killed the Apple Vision Pro (ep2)
- ▶ 45:53 John Coogan Um, but I mean, there are big businesses that, like Red Hat is a huge, huge, multi-billion dollar company, and it's a fork of Linux.
His 1st startup failed—but his 2nd one hit $100M ARR & a $1.6B valuation. Here's what he learned.... · PMF Show
- ▶ 20:05 Liron Zvibel So we can run alongside Linux, but we've, we've actually implemented our own hardware level hypervisor that allows you to curve
Ep18. Jensen Recap - Competitive Moat, X.AI, Smart Assistant | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 24:36 Bill Gurley And five years later, they were all running on Linux and MySQL, like in five years.
Replit CEO Builds an App with 100% AI in 20 Min: Future of Coding?
- ▶ 10:52 Amjad Masad Um, and this is again doing kind of standard Linux, uh, configuration.
Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:44 Bret Taylor Built and financed by some of the hyperscalers, um, in partnership with the research labs, and that we would eventually have a meaningful open source model or two, the equivalent of Postgres and MySQL in the database market that would come…
He built Cohere into a $5.5B AI startup; How to Win in AI; & Why LLMs won't lead to AGI. | Nick F... · PMF Show
- ▶ 21:19 Nick Frosst Um, but it's not open source the way Linux is open source. 2 times in the scene
Ep15: Inside Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 1:14:52 Bill Gurley So do the Linux, you know, of SMRs.
No Priors Ep. 78 | With AWS CEO Matt Garman
- ▶ 4:56 Matt Garman When, when we gave you, uh, a virtual Linux server, uh, 2 times in the scene
Personal benchmarks vs HumanEval - with Nicholas Carlini of DeepMind
- ▶ 48:58 Nicholas Carlini I run the thing on Linux.
How Nothing Founder Carl Pei Built A Multi-Million Dollar Smartphone Brand In Just 2 Years · Y Combinator
Ep13. Silicon Valley’s Political 180, META AI, COVID Postmortem | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 33:16 Brad Gerstner You know, he, first he points to Linux and Unix and it is just being a great unlock by unleashing the power of the long tail.
- ▶ 1:13:44 Bill Gurley but you would think there'd be a hardened Linux thing that would be so much less susceptible to this kind of risk.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:02:31 Ben Gilbert I mean, if you think about where all the development efforts were going, it was the LAMP stack, the, uh, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, the stuff Facebook was written on.
- ▶ 3:45:24 David Rosenthal They didn't go full infrastructure as a service and embrace open source and let people use Azure to run Linux into LAMP stack on top of it.
- ▶ 3:55:26 David Rosenthal Like you're saying, Ben, they might be running Linux on there.
3 Startup Ideas: Mouse Jigglers, Employee Monitoring Softwares and Photoshop Copycats
No Priors Ep. 68 | With Zapier Co-Founder and Head of AI Mike Knoop
Sheryl Sandberg, plus open-source AI gene editing explained
- ▶ 1:10:49 David Friedberg It's almost the equivalent of having Linux where everyone can now, you know, as an operating system or HTML being, you know, standard, uh, code.
Meta's Generative AI Head: How We Trained Llama 3
- ▶ 14:33 Meta's Generative AI Head Feedback from the community in Lama two was like, how do you kill a thread in, in Linux?
Chris Dixon - Empty Rooms: Web3 After the Fall (EP.380)
- ▶ 20:21 Chris Dixon And then there's the bizarre, which is Linux. 3 times in the scene
Chris Dixon: Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture? | E1132 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:41 Chris Dixon And then the, the, what happened was open source software came along, and particularly like Linux, which is, you know, fast forward today, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:01 Chris Dixon It's like early Linux days or early, like, it's like, you know, thousands of, like,
Tiktok, Apple and Temu
- ▶ 4:34 Benedict Evans It's like, what does a Linux person or an Android person wish
Intelligence in the Age of AI with new CTO of the CIA
- ▶ 31:02 Martin Casado I mean, quite famously, SC Linux came out of the NSA, you know, and they used, kind of, Linux to do it because they required, kind of, like, whatever.
Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI
- ▶ 1:03:58 Soumith Chintala This is like the Linux kernel, and, um, various software projects like that.
The peril (and promise) of AI with Tristan Harris: Part 2
- ▶ 23:01 Tristan Harris Open source code is more safe and more secure because if I do Linux in an open source code way, more people look at the code, they can identify the bugs, they can improve the code.
A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
- ▶ 50:41 Ben Firshman I'm saying this with love as somebody who works on Docker and, like, works on Dockerfiles, um, but it's really hard to use, and you need to know a bunch about Linux, basically, because you're running a bunch of CLI commands. 2 times in the scene
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 44:20 Chris Dixon I think the world just really underestimates how valuable things like Linux are and all, and all of that open source software that, that is the reason why, um, uh, a team with a million dollars can go build a awesome SaaS platform or…
- ▶ 1:30:43 Chris Dixon Like we're trying to, we're political in the sense that Linux is political, I guess.
Truly Serverless Infra for AI Engineers - with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal
- ▶ 11:37 Erik Bernhardsson And then, and then I got sucked into this like rabbit hole of like container cold start and, you know, like whatever Linux page cache, you know,
The Four Wars of the AI Stack - Dec 2023 Recap
- ▶ 1:02:42 unnamed speaker I think that's like, that's, that statement is like a, you know, this is the year of Linux on the desktop thing.
Safety in Numbers: Keeping AI Open
- ▶ 18:54 Arthur Mensch And that's the reason why, uh, the entire internet runs on Linux.
The State of Silicon and the GPU Poors - with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis
- ▶ 21:39 Shawn Wang Is your GPU equivalent up in Linux?
Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:08 Harry Stebbings There are many examples, whether it's, you know, your, your, your kind of Linux to your, you know, Apple and Android.
- ▶ 24:12 Jeff Seibert And so imagine you basically have your sort of default Linux operating system, right?
Doubling Down on Founder-Led Sales with Pilot's Waseem Daher
- ▶ 1:58 Waseem Daher For Linux, this was a problem that my co-founder Jeff had in administering Linux systems while at MIT. 2 times in the scene
How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
- ▶ 4:15 Guillermo Rauch How to replace Windows and our home computer with Linux. 7 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 38 | With Material Security Co-Founder Ryan Noon
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:53 Guillermo Rauch You might not know exactly how, like writing a custom module for the Linux kernel works, but you should be able to understand how the parts fit together if you're evaluating a systems engineer that's joining your company.
- ▶ 1:03:21 Guillermo Rauch In a way, even going further back than Kubernetes, it's almost like having Linux brain. 4 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 35 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
AI Food Fights in the Enterprise with Databricks' Ali Ghodsi
- ▶ 15:41 Ali Ghodsi And in some rare cases like Linux and so on, it bypasses, you know, and in that case that would be game changing.