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the a16z Podcast 22 
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TBPN 14 
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Lenny's Podcast 9 
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2026 55 mentions in 38 episodes 1 per episode
- Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler
- Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
- Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases
- Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick
- Next 100x in AI: Inference, Networking, & Self-Optimizing Models — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten
- Managing 20+ AI Agents: Lazy Agents, Our $500K AI Bill, Stealth Churn & the Death of 60% Solutions
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2025 33 mentions in 28 episodes 1 per episode
- From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
- OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival
- Side Hustle King: 3 Easy Businesses Anyone Can Start | Chris Koerner
- Advice Line with Luis von Ahn of Duolingo
- AI Device Wars Heat Up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers
- After LLMs: Spatial Intelligence and World Models — Fei-Fei Li & Justin Johnson, World Labs
- How Zyphra went all-in on AMD + Why Devs feel faster with AI but are slower — with Quentin Anthony
- Sequoia Capital Partner Shaun Maguire Live on TBPN
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2024 36 mentions in 28 episodes 1 per episode
- Just evil enough: Subversive marketing strategies for startups | Alistair Croll
- iPhone16 Arrives + Apple Intelligence Delays
- Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- LLM Asia Paper Club Survey Round
- Arthur Mensch: Open vs Closed - Who Wins and Mistral's Position | E1146 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- How Shopify Found Product Market Fit w/ Aydin Senkut (Managing Partner at Felicis & Series A Inve... · PMF Show
- Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI
- How Nomic AI Is Driving The Open Source Revolution
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2023 16 mentions in 11 episodes 1 per episode
- An inside look at Figma’s unique GTM motion | Claire Butler (first GTM hire)
- Startup Acquisition Stories with Colin Dougherty, Director of Marketing at Zenlytic
- The Boys React: Tech Layoffs, IG Founder Starts A New Company & More Tech News (#415)
- The State of Silicon and the GPU Poors - with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis
- In conversation with Dean Phillips
- The True Cost of Compute
- No Priors Ep. 30 | With Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch
- Chasing Silicon: The Race for GPUs
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2022 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Unlocking B2B Influencer Marketing: How I used $20k to get over $1M in ARR
- Daniel Yanisse: Biggest Mistakes Founders Make in the Hiring Process | 20VC #903 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Josh Wolfe – Caution and Innovation at Lux Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 8 (Capital Allocators, EP.236)
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2021 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 15 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
- a16z Podcast | What Comes After the Smartphone
- 1561 How To Get 5 Team Members Paying Personally Onto One Team Account with $5m ARR MixMax
- a16z Podcast | Quantum Computing, Now and Next
- a16z Podcast | Apple and the Case of Invisible But Audible Innovation
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2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2016 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
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7 statements about MacBook, every show
Siegler: Adapting macOS for touch input is Apple's primary MacBook challenge
“I think the bigger issue is how they do Mac OS to deal with this touch element, because that's been part of the talking point, right? Of like why they weren't going to do a touch screen Mac in the past. It's like, it's just a different beast. There's different…”
Jenik: Accelerated Understanding's medium-sized physics models run inference on Mac Studios
“We have done inference on, like, we can do small models with smaller context, or even medium big models with smaller context fit on a MacBook or Mac Studio.”
TSMC manufactures all NVIDIA chips and every iPhone and Mac processor
“They make the primary chip inside every MacBook and iPhone shipped today. They're powering the AI wave, manufacturing all of NVIDIA's chips.”
Mensch: 7B parameter models run efficiently on smartphones and MacBooks
“And seven B is the size that allows to run Efficiently a model on your Macbook or on your smartphone.”
Sinofsky: Late 2016 Apple and Microsoft PCs used year-old chips
“Well, in fact, all of the new devices that were announced this week are running components at least a year old, and in some cases, two years old. The graphics on, on the surface are the last generation of video, the CPUs on Intel, or the, I mean, on, on the Ma…”
Evans: The MacBook is at the top of its S-curve
“The MacBook isn't changing what it is. The MacBook has been, is at the top of the S curve. This is better propellers on your Lockheed Constellation.”
Sinofsky: iPad Pro has 100% replaced my laptop workflow
“Literally, this is the only thing I've carried all week. I have no, I haven't missed my MacBook. I haven't missed my PC laptop. I have made slides. I've worked on spreadsheets. I've written a blog post. I've used apps. I've used the browser. Like, it's a hundr…”