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How I Built This 8 
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the Official SaaStr Podcast 3 
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Startups For the Rest of Us 1 
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Minecraft comes up on TBPN, the a16z Podcast, In Depth, Latent Space, Another Podcast
Chasing Trillion-Dollar Companies, Founder Ambition, Token Budgets, & Regulatory Capture
World Models, JEPA And The Path To Sample-Efficient RL · Y Combinator
- ▶ 51:11 unnamed speaker Uh, Danijar Hafner publishes Dreamer One, I think, in November of 2018, and then now he's been on this rampage for the last seven years publishing these papers, and Dreamer V IV, I think, is the capstone of it, um, where he basically does… 3 times in the scene
The $44 Billion Company Automating Your Company's Finances
- ▶ 16:11 Eric Glyman Playing like 80 hours, a hundred hours a week just on Minecraft. 3 times in the scene
The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
Bezos' Prometheus Raises $12B, America Inc. Moves to Texas, Trucking Rebounds | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:30 unnamed speaker Travelers can kill time, play everything from Mario Kart to Minecraft before their flight.
Redefining Digital Consciousness with Vishnu Hari of ego | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:16 Josh Browder Maybe they were selling Minecraft servers like Adam Guild or John Andrew, the founder of Wanda.
Intel Rips, Thrive Launches Eternal, GPT 5.5 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:57 unnamed speaker I don't even know if we should pull this up because it's so rude, but, uh, this guy's effectively playing Minecraft through ChatGPT because he has it generate him an image, and then he says, ok, walk closer, and then just generates a new… 2 times in the scene
#2304 “I make $4.5 million implementing AI”
- ▶ 41:57 Jon Cheney It'd be way cheaper for me to let him go play Roblox or Minecraft or whatever, but I wanted him to learn, and, and so I loved that, but, but anyone can do it now.
Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
#1 Followed Neuroscientist: Break Your Negative Thinking
- ▶ 34:04 Emily McDonald Um, and, you know, in, in Minecraft, in my business, um, we have people, like, I'll just say, like, choose a random object, and after listening to this episode, if you're out there listening, like, literally choose just a random object,…
- ▶ 1:11:59 Codie Sanchez And the business is Minecraft. 2 times in the scene
How AI Agents Are Creating 12X Productivity Gains · Joe Lonsdale
Nvidia Restarts China Sales, Vibe Coding Backlash, Peptide Craze | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 10:13 unnamed speaker And then it's like Minecraft parkour over it.
OpenAI Ends Side Quests, SF Housing Market is Back, Kalshi’s $1B Prize | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 24:01 unnamed speaker But if you're trying to build like something like Minecraft, it's like this massive world that's interactive with a ton of different people, like by narrowing down the scope, like the beauty of Minecraft was that the whole thing's voxel… 4 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Think
- ▶ 1:29:58 Marc Andreessen Right, and so maybe it's like Bitcoin, and Minecraft, and WhatsApp, and Instagram, and, and then I start running out of examples.
FULL INTERVIEW: Uber Founder Travis Kalanick is Back with a New AI Startup
- ▶ 29:14 unnamed speaker Um, and that's work that children yearn for the mines of Minecraft, but it's not the best, not the best job.
Reiner Pope of MatX on accelerating AI with transformer-optimized chips
- ▶ 27:05 John Collison The Minecraft, you know, just this is where your, your elements should go.
#2297 Elad Gil backed 40 unicorns. This is next
a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:05 Anish Acharya In fact, one of the products that I would love to exist, my request for startup is what I call a contextual companion for my son who plays Minecraft. 4 times in the scene
Big Tech Earnings, Elon’s SpaceX–xAI Merge, Genie 3 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 26:19 John Coogan You generate a demo, a prototype, and then you go from here into, okay, let's wire it up in Unreal Engine or Roblox or Minecraft or whatever we want to do, and then, uh, and then you have the full game.
Google Gemini 3 Reactions, Google Antigravity, Anthropic-Nvidia-Microsoft Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 10:32 unnamed speaker Build the same Xbox controller in Minecraft. 3 times in the scene
Ex Mr. Beast Manager Explains The Creator Economy
- ▶ 22:01 unnamed speaker Like, I think a lot of them have Minecraft servers, or Grand Theft Auto RP servers, or now Roblox games, and so they, they've all figured out other ways to make money that's not so centered around Twitch, Prime Subs, or YouTube AdSense. 5 times in the scene
Wednesday’s Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:16 unnamed speaker And it's like, uh, you know, steak or like Minecraft parkour or whatever.
AGI in 2035, SoftBank Sells Nvidia, Buffett Goes Quiet | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:04 unnamed speaker Because vibe coding is just, like, it's, like, basically playing a video game, or it's, like, Minecraft mod or something.
Glif AI: The $10 App That Replaces a Full Creative Team
- ▶ 23:33 Greg Isenberg So I'm sure you've seen this on TikTok, you know, like the Minecraft videos basically.
How to Build an $11B Empire Selling Funko Pops | Whatnot CEO Grant Lafontaine Joins TBPN
- ▶ 22:56 unnamed speaker If you're not playing Fortnite or Minecraft, they have a catch-all, and then people kind of go and innovate in that category.
From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo
- ▶ 1:18:17 Julie Zhuo So Minecraft, but what he often listens to on his Alexa are these parody songs.
Mark Zuckerberg, James Cameron, Andrew Yang and More - TBPN Top 5
- ▶ 11:36 Andrew Bosworth (Boz) You've got Roblox, you've got Minecraft, they're awesome tools, you've got tremendous communities there of creators, but there is a ceiling on how good the rendering can be in those platforms, which I know, and it's also, you have to be a…
- ▶ 21:12 Jordi Hays We were at YC Demo Day last week and talking and looking at the eras of the sneaker flippers, the people doing Minecraft servers, and it feels like the people today are going to be leveraging the tools, not just to learn them, but actually…
Starting an education giant in a “bad market” | ClassDojo’s story | Sam Chaudhary (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 57:02 Sam Chaudhary So it's very Minecrafty.
No Priors Ep. 128 | With Andrew Ng, Managing General Partner at AI Fund
Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
- ▶ 1:53:01 unnamed speaker Like, maybe they're, um, there's a bunch of, like, interesting benchmarks about, like, there's this one I really like, it's the Minecraft benchmark, where you have to, like, build, you, like, give it some castle and how, how good it looks,…
The State Of AI in 15 Minutes
- ▶ 11:52 unnamed speaker Like, maybe they're, um, there's a bunch of, like, interesting benchmarks about, like, there's this one I really like, it's the Minecraft benchmark, where you have to, like, build, you, like, give it some castle and how, how good it looks,…
No Priors Ep. 123 | With ReflectionAI Co-Founder and CEO Misha Laskin
- ▶ 51:32 Misha Laskin So this, a lot of what I was studying before, uh, starting, you know, getting into language models was how do we design reward functions or models for, um, for robotics or, you know, for three video games like Minecraft or something like…
Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- ▶ 1:43:59 unnamed speaker I think stuff like HLE, I'm kind of short, long, I'm like, have you guys seen the Minecraft benchmark, where it builds the two different, ok, you, you basically, two models build like a Minecraft, there's like a prompt, it's like build a… 2 times in the scene
ELON MUSK's New Grok 4 Is Here! - We Break it Down
- ▶ 29:09 unnamed speaker I think stuff like HLE, I'm kind of short, long, I'm like, have you guys seen the Minecraft benchmark, where it builds the two different, okay, you basically, two models build like a Minecraft, there's like a prompt, it's like build a…
I'm REVEALING ALL the Vibe Marketing Secrets (NO Gatekeeping)
- ▶ 7:19 Greg Isenberg AI videos that are basically like Minecraft, uh, videos, uh, with like a Reddit, uh, post, and it's 11 Labs, which is the AI audio that actually speaks to it.
Weekly Recap: Tesla Robotaxi, Mr. Beast's AI Tool, Yacine, The Social Network 2, Neuralink Update
- ▶ 32:41 Yacine Mtibaa And it's like maybe build like a Minecraft sorting system in real life.
- ▶ 39:53 Yacine Mtibaa Like Minecraft, yeah, Minecraft speedrun.
Building Cluely: The Viral AI Startup that raised $15M in 10 Weeks w/ Roy Lee
AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff
- ▶ 54:06 Sander Schulhoff Uh, and I had a little bit of previous competition running experience with the Minecraft reinforcement learning project.
From Math Prodigy to AI Genius: How Scott Wu Built Devin · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:43 Scott Wu We've been spending our whole lives in Minecraft survival mode, and now we're going to get to play Minecraft creative mode.
- ▶ 31:36 Scott Wu It's, you know, the, the, in one line, this is my, my co-founder Walden says this all the time, which I love, which is, um, we've been spending our whole lives in Minecraft survival mode, and now we're gonna get to play Minecraft creative… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:16 Joe Lonsdale I mean, if it does work, it looks like it's going to create a really bright future where we go into, you said, would you say it was Minecraft, what? 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 117 | With Co-Director of Stanford's HAI & Founder of World Labs Dr. Fei-Fei Li
- ▶ 18:13 Dr. Fei-Fei Li Kids love Minecraft.
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
⚡️Factorio Learning Environment: the ultimate Game Agent Eval — Jack Hopkins
- ▶ 0:33 Alessio Fanelli We talked about the Voyager paper with Minecraft in the past. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:42 Alessio Fanelli I know Minecraft has very good support for kind of like shell commands and all that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:59 unnamed speaker It is, it is also a bit, a bit different compared to Minecraft because in, in Factoria, a skill is very 2 times in the scene
What It Takes to Build a Mine | Ted Feldmann on TBPN
- ▶ 13:54 unnamed speaker Is Minecraft not providing the pipeline that one would. 3 times in the scene
Cristóbal Valenzuela (Runway) Talks About The Future of Media and Hollywood
- ▶ 8:53 unnamed speaker I could imagine a world where it's a lot easier and maybe even more efficient to block out a story in Minecraft or in Roblox and really direct it and be very, very solid.
Scrappy tactics and a huge post-COVID pivot | Adam Guild (Co-founder and CEO of Owner)
- ▶ 1:59 Adam Guild It was this Minecraft server that I started when I was 12 that initially wasn't supposed to be this business. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:43 Brett Berson So how did you go from this teenage Minecraft business to starting owner? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:34 Adam Guild Grow the Minecraft servers.
- ▶ 50:01 Adam Guild And I told him, well, it all started with Minecraft servers. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:34 Adam Guild The way I thought about business from the Minecraft server experience and then starting what would become Owner was basically that the way team building works is that you figure out what jobs need to be done and you find people
Figma's Dylan Field: Exploring the idea maze, vibe coding, and the power of “locking in” · Y Combinator
No Priors Ep 106 | With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke
- ▶ 43:12 Thomas Dohmke It's like Minecraft. 3 times in the scene
Understanding The TRANSFORMER SHORTAGE
- ▶ 3:06 unnamed speaker The children, the children, we need to get children to stop playing Minecraft and start mining coal.
Episode 750 | Making Your First Hire, Testing Prices, And More Li...
- ▶ 25:36 Rob Walling And I was like, YouTube, I think it's going to be a bunch of twenty-year-olds, you know, I see my eighteen-year-old just sipping through Minecraft videos, and I was pretty skeptical.
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 1:57:25 Jordi Hays Um, just like children yearn for the mines, you know, playing Minecraft.
The new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Computer Use, and Building SOTA Agents — with Erik Schluntz, Anthropic
- ▶ 51:47 Erik Schluntz I mean, after the first, just like, you know, go to Google, I think I tried to have it play Minecraft or something 2 times in the scene
$100B Founder Breaks Down The Biggest AI Business Opportunities For 2025
- ▶ 22:50 Furqan Rydhan And so they built a game like Minecraft and you could just describe a world and it makes you a Minecraft world like that. 3 times in the scene
How to build a $1M+ Consumer SaaS App (step-by-step guide)
- ▶ 45:43 Joseph Choi So you, if you've seen these like Reddit Minecraft parkour videos that get mass posted on YouTube, um, now,
Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- ▶ 1:20:46 John Coogan Or Minecraft. 3 times in the scene
John Coogan (TBPN) gives you $1B BIG startup ideas
- ▶ 24:30 John Coogan You know, make an emergency call to, to, to family, let the family know where the kid is, but it doesn't need to be able to install clash of clans or fortnight or Minecraft or any of this stuff.
The "Switzerland of AI" is Crazy (ep3)
- ▶ 15:49 John Coogan I tried Fortnite once, and I tried Minecraft, just to kind of know, like, ok, what is this thing? 2 times in the scene
How Silicon Valley’s Most Prolific Investor Picks Unicorns | Elad Gil Interview
The Ultimate Guide to Prompting - with Sander Schulhoff from LearnPrompting.org
- ▶ 1:54 Sander Schulhoff I worked on diplomacy for a couple years, mostly building infrastructure for data collection and machine learning, but I always wanted to be doing it myself, so I had a number of side projects, and I ended up working on the Mine RL… 2 times in the scene
How Discord Became a Developer Platform
- ▶ 33:03 Anjani Mitra So if you, there's Minecraft, Roblox, there's The Sims, if given how massive those genres were in a pre-generative world, when you, when you give the generative models to a developer, plus the insane distribution of Discord, two hundred…
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 1:58 Marc Andreessen Minecraft was the first one, um, and then Roblox, uh, and then Kerbal Space Program.
- ▶ 38:11 Marc Andreessen Um, and here again, it's just not, and now this is getting more obvious because, you know, I need to go right through Minecraft, Roblox, there's more and more examples where, like, clearly this has happened.
Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:01:40 Nitish Mittersain But now they've moved to Minecraft, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:56 Sean Hyunil Sohn That is very, uh, you know, same thing happening in Roblox and Minecraft.
AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist of Roblox
- ▶ 0:07 Morgan McGuire First there was Minecraft, then Fortnite.
Everything I Learned From 48 Hours With MrBeast (The +$1B Mindset) (#539)
- ▶ 40:25 Shaan Puri Another one, you know, running your own Minecraft servers, that's another one.
Why AI Agents Don't Work (yet) - with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue
- ▶ 22:37 Alessio Fanelli So you built Avalon, which is, um, your own simulated world, and when you first started, the kind of, like, metagame was, like, using games to simulate things, uh, using, you know, Minecraft, and then OpenAI is, like, the gym thing, and… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:27 Shawn Wang Like, like, so, for example, uh, like, the Voyager paper coming out of, uh, NVIDIA, um, played Minecraft and set, set their own benchmarks on, uh, getting the Diamond X or whatever, and, uh, and exploring as much of the territory as… 3 times in the scene
Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)
- ▶ 24:45 Ishan Haque Um, I did a lot more research into like what they were doing and I've always been in the, and I was the perfect person because I, you know, I had a Minecraft server when I was a kid, so in high school.
- ▶ 1:06:52 Ishan Haque Cause I think every, yeah, every, so I guess during my era, like I'm a bit older now, during my era, it was kids that were building Minecraft servers, or, um, I know for the guys that did stake, they were Runescape kids. 2 times in the scene
Christian Lanng: "How Being a Founder Almost Killed Me" | E1065 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:53 Christian Lanng We built Minecraft.
Classroom 2050: Unleashing AI, XR, Gaming
- ▶ 13:00 Allison Matthews Minecraft is an immersive, three-D virtual space that's full filled with beautiful biomes and all kinds of animals. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:05 Allison Matthews And to your question of the role of the teacher, because the game supports, it's, we've got scaffolded learning experiences in the game, which means if you're stuck, if you don't know Minecraft, or if you don't really understand the lesson, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:59 Romy Drucker And I think Minecraft is a great example, whether it's being used in a classroom or outside of a classroom, to build on top of the skill building and the mindset building that is happening.
- ▶ 37:14 Allison Matthews Okay, so from a gaming perspective, I talk to a lot of parents who are like, yeah, my kids love Minecraft. 2 times in the scene
Ep #5 | EdTech What’s Broken, What’s Next? With Nikhil, Ronnie Screwvala , Gaurav Munjal & Jay Kotak · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:14:34 Gaurav Munjal So my belief is that if you have built that or what Minecraft has done,
AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
- ▶ 12:58 Marc Andreessen Um, and it's a, um, it's a Minecraft bot. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:58 Marc Andreessen Um, and so that made no impact on him, but then he has, has clarified for me, actually, that for the things that he uses it for, like actually teaching him, you know, for example, how to code in Minecraft, he's, he, he now has informed me…
E128: Google enters AI wars, Druck’s warning, Trump crushes CNN & more
- ▶ 1:18:35 David Friedberg The big winners of tomorrow will likely be the Minecraft YouTubers of today.
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- ▶ 1:33:33 Mitch Lasky And like Twitch and like YouTube gaming and other things where there was this incredible feedback loop, and we talk about this a bit in our user-generated content episode in GameCraft, you know, Minecraft, for example, where they're, they…
- ▶ 1:34:05 Mitch Lasky They became rich by becoming Minecraft streamers, by becoming Minecraft YouTubers.
From Zero to Millions: Danny Postma Reveals AI App Strategies for Success
- ▶ 8:27 Danny Postma It's like these Minecraft video backgrounds with Reddit posts, um, that's basically being narrated and has millions and millions and millions of views and people have no clue what's AI generated, but basically there's one, like one bot…
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
- ▶ 39:37 Jack Soslow The reason why games like Minecraft have like added pets or villagers and things like that 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:47 Doug McCracken So Minecraft, GTA online, both have really strong skin ecosystems, especially with UGC components, right?
E111: Microsoft to invest $10B in OpenAI, generative AI hype, America's over-classification problem
- ▶ 37:38 Chamath Palihapitiya Microsoft inside of Minecraft and Hotmail.
Builders Are the Ticket Before Interoperability Ever Gets Solved
- ▶ 6:10 Steve McGarry Where it became a little bit more prevalent in the virtual world of talking to each other, and people were kind of challenging these young people who were in Minecraft all day and Roblox all day. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:06 Steve McGarry It's a spectrum of your centralized metaverses that are your Minecraft, your Roblox, where they're controlling experiences of millions and millions of people, where you have these concerts taking place where millions are showing up with…
- ▶ 32:34 Steve McGarry And it could work like, and it has worked with Minecraft and Roblox and these companies where they run smoothly.
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