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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where PDF comes up on Another Podcast, the a16z Podcast, TBPN, Top Founders, the MAD Podcast
Becoming Unsloppable, Anthropic’s Series G, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 8:49 Jordi Hays Revenue was still up and to the right, but widespread adoption of the internet emails and PDFs was on the horizon. 2 times in the scene
Become Unsloppable: How to Survive the Great Software Collapse
- ▶ 12:10 Jordi Hays So companies like Sharp, Canon, Panasonic, revenue was still up into the right, but widespread adoption of the internet emails and PDFs was on the horizon. 3 times in the scene
How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:34 Max Junestrand Yeah, I mean, they draft and they review contracts in Word or PDF form, and what we really wanted to do is, similar to Cursor, how do we bring generative AI into the, you know, existing work environment of a legal professional, and that…
Why This Ex-Meta Leader is Rethinking AI Infrastructure | Lin Qiao, CEO, Fireworks AI
Jensen Huang & Arthur Mensch: Why Every Nation Needs Its Own AI Strategy
- ▶ 20:14 Jensen Huang We probably both use Excel, you know, and so we probably both use PDFs.
How AI Will Transform Accounting: A $100B Opportunity Explained
- ▶ 8:56 unnamed speaker Um, and what that means in the context of accounting is, you know, if you sit in this client advisory service practice of one of these firms, you're asking your client to give you an export of their general ledger, copies of their bank…
He Did $1m last year selling South American Business Data to firms like CapIQ
- ▶ 10:18 Alex Abujamra Those files are in PDF format. 4 times in the scene
Figma, unbundling and $20bn of antitrust
- ▶ 29:48 Benedict Evans This is basically PDF, which again is like a fascinating kind of conversation. 4 times in the scene
Scaling From $10M-$100M ARR: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly with Showpad Co-Founder Pieterjan Bouten
- ▶ 18:34 Pieterjan Bouten So imagine most sales teams, especially 10 years ago, they would just have PDFs, PowerPoints, and videos.
How He Built India's #1 SaaS for Manufacturers? Ft. Divyaanshu Makkar, Co-Founder-Sourcewiz
- ▶ 39:37 Divyanshu Makkar So when we digitize that second is they can literally just upload a PDF, uh, and a buyer typically sends you a PDF. 3 times in the scene
What we know about web 3 so far
- ▶ 30:58 Benedict Evans Which now, and it, ironically, like the, the great cockroach of the internet has been the PDF, which was basically let me print to software. 5 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: Victor Riparbelli (Founder & CEO, Synthesia) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 10:15 Victor Riparbelli Also company update for by far most people video is a much better medium to communicate with than a five minute PDF, sorry, a five page PDF.
Telling stories with charts
- ▶ 20:51 Benedict Evans It's a PowerPoint, but it's on somebody's desk, or it's a PDF that they're reading, and so it's a way, it's a publishing format, it's not a presentation at all, it's a document.
The Eight-Figure Exit Secret: Put $1 In, Get $15 Back
- ▶ 29:13 Eric Varden So we're like, why can't we have data that goes to help them just make the decision and prioritize, uh, to reporting, you know, we're spending all these time across hundreds of clients developing, um, you know, PDFs to send over that…
a16z Podcast | Dark Data in Healthcare
- ▶ 15:55 Anil Sethi It's documents and PDFs and XML files. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How to Lead, Not Manage Your Board
- ▶ 22:16 Spencer Rascoff And so, what we do now is, you know, it's like a 12 or 14 page, you know, single line Word doc in PDF.
20VC: Andy Rachleff, Founder @ Benchmark & Wealthfront on What Makes The Best CEO & Board Member & Why Ivy League Endowments Are The Best Managed Capital In The World
- ▶ 13:36 Andy Rachleff Started with PostScript, which enabled what you see is what you get laser printers, but then they added Photoshop, then they added a PDF.
The Path to A.I. Augmented Human Intelligence // Christopher Nguyen, Arimo [FirstMark's Data Driven]
- ▶ 6:49 Christopher Nguyen You can have PDF.
Yann Lecun, Facebook // Artificial Intelligence // Data Driven #32 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 7:25 Yann LeCun Probably five or 10 times smaller than PDF.