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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Tehran comes up on the a16z Podcast, All-In, How I Built This, Innovators & Investors, the Neon Show
Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI
- ▶ 59:06 Andrej Karpathy Like if, for example, a poly market or other betting markets or even stocks, et cetera, if they have so much autonomous activity and rising amount of activity, like, um, why should like, for example, if Iran was just happening now, like…
Exiled Iranian Prince Reza Pahlavi: Transition Plan and the Fight for Iran's Freedom
- ▶ 26:58 Shervin Pishevar The number one VC in Israel, uh, 15 years ago, where we said we have to do more between Israeli and Jewish community and the Persian Iranian community, and someday we're going to have, uh, tea in Tehran, and we wrote an op-ed last year…
- ▶ 40:08 Shervin Pishevar Whether there's collaborations that can happen, uh, to, to be able to work together, uh, to fight, uh, for, uh, the deliberation to be completed, and for a march on to Tehran, and the Crown Prince being able to come back to lead this… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:39 Shervin Pishevar And we look forward to, uh, hosting all in pod in Tehran. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI drops GPT-5.4, Iran War fallout, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:22 unnamed speaker Three leading Middle East economies consider options as US Israeli campaign against Tehran continues.
Pentagon Insider: What's Next For Anthropic and The Department of War — With Michael Horowitz
- ▶ 16:23 Alex Kantrowitz It's been reported that the agencies had, you know, traffic cameras throughout Tehran, uh, hacked and were able to see movements, but is that something that you would use
Iran's Breaking Point, Trump's Greenland Acquisition, and Solving Energy Costs
- ▶ 13:00 Chamath Palihapitiya Look at the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown in Tehran. 2 times in the scene
Josh Wolfe & Brett McGurk – Venture, Geopolitics, and the Next Frontier (EP.476)
- ▶ 26:28 Brett McGurk The anecdote I heard across the table was, if I'm taking a bus from Tehran to Isfahan, and it might be a three hour bus ride, and someone gets on the bus that is obnoxious, making a mess of things, I'm gonna stay on the bus, I'll get to my…
- ▶ 53:53 Josh Wolfe Economically, to fire the drones, which take roughly, Brett can correct me here, but nine hours, maybe, to get from Tehran to Israel, whereas the cruise missiles are maybe 90 minutes, and the ballistics are like nine, 10, 12, 15 minutes.
Weekly Recap: Tesla Robotaxi, Mr. Beast's AI Tool, Yacine, The Social Network 2, Neuralink Update
- ▶ 43:00 John Coogan Well, you need a GMT because you gotta know what time it is in Tehran.
Bridging Worlds: Amar Bakshi on Transforming Global Connection with Noro
- ▶ 2:08 Amar Bakshi Gold shipping container in a gallery in New York and one in Tehran and invited strangers, uh, to come in and interact through this wall size screen. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:05 Amar Bakshi So, you know, I knew when we were connected to Tehran, Obama was negotiating a nuclear deal with them.
- ▶ 30:47 Amar Bakshi You know, we connect Tehran and Mexico.
Global Investor Matein Khalid On World Economy | The Neon Show
- ▶ 32:47 Matein Khalid And, uh, they took out some weapons factories near Tehran, missile making factories near Tehran. 3 times in the scene
Kamala surges, Trump at NABJ, recession fears, Middle East escalation, Ackman postpones IPO
- ▶ 45:56 David Friedberg He was killed by a bomb while staying in a guest house in Tehran, according to the New York Times. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:48 David Sacks I think now Iran's promising revenge for what just happened in Tehran, and this could set that, that escalatory spiral off again.
Ep 85: The Path to Regime Change in Iran with Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 18:55 Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi After 15 years in exile, I think it was an Italian journalist that asked Khomeini on the plane as he was flying back to Tehran, what are your sentiments of returning to Iran after 15 years in exile?
- ▶ 27:41 Joe Lonsdale If you get a free country and property rights and a court system that's not corrupt, then I think all of us want to invest a lot more very quickly in Tehran.
MGA Entertainment: Isaac Larian
- ▶ 3:24 Guy Raz Well, today, we bring you a story that begins in the slums of Tehran, the capital of Iran, in the 19 fifties.
- ▶ 9:11 Isaac Larian It was first time for me to get out of Tehran, ever. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:44 Isaac Larian He got red in, in the face, and he says, Dad, this is not the bazaars of Tehran.
E164: Zuck’s Senate apology, Elon's comp package voided, crony capitalism, Reddit IPO, drone attack
- ▶ 1:16:36 Jason Calacanis They want to bomb Tehran and go after Iran and start World War III. 2 times in the scene
E151: WW3 risk, War with Iran?, 4.9% GDP, startup failures growing, new Speaker & more
- ▶ 17:15 David Sacks And then it says, that's a welcome message aimed at deterring the mullahs in Tehran and their agents.
Hadi Partovi: How I Became an Advisor to Mark Zuckerberg; Lessons from Steve Ballmer | 20VC #961 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:03 Hadi Partovi Uh, I grew up in Tehran, Iran.
E97: SPAC updates, public/private market overview, Putin's end game & more
- ▶ 1:21:51 Jason Calacanis Um, Iran has shut off internet access, internet access in parts of Tehran, and blocked access to Instagram and WhatsApp to try to stop these protests.
Marko Papic – Geopolitical Shock in a Multi-Polar World (Capital Allocators, EP.237)
- ▶ 20:47 Marko Papic If Iran asked that we rename Los Angeles to New Tehran, I think the Biden administration would do it.
Stasher and Modern Twist: Kat Nouri
a16z Podcast | What's Next for Technology and National Security?
- ▶ 32:05 Marc Andreessen He actually twice in the last two years has traveled to Tehran as part of the very limited number of trips that people have been able to make, and 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
- ▶ 28:07 Chris Schroeder At which you say, there are things at the end of the day, they'll move very, very quickly, and maybe they'll come from Silicon Valley, maybe someday they'll come from Beijing, maybe someday they'll come from Tehran, but once they take off,…
a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
- ▶ 0:41 Chris Schroeder I don't think there are lots of Americans who think startup, accelerator, incubator, and Tehran in the same sentence.
- ▶ 29:00 Chris Schroeder And you mentioned, and I saw this everywhere when I was in Tehran a couple of weeks ago, the rest of the world is showing up.
- ▶ 30:38 Chris Schroeder People that I've met with in Toronto on both trips that I've done and around the country are not shy to use the word corruption and a lot of the issues that are, are true, of course, in many emerging markets.
- ▶ 39:25 Chris Schroeder Is Tehran, in fact, to be a Silicon Valley, or is it really a broader, different kind of approach, a new way to think about, um, economic development, economic job creation, and innovation, and actualization in your country? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Layering Tech and Culture in Iran
- ▶ 4:30 Nazanin Daneshwar So how it happened, it was just like, I started going to the meetings with my dad, and then I was introducing him, he was a, he was a manager of a, one of the biggest power plants around Terra, and so he was taking time off, just coming…
- ▶ 13:51 Nazanin Daneshwar Yeah, there are already, like, lots of Europeans that have visited our office, they have been in Tehran, there are some of them already in Tehran, they have offices.
- ▶ 19:27 Chris Schroeder I mean, it was wonderful meeting you in Tehran, and to see you and all your colleagues doing what you're doing, you make me very hopeful for the future and the new generation there.
a16z Podcast | Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back
- ▶ 32:56 Marc Andreessen There's like 20 a year of American business people who get to go to Iran, um, on a state department program, and he went and he spent two weeks on the ground in Tehran, um, and he said there is an absolutely vibrant, um, internet startup… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Startups as Science Experiments -- Can VC Disrupt Academia?
- ▶ 18:56 Marc Andreessen And he just went to Tehran and spent three weeks. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 1
- ▶ 24:42 Marc Andreessen Most significantly, he actually just got one, there's like, 15 visas a year, ah, for business travelers to Iran, ah, and so he just went to Iran, ah, after he wrote the book, and he just came back, and it turns out in Tehran, there's a… 2 times in the scene
Minted: Mariam Naficy
Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 48:33 Pejman Nozad Um, at that time, um, Iraqi jets were coming over Tehran almost every night, and some of the nights, because of Iran's anti-aircraft, these jets couldn't get low to drop the bomb, so at the end of their mission, they were breaking the… 2 times in the scene