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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where WALL E comes up on the a16z Podcast, Lenny's Podcast, Big Technology, Sourcery, TBPN
Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 9:45 David Rosenthal And then later after them, Andrew Stanton, of course, writer and director of Finding Nemo, WALL-E, Toy Story Five, Brenda Chapman, head of story for The Lion King, and of course, Pete Docter, who today is chief creative officer at Pixar.
- ▶ 2:42:23 David Rosenthal Wally Up, Toy Story Three, Brave, Inside Out, just the best.
The $1/Hour Robot Is Coming: Four Industry Leaders Explain What’s Next
- ▶ 1:06:38 Professor Jonathan Hurst Probably WALL-E.
What Mistake Founders Make With A-Players | Matt MacInnis | COO Rippling
- ▶ 44:44 Matt MacInnis All of it ends up in bucket number two, and we are all living in the age of Wally from Disney and floating around on things and robots are bringing us lunch and, you know,
Inside Zipline’s Factory: The World’s Largest Drone Delivery Network · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 20:10 Keller Rinaudo Cliffton Um, we kind of designed it though, it's a little inspired by, like, Eve from WALL-E.
“I deliberately understaff every project” | Leadership lessons from Rippling’s $16B journey
- ▶ 1:21:49 Matt McGinnis Hopefully a way that like abstracts us a little bit further from having to think because our future is WALL-E. 3 times in the scene
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 49:26 Benedict Evans WALL-E.
Nvidia Q3 Earnings, Travis Kalanick's New Startup, Google's Nano Banana Pro Reaction | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:01 unnamed speaker Like, WALL-E looks kind of dumb.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs & Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 13:13 M.G. Siegler I don't think that everyone's just going to be sitting around like Wally, you know, watching the videos on our, our hovercraft things.
EP10: Robots on the Move: Disrupting Delivery with Ottonomy ft Ritukar Vijay
- ▶ 52:52 Ritukar Vijay So I think, ah, a volley would have been real, and, ah, so, so, that, that is the form factor which I really wanted to happen.
35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest and beyond | Bob Baxley
- ▶ 1:13:10 Bob Baxley I often think about them like the little plant in the Pixar movie, Wally, you know, you've kind of, you got to give that little guy a little space, a little time, some water and some nourishment, and you can't really just suddenly put him…
Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
- ▶ 2:20:48 Jordi Hays How influenced are you by, uh, movies like WALL-E, right?
AI Doom vs Boom, EA Cult Returns, BBB Upside, US Steel and Golden Votes
- ▶ 1:28:28 Jason Calacanis And the Sultan of Science, deep in his Wall-E era.
We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts
- ▶ 1:30:32 Jordi Hays How influenced are you by, uh, movies like Wally, right?
She Wants AI To Help You Thrive, Not Just Keep You Company — Y-Lan Boureau
- ▶ 20:19 Y-Lan Boureau And then we end up more like the, uh, the humans of WALL-E. 2 times in the scene
Why Bucky Moore Joined $30 Billion AUM Megafund Lightspeed · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 43:16 Bucky Moore So, I think I'd want it to be cute, like Wall-E, and then I'd want it in my house, but if it was like a, you know, a big optimist, I'd, I'd probably be a little intimidated by that, um, 3 times in the scene
This Company is Building the Future of Logistics | Keller Cliffton on TBPN April 10th
- ▶ 13:26 Keller Cliffton This thing is, you know, inspired by Eve from Wally.
Tariffs and Turmoil: Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen on What Trump Is Thinking, And What Comes Next
- ▶ 12:20 Ryan Petersen Uh, and, and there's some element of that in all of this, that they don't want to see us be, uh, I don't know, you don't want to be that, what's that, uh, the robot movie, WALL-E.
AI Predictions for 2025: Geopolitics, Agents, and Data Scaling — With Alexandr Wang
- ▶ 36:56 Alex Kantrowitz I do sort of feel like we're cannonballing our way towards that Wally future where we're all fat and drinking big, big sodas and having Roombas take us around the world.
The Future of the American Dream
- ▶ 58:37 Marc Andreessen And, you know, the, the dystopian view of that is the Wally view, um, you know, which is okay, then I can just sit, you know, in my, in my lounge chair and slurp on, you know, soda and watch, you know, be in VR and zone out the whole, the…
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 16:07 Marc Andreessen Or if you just go full Wally and you just like plug everybody into a pod with a VR headset, um, and a, and a, and a, and a feed of nutrition drink, um, and maybe some heroin on tap, then you, you really reduce the preference need.
Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist
- ▶ 19:31 Marc Andreessen So this is, I would say there's kind of the full dystopian version of this, um, you know, which is sort of the Wally scenario. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:30 Marc Andreessen Uh, you know, you're, you know, you're back to the, the Wally scenario we were, we were talking about at that point.
Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:08 Emad Mostaque We can do that, and we can trap people with this technology, or we can use it to get people out, because I don't think it's like Wally, where you have that really fat guy, you know,
How to build trust and grow as a product leader | Fareed Mosavat (Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Pixar)
- ▶ 5:51 Fareed Mosavat Finding Nemo, Cars, Wall-E, and Up.
Our Producer Had A 90-Minute Phone Call With Mr Beast…
- ▶ 53:08 Shaan Puri It'll just be like computers making movies and the rest of us just like, you know, Wally, what's that movie where they're like fat people sitting in wheelchairs and just like sucking down slurpees and watching stuff.
Why DAOs Matter for Digital Art
- ▶ 1:17 People Pleaser Um, so really quick background on myself, uh, during my freshman year of college, I watched WALL-E for the first time, and then I decided this is what I want to do for the future.
a16z Podcast | The IQ and EQ of Robots
- ▶ 22:12 unnamed speaker I'm interested in the arms because Vector and Cosmo kind of harken back, I think, to other ideas about what robots might look like, like WALL-E.
- ▶ 25:10 Boris Soffman It's always been a merger of direct robotic influences and then non-robotic influences, and so on the robotic side, there's definitely this idea of kind of R to D to Wally where you have this, uh, 2 times in the scene
#39 Tyler Cowen: Thinking About Thinking
- ▶ 8:58 Shane Parrish I think there was a Disney movie about that, like Wall-E or something.
He is Killing That Annoying "We Missed You" Sticky Note the UPS Always Puts on Your Door, $3m Raised, 10 Teammates, EP 271: Zander Adell
- ▶ 2:08 Xander Adell Uh, I think WALL-E was my favorite one that I worked on. 2 times in the scene