a16z Podcast: Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker

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Culture, Business, Science, Disruption, Technology, Software Eating The World, Entrepreneurship, Innovation

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🗓️ 20 August 2015

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Google, eBay, even the Web itself, in the beginning all of these things appeared as point products, interesting in their way, but small. Of course, they weren’t. “There is this swallow-the-red-pill moment that happens,” Marc Andreessen says, “Where ...

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0:18.9	Welcome to the A16Z podcast. I'm Michael Copeland.
0:22.8	Google, eBay, even the web itself. In the beginning, all of these things appeared as point
0:29.3	products, interesting in their way, but small. Of course, in the end, they weren't.
0:35.5	There is this swallow the red pill moment that happens,
0:38.9	Mark Andreessen says, where you realize something really, really big is going to happen.
0:45.8	Optimization, the relentless improvement of everything, is another one of those ideas.
0:51.4	At first, it's like, okay, you can make, you can make these websites a little better, mobile apps a little
0:55.0	better and do this and conversion rates and so forth.
0:57.0	And then you realize, wait a minute, like you can make everything a little bit better, right?
1:01.0	Basically everything in the world can be made better.
1:03.0	And so everything, like everything, every experience consumers have can be made a little bit
1:07.0	better.
1:08.0	Every experience that people have in the workplace can be made a little bit better. Every experience that people have in the workplace can be made a little bit better. Every experience people have when they're traveling can be made a little bit better.
1:14.3	And you make everything a little bit better kind of all the time and basically the entire world
1:17.8	gets better. In this segment of the podcast, Mark joins Optimizely CEO Dan Seroaker for a conversation
1:24.8	that covers a huge swath of what's most exciting in tech today.
1:28.7	The spread of optimization tools, privacy trends, artificial intelligence, virtual reality,
1:34.7	Bitcoin, and killer robots. It's all in there.
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