Don't worry about people stealing your idea. If it's any good, everyone will dismiss it. Some of the most revolutionary people and ideas [music] were revolutionary because they were misunderstood in their time.That if you have to be at some point in your life willing to [music] be misunderstood and the solitude you can have are two things I think. Number one to not be so attached to it to realize that ultimately you can't predict the outcome. [music] Just do what you believe.Follow your heart and if it's tr ...

World events remind us that there is actually evil out there. Just horrendous barbarism is still possible. When a country goes to war, it's not enough to just have the department of war fight these wars.It is actually the whole country. The idea that somehow the American people are not capable of this. It beggars belief.I think our biggest risk as a country is suicide, not homicide. >> How do we win the AI race, particularly as it moves towards more physical AI and robotics, etc. >> The things that we did t ...

The best time to start a company is when you're young because you don't need any bravery to do. People think that starting a company or taking a break from school is this very high-risk move when you're young is oh how do you find the bravery to do that. What I try to push on people is it will never get better.When you are 18 or 19, you have no family. You have no real job. You don't [music] have a career.That's the best time to start a company. You're not giving anything up. All you have to lose is a bit o ...

Today's going to be a fun one. We're going to dive into all things new media. What is new media? What the new media team is doing here at 816Z, what we're focused on, and where we're going in 2026. Really stoked to be making this happen. Ben, you had this quote which I think summarizes some of the some of the one of the main principles of of new media. I just want to, you know, read a small small part of it and then have you elaborate. Uh, old media is defenseoriented. In in new media, offense is always bet ...

Anthropic makes great products. Clot code is fantastic. Co-work is fantastic.But they are grains of silicon doing matrix multiplication. They don't have consciousness. They don't have an inner monologue.You take an LLM and train it on pre 1916 or 1911 physics and see if it can come up with the theory of relativity. If it does, then we have AGI. >> Just today, by the way, Daario allegedly said that you can't rule out that they're conscious. You can rule out their cost.I think I mean come on to get to what is ...

This conversation with Alex Karp, cofounder and CEO of Palantir, was recorded at the a16z American Dynamism Summit in Washington, D.C. Karp discusses the role of technology in modern warfare, Silicon Valley's obligations to national defense, and why he believes America's single greatest competitive advantage is its ability to cultivate and protect unconventional talent. ...

This conversation with Emil Michael, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering and acting director of the Defense Innovation Unit, was recorded at the a16z American Dynamism Summit in Washington, D.C. Michael walks through how he inherited a department running 14 undefined technology priorities, cut them to six, and made applied AI number one. He also gives the first detailed account of why commercial AI contracts written under the previous administration created a vendor-lock crisis that put a ...

We were the freak show and we spent 20 years for this moment. >> We're doing it. We're doing it. And I'm sure you're enjoying this as much as I am. >> I just got three things to say. God bless our troops. God bless America and gentlemen start your >> We are the power that actually has the decisive vote and that is with military superiority. If Silicon Valley believes we are going to take away everyone's white collar job, you're the most important thing Palanteer is doing is to make sure that American war fi ...

Olivia, welcome. >> Thanks for having me. >> It's the most exciting time of the year, which is the top 100 report is coming out today, I think.Is that right. >> Yep. >> It's been six editions over three years.>> Talk to us about what's the same, what's changed, what's your excitement level, what's up with the report. >> Yeah, I in many ways like so much has changed and there's been just an incredible amount of growth since the first time we put out this list in 2023. On the other hand, from like a macro lev ...

You don't want to stimulate the sympathetic nervous system so much for so often. It can probably shorten your life. There's a whole category of what are called growth hormone secrets which are very popular.People hear erection, fat loss, energy, tan, like, oh great. This isn't the kind of thing you do to like go on vacation. You got to be real careful with these things.>> Nearly one in seven Americans is taking a GLP-1 drug. 20% have tried them. What do you think the future looks like.>> In theory, you coul ...