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Resources & Recommendations
Books
- "The Hard Thing About Hard Things" by Ben Horowitz - This book discusses the challenges and difficult decisions faced by leaders, particularly in the tech industry. Ben mentions it as one of his own works.
- "What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture" by Ben Horowitz - This book focuses on the practical aspects of building and maintaining company culture, drawing lessons from various historical and organizational examples.
People Mentioned
- Costis Maglaras (Dean of Columbia Business School) - He hosted the conversation with Ben Horowitz.
- Ben Horowitz (a16z Co-founder, Columbia College alum '88) - The main speaker in the podcast, discussing AI, culture, and leadership.
- Marc Andreessen (Ben Horowitz's business partner) - Co-founded Andreessen Horowitz with Ben Horowitz.
- Ali Ghodsi (runs Databricks) - A friend of Ben Horowitz who mentioned a piece of advice Ben gave him about developing people.
- Satoshi Nakamoto - The pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, whom Ben Horowitz suggests should have won the Nobel Prize for mathematics and economics for the Bitcoin paper.
- Sebastian Thrun - Won the DARPA Challenge in 2006 with an autonomous car.
- Fei-Fei Li (Founder of World Labs) - Mentioned in the context of her new company working on real-world models for robotics.
Organizations & Institutions
- Columbia Business School - The venue where the conversation with Ben Horowitz took place.
- Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) - The venture capital firm co-founded by Ben Horowitz.
- Anthropic - An AI company mentioned for its high valuation and recent funding round.
- OpenAI - An AI company mentioned for its rapid revenue growth and the quality of its products like ChatGPT.
- Google - Mentioned in the context of the number of Chinese nationals working there.
- Databricks - The company run by Ali Ghodsi.
- World Labs - Fei-Fei Li's new company focused on real-world models.
Other Resources
- Bushido - The samurai code of conduct, referenced for its quote on culture as a set of actions, not beliefs.
- Manhattan Project - Referenced as an example of a secret project that still had information leaked.
- Deepseek - A Chinese open-source AI model, noted as a dominant force in the open-source community, particularly among academia.
- ChatGPT - An AI product from OpenAI, highlighted for its effectiveness and rapid adoption.
- Cursor - An AI product mentioned for its impressive functionality.
- Waymo - An autonomous driving company, mentioned in the context of the long development cycle for self-driving cars.