GMF Transatlantic AI Conversations

An accomplished entrepreneur, executive, and investor, Reid Hoffman has played an integral role in building many of today’s leading consumer technology businesses. In 2003 he co-founded LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional networking service. In 2009 he joined Greylock. In 2022, he co-founded Inflection AI.  

Reid currently serves on the boards of Aurora, Coda, Entrepreneur First, Joby, Microsoft, Nauto, and a few early stage companies still in stealth. In addition, he serves on a number of not-for-profit boards, including Kiva, Endeavor, CZ Biohub, New America, Berggruen Institute, Opportunity@Work, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and the MacArthur Foundation’s Lever for Change. He is the host of Masters of Scale, the first American podcast to commit to a 50-50 gender balance for featured guests as well as Possible, a podcast that sketches out the brightest version of the future—and what it will take to get there. He is the co-author of five best-selling books: The Startup of You, The Alliance, Blitzscaling, Masters of Scale, and Impromptu. He is an Aspen Institute Crown Fellow, a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, and a graduate of Stanford University. 

Recommended Reading:

• The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman
• The Worlds I See by Fei-Fei Li
• Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick

Watch Reid's interview here.

Marc Andreessen an innovator and creator, one of the few to pioneer a software category used by more than a billion people and one of the few to establish multiple billion-dollar companies. 

Marc co-created the highly influential Mosaic internet browser and co-founded Netscape, which later sold to AOL for $4.2 billion. He also co-founded Loudcloud, which as Opsware, sold to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion. He later served on the board of Hewlett-Packard from 2008 to 2018. 

Marc holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

Marc serves on the board of the following Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies: Applied Intuition, Carta, Coinbase, Dialpad, Flow, Golden, Honor, OpenGov, Samsara, Simple Things, and TipTop Labs. He is also on the board of Meta.

Recommended Reading:

• The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri
• History Has Begun by Bruno Maçães
• The Kill Chain by Christian Brose

Watch Marc's interview here.

Anu Bradford is Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organizations at Columbia Law School. She is also a director for Columbia’s European Legal Studies Center and a Senior Scholar at Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business at Columbia Business School. She is an expert on European Union law, digital regulation, international trade law, and comparative and international antitrust law. Bradford is the author of “The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World” (OUP 2020), which was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Foreign Affairs. Her most recent book “Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology” was published by Oxford University Press in September 2023, and was recognized as one of the Best Books of 2023 by Financial Times.

Recommended Reading:

• Digital Empires – Inside the Global Battle to Regulate Technology by Anu Bradford
• Hire Wire by Angela Chang

Watch Anu's interview here.

Arthur Mensch, Chief Executive Officer of Mistral AI, is responsible for designing and implementing the company’s strategic vision, and leading the product and sales teams. A graduate of École Polytechnique, Télécom Paris and holder of the Master Mathématiques Vision Apprentissage at Paris Saclay, he completed his thesis between 2015 and 2018 in machine learning for functional brain imaging at Inria (Parietal team). In 2018, he spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow in the Applied Mathematics department at ENS Ulm, where he carried out work in mathematics for optimization and machine learning. In 2020, he joined DeepMind Paris as a researcher, working on language models, before leaving the company in 2023 to co-found Mistral AI.

Recommended Reading: 

• Scaling People by Claire Hughes Johnson
• Scientific Papers on AI 

Watch Arthur's interview here.

Vijay Pande, PhD, is a General Partner and has been at Andreessen Horowitz since 2014. He founded and leads a16z Bio + Health, which invests in life sciences and healthcare through four dedicated funds with more than $3 billion under management. Vijay leads the firm’s investments at the cross section of biology and computer science, including applications in computation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence in healthcare; digital therapeutics; diagnostics; and other novel transformative scientific advances applied to industry that take bio beyond healthcare. 

Vijay holds a BA in Physics from Princeton University and a PhD in Physics from MIT. He has been awarded the DeLano Prize in Computation, a Guinness World Record for Folding@Home, the American Chemical Society Thomas Kuhn Paradigm Shift Award, and was selected for MIT TR10. In his teens, Vijay was the first employee at video game startup Naughty Dog, maker of Crash Bandicoot and The Last of Us.

Recommended Listening:

• Raising Health, a podcast by a16z Bio+Health

Chris Miller is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on Russian foreign policy, politics, and economics; Russia and Ukraine; Russian-European relations; and Eurasia. He also focuses on semiconductors and the geopolitics of technology. 

His latest book Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology (Scribner, 2022) reveals the geopolitical history of the computer chip. It is a New York Times bestseller and a winner of the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award and won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award. It was featured on many “Best of 2022” book lists, including in the New Yorker and the Economist. 

Concurrently, Miller is associate professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Before joining Fletcher, Miller did research at the Hoover Institution and Brookings Institution. Earlier he spent time in Russia at the Carnegie Moscow Center and the well-known New Economic School in Moscow. 

He has an MA and PhD in history from Yale University and a BA in history from Harvard University.

Recommended Reading:

• Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari
• Chip War by Chris Miller