Flavor physics at LHCb: 50 years of the Kobayashi-Maskawa paradigm

The LHCb experiment has been in operation since 2009 and has provided measurements of the Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix with unprecedented precision. 50 years after the original paper we are in the position to pin down the parameters of the theory, or possibly to show its limitations. In these proceedings the status of LHCb is shown from a historical perspective, along with some anecdotes.