Marc Andreessen is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm that manages $45 billion in assets under management. He is 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 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.

We covered:

Evolution of the venture playbook
Small vs large funds
Current AI landscape
Politics and Silicon Valley
Tech and the media

A few highlights:

Optimizing for the maximum amount of power
Conflicts being the reason a16z isn’t even larger
The middle is dead; you’re either Gucci or Walmart
Only 8 companies in the S&P 500 are innovating
We’ve lived in an era of intense preference falsification
AI and machines making the ultimate decision

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Intro

(0:27) Evolution of the venture playbook

(15:54) Small vs large funds

(29:10) Becoming a top tier firm

(35:33) Limiting factors to building big companies

(40:11) Investing in AI

(50:02) Developing investors

(59:06) AI going wrong

(1:09:20) Politics and Silicon Valley

(1:11:39) Tech and the media

(1:23:22) Preference falsification

(1:31:10) Career advice

(1:34:07) Huberman “beef”

(1:38:21) Question from X

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More on Marc:

https://x.com/pmarca

https://pmarca.substack.com/

https://a16z.simplecast.com/

More on Uncapped

https://linktr.ee/uncappedpod

https://x.com/jaltma

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