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Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World
- ▶ 10:51 Matteo Franceschetti You know what Andreessen says that if you have a great product, people will pay for it.
Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
- ▶ 1:10:25 Rory O'Driscoll Well, there's one that I kind of, I don't know if you missed what you were vacating there, Harry, but the Department of Justice is picking on Paul Andreessen because of these overlapping boards, right?
Will Open-Source Threaten Anthropic's Business & Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Matt Murphy
- ▶ 16:54 Harry Stebbings It's a weird thing, you know, Marc Andreessen says, you know, often ventures about, you know, the VC firm lending their brand to legitimize the company, and then there's a strange moment when the company and founder lend their brand to…
How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:33 Harry Stebbings I remember when it was like Marc Andreessen just sharing wisdom on a Sunday evening.
Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:55 Harry Stebbings Mark Andreessen said something to me. 2 times in the scene
SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:14 unnamed speaker I mean, who would have, we got to get Marc Andre, I mean, the fact that we still live in the era of Netscape in so many ways.
Anthropic Files to Go Public | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | The 996 Work Ethic · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:29 Jason Calacanis I'm, I'm, I'm no Marc Andreessen with all the E's and S's, but there's meetings I won't take now that I would have taken in 20, 24, 23.
The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:28 Harry Stebbings It almost reminds me of Marc Andreessen where he says essentially when a company is invested in by a fund, the fund is loaning them the brand and the validity that the brand name of the fund has until the company is big enough where then…
- ▶ 27:13 Harry Stebbings How very Marc Andreessen of you.
OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:13 unnamed speaker Dumbest take from the smartest people, including Mark Andreessen, who's got 40 IQ points on me.
Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:04 Josh Browder I think it was Marc Andreessen. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:40 Josh Browder So I, I'd raised the pre-seed from Andreessen, from Mark, um, and it came time to raise the seed, like, two or three years later.
- ▶ 1:20:20 Josh Browder Like Mark Andreessen is the first believer in both in some ways.
- ▶ 1:33:48 Josh Browder I, I think definitely, um, Mark Andreessen. 5 times in the scene
Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:21 Jason Lemkin This is not using Mark Andreessen's brand to muscle into the B.
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:57 Cliff Weitzman So I think you did a episode of Marc Andrius and he was like, I don't introspect.
Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:00 Jason Lemkin It's one thing that, you know, David Sachs and Marc Andreessen and others were pointing out that the number of, uh, recs out there, job specs for developers and engineers is up, right?
Inside Clay's Sales Playbook | Becca Lindquist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:56 Harry Stebbings Mark Andreessen would call that retardizing.
Replit CEO: Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified & Why Coding Models are Plateauing | Amjad Masad · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:33 Amjad Masad You know, Mark Andrewson wrote, you know, software's eating the world and all of that, but I thought it's transformative for, for people's lives and for the prospect of wealth creation, wealth distribution, entrepreneurship, all of that.
Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:48 Jeffrey Wu And in some sense, like, I see what Mark and Ben are doing with their podcast media company is essentially, like,
SpaceX's Financials Leaked: Is it Worth $2TN | Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Are They Back in the AI Race? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:53 unnamed speaker Marc Andreessen, his point is we're entering an area of deflation and abundance, right?
The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Rejected It | The Four Bottlenecks in AI | Anj Midha · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:31 Anjney Midha When I got to A-sixteen Z as a general partner, the first thing I did is I sat down with Mark and Ben and said, we need more compute.
- ▶ 29:40 Anjney Midha Um, and this is, this is the most important thing I learned from Mark and Ben, which is when the future, the future is not, uh, is, is not determined.
ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:18 unnamed speaker I think, like, of course, like, the bigger the company, then I think you get softer, but you look at what Marc Andreessen was saying the other day, and, like, companies are overstaffed by 25% and even more, right?
Demis Hassabis: Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution & Where Are The Bottlenecks in AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:08 Harry Stebbings I just had Marc Andreessen on the show, actually, and he said that I was a, he said I was a Marxist. 5 times in the scene
OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:52 unnamed speaker And then I, then I had her, had Mark Andreessen on your last pod, sort of laughing about how we all over hired in 2 times in the scene
Why You Need a $1B Fund To Do Series A | SpaceX at $2TRN & Data Centers in Space | Groq's $20BN Deal · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:18:27 Harry Stebbings Very possibly, and that's the self-reflective question, as I introspect, which Marc Andreessen doesn't do,
NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:45 Jason Lemkin I think of general non Andreessen level human, uh, ability to, to grok is about an order of magnitude.
Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:09 Rory O'Driscoll Look, software has grown pretty steadily two or 300 basis .2 to three percent above GDP growth for a couple of decades, and that's kind of the, the low rent, the kind of the low drama version of the Andreessen software will eat the world.
a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:44 Anish Acharya So, um, when I first started, I remember sitting, I spent a bunch of time with Mark and Dixon and everyone. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:00 Anish Acharya All they can do is make all the introductions, and I think the best thing, Mark talked about this, is when you're small, the VC sort of gives you power, right?
- ▶ 1:08:50 Anish Acharya And Mark and Ben are so special and authentic.
- ▶ 1:09:41 Anish Acharya Mark was there. 8 times in the scene
Anthropic Inference Costs Skyrocket |TikTok Deal Closes |The IPO Market:Wealthfront & EquipmentShare · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:23 Jason Lemkin This is a generational company and we, and Marc Andreessen says we do generational companies at any price.
- ▶ 46:42 Harry Stebbings You said Marc Andreessen proposed that.
- ▶ 53:02 Jason Lemkin Not to be, um, a little glum, but what happens if, uh, Mark or Ben stepped down, especially Mark for a variety of reasons? 4 times in the scene
Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:22:52 Harry Stebbings Is Mark and Ben needed?
Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg: How to Make Mega Deals | Lessons from Rabois, Halligan & Grady · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:44 Harry Stebbings Were you nervous pitching to Mark and Ben?
- ▶ 1:06:59 Harry Stebbings Were you nervous pitching to Mark and Ben?
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:06 unnamed speaker But I remember I had a, I had a, I had a sub tenant and Marc Andreessen came into our office to meet with them, to fund them. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:30 unnamed speaker They're picking me because I believe Mark, Mark and Ben and team are going to help me build a hundred trillion dollar company.
- ▶ 57:48 unnamed speaker If it's incredibly obvious to everyone, and then you rank order on, for lack of a better word, a beauty contest basis, and if you, you know, you're probably going to rank lower than some people who have fifteen billion dollars and the guy…
Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:52 Alex Rampell To Mark's essay around software eats the world, that, that largely has happened.
Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:18 Matt Fitzpatrick I have this, um, one of my favorite quotes, like Mark Andreessen has this idea that when private and public narratives diverge, that is the risk or the opportunity. 2 times in the scene
a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:53 David George And, and I think, um, you know, I think Mark and Ben have described it well in the past, you know, what, what are we giving to our founders?
- ▶ 52:50 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, what decision did you and Mark and Ben most disagree on? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:07 David George You know, Mark and Ben
- ▶ 1:06:14 David George Mark and bet. 11 times in the scene
20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 30:25 Max Altman Sure, and I think if there's a seed that we're competing against, and Marc Andreessen is doing the deal, and he's like, I'm gonna join your board, we're probably gonna lose, but I don't think that's what's happening, and like, not to be an…
- ▶ 47:17 Max Altman They didn't listen once in this fund, but for the most part, for the most part, they listen, and I think what we tell them is, I think Marc Andreessen said it really well on my brother Jack's podcast, is like, VC's job is to be a brand for…
- ▶ 1:13:27 Harry Stebbings You know what I like about Marc Andreessen? 2 times in the scene
Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:16 Everett Randle I don't think Ravi or Hamant or even Ben and Mark at this point, I don't think that they can go to LPs and say, hey, we're going to get you five X net on that.
- ▶ 37:33 Harry Stebbings Mark and Ben.
- ▶ 1:02:59 Everett Randle I don't think as, as Ravi or Hamant or even Ben and Mark at this point, I don't think that they can go to LPs, one of those legs of the stool and say, Hey, this, this
OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:28 unnamed speaker If that sentence is true, if that sentence isn't true, then a hundred percent Marc Andreessen was right all along.
- ▶ 22:05 unnamed speaker If that sentence isn't true, then a hundred percent Mark Andreessen was right all along, and he said,
- ▶ 1:23:40 unnamed speaker Everyone's got a great title, and Mark and Ben sit at the top, and life is good.
Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:02 David Cahn Uh, the founder is the CEO of, former CEO of Oculus, uh, and it's Roloff, Marc Andreessen, and I, and Santo, who's the founder of Spark on the board.
a16z GP, Martin Casado: Anthropic vs OpenAI & Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:15 Harry Stebbings I remember then Mark came and was like, fuck that.
- ▶ 1:15:19 Martin Casado I mean, Mark and Ben really are the top of the firm.
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:24 Harry Stebbings Like, in SF, I'm competing against Peter Fenton, Marc Andreessen, Vinor Kostler, Eli Gill, the Collisons, Daniel and Nat Friedman. 2 times in the scene
a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:11 Jason Lemkin My limited experience as Evan Dreesen, if you're not Mark or Ben, you get fired if you didn't bring in every deal, don't you, Rory?
- ▶ 42:15 unnamed speaker And that's, that's, so that's the argument for it, is that if I have a five billion and I can get twenty billion, I'd play what Mark and Gleason does too.
Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:34 Harry Stebbings Like Marc Andreessen, a very famous investor, always says, I mean, literally, we released a show today, and Marc Andreessen says, um, if you want a small company, charge small prices. 2 times in the scene
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:08 Mike Maples So he pitched two firms, got term sheets from both, decided to work with Mark. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:45 Mike Maples Uh, no, because, like, um, let's take one, uh, Marc Andreessen, right? 10 times in the scene
Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:25 Harry Stebbings You tweeted that you love the Marc Andreessen conversation with Joe Rogan. 2 times in the scene
Zachary Bookman: Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | E1235 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:47 Zachary Bookman Marc Andreessen said to me, you want a big company? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:15 Zachary Bookman Mark and, you know, Ben or Andreessen Horowitz is managing many billions of dollars.
- ▶ 20:44 Zachary Bookman And, and Mark Andreessen was like, do you want to be a real company? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:49 Zachary Bookman One thing I learned from, you know, from Mark and even, even Joe in the later years is like, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:18 Harry Stebbings Uh, what is the worst thing about having Mark Marc Andreessen on your board? 7 times in the scene
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:26 David Frankel And the fascinating thing there is, like, it's like, goes back to the Andreessen, you know, like soft, Andreessen said software is eating the world. 2 times in the scene
David Schneider: Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs" & VC Value Add - Is it Real? | E1200 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:06 Harry Stebbings I think as Marc Andreessen says, there's no such thing as a bad time, a bad, bad idea, only a bad time.
David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:10 Harry Stebbings Vinod and Marc Andreessen have taken two very opposing sides saying that once it's out of the box, you can't put it back. 3 times in the scene
Ethan Mollick: Why OpenAl Abandons Products, The Biggest Opportunities They Have Not Taken | E1184 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:42 Harry Stebbings We have Marc Andreessen and others say that they have to be.
Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:03 Harry Stebbings I think about if you've got Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz doing the hard fucking sell, and then you have Doug Leone doing the hard fucking sell.
Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:47 unnamed speaker I was talking to Mark and recent ones, and he told me how, like in advertising, it's like three tiers, but like the top tier is like Google.
Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:55 Harry Stebbings Do you agree with Marc Andreessen's statement that there's no such thing as a bad idea, only a bad time?
- ▶ 49:05 Dan Siroker You're betting on them just as much as they're betting on you, because what happens when somebody's had a lot of success, and no knock on the people, I got to work with amazing investors who had a ton of success, like Peter Fenton and Marc…
Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:47 Harry Stebbings Because Mark Andreessen or Ben, I can't remember which one, uh, said that, you know, there's no such thing as a new idea.
Girish Mathrubootham (HINDI): Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:49 Girish Mathrubootham میرے پاس ایک سوال ہے مجھے جواب دو ہے نا تو مجھے لگتا ہے کہ یہ ایک بہت ہی روچک دنیا ہے میں آپ سے پوری طرح سے سہمت ہوں اودیم اور ایس ایم بی کے بارے میں جاننے سے پہلے میں آپ سے کچھ چیزیں جاننا چاہتا ہوں کم قیمت کا کیا مطلب تھا یہ سائن اپ کو…
Girish Mathrubootham: Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR | E1142 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:36 Harry Stebbings You know, Marc Andreessen said, if I could have a billboard, I would have on it raised prices. 2 times in the scene
Bastian Lehmann: How the Uber Deal Went Down and How a $2.65BN Deal Turned into $5BN | E1137 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:07 Bastian Lehmann And, um, for me personally, Mark, Mark Andreessen was, was one of my heroes. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:26 Bastian Lehmann I, I do not believe that, that, that Mark loses a sleepless night over what I'm working on.
Chris Dixon: Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture? | E1132 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:51 Chris Dixon I mean, I just, every single thing, I mean, Mark and I talk about this a lot.
- ▶ 56:38 Chris Dixon And so what really appealed to me, why I joined is when I talked to Mark and Ben, I was like, look, we just went through the, the three, the era of mobile social cloud. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:43 Harry Stebbings What's the biggest lesson from working with Mark and Ben for over a decade?
Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:32 Nicolai Tangen I, um, listened to a lecture by Mark Andreessen at Stanford. 3 times in the scene
Roger Ehrenberg: Why VC Returns Will Get Worse & Why LP Incentive Structures are so Broken | E1117 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:25 Roger Ehrenberg And this is where people like, you know, Mark and Ben were.
Sanjit Biswas: Samsara's $18BN Market Cap & $1BN in ARR in 8 Years | E1092 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:02 Harry Stebbings Tell me, you've got Doug Leone and Marc Andreessen on your board. 6 times in the scene
Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:09 Keith Rabois Like generally you have to be a technology optimist is, you know, Mark adjacent pointed out to be a successful investor.
Cris Valenzuela: AI Creators vs Hollywood Writers; How We Grew Runway into a $1.5B Company | E1054 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:43 Harry Stebbings You know, Marc Andreessen says there's no such thing as a bad idea, only a bad time.
Brian Balfour: Startup Growth Secrets from HubSpot; Distribution Stratagies; Impact of AI | E1049 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:32 Harry Stebbings And then I have my brain, which is Balaji, is Marc Andreessen on Twitter.
Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:30 Vinod Khosla Uh, when the internet really took off, and, uh, I remember investing, uh, meeting Mark in recent to invest in Netscape, the browser company, on a Saturday morning, uh, in Mountain View, um, when it was three people.
- ▶ 19:28 Harry Stebbings Because, yeah, I think it's, um, Marc Andreessen's quote, there's no such thing as a bad time, a bad idea, only a bad time.
- ▶ 41:09 Harry Stebbings You mentioned Marc Andreessen at the beginning with that Saturday morning meeting. 6 times in the scene
Amjad Masad: How I Founded Replit; Zuck's Famous Saying; Will TikTok be banned? | E987 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:06 Harry Stebbings I love Marc Andreessen's statement that there's no such thing as a bad idea, only the bad time.
Ariel Cohen: The Death of Salesforce; How OpenAI is Changing the Travel Industry | 20VC #975 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:13 Ariel Cohen And the businesses that will not will vanish, and you know, there is this famous Marc Andreessen, I think, blog about software is eating the world.
The Ultimate Guide for Building a Two-Sided Marketplace | a16z's Jeff Jordan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:11 Jeff Jordan I, in a recent blog, I stole a mark phrase.
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