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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.