competitors
5 statements across 4 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Marc Andreessen · across every show →
Everything said about competitors, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019
Andreessen: Top VC firms cannot invest in competing startups in one category
“The central challenge is any top-end venture capital firm that has a reputation that it wants to maintain, which is, I think, very important, can only invest in one company in a category. You can't, practically speaking, invest in competitors. The company you'…”
Jan 2, 2019
Wennmachers: Avoiding PR leaves your company's narrative to competitors
“One potential big downside of not doing any PR, regardless of what market you're in, is that You don't define you, but then someone else does. Either the competition, or someone who just doesn't know your story, or your version of the story. And that, I think,…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Wennmachers: Avoiding PR to hide from competitors is just an excuse
“I think a lot of people sort of say like, I don't want to PR yet because I don't want to tip off my competition. I think that's sort of excuse for, I don't know how to do PR. It also is not that convincing because if your shit isn't three times as good or 10 t…”
Oct 15, 2025 negative