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
Insight
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'…”
Marc Andreessen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 42:28 a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
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,…”
Margit Wennmachers Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:44 a16z Podcast | The Why, How, and When of PR
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Insight
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…”
Margit Wennmachers Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:42 a16z Podcast | The Why, How, and When of PR
Oct 15, 2025 negative
Opinion
Horowitz: Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi's competitors are pseudo-technologists
“He is a real technologist, like not a, you know, pseudo technologist like his competitors.”
Ben Horowitz Oct 15, 2025 ▶ 3:30 Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a $100 Billion Business
Jan 7, 2026 neutral
Insight
Andreessen: AI capabilities are easily replicated once proven achievable
“These are trillion dollar questions, not answers, but once somebody proves that it's capable, it seems to not be that hard for other people to be able to catch up, even people with far less resources.”
Marc Andreessen Jan 7, 2026 ▶ 0:21 Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
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