entrepreneur
also referred to as: entrepreneurs
33 statements across 28 episodes · 14 bullish · 6 bearish · 17 people on the record · first statement Aug 14, 2018 by Margit Wennmachers · said 7 times in 1 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Jason Feifer (6), Steph Smith (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2023 7 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about entrepreneur, oldest first
Aug 14, 2018 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Grant: The self-esteem movement has been disastrous for entrepreneurs
“I would also say that the self-esteem movement has been disastrous for entrepreneurs in the sense that Becoming a successful entrepreneur is not about thinking that you're special. It's about believing that, you know, somebody else could do this. Maybe I could…”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Flournoy: Military operators share a deep cultural affinity with tech entrepreneurs
“When you get to know operators, they're incredible entrepreneurs that have been trained up, But thrown into battlefield situations where it's like my training didn't tell me about that, and they are constantly problem solving and creating new things and using …”
Jan 2, 2019
Arthur Brooks: Visionary entrepreneurs unlock latent demand, not existing demand
“The most conventional entrepreneurs look for demand that exists but is currently unmet. Visionary entrepreneurship is the kind where the demand doesn't even exist yet. The reason that Jobs was such an inflecting visionary character was because he believed in l…”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019
Rachleff: Entrepreneurs mistakenly assume competitors will immediately copy their innovations
“One of the biggest mistakes that entrepreneurs make is thinking that everyone, that once others see what you're doing, of course they're going to drop what they're doing and do what you're doing. It doesn't work that way.”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019
Nov 9, 2022 positive
Andreessen: Incumbent tech resistance creates startup opportunities
“I will tell you that state of affairs is very good for entrepreneurs, right? Because if more people in positions of power were more open to new technologies, right? The opportunity, especially for the young entrepreneur with a breakthrough idea would actually …”
Sep 25, 2023 neutral
Kevin Scott: An AI model is not a standalone product
“Like AI is, Like, model's not a product. Like your understanding as an entrepreneur of, like, you know, who is your user? Like, what is their problem? Like, what can you do to help them? And then, like, determining whether or not this AI stuff is actually a us…”
Dec 15, 2023 negative
Jan 23, 2024 positive
Horowitz: Attracting top founders is Andreessen Horowitz's sole prime directive
“I think it's very clear to us, and we try to make clear to everybody in the firm, and I think everybody in the firm is very clear on it, that if we don't attract the best entrepreneurs in the world that none of the other things matter.”
Jun 28, 2024 negative
Dec 16, 2024 positive
Strange: Successful compliance startups use AI copilots rather than autonomous agents
“Smarter entrepreneurs are getting around this in two different ways. One it's much more of a co-pilot versus a full angel versus a full agent. And then they're able to Test enough edge cases around that the likelihood of hallucination is very, very, very low b…”
Apr 29, 2025 negative
Horowitz: Traditional VC is a mediocre product whose value drops to zero
“Venture capital is so underwhelming in that it, you know, it's a great product for investors for LPs, but it's a kind of very mediocre product for entrepreneurs because like we, you know, you get almost nothing. You get like some money and then a smart person …”
Apr 29, 2025 positive
Andreessen: Overfunding venture capital is net positive for society overall
“If you're going to have an asset class that is to be overfunded, like this probably is the one to overfund. Right. In other words, that there's a societal surplus of all of the swings that entrepreneurs get to take that they wouldn't get to take if the sector …”
May 28, 2025 neutral
Ben Horowitz reveals early a16z rejected founders who yielded to their ideas
“One of the things that, that Mark and I used to do a lot in the early days was Basically try and convince the entrepreneur to do what we wanted. And then if they did that, we would not invest because they didn't, you know, they're coming in with their beliefs.”
May 28, 2025
Horowitz: startups fail when founders pander to investor preferences
“It's always very dangerous when you get the feeling the entrepreneur is telling you something that you want to hear, but they don't believe. So when that kind of distance comes in, you know, you, it very reliably is not going to work.”
Oct 15, 2025 positive
Horowitz: World-class founders with massive market opportunities are extremely rare
“You just don't get this good a market opportunity with this good an entrepreneur. Like that, that's the rarest of rare things. Like we see great entrepreneurs, but their market opportunity is limited, and then we see, you know, Companies that have a great mark…”
Nov 12, 2025 positive
Rampell: Founders should counterbalance cyclical businesses rather than abandoning them
“And a big mistake that entrepreneurs often make is like, I have a business that is a sine curve. Let's kill it. I don't like that business. No, no, no, no. It's actually a great, like, most businesses are in some way, shape, or form cyclical, even if you don't…”
Nov 26, 2025 positive
a16z strategically targeted all marketing communications at founders instead of LPs
“The thing that we all decided is like, we're just going to aim all of our communications at the entrepreneurs versus the LPs. Because we have their numbers, we, we're not a column, and you guys got great introductions to people, but it all needs to be very ent…”
Nov 26, 2025 positive
Jan 15, 2026 bullish
May 5, 2026
Tony James: Entrepreneurs tend to reassert control once firm crises fade
“Like so many entrepreneurs, I, we've all seen this, right, where they say they'll, or they want to bring someone in, and there were issues with around Blackstone at the time and all the businesses, but then once, once those issues are kind of fade, then the en…”
May 8, 2026 positive
Horowitz: US is rapidly catching up in military tech integration
“The thing that's been surprising, though, is like how fast we've been catching up. And I think that that's been really kind of heartening from both The number of entrepreneurs that want to help, and then the willingness of the U.S. Government to say, hey, we'r…”
May 12, 2026 positive
Blankfein: Young entrepreneurs win because they lack attachment to tradition
“Where the entrepreneurs are advantaged by their lack of attachment to history and tradition and the old way of doing things. Where the iconoclast is the in your business, the iconoclast and the young guy. Not only celebrate, they're the you know, they're the t…”