Marc Andreessen
378 statements across 76 episodes · 141 bullish · 104 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Jul 15, 2017 by Marc Andreessen · said 270 times in 128 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2026 48 mentions in 19 episodes 3 per episode
- Ben Horowitz on Investing in AI: AI Bubbles, Economic Impact, and VC Acceleration
- Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
- The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
- Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Years
- Why Top Founders Are Racing Into AI Infrastructure
- How AI Changes the Economics of Innovation
- The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- 11 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 87 mentions in 33 episodes 3 per episode
- Jack Altman & Martin Casado on the Future of Venture Capital
- The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
- The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
- JD Vance on the Future of America
- Ben Horowitz on Leadership and Culture
- The Person Who Runs HR For 2 Million Federal Workers
- The Little Tech Agenda for AI
- Ben Horowitz Shares the a16z Origin Story & Plans for the Future
- 25 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2023 10 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- AI Food Fights in the Enterprise with Databricks' Ali Ghodsi
- The Art and Science of Podcasting with Sriram and Aarthi
- AI Hardware, Explained.
- Polarizing Talent: Navigating 2023's Landscape
- Ben Horowitz on Executive Firing (and Hiring)
- Intro to American Dynamism
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2020 2 mentions in 1 episode
2019 103 mentions in 57 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Build Your Personal Brand
- Making Culture, Making Influence -- Dapper Dan in Silicon Valley
- a16z Podcast | Infrastructure... Is Everything
- a16z Podcast | Secrets, Power Laws, and Technology – The Ideas of “Zero to One”
- a16z Podcast | New Upstarts in an Old Industry
- a16z Podcast | Seeing into the Future -- Making Decisions, Telling Stories
- a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- a16z Podcast | The Rise of the Digital 'Pill'
- 49 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 11 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
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Jul 15, 2017 negative
Andreessen: Draconian university licensing offices can kill early startups
“I have seen cases, and I've lived through cases, where the universities take a very draconian view on this, and the university licensing office has this just highly inflated view of the value of what they're going to be licensing, and they can kill companies i…”
Jul 15, 2017 positive
Andreessen: VCs prefer engineers who learn business over MBAs hiring engineers
“The much better model is for the engineer to have the business skills for the engineer to be a top flight engineer, but also have the business skills to be able to start a company, and then the engineer hires the MBA as, you know, the head of marketing, or the…”
Jul 15, 2017 negative
Andreessen: Deep hardware patents are far more valuable than software patents
“Like, what I would argue is, like, the further down the stack, the more useful the patents are. Like, patents at the level of chips or radios you know, can be, or, you know, I don't know, memory or something like that can be incredibly valuable. Patents at the…”
Jul 15, 2017 bullish
Andreessen predicts continuous full-body biological monitoring will become standard
“Whereas in the future, I, we just think it's gonna be standard that you're gonna know everything's happening in your body, and you're gonna know your blood work, and you're gonna know your genome, and you're gonna know your biome, and you're gonna know your MR…”
Jul 15, 2017 positive
Jul 15, 2017 positive
Jul 15, 2017 neutral
Andreessen: Physical-world engineering advances much slower than software
“I think it's a fair critique, and I think this is the part of Peter Thiel's critique that I agree with. It's a fair critique that there are many fields that are not moving as fast as they could. And in particular fields, you know, applications of computer scie…”
Jul 15, 2017 neutral
Andreessen: Tech companies expand internships to lock in graduates early
“And so in the last five years alone in the valley, the tech companies have hugely increased their focus on their internship programs. And basically the goal is to get all of your best students as interns and then be able to basically get them locked in at leas…”
Jul 15, 2017 negative
Andreessen: Media hypocritically claims tech is both useless and excessively disruptive
“Nobody attempts to ever reconcile those two critiques and the same commentators will literally write both critiques. In, like, different columns, you know, two weeks apart, without ever attempting to reconcile them.”
Jul 15, 2017 positive
Andreessen: Early startups require five years of 18-hour days to succeed
“There is no substitute. The big takeaway, and this applies to everything we fund, and it's what we work on all the time, there is no substitute to the first five years of people in the office, 18 hours a day, six days a week, grinding away. And it's grinding a…”
Jul 15, 2017 negative
Andreessen: Part-time professor founders are top failure mode for university spinouts
“There's a very clear failure case which is the dominant failure case that I think that we see which is The professor has the idea. The professor starts the company but with no intention of going full-time at the company. The professor runs the company or gets …”
Dec 5, 2017
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Andreessen: 5 to 7 billion people will own smartphones by 2020
“And this is the thing I've been talking a lot about that people occasionally get angry about, because they think it won't Can't possibly come true, but I'm convinced it's going to come true, which is I think everybody on the planet by the end of the decade is …”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Andreessen: Every physical object will have chips and connectivity by 2039
“Basically, I think the key assumption I make is basically every physical thing is going to become smart over the next, you know, 10 or 20 years. This one's gonna take time, but it will happen. So basically every physical thing, whether it's a toy, or a light b…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Andreessen: Elon Musk saving Tesla and SpaceX in 2008 was spectacular
“So to start, think about this, to start a new electric car company... Simultaneously to start the first new private rocketry company in the United States in probably 40 years... And then to go through the 2008 crash... And have both come out the other side, li…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Andreessen: Pivot culture and lean startup methods are excuses to quit
“I think there's a little bit too much in the Valley right now of the pivot. And the lean start, you know, the lean startup and the, you know, the, everything's an experiment and minimum viable product and failure is good. And kind of all these excuses to be ab…”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Andreessen: Scientific R&D will shift to decentralized, bottom-up global networks
“It may be that we are just gonna be living in a world where it's gonna be much more bottoms-up, much more collaborative, much more diffuse, much less well-organized, much sloppier. Maybe, by the way, more dynamic, maybe more creative, maybe more intermingling …”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Andreessen: Investor market opinions matter far less than founder depth
“Odds are, what we found is, odds are if you find those things, it almost doesn't matter. Like, I don't know that what we think about the market or the product or the technology actually matters that much because we're, we have the opportunity to place a bet on…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Andreessen: Board Audit Committees Offer Mandate to Investigate Corporate Risks
“If there is something in the company that you're concerned about, that is an opportunity for you to do a deep dive. That is within the charter of what that committee is supposed to be doing in a way that would be weird in a board meeting.”
Jan 2, 2019
Andreessen: Pitch business ideas in CEO one-on-ones, not board meetings
“The other thing I've found that works incredibly well, and maybe they're just indulging me on it, but I have found that it works well is that I just, again, in my later discipline years, I'm trying to get better at this, is Is to just keep, instead of having, …”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Andreessen: Public company boards are harder and more intense than private boards
“The public boards are, I think, it's fair to say, they're just, they're harder. Like, they're harder, they're more intense. The legal accounting and governance issues just rise much more to the fore because you have all these public reporting responsibilities.”
Jan 2, 2019
Andreessen: Boards can quietly remove disruptive directors using peer pressure
“And so if three or five or six or seven of the directors are kind of all agree on this and they're kind of like, yes, this board would be better if this person were to quietly exit. It can generally be communicated to that director, you know, in a, in an offli…”
Jan 2, 2019
Andreessen: Famous CEOs are least likely to plan internal succession
“The strongest, most famous kind of CEOs where everybody wants to be on their board are often the ones who are least likely to do succession planning internally. Cause they're the most likely to not want there to be a clean internal successor who can take over.”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Andreessen: A Harvard project pushes annual board re-elections on Fortune 500s
“For those of you who study this stuff, there's this, literally, it's this actually completely bizarre thing. There's an academic project at Harvard where literally like the class project is to go get like Fortune 500 company, company bylaws changed in order to…”
Jan 2, 2019
Andreessen: Virtually all value and cyber attacks will move online
“And so the reality is we're gonna live in a virtual world. We're gonna live in an online world. We're gonna live in a software world. Because we're gonna live in that world, that is where, you know, virtually all of the value is going to be, which means that, …”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Andreessen: Carlota Perez's book is his most frequently recommended text
“The book that Dan's referring to is probably my favorite book that I recommend most often and it's got a kind of a, not a lot of people have read it, because it's got one of those titles that kind of scares people off. It's called Technological Revolutions in …”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Andreessen argues continuous optimization across human experiences improves the world
“At first it's like, okay, you can make, you know, these websites a little better, mobile apps a little better, and do this, and conversion rates, and so forth, and then you realize, wait a minute, like, you can make everything a little bit better, right? Basic…”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Andreessen: Technology will continue augmenting human capabilities rather than replacing them
“I'm an extreme optimist on this. I think we just make better and better tools all the time. And the tools help us as humans magnify our abilities. They don't take away from what we can do. They help us do more than we could possibly do before. And I think that…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Andreessen: Privacy is not dead; consumers simply require granular sharing control
“I don't really believe that, and I think you also see this when you spend time with young people, which is I think we just need, we need to give people control. I think we need to give people control over what they share and what they don't.”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Andreessen predicts continuous bodily tracking and quantified self will become standard
“Quantified self is an example we think is going to evolve into. You know, a cornerstone of biology in the future. You know, we, you know, we one of our theories is we think we're living in the stone age today in the sense of, like, we really don't know what's …”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019
Andreessen: Startups require five years of 18-hour days, six days a week
“There is no substitute. There is no substitute. The big takeaway, and this applies to everything we fund, and it's what we work on all the time, there is no substitute to the first five years of people in the office, 18 hours a day, six days a week, grinding a…”
Jan 2, 2019
Andreessen: Nicira scrapped its OpenFlow tech immediately after a16z investment
“So we funded this here at NetWeQ's networking lab, and it was the OpenFlow. OpenFlow was the sort of protocol was the approach and Martine had, had, had been one of the main people doing that. And so they start in Asira, and we're all excited, because we're li…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019
Andreessen: University spin-outs fail when professors found companies but remain in academia
“There's a very clear failure case that, which is the dominant failure case that I think that we see. Which is the professor has the idea. The professor starts the company but with no intention of going full-time at the company. The professor runs the company o…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Andreessen: NSF rejecting support funding for Mosaic catalyzed Netscape's founding
“So we applied for NSF funding to basically build a customer support team. And they informed us very kindly that that wasn't part of what NSF funds. So that was a good catalyst to go start a company which was very helpful.”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Andreessen: Technological progress in atoms lags behind progress in bits
“It's a fair critique that there are many fields that are not moving as fast as they could. And in particular fields, you know, applications of computer science or other fields of engineering that intersect more in the world of atoms as opposed to the world of …”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Andreessen: Deep hardware patents are valuable, software patents are not
“What I would argue is, like, the further down the stack, the more useful the patents are. Like, patents at the level of chips or radios you know, can be, or, you know, I don't know, memory or something like that can be incredibly valuable. Patents at the level…”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Andreessen: a16z rejects founders who quickly evaluate multiple startup ideas
“One of the ways to convince us not to fund a startup is for people to come in and basically say, I wanted to start a company, and I had 14 ideas, and I think this is the best idea, and then I did two months of work on it, and I'm ready to go. And like, we'd ra…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Andreessen: M&A will surge and drive top startups to go public
“We've probably been in a slow period for M&A for a while, but there is no question there's going to be a lot of M&A in the years ahead, and the companies that have public currencies, they're going to be able to be the acquirers and able to get big and become m…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Andreessen: Founders overestimate raising big rounds and underestimate bootstrapping traction
“Probably what's overestimated right now is just raising lots of money to be able to save, raise lots of money. Probably what's underestimated is the bootstrapping process of getting in position with the core thing that you're doing and both the product itself …”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Andreessen: SaaS will shift enterprise power to global SMBs
“There may be a power shift happening from on the one hand, large companies to small and medium companies that can now more aggressively adopt technology faster. And then from companies in the U S and Western Europe to companies all over the world that can also…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Andreessen: Taking down North Korea's internet was a weak retaliation
“In the wake of the Sony attacks presuming for the moment that they were from North Korea, from the commercial world wondered if the response to the Sony attacks was to take down the North Korean internet. That didn't seem like a very strong response. North Kor…”
Jan 2, 2019
Andreessen: Bottom-up tech adoption lets small organizations outpace large ones
“These technologies are now arriving bottoms up. That's extremely empowering to all of us around the world as individuals, but it does mean that, in many cases, smaller organizations can now adopt new technologies Faster than large organizations.”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Andreessen: Purify was penicillin for programmers and a step-function upgrade
“A product came out called Purify, a software product came out called Purify, and it was like penicillin for software programmers. It solved memory leaks, and it was this program, very clever technical mechanism to basically surface all the memory leaks and mak…”
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Andreessen: All tech ideas are good; failures are timing issues
“I actually have reached the point where I think that all of the ideas in tech and all the ideas in Silicon Valley are good ideas. I don't think there actually are bad ideas. I mean, maybe we could pick a couple, but they actually all seem to be good ideas. The…”
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Andreessen: Non-tech sectors will consume GDP and absorb almost all future jobs
“The kicker to the whole thing is if you have, the sectors where prices are crashing by definition, right, are shrinking as a percentage of the economy, and the sectors where prices are rising are growing as a percentage of the economy, and so what's actually h…”
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Jan 2, 2019
Andreessen: Economy is bifurcated by degree of regulation and tech adoption
“What's happening is the economy is bifurcated, and the way to look at this is prices, the prices of products, and so there are sectors of the economy that I would describe as the fast productivity growth sectors of the economy that also tend to be the less reg…”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Andreessen: Cheap autonomous fleets will push parents to discourage teenage driving
“By the time you get, you know, full self-driving car fleece deployed, and it's, you know, and it's a button on a phone, and the, you know, the ride costs a, you know, a half or a third of what it costs today, it's going to be so cost-effective and so safe. To …”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019
Andreessen: Startups have a five-year fuse to hit critical mass
“When you start a company, you basically, basically starts a five-year fuse. If the idea doesn't hit, if the idea doesn't hit critical mass sort of in society with the customers in the first five years, you basically lose the company, and then somebody else pic…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Andreessen: Incumbents are disrupted because they are competent, not incompetent
“The thing with Clay's book that was so striking was the observation that when big companies get disrupted, it's not because they're incompetent and dumb. In fact, quite the opposite. It's because they're very competent and smart. All the existing commitments t…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Andreessen: Silicon Valley tech-swarming startups face an 80% mortality rate
“The strength of the valley is you get a thousand startups that basically swarm all the different possible implications of that change, and so you get a thousand mobile apps, you get a thousand devices that use the microprocessor, you get a thousand internet st…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Andreessen: Most business books confuse correlation with causation
“A big reason for that, I found, is a lot of business books kind of fall into two traps. One is they extrapolate off the recent past, and so they're very kind of short-term in nature. It's whatever worked in the last five years projects forward. The other probl…”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019
Andreessen: Early academic tracking could have routed him to a machine shop
“I very easily could have ended up being tracked onto the vocational track, mostly kids I grew up with, you know, certainly. Could have as well. And so again, there's like an alternate universe, Marc Andreessen, that got tracked into a machine shop curriculum.”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Andreessen: Low productivity growth contradicts claims of tech-driven job displacement
“Number one, today in the American economy, you actually have very low productivity growth, not very high productivity growth, which is counters against the argument that there's some level of unprecedented technological disruption that's happening, because you…”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Andreessen: Telepresence and VR will end tech geographic concentration by 2038
“My hope is that we're gonna get there in the next, you know, let's say, 10 or 20 years. My hope is that we're gonna get telepresence, right, in the form of video conferencing, and telepresence robots, and VR, and AR, and all these things, collaboration softwar…”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Andreessen: Legendary corporate R&D labs required monopolies and a pre-VC era
“They were basically like, they were rounding errors on everything. Like, there weren't 10, there weren't 20, there weren't a hundred, there were three or four. And there were two preconditions for them. One is, they all were offshoots of monopolies... And then…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Andreessen: Winning tech companies in 20 years will be 100x larger than Google
“The winning companies, you know, the winning entrepreneurial companies 20 years from now that win are going to be Staggeringly large. Like, they're going to be like, I don't know, 10 or a hundred times the size of Google and Facebook.”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Andreessen: Wearable sensors will predict heart attacks within 5 to 10 years
“I think we'll have a full complement of medical grade sensors on, you know, on our bodies in a way that we have chosen to over the next five or 10 years. And I think we're, I think we'll get to the point where we're gonna be able to do things like predict hear…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Andreessen: Successful tech platforms rely on emergent user behavior
“The really successful platforms let the users surface the behaviors, right, that the creators of the platform could have never thought of, and, you know, Twitter's had all kinds of issues over the years, but, like, it always has been amazing. Most of the compe…”
Sep 2, 2019 positive
Dec 12, 2019 negative
Andreessen: Drafting 18-year-olds for combat will be viewed historically as a mistake
“We want to take eighteen-year-olds out of their homes, right, and we want to put a gun in their hand and send them someplace and tell them to decide who to shoot. That that is gonna go down in history as having been a good idea. Just strikes me as, like, unlik…”
Dec 12, 2019 negative
Andreessen: Voice interfaces will not directly replace keyboards, mice, or touchscreens
“Yeah, so I think the thing that, if we're going to get something wrong about voice, I think it's going to be that it would be a one-to-one replacement for existing user interaction models, so that it would be like a replacement for keyboard or that it'd be a r…”
Dec 12, 2019 bullish
Andreessen: Future military warfare will be fully autonomous and software-driven
“If you kind of project forward what's happening with generally cyber, with information, you know, operations of different kinds, but also with drones you know, UAVs and then also with, you know, unmanned, you know, unmanned fighter jets, right? Unmanned you kn…”
Dec 12, 2019 bullish
Andreessen: 5G will turbocharge network scaling laws and economic activity
“The introduction of five G the way I think about it is it's going to turbocharge those three networks in particular, that last one, or the, you know, those last two. And so it's gonna add a lot more, and there's just gonna be a lot more devices on the network.…”
Dec 12, 2019 positive
Dec 12, 2019 positive
Dec 12, 2019 positive
Andreessen: VCs should assume every pitch will work; timing is the challenge
“I pushed the, pushed all the way to the point where I just think we should assume that whatever we're being pitched is going to work. It's just a question of timing. Then of course, timing turns out to be the hard part, but it at least focuses the conversation…”
Dec 12, 2019 bullish
Dec 12, 2019 negative
Dec 12, 2019 positive
Dec 12, 2019 neutral
Andreessen: Breakthrough technologies always have 25-to-50-year backstories of failed attempts
“Every successful technology that I'm aware of, you know, the things that are, like, all of a sudden, like, the next big thing, like the iPhone in 2007, or, you know, just as an example they all have this, like, incredible 25 or 40 or fifty-year backstory”
Dec 12, 2019 neutral
Andreessen: VC "carried interest" originated from 17th-century whaling expedition profits
“The term carry, which is sort of how VCs get paid, the so-called carried interest, which is like the 20 or 25% that you make of the profits that, that you share. The term carry actually was the percentage of the whale that the ship carried. It was literally ph…”
Nov 9, 2022 negative
Nov 9, 2022 positive
Andreessen: Technology is the sole driver of human progress
“And of course the answer is technology. And in fact, technology is the only answer to that question. Right. There, there's no other answer. Right. It's not like people got smarter. It's not like people got, you know, I don't know that this, you know, human, hu…”
Nov 9, 2022 bullish
Nov 9, 2022 negative
Andreessen: Current tech regulation will look foolish in 100 years
“Oh yeah, you know, they're putting in place laws that, you know, a hundred years from now, you know, the laws that are being put in place now on a lot of modern technology topics are going to look just as silly as the red flag laws.”
Nov 9, 2022
Nov 9, 2022 bullish
Andreessen: Crypto, social media, and internet face identical resistance patterns
“The internet followed this exact trajectory. Like, you know, crypto, cryptocurrency, blockchain, web three is following this exact same trajectory. Social networking followed this exact same trajectory. Like, I've now seen this pattern, you know, out of 50 tim…”
Nov 9, 2022 negative
Andreessen: Media elites flip-flopped on social media without acknowledging it
“If you track the people involved, the exact same people have held every single position. Right. So the exact same experts, you know, professors, you know, pundits, commentators, analysts, think tank people, magazine publishers, political activists, the exact s…”
Nov 9, 2022 negative
Andreessen: 'The Social Dilemma' lied about historical bicycle opposition
“There's this Netflix documentary called The Social Dilemma that's kind of, you know, condemns, you know, kind of social media as this kind of unique threat to civilization. And one of the things that one of the guys in that movie says is he's like, you know, s…”
Nov 9, 2022 negative
Andreessen: Tech resistance is driven by fear of status shifts
“The blowback is nominally a response to the dangers of the technology. What the blowback actually is, in, in, in almost every case, what the blowback actually is, it's basically a fear, a statement, an assertion, a realization that the introduction of the new …”
Nov 9, 2022 bullish
Andreessen: a16z invests in tech meeting two core criteria
“The way I think about it, like for our firm is for every new technology that we're exposed to, right? It's like, okay, does it pass like the basic sniff test of like, okay, if this worked, would it be a big deal? Right. And then it's like, are there really sma…”
Nov 9, 2022 positive
Nov 9, 2022
Andreessen: Tech flaw lists double as founder opportunity roadmaps
“What you notice basically is that list of kind of rational reasons why something can't work. That list is also the same list of all of the technology and business opportunities with that technology. Right. So I always call that it's the punch list of all the t…”
Feb 6, 2023
Feb 6, 2023 bearish
Andreessen: Full-time corporate office campuses will not return for most companies
“A lot of these companies now are thinking, okay, we're gonna have people come back in the office two days a week, three days a week, or we're gonna have them come back in shifts, or this or that, but, you know, the spirit is, like, Elvis has left the building …”
Feb 6, 2023
Jun 10, 2023 negative
Jun 10, 2023 neutral
Jun 10, 2023 bullish
Andreessen: Solving AI correctness and security are trillion-dollar market opportunities
“Those are what I, we have a, I have a term I use for that. I call those are trillion-dollar prizes, right? And so, so basically, like, whoever figures out how to fix those problems is going, you know, has the ability potentially to build a company worth a tril…”
Jun 10, 2023 negative
Andreessen: Media panic over AI existential risks is ridiculously overcooked
“And then, you know, on the other side of it, if you, like, read about this in the media or follow the public conversation, there's just this, like, horrifying, basically, you know, sort of onslaught of, like, fear and panic and hysteria about how this is, like…”
Jun 10, 2023 bullish
Andreessen: Tech's suitability for gaming predicts broad future utility
“I've always been a proponent of, like, look, it's a huge plus for a technology when it is so easy to use that you can basically have fun with it right? Like, it, like, it spoke very well for the computer that you could actually use it to play games right? Beca…”
Jun 10, 2023 bullish
Andreessen: Fears of AI taking all jobs are paranoid conspiracy theories
“Everything I just said is consistent with what's in every standard economics textbook, textbook as compared to these, like, basically what I consider paranoid conspiracy theories, that somehow the machines will take all the work, humans will have nothing to do…”
Jun 10, 2023 positive
Andreessen: Around 100 million people actively use generative AI applications
“And then there's a bottoms up phenomenon, which is it's already long, like people are already experiencing it, right? It's like in the form of, like, GPT and Midjourney and all these other new kind of amazing AI apps that are kind of running wild online. And s…”
Jun 10, 2023 bullish
Andreessen: AI correctness debate will be resolved within two years via accuracy sliders
“And I suspect in two years, I, my guess is in two years, we won't even, even be talking about this. Instead, what we'll be doing is we'll saying, look, these things have a slider on them, and you can move the slider all the way to purely literal and always cor…”
Jun 10, 2023 positive
Andreessen: Modern tech adoption flows trickle-up from consumers to government
“Since the invention of the internet, and then more recently, I'd say the combination of the smartphone and the internet a lot of new technologies now are actually the reverse. They actually get adopted by consumers first then small businesses figure out how to…”
Jun 10, 2023 bullish
Aug 2, 2023 neutral
Andreessen: Red Scare was unfair due to shifting rules, not targeting communists
“My sympathy such as it is for people who got caught up in the Red Scare is basic, it's less that they were unfairly, it's less that it was unfair to basically target them for being communist. It was, I would argue, it was more that it was unfair that the rules…”
Aug 2, 2023 negative
Andreessen: U.S. figures close to China realize they made a mistake
“There are people who have been close to China over the last 20 years who are starting to wake up and realize that they probably made a big mistake because the moral valence of China is changing in real time as the U.S. Becomes more anti-China, as China becomes…”
Aug 2, 2023 positive
Aug 2, 2023 negative
Andreessen: Society should not impute political and moral wisdom to scientists
“And so this thing where we take our best and brightest scientists and intellectuals and thinkers and professors and academics And sort of media superstars and we, and inventors of new technology, and we kind of impute into them moral wisdom and sort of politic…”
Oct 1, 2023 neutral
Andreessen: Copyright laws will drastically change due to AI remixing tools
“Like, I think it's going, like I, it's going to continue to be obviously very important, but it's going to change a lot because people are going to want to deploy creative assets and likenesses and voices and personalities and so forth. And content and do remi…”
Oct 1, 2023 positive
Oct 1, 2023
Andreessen: Cars created far more jobs than they displaced from blacksmiths
“The car created far more jobs, right, than it displaced, and so, for example, the number of car mechanics was orders of magnitude beyond the number of blacksmiths, right and then, you know, and then the downstream effect of the car was, like, very profound, an…”
Oct 1, 2023 bullish
Andreessen: AI desktop software will generate full movies directly from screenplays
“Within some number of years here, short, I think relatively short number of years, you're gonna have a tool on your laptop, right, that basically is, is like, you work with it, you basically write your script, you know, kind of with AI, and then as you're writ…”
Oct 1, 2023 negative
Oct 1, 2023 bullish
Andreessen: AI will expand entertainment and tech industry jobs and output
“On the other side of this kind of change, typically what happens is a much larger industry with like way more employment, way more output. And I, I'm a hundred percent convinced that's what's going to happen for sure in the tech industry and for sure in, in, i…”
Oct 1, 2023 neutral
Oct 1, 2023
Andreessen: Slowing technology to save incumbent jobs makes society worse off
“From a societal standpoint, the last thing on earth you would have wanted to do is to slow down the progression of the introduction of the car to protect the blacksmith jobs. Like that would have made everybody worse off, right? To protect a very small, what u…”
Oct 1, 2023 neutral
Oct 1, 2023 bullish
Andreessen: AI will enable storytellers to build vastly richer fictional worlds
“You give a world builder a set of tools that let them track all this, and elaborate on all this, and brainstorm on all this, and exactly to your point, you know, the worlds that they should be able to build should be like light years beyond what's been possibl…”
Oct 1, 2023 bullish
Andreessen: Producing full-length movies on laptops will be viable within five years
“It ought to be possible here within a couple years you know, to make entire full-length movies, you know, basically on your laptop, completely produced, you know, with, like, whatever actors superimposed into the thing, like, a couple years I don't know, I'd s…”
Oct 21, 2023
Oct 21, 2023 bullish
Andreessen: Capitalism will remain stable unless human nature fundamentally changes
“That's the, that, that is the solution. You know, that's the best solution that we've come up with. You know, barring some profound change in human nature in which people all of a sudden become far more generous and then they've been historically that that see…”
Oct 21, 2023 positive
Oct 21, 2023
Oct 21, 2023 negative
Oct 21, 2023 negative
Oct 21, 2023 negative
Andreessen: Russia could not fund Ukraine war if nuclear wasn't banned
“Quite frankly, it's one of the reasons why Russia is able to do what it's doing in Ukraine is it has this flow of money from oil you know, which in, in a counterfactual universe where the world by now had cut over to civilian electric Like they wouldn't have t…”
Dec 5, 2023 bullish
Andreessen: Consumer brands will be led by creators within 20 years
“And so maybe in the future, you know, maybe we're at the beginning of what is a monster wave, and we'll, you know, be sitting here 20 years from now, and it will turn out this was basically the great transition, and in the future, the brands will actually all …”
Dec 5, 2023
Dec 5, 2023 neutral
Dec 5, 2023 negative
Andreessen: Big tech lobbies for AI regulation to prevent model commoditization
“So a cynic would say, That the A number one reason why a big company would be lobbying aggressively to try to get basically government regulatory protection is if internally they are convinced that it's gonna be a race to the bottom.”
Dec 5, 2023 bullish
Andreessen: AI will commoditize into billions of cheap, localized models
“My guess is it's that second scenario. My guess basically is what we're about to see is something a lot like the microchip or the internet where you're going to have actually, you know, billions of AIs running around sort of with, you know, district, like a py…”
Dec 5, 2023 bullish
Andreessen: Productivity gains and price cuts render inequality debates irrelevant
“These effects of technology driving up the marginal productivity of the worker and therefore driving up income while simultaneously driving down the prices of goods and services is just these two factors are so massive and increasing quality of life. That all …”
Dec 5, 2023 negative
Andreessen: Products relying on price subsidies cannot become viable businesses
“Sometimes there are products that are quite simply just like subsidies, right? Where you're just giving people a discount on something they'd be buying anyway, and it turns out they want a lot of that. It just turns out that can't be a business because it's ju…”
Dec 15, 2023
Dec 20, 2023 negative
Andreessen: Citizens with self-respect reject government handouts and political patronage
“When people have, you know, real self-respect and real pride you know, they find that to be very offensive which is very dangerous from a political standpoint, because then they, you know, they're not gonna just always vote for the person who's giving them the…”
Dec 20, 2023 negative
Andreessen: Politicians naturally seek to farm citizens as dependent voters
“If you're a politician, you know, what do you really want? You want to, you want a dependent voter base and you want a voter base that's dependent on, on, on, on largesse and things that you can do for them, and then, you know, ultimately that resolves to you …”
Jan 13, 2024 neutral
Jan 13, 2024 bearish
Andreessen: Four-year private college degrees are heading toward $1 million
“350,000 dollars is like the cost of a four year private college degree right now in the US. But if current trends continue, and there's no reason right now to expect that they won't, that's on its way to a million dollars.”
Jan 23, 2024 negative
Andreessen: New universities face network effects, upside-down economics, and cartels
“I'll just list the three reasons why this would be very difficult. Number one is existing institutions just have very powerful network effects, which is why they, you know, they, they're so, you know, which is why the big ones are like hundreds of years old. T…”
Feb 1, 2024 positive
Andreessen: Homeschool pods are the new Bay Area status symbol
“The highest status thing you could do as a parent in the Bay Area five years ago was send your kid to one of the super elite private schools. Now, like, it's at least as high status or maybe higher status to, like, have your kids in one of these super elite ho…”
Feb 1, 2024 positive
Andreessen: Bay Area electricians earn 3x more than typical liberal arts grads
“I would suspect electricians in the Bay Area are probably paid something like probably mid sort of a 150,000 or something. You know, so, so, which is like basically like three X what maybe a typical liberal arts graduate is making in a sort of a, you know, a s…”
Feb 1, 2024 bullish
Andreessen: Elite adoption of microschools will prompt broader society to skip college
“There are some very prominent Silicon Valley people who have created microschools, pods, and so if the upper, upper tippy top of the socioeconomic stratum starts to do that, and that's the highest class thing to do, then you could imagine a future system in wh…”
Feb 1, 2024 positive
Andreessen: Marc Andreessen homeschools his son using private tutors
“We've, you know, we're homeschooling, right? So one of the things we've done is we were, you know, we were homeschooling. We've gone back to the older model, which is actually the previous question, more of like private tutoring.”
Mar 13, 2024 bullish
Andreessen: Open-source software is fundamentally more secure than proprietary code
“Security through obscurity was a very bad way to do it. The much more secure way to do it is actually open source. Basically put the code in public and then basically build the code in such a way that when it runs it doesn't matter whether somebody has access …”
Mar 13, 2024 negative
Andreessen: Software companies are extremely vulnerable to physical code theft
“It's actually very easy to steal software code from a company. You hire the janitorial staff to stick a USB stick into a machine at three in the morning. So like, you know, software companies are like very easily penetrated.”
Mar 13, 2024 negative
Mar 13, 2024 positive
Mar 13, 2024 bullish
Apr 2, 2024
Andreessen: Tech monopolies only innovate when forced to compete with startups
“It's just that there is something in the nature of monopolies where they just, they have a, you know, if they no longer have to compete and if they're no longer disciplined by the market they basically go bad. And then, you know, how do you prevent that from h…”
Apr 24, 2024 negative
Andreessen: Both political parties abandoned Operation Warp Speed framework
“Both parties that we're sitting here today seem to have just let the whole idea die. And I mean, that's in two parts. Number one, just all of a sudden, nobody cares about, like, vaccines. Like, there are no calls for, like, expanded vaccine development program…”
Apr 24, 2024 negative
May 2, 2024 positive
Andreessen: Major open source and crypto projects were built remotely
“Open source most of the big open source projects got built with people working remote. And, you know, and almost like, you know, in our day, you know, it would have been over Usenet. And then more recently it's over, you know, various kinds of messaging system…”
May 2, 2024 neutral
Andreessen: Ubiquitous video conferencing renders traditional immigration law less relevant
“With sort of sufficiently advanced, ubiquitous video conferencing all of a sudden immigration law becomes less relevant, right? Because like if, you know, it's perfectly legal to stream bits across the border even if it's not possible for people to move across…”
May 2, 2024 neutral
Andreessen: Automation is replacing high-skilled work before manual physical labor
“The assumption in our field forever has been that we're, we automate the low value tasks first you know, like cleaning toilets. And then later we automate, you know, graphic design or something. And it turns out it's like the other way around, right?”
May 2, 2024 negative
Andreessen: Legacy tech companies waste thousands of engineers on obsolete products
“There are, well, I shouldn't name names, I mean, you know, there are legacy tech products that are, you know, very widely used today that have very big businesses, and they'll have, you know, five or 10 or 15 or 20,000 engineers working on them, and the last n…”
May 2, 2024 neutral
May 2, 2024 neutral
Andreessen: Creative work requires 100% in-person or 100% online collaboration
“I would argue there's a very extreme barbell which is you either need for truly creative work like defining a new product building something new. I would argue it's a full barbell, which is you either need everybody like right there in person for the reason th…”
May 2, 2024 neutral
May 9, 2024 positive
Andreessen: Prompting LLMs for secure code yields higher quality output
“If you say, write me code, write me secure code to do that, it will actually write better code with fewer security holes, which is very interesting, right? Because it, but it's, because it's accessing a different purpose of training data, which is secure code.”
May 9, 2024 neutral
May 9, 2024 bullish
May 9, 2024 negative
May 9, 2024 negative
May 13, 2024 neutral
May 13, 2024 bullish
Andreessen: AI will be a diverse ecosystem, not a few God models
“If that analogy holds, it basically means actually we are going to have AI models of every Conceivable shape size description capability right based on trained on lots of different kinds of data at running at very different kinds of scale, very different priva…”
May 20, 2024 neutral
May 20, 2024 bullish
Andreessen: Average homes will feature robotic automation within 10 to 30 years
“We may be on the verge of a robotics revolution such that, you know, the house that, you know, sort of the common person's house in, in, in 10 years, you know, or certainly 2030 years, you know, I mean, we, you know, it's the Jetsons, right?”
May 20, 2024 negative
Andreessen: Incumbent universities control accreditation boards to block federal funding from competitors
“Guess who for those accreditation agencies, guess what they are composed of. They are composed of the incumbents. So the Northeast, you know, college, whatever accreditation council is like, literally it's board of trustees is all of the top Northeastern, you …”
Jun 19, 2024 bullish
Jun 19, 2024 positive
Jun 19, 2024 bullish
Jun 19, 2024 bullish
Andreessen: Every microchip will run AI alongside cloud god models
“Basically, I think anything with a chip is gonna have an AI, and you're just gonna, you just basically, you're just gonna assume that everything has an AI and there's gonna be, you know, many billions of tiny models running everywhere. There's gonna be a few b…”
Jun 19, 2024 bearish
Andreessen: Generative AI prompts will render manual pixel editing obsolete
“Because you'll live in this new world, and in the new world, you'll just tell the machine what you want for a photo, for an image, and it'll generate you as many options as you want, and it's generating you something that's better than you would have been able…”
Jun 19, 2024 neutral
Andreessen: a16z's mistakes stem from overestimating platform turnover speed
“When we make mistakes, it's Because we kind of overestimate the degree to which this is going to happen. But our whole thing is to basically try to get in front of this and try to, you know, basically make the assumption that you're going to have complete turn…”
Jun 19, 2024 positive
Andreessen: Kerbal Space Program is exceptionally effective for educational subjects like physics
“And by the way, we were homeschooling, and so he's doing, like, a ton of, like, along with this, like, a lot of math and physics and computer science and rocket design, you know, with his science teacher and stuff like that. So, like, Kerbal Space Program turn…”
Jun 19, 2024 bullish
Jun 28, 2024 negative
Andreessen: Tech CEOs in 1994 dismissed the internet as a toy
“And if you just go back and look at the magazine covers from that era, it's basically all these big company CEOs just pouring scorn on the internet and then declaring that it's a joke and a toy. And the thing that they're going to come out with their proprieta…”
Jun 28, 2024 neutral
Jun 28, 2024
Horowitz: Delayed browser creation would have enabled proprietary network monopolies
“If you had not had the idea when you had it, The internet as we know it probably doesn't happen in that the kind of Microsoft alternative, the Oracle alternative would have had an opportunity to gain a network effect. And so the chance of all this getting buil…”
Jun 28, 2024
Jun 28, 2024 positive
Andreessen: University philanthropy far outweighs technology licensing fees
“If this kind of thing happens, like if your students or even your faculty, you know, go off and do something new and are successful in business, and then the, you know, the you know, the money that you'll get, the money that you'll get back in philanthropy is …”
Jun 28, 2024
Andreessen: NCSA Mosaic received over 400 enterprise licensing inquiries in 1993
“I remember when it hit like 400 of basically, of basic companies, you know, like general councils and, you know, procurement officers at big companies saying, you know, we want to deploy this throughout our company. You know, who do we pay?”
Jun 28, 2024
Jun 28, 2024
Jun 28, 2024
Jun 28, 2024 negative
Andreessen: AI incumbent lobbyists exist today because the internet was open
“Again, ironically, and some, and to your point, ironically, some of the companies that are lobbying hardest for regulatory capture and cartel, you know, kind of government cartel status for AI are companies that exist today because the internet was open.”
Jun 28, 2024 negative
Jun 28, 2024 neutral
Jun 28, 2024 negative
Jun 28, 2024
Jun 28, 2024 negative
Andreessen told Reed Hastings in 2004 that Netflix streaming was crazy
“I remember meeting with Reed Hastings in, I think, 2004 and, you know, Netflix was up and running and was very successful doing a DVD rental by mail. And he literally, you know, reads, reads a technical genius in addition to being a business genius. And he sai…”
Jun 28, 2024 negative
Jun 28, 2024
Jun 28, 2024
University of Illinois's Netscape stock refusal cost them over $1 billion
“Yeah, that decision on their part yeah, cost them at least a billion dollars in direct stock, plus all the downstream philanthropy from me plus, plus all the downstream philanthropy from Jim Clark, plus all the other founding engineers.”
Jul 16, 2024
Andreessen: I supported Clinton in 1996, Gore in 2000, and Kerry
“I actually supported politically supported Clinton in, in 96. I supported Gore in 2000. And you know, at the time was very, very disappointed when he lost. And then you know, kind of through all of that, I also knew Senator Kerry, John Kerry, and supported him…”
Jul 16, 2024 bullish
Andreessen: AI will drive the biggest technological economic boom in history
“It's going to be a cornerstone technology for economic growth. Like if it's allowed to play, like if it's allowed to play out the way that it should, I think it's, you know, what's going to follow is at least the equivalent of the internet boom of the 19 ninet…”
Jul 16, 2024 negative
Andreessen: White House officials claimed they could classify math to control AI
“And literally this was, this is verbatim. This is we did, we classified a whole entire areas of physics in the nuclear era and made them state secret. Like, of the, like, theoretical physics, science physics. We classified them and made them state secrets and …”
Jul 16, 2024
Jul 16, 2024 negative
Jul 16, 2024 positive
Jul 16, 2024 bearish
Andreessen: Proposed AI compute limits will entrench monopolies and destroy startups
“And so basically the regime that, you know, the government is threatening to put in place right now is going to, you know, by using this limit, they're going to basically enshrine the two or three companies that they believe are the only companies that matter …”
Jul 16, 2024 bullish
Jul 16, 2024
Horowitz: a16z met with Trump and White House, but Biden declined
“Mark mentioned we met with President Trump. We did meet with White House, many White House officials including Jeff Zeitz, the Chief of Staff and Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor, Gina Raimondo, the Commerce Secretary, and so forth. We have not met…”
Oct 22, 2024 positive
Oct 22, 2024 bearish
Oct 22, 2024 neutral
Oct 22, 2024 neutral
Oct 22, 2024 positive
Andreessen and a16z provide no-strings research grants to independent AI developers
“We have been giving grants, small grants, but we've been giving basically research grants to these people over time. A-sixteen Z has had a grant program for a while. I've done a bunch directly and, you know, just like no strings attached you know, grants to ju…”
Oct 29, 2024 positive
Nov 5, 2024 negative
Andreessen: Only 6% of Americans Share Ideology Built Into Social Media
“Even in the US, if you do the sort of, there's you know, sort of analysts that do the mapping of ideologies and political views in the US, it's only like six percent of the US population that agrees with the point of view that ended up getting built into socia…”
Nov 5, 2024 negative
Nov 5, 2024 neutral
Nov 5, 2024 neutral
Nov 5, 2024 neutral
Andreessen: Six Top AI Models Are Hitting a Performance Ceiling
“There is this very interesting asymptotic kind of thing that's happening right now where, you know, two years ago, there was one, you know, LLM that was like way out ahead of everybody else's, which was opening eyes. And sitting here today, there's like six th…”
Nov 5, 2024 positive
Nov 5, 2024 negative
Andreessen: Restricting AI innovation is cosmic self-harm for the US
“Like put ankle weights around our own feet. That is the way to basically snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory in a way that I, that's a level of self-harm that would be so cosmic. I mean, quite frankly, if we do that, we deserve to lose.”
Nov 12, 2024 negative
Nov 12, 2024
Nov 12, 2024 negative
Nov 12, 2024 positive
Andreessen: Trump's 2024 victory lifted regulatory 'boot off the throat' for tech
“So I felt like a boot off the throat. Like every morning I wake up happier than the day before because all of these forms of repression that I just had gotten used to. You're under this level of repression for this long. When it's relieved, it takes you a litt…”
Nov 12, 2024 negative
Andreessen: Government debanking of tech startups is extra-legal and unconstitutional
“So yeah, so it's basically a, the way I think about the debanking is it's a sort of an extra legal, unconstitutional you know, completely outside the bounds of any law or constitutional provision. It's the government. Applying pressure. The government regulato…”
Nov 12, 2024 negative
Nov 12, 2024 neutral
Nov 12, 2024 bullish
Nov 18, 2024 positive
Andreessen: Automated AI face redactions in video are now straightforward
“I think that, that would now be a straightforward, yeah, straightforward application now to just say, yeah, this, the, these faces need to be scrubbed out of this entire, you know, video sequence and just have it happen automatically.”
Apr 29, 2025 bullish
Andreessen: Most tech winners since 2010 are full-stack vertical companies
“In, in the last 15 years, if you write that, if you do that same list again, you know, many or most of the big winners have been companies that have gone into a vertical, but what they've done is they've gone in and they've tried to basically eat the entire ve…”
Apr 29, 2025
Apr 29, 2025
Horowitz: a16z founders took zero management pay from $300M Fund 1
“We rather than paying the partners a lot of money or in our case, we didn't pay ourselves any money. What if we took all that money? Cause it was a lot of money. Cause, you know, we're like, even on a three hundred million dollar fund, it was a really a lot of…”
Apr 29, 2025 bullish
Andreessen: Full-stack tech disruptors can become larger than the legacy industries they replace
“Those companies, good news, those companies can get to be gigantic, right? Because if you crack the mother load, like, you know, Netflix has, for example, entertainment, you know, you could, or like Tesla has in cars, you can build a company that's maybe multi…”
Apr 29, 2025 neutral
Marc Andreessen: Venture capital is art because top VCs miss most defining companies
“Like, that's art. Like, that, that's not science, that's art. Like, we would like it to be science, but, like, it's art. And by the way, how do we know that it's, how do we know that it's art and not science? Every great venture capitalist in the last 70 years…”
Apr 29, 2025
Horowitz: a16z Fund I required both co-founders under a key-man clause
“I think we're the only firm in Silicon Valley who has this. We have A two person key man thing where like so normally if like you know, as long as one person is intact, you know, the fund is, you know, there's no vote on the fund or whether the fund continues,…”
Apr 29, 2025
Apr 29, 2025 negative
Andreessen: Traditional VCs viewed investing like picking items from a sushi boat
“We met with one firm, Ben, you might remember one of the partners said venture capital is like being at the at the sushi boat restaurant. A thousand startups come through and you just like meet with them. And then every once in a while you kind of reach down a…”
Apr 29, 2025 neutral
Andreessen: Virtually everyone under 70 uses social media as primary news source
“Really it's only been in the last five years when I think almost everybody, like, let's say basically everybody under the age of 70 and a very large number of people over the age of 70 basically have shifted from top down media as their main Source of informat…”
Apr 29, 2025
Horowitz: Building a small boutique company takes as much effort as a giant
“So the thing that Mark and I knew from like our experience in starting companies was It is just as hard to start a small boutique thing that means nothing in the world and build it as it is to build the world-dominating monster. Like it's no more amount of wor…”
Apr 29, 2025 positive
Andreessen: Modern businesses and movements will primarily tell stories directly to audience
“If you're running a business or running a movement, like, you're just not gonna do it through the traditional method. You may still participate to some extent but you're gonna primarily tell your own story and you're gonna go direct and you're gonna have your …”
Apr 29, 2025
Horowitz: I am the CEO of a16z; Andreessen collaborates on strategy
“We're co-founders and we work very, very closely together on the strategy and the direction of the firm, but like the CEO position is a chain of command position and, you know, to, you know, that's me. I'm the CEO of the firm in that sense. You know, Mark does…”
Apr 29, 2025
Andreessen: Prior to 2010, tech winners were almost all horizontal tool companies
“Up until roughly 20 10, like if you make a list of all the big winners in tech over the preceding 60 years, they were basically all a form of a tool company. You know, it's a technology tool. So, you know, they would build personal computers or microchips or o…”
Apr 29, 2025 positive
Apr 29, 2025 bullish
May 28, 2025
Marc Andreessen argues the collective unconscious is a material, not spiritual, phenomenon
“We're so hyper-social that the collective unconscious is a, you know, is a material phenomenon or sort of a non, non, non, you know, I don't know, non-spiritual phenomenon. It's a practical phenomenon that just arises out of watching each other very closely.”
May 28, 2025 negative
Marc Andreessen claims extreme progressives dominate most AI companies except Elon Musk's
“Yes, I think the demographic estimate is something like seven percent of Americans are like these sort of extreme progressives, which basically is the AI, you know, most of the AI companies except for, you know, maybe except for Elon. And so you've got seven p…”
May 28, 2025
Marc Andreessen predicts future generations will view today's moral beliefs as immoral
“People, 50 years from now are gonna be sitting, you know, in this, you know, in this restaurant talking about us, and they're gonna be like, I cannot believe those people, you know, had these deeply immoral beliefs on X, Y, Z.”
May 28, 2025 neutral
May 28, 2025 negative
Jun 2, 2025 positive
Jun 2, 2025
Andreessen: Only a16z and Khosla Ventures raised funds in 2009
“There were only two venture capital funds raised in all of 2009. It was us and a new couple of ventures fund, and Benoad, of course, was one of the legends of venture capital, so he was able to do that, but we were the only other literally venture fund raised …”
Jun 2, 2025
Andreessen: Tech hypergrowth is a chaotic process of falling up stairs
“I often describe these companies as you know, even, even the ones that kind of from the outside look that, like, they're just like up and to the right the whole time. I always describe it as, it's like a process of falling up the stairs. Right. It's just like,…”
Jun 12, 2025 negative
Jun 12, 2025 negative
Andreessen: Remote work creates a mentorship failure to launch for young workers
“New people entering the workforce had a much worse experience, right? And so the COVID was sort of a, there was this sort of dichotomous experience where if you were like a 20 or 30 year veteran of a company and like a high ranking official, it was Absolutely …”
Jun 12, 2025
Jun 23, 2025 bullish
Jun 23, 2025 negative
Jun 23, 2025 negative
Jun 23, 2025 positive
Jun 23, 2025 bullish
Andreessen: Cryptographic blockchain verification is the real solution to deepfakes
“I think the answer is to flip it. And instead have like a blockchain-based system that were basically people, and it could be everybody from the president to, you know, your kid working on an essay is able to cryptographically register original work in a way t…”
Jul 25, 2025 positive
Jul 25, 2025 negative
Andreessen: Tech-media relations will never return to pre-2017 dynamics
“My perspective is the world changed like really profoundly dramatically in 2017 and set off a whole cascading series of changes since. But you know, we're, we, we've never gone back to the way things were in 2016 or before. And I mean, we can speculate as to w…”
Jul 25, 2025 neutral
Andreessen: Peak centralization creates maximum public trust via information control
“Under peak centralization, you're gonna have maximum trust because you're gonna have basically the most information control, right? You just, you're not gonna have the alternative point of view, and so you're just, everybody's, you know, the theory goes, at le…”
Jul 25, 2025 negative
Andreessen: Speech suppression and cancellation kill long-form podcasting
“The three hour podcast doesn't work if it's everything it, you know, if you have to stop every five seconds because some, you know, you have to accuse somebody of saying something racist, right? Like, so this like, you know, or sexist or whatever, the, this sp…”
Jul 25, 2025 neutral
Jul 25, 2025 neutral
Aug 5, 2025
Aug 5, 2025 bullish
Aug 5, 2025 bullish
Andreessen: General-purpose robotics will be the world's largest industry within a decade
“Like, the general purpose robotics Thing is going to happen, and it's going to happen in the next decade, and it's going to happen at giant scale, and I think there's a plausible argument, which Elon also believes, that robotics is going to be the biggest indu…”
Aug 5, 2025 bearish
Aug 5, 2025
Aug 5, 2025 positive
Oct 17, 2025 bearish
Andreessen: Paul Thomas Anderson's new Leonardo DiCaprio film will lose $120M
“So anyway, it, it's gonna do reasonably well because, you know, because it has Leo, but it's still gonna lose like a hundred, hundred and twenty million dollars are, you know, the estimates that I'm hearing, which is, you know, a pretty, pretty big loss you kn…”
Oct 17, 2025 negative
Andreessen: Streaming platforms cap filmmaker profits at a 10 percent margin
“With like a cost plus model a lot of the time. And so you make the movie and you turn around and you sell it for like a 10% profit margin to a streamer. And then there's no aftermarket because it's just a tile on the streaming service, right?”
Oct 17, 2025 negative
Andreessen: Lack of real-world immersion killed the great American novel
“And, of course, you know, his critique was, you know, the new generation novelists, they sit in their apartment in Brooklyn, you know you know with their typewriter, you know, and they introspect, right? And that's why there's no more great American novels.”
Oct 17, 2025 negative
Andreessen: Hollywood creators avoided political themes fearing career destruction
“These are all the hot button issues that if you screwed them up, you, in, in Hollywood, you got your career destroyed, right? So if you said the wrong thing about COVID lockdowns or vaccines, if you said the wrong thing about Trump, if you said the wrong thing…”
Oct 17, 2025 negative
Andreessen: Hollywood's cultural shift stems from 2015 greenlights, not COVID-19
“The COVID explanation is not sufficient for what we've seen in the last five years, because those movies weren't greenlit under conditions of COVID. Those movies were greenlit under conditions of pre-COVID. And so whatever changes have taken place which we can…”
Oct 17, 2025 bullish
Oct 17, 2025 bearish
Andreessen: Ideologically driven movies released through 2028 will flop commercially
“The movies that are greenlit today, right, are not gonna come out, you know, until, like, whatever, 20, yeah, it's like, twenty-twenty-seven, twenty-twenty-eight soonest, and so we, so we're in this, like, liminal period, or this interstitial period, where for…”
Oct 17, 2025 positive
Oct 17, 2025 negative
Andreessen: Paul Thomas Anderson's new film is 'Antifa the movie'
“Arguably, it is kind of salient to our times, because I think if you were to retitle the movie, you would just title it Antifa the movie. Like, it's, like, it's like a full-throated celebration of basically violent social change, violent social revolution, lik…”
Oct 23, 2025 positive
Andreessen uses AI to steelman both sides of controversial issues
“Here's the thing I do a lot with this, is I just say, like, take, take a provocative point of view and then steel man the position. Take your COVID thing. Steel man, so I often, I have a pair of these. Steel man the position that it was a lab leak and then ste…”
Oct 23, 2025 positive
Oct 23, 2025 positive
Andreessen: Frontier AI synthesis outputs have been 100% accurate for months
“What I'm looking for is like, yes, explain this to me in like the Like, the clearest, most sophisticated, most complex, most, like, complete way that it's possible for somebody to, you know, for a real expert to be able to explain things to me. And that's what…”
Oct 23, 2025 neutral
Andreessen: Humans themselves rarely achieve cross-domain transfer learning
“Transfer learning is the ability of the machine to, right, to be an expert in one domain and then generalize that into another domain. My answer to that is, like, have you met people? And how many people do you know are able to do transfer learning?”
Oct 24, 2025 negative
Oct 24, 2025 positive
Oct 24, 2025 positive
Oct 24, 2025 negative
Andreessen: Tech inventors have no superior moral claim on their creations' consequences
“If you read the history of those people at that time, specifically people like Oppenheimer, you realize, yeah, the people who invent the technology have no special moral claim. They have no special predictive power for the consequences of the technology, and t…”
Oct 24, 2025 positive
Oct 24, 2025 positive
Oct 31, 2025 bullish
Andreessen: Robotics revolution is definitely coming with embodied AI
“The robotics revolution for sure is coming when that happens, when we put AI in, in physical objects that move around the world, you know, you're going to be able to get closer to having that kind of, you know, integrated intellectual physical, you know, exper…”
Oct 31, 2025
Andreessen: Major technological breakthroughs require at least 40 years of prior work
“If you look at the history of Technology, it's almost always the case that the big breakthroughs are the result of, you know, usually at least 40 years of sort of work ahead of time, you know, four decades. Right, in fact, language models themselves are the cu…”
Oct 31, 2025
Andreessen: Smarter AI entities will not inevitably rule over less intelligent ones
“And so, so therefore, it's just like this assumption that you kind of hear in some of the AI circles which is like inevitably the smart, you know, kind of thing is going to govern the dumb thing. Like, I just think that's like very easily it's just sort of ver…”
Oct 31, 2025 bullish
Andreessen: AI models will clear the bar of human intelligence and creativity
“Emotionally I want to like hold out hope that there is, you know, still something special. About human creativity, and I certainly believe that, and I very much want to believe that, but I don't know, when I use these things, I'm like, wow, they seem to be awf…”
Oct 31, 2025 neutral
Oct 31, 2025 bullish
Andreessen: AI UI will evolve far beyond current chatbot interfaces
“You know, like, I'm sure there will be chatbots 20 years from now, but I'm pretty confident that both the current Chatbot companies and many new companies are going to figure out many kinds of user experiences that are radically different that we don't even kn…”
Oct 31, 2025
Nov 19, 2025
Nov 19, 2025 bullish
Nov 19, 2025 neutral
Nov 19, 2025 negative
Nov 26, 2025
Nov 26, 2025 negative
Incumbent VC advised Marc Andreessen to treat LPs like mushrooms
“The key is, I, he said, I realized after a long career, I realized the key is you want to treat the LPs like mushrooms. So they treat mushrooms as you put, you put them in a cardboard box, you put the lid of the cardboard box, and you put it under your bed for…”
Nov 26, 2025 negative
Nov 26, 2025
Nov 26, 2025 neutral
a16z built partner brands so founders wouldn't only demand Marc Andreessen
“I do think we needed to even out the brand a little bit because like, otherwise any entrepreneur with leverage was going to go like, well, I want him to be on my board. Right. And that was just going to get success. It'll be worse with every other GP. So that …”
Jan 7, 2026 bullish
Andreessen: AI will proliferate broadly and become accepted within 20 years
“What people are doing part is, is, is obviously the part ultimately that wins. And I think this, by the way, I think this technology is going to be exactly the same as every other one which is the thing that's going to happen here is this is just going to prol…”
Jan 7, 2026 bullish
Andreessen: AI wealth centralization fears are as wrong now as Marx was
“A lot of the same arguments you heard today about, like, AI's gonna centralize all the wealth and a handful of a few people, and everybody else is gonna be poor and immiserated. Like, that, that basically is what Marx used to say which I think was, by the way,…”
Jan 7, 2026 positive
Jan 7, 2026 positive
Jan 15, 2026
Jan 15, 2026
Jan 15, 2026
Jan 15, 2026 negative
Andreessen: Bringing breakthrough products to market is getting significantly harder over time
“And as far as we can tell, like, as far as I can tell, like, that, that process is getting, you know, hairier and more complicated over time, right? It's not getting easier. It's, it seems like it's actually getting significantly harder.”
Jan 15, 2026 bullish
Jan 15, 2026 bullish
Andreessen: Supply-Side Tech Breakthroughs Will Dominate Investing for 30 Years
“Significant enough technology change, product change on the supply side unlocks much larger markets. And I think that's going to be, I mean, I think frankly, that's going to be like the single, like dominant trend in investing for like the next 30 years.”
Jan 15, 2026 neutral
Mar 18, 2026 positive
Andreessen: Direct executive communication will replace traditional corporate PR
“The days of kind of this narrow channel, narrow casting, and then what I would argue is just this, like, inherently deceptive practice of abstracting things away from people. I, you know, that, that world is just clearly fading and in the new world, we're just…”
Mar 18, 2026 negative
Andreessen: Corporate PR created an 80-year era of synthetic messaging
“The whole idea that there's like a corporate brand. Like, the whole idea that there's, like, a corporate, like, trademark, and then the whole idea that you, like, as a business, you basically load everything into that thing, and that that thing, you know, whet…”
Mar 18, 2026 neutral
Andreessen: Viral internet posts have a 36-hour total lifecycle
“If they're going to take off, they tend to take off within, like, 12 hours. And then they spike like crazy as everybody retweets or reposts and, you know, emails it around and talks about it. And then there's basically this, like, half-life fall off where, lik…”
Mar 18, 2026 neutral
Andreessen: Modern toxic internet culture originated in console gaming lobbies
“Basically, like, it actually turns out there's, like, a genealogy to it, and it actually turns out, like, a lot of it is literally, literally, it's like Call of Duty lobbies for online gaming, so it's, like, literally, like, online gaming lobbies because, like…”
Mar 18, 2026 positive
Andreessen: Public figures get destroyed by short quotes, not long-form media
“When public figures get blown to smithereens, it's almost always because of something that's basically too short. When people actually do the full long, long-form explanation of what they think, even if it's on a highly controversial, you know, even if it's im…”
Apr 22, 2026 neutral
Andreessen: 20th-century centralized media artificially suppressed society's natural state of conflict
“The idea that there's like whatever rhetorical combat or like that there's like this virtual environment in which there's lots of points of view and there's lots of, you know, again, both lots of truths, lots of lies. Like this is not new. In fact, this is the…”
Apr 22, 2026 positive
Apr 22, 2026
Andreessen: News outlets focused on importance over outrage would fail commercially
“You can imagine a version of the news that's called the importance, and the newspaper is like, here are all the important things that are happening. And nobody would buy it because nobody cares because people want the news. They want the hot thing. They want t…”
Apr 22, 2026 neutral
Apr 22, 2026
Apr 22, 2026
Apr 22, 2026 negative
Andreessen: Youth depression spikes are statistical artifacts driven by government benefits
“And so basically if you get paid or if you get like special dispensation in school for having, you know, psychological issues, all of a sudden you see a massive spike in those psychological issues. The countries that don't have that, the other Western countrie…”
Apr 22, 2026
Andreessen: Elections turn on the economy and election-day viral meme panics
“Whatever is the thing that we think is the thing that's going to tilt the election today, It's gonna be a hundred social media meme cycles old. Like, nobody's gonna remember anything that's happening right now. The election is gonna turn basically on, like, wh…”
May 11, 2026 bullish
Andreessen: AI model capabilities will ramp dramatically over next two years
“And we and every other, I think, serious company in the space expects the ramp and capability to be very rapid, you know, at least for the next couple of years. Like, we have, like, I think, line of sight to, for sure, is going to ramp dramatically. The capabi…”
May 11, 2026 negative
May 11, 2026 bullish
May 11, 2026 negative
Andreessen: UFO evidence consistently falls apart under close technical scrutiny
“The problem with this space is, you know, generally as you get close to the details, you know, the examples tend to fall apart. And, you know, there's all these, like, the classic examples, like UFO, like what appears to be, like you know, you'll have these th…”
May 11, 2026 bearish
May 11, 2026 positive
May 11, 2026 neutral
May 11, 2026
Jun 19, 2026 neutral
Horowitz: Ben Horowitz is a16z CEO, but Marc Andreessen is the brand
“Like, us as a firm, like, technically, I'm really the CEO, but, like, Mark is more the brand, I would say, in terms of he just does way more media than I do. And that works, but it works because it's Andreessen Horowitz, and nobody knows the fucking difference…”
Jun 19, 2026 negative
Jul 22, 2026
Jul 22, 2026
Jul 22, 2026 neutral
Aug 28, 2026 bullish
Casado: AI compute demand will persist for decades like electricity
“The right analog here is like the steam engine or electricity. In the following way, like, we've introduced this new thing that you can turn to work, and there's some very obvious applications now, but there's probably 3040 years of throwing computer problems.…”