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Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 42:43 Marc Andreessen And so they were already in the war for kind of cloud services, and this is like AWS versus Azure versus, uh, Google Cloud, um, you know, and then all the, all these other, all these other cloud efforts.
- ▶ 43:49 Marc Andreessen For a startup building an AI app, they don't have giant fixed costs because they can just tap into the OpenAI or Anthropic or Google or Microsoft or whatever, you know, cloud, you know, tokens by the drink, you know, intelligence tokens by…
- ▶ 51:08 Marc Andreessen So, I mean, look, you know, big companies that are definitely, you know, playing hard, you know, Google's playing hard, Meta's playing hard, um, Amazon, um, Microsoft, um, you know, there's a bunch of these companies that are, you know,…
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 0:41 Marc Andreessen So maybe I'm a student, um, uh, or maybe I'm just somebody, you know, I took a few coding classes and I've hacked around a little bit, or like, I don't know, I do Excel macros or something like that, but I'm like not as well as I'm not…
- ▶ 55:02 Marc Andreessen So did it have Windows at that point, or? 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: The US is in a AI Arms Race & It Decides The World's Future
- ▶ 12:22 Marc Andreessen Seattle, to give you a sense how crazy things are, the, the, the district in Seattle, the city council district where the most Microsoft and Amazon executives lived, live, uh, elected a, a city council woman who's, who ran a platform of… 2 times in the scene
Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
- ▶ 42:31 Marc Andreessen Um, and one of them is Microsoft and the great lesson of Microsoft was you build a horizontal layer of technology, you know, software operating systems and applications, and then you basically run across, you know, thousands of, of, of, of… 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
- ▶ 3:37 Marc Andreessen They didn't have targeted ads yet, so it was literally, the early ad revenue of Facebook literally was selling remnant banner ads from the Bing ad network, um, and so it was like these super low CPMs, um, and, and, you know, Mark always…
- ▶ 4:06 Marc Andreessen I believe there was only one, the Microsoft down round was after that.
- ▶ 25:09 Marc Andreessen Um, and so, it was like a really big deal in the nineties when I dug, dug into Microsoft, because it was, because, because it was a big deal, that case was a big deal, but also because it was a very rare case of the government actually…
Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startups
- ▶ 41:06 Marc Andreessen So, um, Doug Burgum is one of my best friends in, in politics and, and as governor, very, you know, by the way, tech and business legend, Microsoft, longtime Microsoft executive, great founder of a great software company called Great Plain… 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 35:38 Marc Andreessen Um, and that was, uh, specifically Microsoft with MSN. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:37 Marc Andreessen We're just going to assume that everybody has like windows or a Mac, um, or a Unix workstation. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:56 Marc Andreessen And then we, we had other colleagues, um, who, um, you know, who are, you know, very, very famous in the history, um, who developed the Windows version and developed the Mac version.
- ▶ 1:18:15 Marc Andreessen Um, getting to the Windows and the Mac versions were, were a key moment, because, you know, they followed, um,
- ▶ 1:52:23 Marc Andreessen Yeah, it's a little frustrating, um, but, you know, again, they have the legal right to do it, but like, it's a little frustrating, um, and, uh, it was fine, and we're, you know, we're competing with them, whatever, but it's a little bit… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:52:23 Marc Andreessen Yeah, it's a little frustrating, um, but, you know, again, they have the legal right to do it, but like, it's a little frustrating, um, and, uh, it was fine, and we're, you know, we're competing with them, whatever, but it's a little bit… 2 times in the scene
Build Your Startup With AI
- ▶ 19:48 Marc Andreessen And then even, you know, just, or even other, other, another, another improvement area is basically, um, there was at the five Microsoft released their five small language model yesterday, and apparently, apparently it's like, it's, it's…
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 13:15 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, they didn't really have, you know, and probably most famously Microsoft
- ▶ 51:49 Marc Andreessen Uh, the Meta, you know, you can, you kind of mentioned the big companies being Microsoft, Google, Meta. 4 times in the scene
Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
- ▶ 45:27 Marc Andreessen So grading on a curve used to be more common, I think, both in educational settings and also in employee evaluation settings, and, you know, companies like Microsoft used to do it kind of famously, um, and GE, 3 times in the scene
Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist
- ▶ 40:31 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, uh, you know, IBM and Hewlett Packard and Google and Microsoft and many, many, many others across many industries have done this.
What is the Future of Hollywood?
- ▶ 53:17 Marc Andreessen So yeah, and by the way, just to close one loop, um, for people who are interested in this topic, so this concept, this book called Save the Cat is a, it's a very good book, but also, um, one of the things you can do with like GPT-IV, you…
AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
- ▶ 22:29 Marc Andreessen Um, and I think part of that is just, like, because we live in a connected world now, um, and the fact that anybody on the planet could just, like, click in and start to use ChatGPT or MidJourney or Dolly or, you know, Bing or any of these…
- ▶ 25:59 Marc Andreessen So jailbreak, for people who haven't seen, so basically, by, by the time you as an individual in the world get access to, like, Bing or BART or ChatGPT or any of these things, like, it's, it's basically been essentially, you know, it's… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:50 Marc Andreessen So like when the Microsoft Bing first launched, you know, there were these cases where the thing, you know, the, the, the bot would actually get like very angry with the users.
- ▶ 1:03:50 Marc Andreessen Microsoft thinks about PCs, or Apple thinks about iPhones, or Intel thinks about chips, or Google thinks about search, or Facebook thinks about social, or the Coca-Cola company thinks about Coca-Cola, or Tesla thinks about cars.
- ▶ 1:05:13 Marc Andreessen Like, Bing and BART are both free.
Why You Should Be Optimistic About the Future
- ▶ 12:12 Marc Andreessen It seems like more of the same, but you know, the, if you want, the experience you can have now is like, you can wear one of these things basically all day and you can, you can talk to it all day and, you know, they're getting, you know,…
- ▶ 17:55 Marc Andreessen The, the, the, the, it was written at the time, I don't know if it still holds, but it was, um, somebody did benchmarks of you take Microsoft Office, 2000 on a PC from 2000, and you take Microsoft Office, 2007 on a PC from 2007, and every… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:10 Marc Andreessen So, like, literally, like, the, the, the, the old, the old adage in, in, in, in tech in the nineties was when Andy Grove was running Intel and Bill Gates was running Microsoft, it was Andy Gibbeth in the form of Moore's law, and then Bill…
- ▶ 23:02 Marc Andreessen And if you want to have fun on your plane flights home, it's like, just go on Excel and like chart, you know, n, n squared, and two to the nth, right?
a16z Podcast | Software Programs the World
- ▶ 4:42 Marc Andreessen The idea of a platform in the tech industry, as you know, up until, up until, you know, five or 10 years ago, was there is a new chip that has new capabilities, is faster, and then therefore you build a new operating system for it, and…
- ▶ 13:50 Marc Andreessen Yeah, exactly, and that may be literally AWS, or it may be Google or Microsoft, or all three of them in some, you know, in some combination, or, or, or it may be other, you know, other companies yet to emerge.
a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
- ▶ 21:59 Marc Andreessen The other idea people are playing with is augmented reality, or AR, which is the idea of you still see the real world, but you have computer generated imagery kind of populating it, and there's a company called Magic Leap in Florida that's…
a16z Podcast | Investing in (Business and Career) Change
- ▶ 4:32 Marc Andreessen So Microsoft Windows, for example, will do well.
a16z Podcast | Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker
- ▶ 32:56 Marc Andreessen Um, by the way, all the unicorns are worth about half of Microsoft, um, and all the unicorns are worth about a third of Apple, right? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What Makes the Valley Work
- ▶ 5:16 Marc Andreessen Um, and then that interfered with the mission that we always had, which is how do you build big, enduring, franchise, important, you know, our, our role models were always, you know, Microsoft and Oracle and Intel and Cisco and IBM and…
a16z Podcast | The (Definite) Optimism of Peter Thiel
- ▶ 37:43 Marc Andreessen Define a technology company, and then describe your view of some of the large incumbents like Microsoft and Oracle, and why you don't necessarily view them as technology companies. 6 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Startups as Science Experiments -- Can VC Disrupt Academia?
- ▶ 4:27 Marc Andreessen Um, and so, a very, I would say, imperfect, like, in a sense, the 19 fifties-style, top-down, you know, there shall be the NIH and the NSF, and then 30 years later, you know, Microsoft appears.