politicians
3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 20, 2023 by Marc Andreessen · across every show →
Everything said about politicians, oldest first
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 …”
Jul 25, 2025 bullish
Andreessen: Future politicians will completely disconnect from legacy media
“There are going to be politicians 1020 years from now where it's going to be like, oh, they took the Trump, you know, and time will pass, and things will get refined, and so they will have taken the Trump playbook. They will at some point, I think, completely …”
Sep 8, 2025 negative
Perault: Proposed AI regulations would have entrenched market incumbents and stifled startups
“Many of the politicians who are put, were pushing concepts that would have really put a stranglehold, I think, on AI startups and would have led to more monopolization of a market that already tends toward monopoly because of the high barriers to entry already…”