Andreessen: Inexperienced founders handle feedback poorly by overreacting or getting defensive
Marc Andreessen · a16z Podcast | For the Billions of Creatives Out There · Apr 1, 2019 · at 23:26
Mark Andreessen, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, discusses how young founders handle investor feedback compared to Hollywood writers receiving studio notes.
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“Typically we see this with young people a lot in here, which is like, you give somebody in your world, it's called a note in our world. It's like feedback or it's like, you know, here's an idea. And you give somebody an idea and like, they immediately get their backup, right? Well, they do one of two things. They either like take it way too seriously and they like try to do everything you tell them or they get their backup and they get offended. Like, how dare you question my vision. Kind of stuff. And then that sets up a weird dynamic where you feel like you can't talk to them, right? And so, and both of those are bad, right? One way you basically hijack their creative vision, usually to bad effect. The other way is you end up with a bad, a hostile relationship.”
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