Andreessen: Remote work creates a mentorship failure to launch for young workers
Marc Andreessen · Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies · Jun 12, 2025 · at 1:22:58
Marc Andreessen is co-founder and general partner at a16z. He is reflecting on the long-term career impacts of remote work on early-career employees.
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“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 fantastic to work remotely because you got to go to your beach house and, you know, be with your kids, your grandkids, and like be on the golf course, and it's just like this amazing thing, but you put yourself in the shoes of a newly graduated, you know, college grad who's, you know, 22 or whatever, you know, stuck in some box apartment somewhere, and then, you know, basically like, you know, the whole idea of mentorship is just straight out the window because you can't get mentored by a, you know, a face in a Zoom panel, and so there's this sort of failure to launch problem with young kids and their careers, and I think that, that hasn't been solved.”
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