Andreessen: U.S. executives tied to China will face severe political backlash
Marc Andreessen · Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism · Aug 2, 2023 · at 1:00:39
Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, discusses how changing U.S. geopolitical stances toward China will create retrospective scrutiny for American business executives.
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“The moral valence on China is shifting in real time right now on both sides of the political aisle in Washington, in the same way the moral valence on the Soviet Union shifted in the late 19 forties, early 19 fifties, and I think there are people who have been in bed with a, you know, a system where I think they're, you know, they're gonna, if they haven't already, they're gonna wake up one morning in the next, you know, few years and be like, oh my god, what have I done? And there's, and I'm not saying I'm in favor of it, I just, I'm trying to be kind of clinical about it. I think there's a pretty good chance that we're going to enter a phase here in which there's going to be a tremendous amount of, let's say, second looks at activities that have, that people thought were okay that are going to get judged, you know, historically as maybe not being okay.”
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