Five Year Plan

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Horowitz: Short Any Company Operating on a Five-Year Corporate Plan
“A great Investing strategy is to, if you see a company with a five-year plan, short it and it works every time, and yet they still do it, and I, it just comes, it really has no basis in anything.”
Ben Horowitz Nov 19, 2025 ▶ 1:05:53 Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
a16z Assertion Contradicted
Andreessen: Corporate Five-Year Plans Originated From Joseph Stalin
“The creator of the concept of the five-year plan was, of course, Joseph Stalin. Like, it was literally the Soviet Union run as five-year plans, and actually, in, in the, between the 2019 twenties, 19 fifties, that idea actually mainstreamed itself into Western…”
Marc Andreessen Nov 19, 2025 ▶ 1:03:42 Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)

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