Technology Breakthroughs

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Andreessen: Major technological breakthroughs require at least 40 years of prior work
“If you look at the history of Technology, it's almost always the case that the big breakthroughs are the result of, you know, usually at least 40 years of sort of work ahead of time, you know, four decades. Right, in fact, language models themselves are the cu…”
Marc Andreessen Oct 31, 2025 ▶ 2:33 Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on the State of AI
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Dixon: Managers optimize for 1-3 years; breakthroughs happen on weekends
“What you do during nine to five work hours is governed by people that generally have a one to three year time horizon. Right? They have to, like, unless they're the, you know, maybe Jeff Bezos is an exception or something, but, like, for the most part, like, y…”
Chris Dixon Dec 19, 2019 ▶ 10:20 What's Next for the Internet?

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