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Marc Andreessen

Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz. On 10 shows, 99 appearances, plus 2 compilation re-airs not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Marc Andreessen co-created the Mosaic web browser and co-founded Netscape before establishing the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz in 2009. He has written influential essays and backed major technology companies including Facebook, Coinbase, GitHub, and OpenAI.

10shows
99appearances
1,401statements
262resolved
144supported
56contradicted
55%fully supported
986said about them ↓

Everything Marc Andreessen said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

a16z Assertion Contradicted
Andreessen: Chinese manufacturer DJI is US Defense Department's primary drone supplier
“DJI is the most widely used drone today by many, many large, you know, American customers, including the United States Department of Defense. Right. The DOD's primary drone supplier is DJI.”
Marc Andreessen Oct 29, 2024 ▶ 12:50 AI, Robotics & the New Global Arms Race
a16z Disclosure
Andreessen: White House officials claimed they could classify math to control AI
“And literally this was, this is verbatim. This is we did, we classified a whole entire areas of physics in the nuclear era and made them state secret. Like, of the, like, theoretical physics, science physics. We classified them and made them state secrets and …”
Marc Andreessen Jul 16, 2024 ▶ 57:11 Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: Venture capital will end under Biden's proposed unrealized gains tax
“And then number two, venture capital just ends. It's just over. Like firms like ours just like don't exist.”
Marc Andreessen Jul 16, 2024 ▶ 1:11:21 Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
a16z Opinion
Andreessen: Corporate HR parallel control structures mirror Soviet governance
“I do think we, I would say, big companies, large institutions have backed into a system that actually is very reminiscent of how the Soviets used to run things with respect to this kind of parallel control structure.”
Marc Andreessen Apr 24, 2024 ▶ 1:06:29 Startup Building: Major Shifts in Tech & Culture
a16z Opinion
Andreessen: The EU is determined to place blanket bans on capitalism
“The EU seems absolutely determined to ban everything to sort of put a blanket ban on capitalism and within that ban AI and ban energy.”
Marc Andreessen Mar 13, 2024 ▶ 16:17 America Needs More Techno-Optimism, with Marc Andreessen and Tyler Cowen
a16z Opinion
Andreessen: Strongly supports the federal execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
“Anyway, I am strongly pro the execution of the Rosenbergs.”
Marc Andreessen Aug 2, 2023 ▶ 55:38 Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
a16z Opinion
Andreessen: Consumers who use weak passwords should be held legally liable
“Consumers like who use bad passwords, like ought to be held liable for the consequence. Like consumers at some point, like at some point as an adult, you learn that when you leave your house at night, you lock the door, right? Consumers at some point are going…”
Marc Andreessen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:04 a16z Podcast | Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back
a16z Opinion
Andreessen: Companies Can No Longer Get Favorable Stories in Traditional Media
“There is no way to get to anything resembling a story that you're gonna like through the traditional media anymore. Like, it's just basically not possible.”
Marc Andreessen Jun 19, 2026 ▶ 0:05 The Media Game Has Changed
a16z Opinion
Andreessen: Legacy Media Has Lost Its Prestige and Respectability
“There's still this anxiety that people have, which is legacy media somehow is, like, where the respectability is, the prestige is. I don't believe that anymore, and I think it's very important for people to kind of get that out of their system.”
Marc Andreessen Jun 19, 2026 ▶ 0:44 The Media Game Has Changed
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Andreessen claims SPLC led debanking and cancellation programs for 15 years
“The SPLC specifically played a dominant role in the debanking and censorship and cancellation programs of the last 15 years.”
Marc Andreessen May 11, 2026 ▶ 7:52 Marc Andreessen’s Worldview in 60 Minutes | Live on MTS
a16z Insight
Andreessen: Advocacy groups have financial incentives to preserve their enemies
“If your group's entire purpose for existing is to fight an enemy, then you need to make sure that that enemy exists. To do that, of course, you would fund them.”
Marc Andreessen May 11, 2026 ▶ 14:02 Marc Andreessen’s Worldview in 60 Minutes | Live on MTS
a16z Opinion
Andreessen: Every major Silicon Valley company is overstaffed
“Every major Silicon Valley company is overstaffed.”
Marc Andreessen May 11, 2026 ▶ 23:51 Marc Andreessen’s Worldview in 60 Minutes | Live on MTS
a16z Opinion
Andreessen: Corporations do not optimize for profitability
“The one thing that is the least true claim in the world is the companies are optimized for profitability, which is 100% not true.”
Marc Andreessen May 11, 2026 ▶ 24:19 Marc Andreessen’s Worldview in 60 Minutes | Live on MTS
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: Coder role will disappear within 10 to 20 years
“I think it's entirely possible that we're sitting here in 10 years, you know, in 20 years or whatever, and like the, you know, the job of coder is gone, but you have this just, you know, extraordinary number of builders running around.”
Marc Andreessen May 11, 2026 ▶ 27:35 Marc Andreessen’s Worldview in 60 Minutes | Live on MTS
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: Europe will fall further behind US by restricting AI
“Europe is, is going to run the opposite, you know, test, which is they're going to try to prevent all this from happening, and again, I think the data's already in there which is they're, you know, they're, they've been falling very badly behind economically, …”
Marc Andreessen May 11, 2026 ▶ 30:20 Marc Andreessen’s Worldview in 60 Minutes | Live on MTS
a16z Opinion
Andreessen: Press hates AI with the fury of a thousand suns
“What is the, you know, vanguard of tech right now? And one of the things is AI. And so the, of course, the press hates AI with the fury of a thousand suns. And so the press is running this, you know, sustained, you know, kind of fear campaign on AI.”
Marc Andreessen May 11, 2026 ▶ 41:37 Marc Andreessen’s Worldview in 60 Minutes | Live on MTS
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Andreessen: Political violence in Western society is currently at an all-time low
“The fact that political violence is like an all-time low in Western society is something that people really don't talk about.”
Marc Andreessen Apr 22, 2026 ▶ 0:17 Marc Andreessen on how the internet changed news, politics, and outrage | The a16z Show
a16z Insight
Andreessen: Online political fighting acts as a pressure valve preventing street violence
“My theory is the ability to directly participate in online virtual combat is shunting away a lot of the energy that in the past would have translated to street violence.”
Marc Andreessen Apr 22, 2026 ▶ 16:38 Marc Andreessen on how the internet changed news, politics, and outrage | The a16z Show
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: Youth depression spikes are statistical artifacts driven by government benefits
“And so basically if you get paid or if you get like special dispensation in school for having, you know, psychological issues, all of a sudden you see a massive spike in those psychological issues. The countries that don't have that, the other Western countrie…”
Marc Andreessen Apr 22, 2026 ▶ 25:17 Marc Andreessen on how the internet changed news, politics, and outrage | The a16z Show
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: A lot of AI doomerism is paid for by dark money
“We know that there's dark money in AI. Like a lot of the AI doomerism stuff is basically bought and paid for.”
Marc Andreessen Apr 22, 2026 ▶ 49:48 Marc Andreessen on how the internet changed news, politics, and outrage | The a16z Show
LATENT SPACE Assertion Contradicted
Andreessen: Three-year-old Nvidia chips make more money today than when new
“The current models are getting better faster at such a rate that if you are running an NVIDIA, if you're running an NVIDIA inference chip today that's three years old, you're making more money on it today than you did three years ago. Because the pace of impro…”
Marc Andreessen Apr 3, 2026 ▶ 23:23 Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
LATENT SPACE Prediction Held up
Andreessen: Autonomous AI agents will inevitably hire humans for tasks
“The agent hiring the people, which of course is going to happen, right? It's obviously going to happen.”
Marc Andreessen Apr 3, 2026 ▶ 41:32 Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
LATENT SPACE Prediction Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: Programming languages may not exist as a concept in 10 years
“Like I kind of think in 10 years, like I'm not sure, yeah, like I'm not sure there will even be a salient concept of a programming language in the way that we understand it today.”
Marc Andreessen Apr 3, 2026 ▶ 50:23 Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
LATENT SPACE Prediction Didn’t hold up
Andreessen: AI will never transform existing US K-12 public classrooms
“How are we going to apply AI in education? The answer is we're not because it's a literal government monopoly. It is never going to change the end, and there is nothing to do. By the way, you can create an entirely new school system. Like that's the one thing …”
Marc Andreessen Apr 3, 2026 ▶ 1:15:04 Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"

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The other half of the tape: Marc Andreessen's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 917 times in 374 episodes across the shows. 69 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 108John Coogan 55Molly O'Shea 50David Senra 33Lenny Rachitsky 24Erik Torenberg 23David George 21Chris Dixon 20

Statements about Marc Andreessen, by other people (69)

TBPN Opinion
Randall: Mega-fund leaders cannot realistically promise LPs a 5x net return
“I don't think Robbie or Hamant, or even Ben and Mark at this point, I don't think that they can go to LPs, one of those legs of the stool, and say, hey, this basket of funds that we're making you invest party pursue across, we're gonna get you five X net on th…”
Ev Randall Nov 13, 2025 ▶ 13:05 Wednesday’s Diet TBPN
a16z What-if
Kalanick: Uber's 2017 board battle would differ with Andreessen or Horowitz
“That wouldn't have gone that way if Ben or Mark was on the board.”
Travis Kalanick Jul 22, 2026 ▶ 13:36 Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Casado: AI compute demand will persist for decades like electricity
“The right analog here is like the steam engine or electricity. In the following way, like, we've introduced this new thing that you can turn to work, and there's some very obvious applications now, but there's probably 3040 years of throwing computer problems.…”
Martin Casado Aug 28, 2026 ▶ 20:05 Why Top Founders Are Racing Into AI Infrastructure
DAVID SENRA Assertion Not checkable as stated
DHH: Marc Andreessen sent a Frankfurt School syllabus during 37signals' 2021 crisis
“And what Margaret also did was he gave me a syllabus for understanding the history of wokeness, going all the way back to the sixties and beyond, that this didn't just come as lightning from a blue sky. This had an institutional grounding that was set in motio…”
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) Jul 26, 2026 ▶ 1:39:38 DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kalanick: Marc Andreessen cut a16z's Uber Series B valuation to $210M
“And he said, look, I know we talked about three 75, but went to the partnership. They don't agree, or they just didn't think it was the right number. We're the best we're going to be able to do is two 10.”
Travis Kalanick Jul 22, 2026 ▶ 6:10 Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Horowitz: a16z Raised $15B Fund Largely Through Two AMAs
“And, you know, this raise, which was fifteen billion dollars, when we actually raised the fund, I think Mark did one AMA, and I did one AMA, and I don't know that I took another meeting on this fundraise and it was done on the reputation”
Ben Horowitz Jan 15, 2026 ▶ 34:28 Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
No mainstream media publisher accepted Marc Andreessen's 'It's Time to Build'
“Wrote It's Time to Build. Like, you caved for a minute and said, like, all right, we'll place it. Maybe we'll place it. Yeah. And nobody took it. Nobody.”
Margit Wennmachers Nov 26, 2025 ▶ 29:33 The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm
a16z Insight
Horowitz: Building a small boutique company takes as much effort as a giant
“So the thing that Mark and I knew from like our experience in starting companies was It is just as hard to start a small boutique thing that means nothing in the world and build it as it is to build the world-dominating monster. Like it's no more amount of wor…”
Ben Horowitz Apr 29, 2025 ▶ 12:49 How Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What’s Coming Next
a16z Opinion
Horowitz: Chris Dixon was a far better investor than Andreessen or Horowitz
“And one of the things Mark and I recognized early was Chris Dixon was a far better investor than either of us.”
Ben Horowitz Apr 29, 2025 ▶ 55:34 How Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What’s Coming Next
20VC Insight
Marc Andreessen: There is no upper limit on software pricing
“Marc Andreessen said to me, you want a big company? Charge high prices. You want a medium-sized company? Charge medium prices. You want a small company? Charge small prices. And there's a lot to that. He actually said there is no upper limit on the price of so…”
Zachary Bookman Dec 6, 2024 ▶ 3:47 Zachary Bookman: Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | E1235 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bookman: Marc Andreessen walked out of board meeting exactly at scheduled end
“I scheduled a two-hour board meeting, and the board was opening up, a lot of give and take, big discussion going on, some important issue, so I decided to let it run, and at, you know, maybe it was 10 a.m. To 12 p.m. At 12 p.m., Mark literally just pulls his c…”
Zachary Bookman Dec 6, 2024 ▶ 56:50 Zachary Bookman: Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | E1235 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
LATENT SPACE Assertion Not checkable as stated
Crivello: Marc Andreessen Blocked Him on Twitter Over AI Safety Views
“Like at some point, Marc Andreessen blocked me on Twitter and I, it hurt, frankly, I really look up to Marc Andreessen and I knew he would block me.”
Florent Crivello Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 1:01:05 Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
a16z Disclosure
Horowitz: a16z met with Trump and White House, but Biden declined
“Mark mentioned we met with President Trump. We did meet with White House, many White House officials including Jeff Zeitz, the Chief of Staff and Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor, Gina Raimondo, the Commerce Secretary, and so forth. We have not met…”
Ben Horowitz Jul 16, 2024 ▶ 2:16 Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Partly supported
Lonsdale: Marc Andreessen is spending $75M on D.C. tech policy lobbying
“I know Marc Andreessen and his team spending seventy-five million dollars for the first time hiring people in D.C. To fight for these values”
Joe Lonsdale Jan 31, 2024 ▶ 38:06 Ep 76: Accelerate or Die! Guillaume Verdon and the e/acc Movement · Joe Lonsdale
20VC Opinion
Des Traynor: Marc Andreessen's 'just raise prices' mantra is silly
“The idea of like just raise prices is silly. I think align price to value is the thing you have to do.”
Des Traynor Jul 18, 2022 ▶ 42:51 Des Traynor: How I Founded Intercom; Product Marketing Tips; Feature Creep | 20VC #907 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
SOURCERY Opinion
Banister: Marc Andreessen is wrong to tell founders to avoid introspection
“But if you actually become very introspective, and I know Marc Andreessen says, don't do that, but I spend a lot of time being introspective and I would say that he's wrong. And I'd love to have a chat with him about this. You can actually surgically go in and…”
Cyan Banister Jul 10, 2026 ▶ 34:10 "Dig Through Your Couches. SpaceX Needs It." Cyan Banister on Luke Nosek's Pitch · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
a16z Disclosure
Horowitz: Ben Horowitz is a16z CEO, but Marc Andreessen is the brand
“Like, us as a firm, like, technically, I'm really the CEO, but, like, Mark is more the brand, I would say, in terms of he just does way more media than I do. And that works, but it works because it's Andreessen Horowitz, and nobody knows the fucking difference…”
Ben Horowitz Jun 19, 2026 ▶ 15:00 The Media Game Has Changed
20VC Insight
Browder: For-profit companies achieve 10x the impact of non-profits
“And Mark convinced me that the biggest organizations are for-profit entities, and you can have 10 times the impact of a for-profit company because the incentives are aligned.”
Josh Browder May 18, 2026 ▶ 16:40 Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Rabois: How Andreessen, Khosla, Weiden, and Lin differ in investment style
“There are technology driven investors. Like I would say Marc Andreessen's probably like something like that. Vinod's a mix. He's both founder driven and a technology driven investor. There are investors who are sort of product slash market driven investors. My…”
Keith Rabois Apr 12, 2026 ▶ 1:05:48 Hard truths about building in the AI era | Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures)
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Reyna: Tech companies are overstaffed by 25% or more
“You look at what Marc Andreessen was saying the other day, and, like, companies are overstaffed by 25% and even more, right?”
Carles Reina Apr 11, 2026 ▶ 41:18 ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
a16z Disclosure
a16z built partner brands so founders wouldn't only demand Marc Andreessen
“I do think we needed to even out the brand a little bit because like, otherwise any entrepreneur with leverage was going to go like, well, I want him to be on my board. Right. And that was just going to get success. It'll be worse with every other GP. So that …”
Margit Wennmachers Nov 26, 2025 ▶ 33:58 The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm
Meyer: Media attacks on tech figures are no longer working
“Today it's become almost a badge of honor because of how ridiculous the attacks have become. It's not just Marc Andreessen. It's not just you. It's not just Elon. It's not just the people with names. You know, they'll, they'll attack anyone that they think the…”
Max Meyer Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 14:27 The One Thing AI Will Never Replace · Joe Lonsdale
SOURCERY Insight
Altman: Founders pick specific partners over fund size, saving mid-sized VCs
“The part I'm least sure about with the framing is that the middle shouldn't exist. That I don't know if I have clarity on that yet. The reason is I still think that a series A or B or C founder, for the most part, is going to pick a partner that they really li…”
Jack Altman Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 17:04 How Jack Altman Hit 100x Growth | Uncapped, AI, VC, Founders · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
SOURCERY Opinion
Altman: Mid-sized VC funds can succeed despite Andreessen's barbell theory
“Marc Andreessen mentioned that There's basically this barbell where you can either be really small, you can be really big. The middle is not there, but I had a guest recently that I haven't posted yet who, you know, we didn't talk numbers, but I would say is i…”
Jack Altman Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 4:04 How Jack Altman Hit 100x Growth | Uncapped, AI, VC, Founders · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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a16zLEDGER Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz 88 1,119 55% 128/234 full record on the a16z Podcast →
20VCLEDGER Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz 1 49 67% 2/3 full record on 20VC →
AMERICAN OPTIMISTLEDGER Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz 2 39 33% 1/3 full record on American Optimist →
TBPNLEDGER Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz 3 +1 44 100% 6/6 full record on TBPN →
DAVID SENRALEDGER Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz 1 35 60% 3/5 full record on David Senra →
LENNY'S PODCASTLEDGER Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz 1 31 0% 0/2 full record on Lenny's Podcast →
CHEEKY PINTLEDGER Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz 1 29 33% 1/3 full record on Cheeky Pint →
KNOWLEDGE PROJECTLEDGER Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz 1 29 100% 1/1 full record on the Knowledge Project →
LATENT SPACELEDGER Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz 1 26 40% 2/5 full record on Latent Space →
SOURCERYLEDGER Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz 0 +1 0 full record on Sourcery →
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