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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 Opinion
Andreessen: Hollywood creators avoided political themes fearing career destruction
“These are all the hot button issues that if you screwed them up, you, in, in Hollywood, you got your career destroyed, right? So if you said the wrong thing about COVID lockdowns or vaccines, if you said the wrong thing about Trump, if you said the wrong thing…”
Marc Andreessen Oct 17, 2025 ▶ 29:18 Marc Andreessen on the State of Film and Hollywood
a16z What-if
Andreessen: Mel Gibson's Passion sequel wouldn't be greenlit under Kamala Harris
“Mel Gibson finally got greenlit to do his sequel to Bachelor of the Christ, which is the resurrection movie, and which he's making right now. At least my friends in Hollywood are like, yeah, that never would have happened. Like, that never would have happened …”
Marc Andreessen Oct 17, 2025 ▶ 43:48 Marc Andreessen on the State of Film and Hollywood
CHEEKY PINT Prediction Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: AI job displacement will be slowed dramatically by licensing and unions
“The employment shifts everybody's worried about are actually not going to happen at anywhere near the velocity people think because it's like, you know, a significant, significant percentage of jobs in the US literally are, you know, licensed or unionized or c…”
Marc Andreessen Oct 1, 2025 ▶ 54:50 Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley
CHEEKY PINT Assertion Contradicted
Andreessen: US dockworker agreements paid one non-working person per active worker
“One of the things that we, that was discovered during that process that I didn't know is that in prior union agreements with the dock workers, they already had a one-to-one ratio of people sitting at home doing nothing to every productive dock worker as a cons…”
Marc Andreessen Oct 1, 2025 ▶ 1:09:39 Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley
Andreessen: Elon Musk replaced marketing budgets with a cult of personality
“Number three is it's gonna be a cult of personality, and it's gonna be a cult of personality not just inside the company, but outside the company. And we're not gonna, you know, we're not gonna spend any money on marketing. We're not gonna put any time at IR. …”
Marc Andreessen Oct 1, 2025 ▶ 1:45:13 Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley
Andreessen: Deliberate polarization benefits recruiting and business strategy
“He's polarized the market very deliberately, you know, in the same way that I think a lot of great entrepreneurs do, which is, you know, people that either love him or hate him, they either love the products, hate the products, That's very helpful from a busin…”
Marc Andreessen Oct 1, 2025 ▶ 1:52:24 Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley
TBPN Opinion
Andreessen: Chinese Open-Source AI Releases Are Net Positive for the World
“I think it's been net positive for the world that China has been so enthusiastic about open source AI coming out of China which has been great.”
Marc Andreessen Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 16:55 Marc Andreessen on Why Apple Might Miss the Next Platform Shift
TBPN Opinion
Andreessen: US AI Models Embed Constraints From a Specific Demographic
“I can tell you, the American models have all kinds of constraints also. Right, implemented, you know, usually by a very specific kind of person in a very specific location in the US.”
Marc Andreessen Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 20:36 Marc Andreessen on Why Apple Might Miss the Next Platform Shift
TBPN Opinion
Andreessen: Training AI Is Legally Distinct From Copying
“The counter argument to that, which, you know, which we believe is, well, it's not copying, right? There's a distinction between training and copying, just like in the real world, there's a distinction between reading a book and copying the book, you know, as …”
Marc Andreessen Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 25:43 Marc Andreessen on Why Apple Might Miss the Next Platform Shift
TBPN Opinion
Andreessen: Regulatory Victory Laps Over Blocked Mergers Exhibit Survivorship Bias
“I mean, it's kind of taking a victory lap was very disconcerting. And for exactly the reason you said, which is survivorship bias. Right. Which is you pick the one that worked out and then, you know, it's the airplane, the red dots, the airplane, you know, you…”
Marc Andreessen Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 32:40 Marc Andreessen on Why Apple Might Miss the Next Platform Shift
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: Without US manufacturing, Chinese robots will dominate the world
“If you don't do this, you're living in a world of Chinese robots everywhere.”
Marc Andreessen Aug 5, 2025 ▶ 21:44 Marc Andreessen: The US is in a AI Arms Race & It Decides The World's Future
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: U.S. de-industrialization resulted from deliberate policies outlawing manufacturing
“We chose to de-industrialize through a set of explicit policy choices, you know, not, not least of which is You know, we made a lot of industrial activity illegal over time.”
Marc Andreessen Aug 5, 2025 ▶ 9:49 Marc Andreessen: The US is in a AI Arms Race & It Decides The World's Future
a16z Opinion
Andreessen: European regulation has made AI illegal, pushing talent to the US
“Europe has basically made AI illegal. Like, they're regulating themselves to death. And so the smart AI people in Europe are moving to the US.”
Marc Andreessen Aug 5, 2025 ▶ 19:09 Marc Andreessen: The US is in a AI Arms Race & It Decides The World's Future
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: Public trust in traditional institutions will eventually hit zero
“The partisanship is actually holding up the reputation of institutions that otherwise, where their ratings would, their trust ratings would literally go to zero which I think is probably what happens in the fullness of time.”
Marc Andreessen Jul 25, 2025 ▶ 32:09 Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
Andreessen: US explicitly chose de-industrialization by making industrial activity illegal
“We chose to de-industrialize through a set of explicit policy choices, you know, not, not least of which is You know, we made a lot of industrial activity illegal over time.”
Marc Andreessen Jul 3, 2025 ▶ 9:49 From ChatGPT to Billions of Robots: Marc Andreessen’s Prediction · Joe Lonsdale
Andreessen: European regulation has made AI effectively illegal, causing brain drain
“And then, by the way, the US is benefiting a lot, because Europe has basically made AI illegal. Like, they're regulating themselves to death. And so, the smart AI people in Europe are moving to the US.”
Marc Andreessen Jul 3, 2025 ▶ 19:09 From ChatGPT to Billions of Robots: Marc Andreessen’s Prediction · Joe Lonsdale
Andreessen: Smart kids from rural America cannot get into elite universities
“If you're a family, you know, if you, if you're a family, if you're parents of a kid where I grew up and you've got a smart kid and you think you're gonna get them into, you know, a top university in this country, like, you are fooling yourself. Like, there is…”
Marc Andreessen Jul 3, 2025 ▶ 26:42 From ChatGPT to Billions of Robots: Marc Andreessen’s Prediction · Joe Lonsdale
a16z Insight
Andreessen: Professional CEOs struggle to adapt when business conditions change
“Professional CEOs Are often very good at running a status quo business, but when the, when things change, they have a very hard time reacting.”
Marc Andreessen Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 25:15 Founders, Media, & Memes: a16z’s Strategy for the Future | a16z LP Summit 2025
a16z Insight
Marc Andreessen: Mob consensus causes promising people to be abandoned in crises
“What's happening is what Ted Kaczynski Famous philosopher, Takasinski, what's called over socialization, right? People are too worried about what everybody else thinks, right? And so people, people get too wrapped up in the sort of mob scapegoating cycle of, y…”
Marc Andreessen Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 28:51 Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
a16z Insight
Andreessen: Remote work creates a mentorship failure to launch for young workers
“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 …”
Marc Andreessen Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 1:22:58 Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
a16z Assertion Contradicted
Marc Andreessen: Russian Facebook ad spend during 2016 election was only $80,000
“I think the result of it was, I think it was a result of 80,000 dollars of ad spend by the Russians in, in the relevant period of the election. It was like a total of like a 140,000, but during the actual run of the election, it was 80,000 dollars, and so the …”
Marc Andreessen Jun 2, 2025 ▶ 7:56 Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: Cambridge Analytica's psychometric ad targeting never actually worked
“It turned out that the method that was supposedly used by the Russians slash, you know, the Trump campaign to do the mind control, you know, basically like that, that method, I mean, we now know basically it never worked. Like it, the whole psych, psych, psych…”
Marc Andreessen Jun 2, 2025 ▶ 9:00 Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
a16z Opinion
Andreessen: European regulatory frenzy is killing its tech sector
“Europe, Europe persists in shooting itself, not just in the foot, but in the other foot and in the ankle and in the knee and in the gut. And they're just on this absolute frenzy to regulate and kill, you know, tech in Europe”
Marc Andreessen Jun 2, 2025 ▶ 21:28 Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: US government launched a war to kill crypto
“Crypto, you know, became incredibly politicized, and the government, US government basically launched a full-on war against it, tried to kill it.”
Marc Andreessen Jun 2, 2025 ▶ 26:52 Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z

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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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