lawyer
also referred to as: lawyers
3 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 25, 2022 by Marc Andreessen · across every show →
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Jan 25, 2022 neutral
Andreessen: Top-down institutions inevitably end up run by lawyers
“All these institutions over time kind of end up run by lawyers, right, of one form or another, right? There's sort of, you know, people who kind of deal in words, right, people who deal in kind of symbolic manipulation at the word level you know, sort of the s…”
Sep 16, 2025 negative
CEOs fail when they blindly defer to lawyers during corporate crises
“The CEO's job uniquely is to consider different interests and weigh them against each other to reach the net optimal outcome for the company. When this goes wrong, what it looks like is everybody gets scared of the lawyers and the CEO follows exactly what the …”
Dec 9, 2025 negative
Sutherland: Accountants, lawyers, and economists hold too much corporate power
“I'm only angry with accountants and lawyers and economists, not because they do what they do, but because they have too much power doing it. And they've achieved a kind of monopoly over decision making, which I don't think they have a reasonable claim to.”