Andreessen: Failed startup ideas often succeed when tried again decades later
Marc Andreessen · #129 Marc Andreessen: Interview with an Icon · Jan 25, 2022 · at 30:06
Marc Andreessen, co-founder of a16z, explains why venture investors should not dismiss startup ideas just because previous dot-com era predecessors failed.
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“You see example after example of startups that tried something and failed. And then you basically, you know, you draw the experience from that. Okay, well, we know that's never going to work, right? Because it failed. And you see kind of a lot of people around you kind of going through the same process. And then you just see example after example of basically what happens next, which is some kid shows up, With that same idea, five or 10 or 15 or 20 years later, and they take another swing at it, and it becomes a gigantic success”
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