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Andreessen: Qualified tech founders do not have bad ideas, only timing issues
“I no longer think there are any qualified people starting tech companies that actually have bad ideas. I think all the ideas are good ideas. I think it's just a question of timing and execution.”
Andreessen: Every failed late-1990s dot-com idea has now worked
“Entire, I think at this point, catalog of all of the failed.com ideas of the late 19 nineties, and I believe they've now all worked.”
Andreessen: Education cannot be fixed; it must be rebuilt from scratch
“There is no fix. There is only one thing to do. In my opinion, there's only one thing to do. Right? Which is to build a new system. Right? And the new system has to get built from scratch. It has to get built the hard way.”
Andreessen argues that US K-12 education operates as a Soviet-style monopoly
“K through 12 is a monopoly, right? It's a government-sponsored and run monopoly, and so, of course, it's gonna, you know, it's a Soviet system, right? It's gonna, it's run exactly the same way education was run in the Soviet Union. Of course, it's gonna genera…”
Andreessen: Higher education operates as an oligopolistic cartel via accreditation
“Higher ed is a cartel, right? It's quite literally a cartel, and the universities form, you know, they have an industry group they have these industry groups that they run, then, and then they have what's called accreditation and they control the accreditation…”
Andreessen: James Burnham's 'The Machiavellians' is the best 20th-century political book
“Another book that I keep coming back to is a book called The Machiavellians by this guy James Burnham which I think is probably the best book on politics of the 20th century, and has been, like, incredibly helpful to understand what's happening right now.”
Andreessen: 'The Ancient City' is the best book on civilization and cults
“It's the best book I've ever found on sort of the creation of civilization, the sort of prehistory of civilization. And then it's the best book I've ever read on like basically The role of the cult, right? So like why cults exist what they are and what it feel…”