Marc Andreessen
25 statements across 7 episodes · 8 bullish · 6 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Oct 14, 2024 by John Coogan · said 130 times in 48 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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2026 16 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- The Secret Economics Controlling OpenAI, Anthropic, and the AI Boom
- Where Brad Gerstner Is Investing Billions
- The Cournot Equation, Micron’s $200B Bet, Hollywood vs. Seedance 2.0 | Diet TBPN
- Kevin Warsh as Fed Chair, Google targets Chinese Cyber Weapon, WSJ Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- Big Tech turns to mining, Thinking Machines loses top executives, NYC Sauna Wars heat up | Diet TBPN
- We're all Jerome Powell, Apple and Google Make it Official, Anthropic Health Care | Diet TBPN
- Meta Acquires Manus, Nvidia's $20B Groq deal, Doordash's Reddit Firestorm l Diet TBPN
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2025 59 mentions in 24 episodes 2 per episode
- Silicon Valley vs The Vatican, Bryan Johnson’s Shroom Trip | Diet TBPN
- The Future of Media in VC | Erik Torenberg on TBPN
- What's Happening at SONOS (Total Disaster)
- Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
- Harry Stebbings Talks About Reviving European Tech and Finding the 1% Founders
- DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly
- Wednesday’s Diet TBPN
- Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill
- 16 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 55 mentions in 17 episodes 3 per episode
- Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- Elon's Big Week (ep4)
- CHRISTIANITY: Why it's making a comeback (ep23)
- How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- Taylor Lorenz Trades Teams (ep16)
- The "Switzerland of AI" is Crazy (ep3)
- Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
Everything said about Marc Andreessen, oldest first
Oct 14, 2024 neutral
Coogan: VCs resent Burning Man for having high NPS but zero monetization
“Burning Man, I mean, I know why he hates it. Extremely high NPS, but can't invest in it. Because if you ever talk to somebody who goes to Burning Man, dude, you gotta go, it's so amazing. Extremely high NPS. But, they haven't scaled, they haven't monetized.”
Dec 11, 2024 positive
Hays: Cornell reply guy gained follows from Marc Andreessen and major VCs
“So Baldo less than two weeks ago, relatively unknown Cornell student starts aggressively replying to our posts. And last time I checked, he was followed by Mark Andreessen, Turner, Novak, Yoni at slow. So many major Fund managers.”
Apr 26, 2025 neutral
Torenberg: Shelved a live group chat product after meeting Marc Andreessen
“So I was actually working on a product. That was going to be like pub house for group shots where, where you chat live with a public audience. You can sort of tear the permission gates and there's a speaker and an audience that really had some magic... I was w…”
Aug 8, 2025 negative
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…”
Aug 8, 2025 neutral
Andreessen: Copying Apple's Last-Mover Strategy Has Massive Survivorship Bias
“And I guess, yeah, what I would say is like, look, that clearly works if you're Apple, right? Yeah. And so it clearly works if you're Apple. But I would say there's a fine line between that strategy and just, and simply becoming obsolete, right? And so the pro…”
Aug 8, 2025 positive
Andreessen: Best Way Into VC Is Early Product Development Track Record
“The best way to do it is to have a track record early as somebody who is like in the loop specifically on new product development. And so somebody who, you know, be like deeply in the trenches at one of these new companies in one of these spaces you know, part…”
Aug 8, 2025 negative
Andreessen: Most Open-Weights AI Models, Including DeepSeek, Omit Training Data
“What most of the open source open weights models don't have, including, you know, deep seek specifically, What they don't have is they don't have open data, right? Or open corpus, right? So you can't actually see the training data that went, went into them.”
Aug 8, 2025 positive
Aug 8, 2025 negative
Andreessen: Billions Cannot Access Frontier AI via Paid Subscriptions
“If you really want to get to five, if you want to get to a billion and then five billion people you can't do that with a paid offering. Like it just, you, at any sort of reasonable price point, it's just not possible. The, you know, global per capita GDP is no…”
Aug 8, 2025 positive
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 …”
Aug 8, 2025 neutral
Andreessen: Lessons From Corporate Near-Death Moments Are Skewed by Survivorship Bias
“So if you talk to any really successful company, what they'll tell you is, yeah, over the years we have these like crucible moments in which like we almost died. Right. But we like pull together and we pulled it off. And then that became like, you know, one of…”
Aug 8, 2025
Andreessen: Tech Products Become Obsolete the Moment They Become Perfected
“One of the things I've observed over the years is I think technology products become obsolete at the precise moment they become perfect. And what I mean by perfect basically is like, yeah, it's like the perfect idealized complete product. Like it does everythi…”
Aug 8, 2025 bullish
Aug 8, 2025
Andreessen: Public Excitement Arbitrarily Disconnects From Underlying Technical Progress
“There's somewhat of a sort of arbitrary disconnection between what's actually happening in the substance and then what people are seeing and feeling. And so it's just, it's really hard to predict when these things pop, but also if you're in this day to day, it…”
Aug 8, 2025 negative
Aug 8, 2025
Andreessen: LLM Researchers Were Surprised ChatGPT Was the Breakthrough Moment
“Like if you talk to the people who worked on like, I'm sure you guys have talked to people who work on language models, they will tell you that they were surprised the chat GPT was the breakthrough moment. Cause they thought everybody already knew what these m…”
Aug 9, 2025 neutral
Andreessen: AI cannot scale to billions of users on paid subscriptions
“If you really want to get to fi, if you want to get to a billion and then five billion people you can't do that with a paid offering. Like it just, you, at any sort of reasonable price point, it's just not possible. The, you know, global per capita GDP is not …”
Aug 9, 2025
Andreessen: Tech products become obsolete the moment they achieve perfection
“I think technology products become obsolete at the precise moment they become perfect. And what I mean by perfect basically is like, yeah, it's like the perfect idealized complete product. Like it does everything you could possibly ever imagine, everything a c…”
Aug 9, 2025 neutral
Andreessen: AI training data disputes must be solved by Congress
“In the case of training data, I think that there, I mean, there's a bunch of these copyright, you know, kind of lawsuits happening right now. There's, you know, the big New York Times opening, I won, and there's, you know, been a bunch of others. I think in th…”
Aug 9, 2025 positive
Andreessen: The best route into VC is early product development experience
“The best way to do it is to have a track record early as somebody who is like in the loop specifically on new product development. And so somebody who, you know, be like deeply in the trenches at one of these new companies in one of these spaces you know, part…”
Aug 9, 2025 positive
Andreessen: Supreme Court will decide if AI chats get Fourth Amendment protection
“On the on the privacy thing. I think that, that one feels like it's a Supreme court thing. To me, it feels like that's the kind of issues that the Supreme court and the, in other words, like whether, for example, your Transcripts are considered your property a…”
Aug 9, 2025
Andreessen: Emulating Apple's last-mover strategy suffers from survivorship bias
“I think there's a lot of survivorship bias in these kinds of strategy discussions where people look at the one company That's able to pull this off, and they don't look at the 50 other companies that are in the graveyard, you know, because they, you know, beca…”
Nov 13, 2025 bearish
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…”
Mar 3, 2026 negative
Andreessen: D.C. Officials Told VCs Not to Fund AI Startups
“They said, look, AI, AI is one of these technology, AI is a technology basically that the government is going to completely control. This is not going to be a startup thing. They actually said flat out to us, don't start, don't do AI startups. Like, don't fund…”