Andreessen: Tech Products Become Obsolete the Moment They Become Perfected
Marc Andreessen · Marc Andreessen on Why Apple Might Miss the Next Platform Shift · Aug 8, 2025 · at 15:18
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen discusses the paradox of product maturity, explaining why finalized, perfected tech products inevitably get disrupted by newer, unpolished alternatives.
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“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 everything you could possibly ever imagine. Everything a customer could imagine, everything you as the technology developer can imagine. It's absolutely perfect. And there's been tons of examples of this over, over the last 50 years where it's like the absolute perfect permanent, it seems to be the permanent version of that product. And then it just turns out that's actually the point of obsolescence because it means creativity is no longer being applied.”
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