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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…”
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…”
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…”
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…”
Andreessen: The Company That Obsoletes Smartphones Will Become the Next Apple
“Whoever cracks the code on that will be the next Apple.”
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 …”
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…”
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…”
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…”
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…”
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…”