What Marc Andreessen thinks about hiring

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Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. Wrote the Techno-Optimist Manifesto and “Why AI Will Save The World”.

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1. 15 Mar 2026

   Our readingMusk's companies select positively: the smartest people want to work for him, and those who cannot cut it are fired.

   Their wordsAnd so he just has this like incredible positive selection where like the smartest people in the world want to work for him. And then anybody who can't cut it gets fired.

   ↗Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Thinkyoutube.com 34th of 35 in this recording