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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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4 dated positions, 2022, in their own words. Our reading of what Marc Andreessen has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingA successful startup takes about five years to become an incumbent, and defending what it has built is the rational thing for it to do.

    Their wordsA successful startup has about five years until they become a new incumbent. Um and and they actually start to behave like an incumbent. That's rational. Like of course that's rational. Like they've now built something worth defending.

    ↗Inside the Mind of A Famous Investor | Marc Andreessenyoutube.com 5th of 16 in this recording

  3. Our readingThere are no bad ideas among qualified people starting technology companies; there is only timing and execution.

    ideas vs execution

    Their wordsI no longer think there are any bad ideas. I 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. Um, I think it's just a I think it's just a question of timing and execution.

    ↗Inside the Mind of A Famous Investor | Marc Andreessenyoutube.com 9th of 16 in this recording

  5. Our readingEvery failed dot-com idea of the late 1990s has since been made to work by somebody.

    Their wordsyou can go through the entire, I think at this point, catalog of all of the failed dot com ideas of the late 1990s, and I believe they've now all worked.

    ↗Inside the Mind of A Famous Investor | Marc Andreessenyoutube.com 10th of 16 in this recording

  7. Our readingYoung founders who appear to have no track record have almost always been working inside their problem for years already.

    Their wordsthe reality is the kids that make new things work from scratch. It actually turns out that they actually have been deep in the domain for a long time. Almost every case, they've been thinking hard about the problem that they're trying to solve actually for in in a lot of cases for many years.

    ↗Inside the Mind of A Famous Investor | Marc Andreessenyoutube.com 11th of 16 in this recording