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What Marc Andreessen thinks about venture capital

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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. Our readingRelationship businesses like venture capital get stretched into a barbell, and the middle of the industry dies.

    startups

    Their wordsAnd so our, our theory of it was what we call death of the middle, or we sometimes, the negative way to frame it is death of the middle. The positive way is the barbell, which is what's happened in all these other industries, which is basically the, the industry gets stretched apart like taffy.

    ↗Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Thinkyoutube.com 14th of 35 in this recording

  3. Our readingWith winning AI companies raising billions, venture checks of tens of millions are no longer the relevant scale.

    Their wordsBecause, right, the winning AI companies are raising, you know, billions, tens of billions, in some cases, hundreds of billions of dollars, right? The old world of $10 million or $30 million or $50 million checks, you know, where VCs tap out, it's just not a relevant, relevant thing anymore.

    ↗Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Thinkyoutube.com 20th of 35 in this recording