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Marc Andreessen on The Future of Venture Capital | Ep. 12
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June 11, 2025
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Marc Andreessen is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm that manages $45 billion in assets under management. He is an innovator and creator, one of the few to pioneer a software category used by more than a billion people and one of the few to establish multiple billion-dollar companies.
Marc co-created the highly influential Mosaic internet browser and co-founded Netscape, which later sold to AOL for $4.2 billion. He also co-founded Loudcloud, which as Opsware, sold to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion. He later served on the board of Hewlett-Packard from 2008 to 2018.
Marc serves on the board of the following Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies: Applied Intuition, Carta, Coinbase, Dialpad, Flow, Golden, Honor, OpenGov, Samsara, Simple Things, and TipTop Labs. He is also on the board of Meta.
We covered:
- Evolution of the venture playbook
- Small vs large funds
- Current AI landscape
- Politics and Silicon Valley
- Tech and the media
A few highlights:
- Optimizing for the maximum amount of power
- Conflicts being the reason a16z isn’t even larger
- The middle is dead; you’re either Gucci or Walmart
- Only 8 companies in the S&P 500 are innovating
- We’ve lived in an era of intense preference falsification
- AI and machines making the ultimate decision
Timestamps:
(0:00) Intro
(0:27) Evolution of the venture playbook
(15:54) Small vs large funds
(29:10) Becoming a top tier firm
(35:33) Limiting factors to building big companies
(40:11) Investing in AI
(50:02) Developing investors
(59:06) AI going wrong
(1:09:20) Politics and Silicon Valley
(1:11:39) Tech and the media
(1:23:22) Preference falsification
(1:31:10) Career advice
(1:34:07) Huberman “beef”
(1:38:21) Question from X
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