Marc Andreessen

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The a16z Show · Marc Andreessen on Evaluating Founders and AI's Consumer Surplus · 30 Mar 2026 podcast

I think as long as you're still alive and as long as you've conducted your

yourself in a way that, you know, you haven't, you know, brought, you know, some sort of fundamental like legal issue on your head or something like that.

I think generally, at least in in our world, um, I I think uh I I think second fances are actually available for a lot of people.

And by the way, of course a lot of the great success stories have this in their background as you know, you know, including Steve Jobs himself.

You mentioned

So I believe, and and we try to run the firm this way, I believe the core of the business is is is a permanent state of affairs.

The core of the business is early stage.

The core of the business is a a founder or a small founding team with a dream and a clean sheet of paper, ideally a garage, although these days, you know, it's hard to keep the kids in the garage.

So maybe they haven't, you know, a house or an office.

Um very expensive in Palo Alto market.

Okay, it is a not cheap garage.

Palo Alto garages are indeed expensive.

Yes.

But you look, a couple of kids in a dream and a clean sheet of paper and then first money in and then, you know, the first two years, that is the core of the business.

Like that that really fundamentally is the core of the business.

A metaphor we use all the time at at the firm, it's like startups are like baking a cake.

If you bake the cake and you leave the sugar out of the cake, you can't pour sugar out of the cake afterwards and fix your mistake, right?

Sugar has to go in the cake.

That first two years is when you're baking the cake.

Like that first two years when you're really figuring out what the formula.

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