Marc Andreessen

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

Is of what you're doing and what the product is and what the company is and what the business is and what the culture is and who the team is.

Like those decisions are like absolutely fundamental.

And if you get those right as a founder, like the payoff from that will go for decades.

And if you get those wrong, like even if your company succeeds, you're gonna live with those sins forever.

They're gonna extrapolate out.

And so like that's it.

Like that is the core of the business.

And like many great companies, you know, later on bring in lots of other partners and groups

Grow stage investors and you know, and other people to the team and build boards and it's it's fantastic and it's great.

But you know, there really is no substitute for that kind of inception point, you know, that that that early moment.

There's no substitute for being the investor that does that.

And then, you know, as you know, like the the the investor who's engaged with the company at that stage, it often becomes the key advisor to those founders for for the rest of the company's life because you build this incredible emotional bond and then you know, you have like complete context on why all the decisions got made and you and you

you know, you remember how it first started.

I think there's just no substitute for for the for the early stage.

And I I think like a firm like ours, uh this is what I always tell our folks, like, look, at the end of the day, the early stage business has to work.

If the early stage business works, we have option value and doing all this other stuff, but that that always is the core of the business.

So it's basically I think it's in two it's in two parts.

So part of it is yes, fixing the mistakes of omission, fixing the mistakes and become becoming partners later.

And look, that can work really well.

Those can be very good investments.

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