Marc Andreessen
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The a16z Show · Marc Andreessen on Evaluating Founders and AI's Consumer Surplus · 30 Mar 2026
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If I make a five hundred million dollar growth investment and I nail it, I can make ten billion or
billion dollars on it.
It's this you see what I'm saying?
It's the it's the same upside.
Do you buy
Yeah, so look, the the enterprise definitely matters in particular as as you go, in particular as as as the company grows in size.
And by the way, it matters for a couple of reasons.
And this is a lesson that gets like relearned over and over again and will be learned many times in the future, which is you know the old Don Valentine thing, which I do think is correct, which is more companies die from um indigestion than from starvation.
Overfunding is actually very dangerous to the operations of a company.
By the way, this is the one piece of startup advice that I think is like to
tremendously grounded in reality for which everybody has many examples in the past.
No founder ever listens to it.
My track record of ever convincing any founder on this point, I think, is zero, but I I will keep trying.
It's because it's so flattering.
Yeah, and then then you know they come up with 18 reasons why and then they you know then you know I'll really push them on and they're like, Well, we're gonna have a lockbox and we're gonna put the money, you know, it's like, no, you're not.
Like I've never had the lockbox.
Nobody's ever seen it.
Nobody's ever gonna do the lockbox.
Nobody ever does a lockbox.
So so so back to your question, I would just say, look, I think high I'll come back to high value is in a second, but I think there's an actual core fundamental linked thing is very important, which is the amount of money.
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