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 the underlying question, and tell me if you agree with this, the underlying question is the question of diamonds in the rough.

Is that right?

Whenever I've done a good deal, it's never worked out.

That's right.

So okay, so here's another thing we see in the firm, which is don't ever do diamonds in the rough, only do diamonds.

So this is another thing.

This is actually an investor ego thing, I think, which is you basically say, Wow, I'm the investor that's gonna go find the thing that nobody else knows about.

Another form of this would be like, you know, the all these other investors are herd animals, you know, they're all just copied.

copycotting each other and like I'm the one who's gonna be different thing, you know, I'm gonna go do the thing nobody else can nobody else can think of.

By the way, Peter Thiel does that really well.

Nobody else does that well.

And you're probably not Peter Thiel.

And you're probably I mean, you spent a lot of time with Peter.

But say I am not Peter Thiel.

Uh and yes, and and and and you you the listener probably are not as well.

Put it this way, uh maybe I could say this.

Um, especially if you if you go online, there's a tremendous amount of VCs are stupid, VCs are blind, you know, they're hurt and you know they hurt animals, they're blind, they you know, they're consensus seeking, they're heat driven, you know, they only do the obvious thing, you know, they don't appreciate you know, now you often get this from you know, they don't appreciate my special thing.

Having said that, the general pattern is, you know, and this is like nine out of ten times, or I would even say probably 99 out of 100 times, which is like if it's got merit to be investable for venture, there are a lot of really smart and hungry VCs out there, and they are working extremely hard to sniff these things out.

And it's their full-time job, but it's all they do.

Yeah, I think it's really unusual to have the diamond in the rough.

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