Marc Andreessen

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

And usually if it's the diamond in the rough, it usually means two things.

It it basically means number one,

It means like a company that's like offside in some fundamental reason, it's in the wrong place, right?

Or it was like structured wrong.

There's a reason why it's a diamond in the rough that actually ends up becoming a big problem.

You know, the example people use, which I think is legitimate, which I think there was a point when Uber was available for investment by anybody on Angel List.

So it's like, yeah, every once in a while there's one of those.

Yeah, and look, there's a reason you you know this.

There's a reason where if you just look at the great co outcomes of venture over the last fifty years, if you just if rank the outcome.

It's just like it's the same names over and over and over again.

Uh, you know, and and it rotates, you know, every decade or so there's some rotation of the names.

The other reason you have Diamond of the Rough is you have a founder who fundamentally is just too ornery to just do things the obvious way.

And they're just like hyper disagreeable, and they're just like, ah, and they these are often the founders that like have all these theories about how Ventura is terrible and awful and these VCs are all evil.

And they're like very focused on like terms and control and like all this stuff.

And it's just and they kind of alienate and so then and then by the time you meet them, it's just like

They've alienated like six of the mainstream venture firms and now they're the diamond in the rough.

And it's like and then again, it's like, okay, every once in a while one of those is gonna succeed.

But like I'm not sure I would want that to be my business.

Do you need to like the founders you invest in?

Okay.

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