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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So I say no.
Opinions vary.
Uh you know, I said earlier I'm emotional both in good and bad ways.
Like it you do end up getting very close to people, um, and you do end up wanting to have a high level of trust.
And it certainly helps if you like each other and trust each other and and so forth.
But like I would just say on the other hand, like some of the best founders in history, and you know, look, I I give you example after example of in the distant past, they were not very likable people.
And and a lot of you know, by the way, the same thing is true of many of the great artists.
Many of the great filmmakers, many of the great lit you know, literary geniuses, many of the great philosophers, you know, many of the great political leaders.
There's a lot of cases where these people are like not likable.
So I say no, you don't, because I think like if you're trying to fulfill your personal emotional needs at work, like I think that's a very fundamental problem and you shouldn't try to do that.
It's the Harry S.
Strumman quote: if you if you need a friend, get a dog.
Like or another version of this is you know, we always say, do not bring your whole self to work.
Like whatever you do, do not bring your whole self to work.
Like if if you show up and you're professional and you're great to deal with and you're very productive and you add value in in every engagement that you do, and if that's true for you as a VC and you're working with a founder and you're never friends and you just like have a great working relationship and you don't, you know, and the company in the later years whatever sells or whatever and you never talk to each other again.
Like I've seen that work many times and it I think it's totally fine.
Mark,
There's nothing that we're missing today um that we could we could solve by going public.
By the way, is also increasingly true of a lot of the companies, right, that we the that we both invest in.
And so I I don't think so.
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