Marc Andreessen

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

I I mean I would never rule I would never rule anything out.

Um we have, you know, Ben and I have run public companies before.

Ben's been the CEO of a public company before.

And so we you know, we know what that entails.

My funny version of this story.

So when we first uh started A sixteen Z, we went around and we met with a lot of the top VCs at the time.

This is in two thousand nine, two thousand eight, two thousand nine.

And kind of pitched them on what we were doing and got a variety of very interesting feedback.

And and some of them became very, you know, very helpful to us and and really helped us.

But um we got some very interesting feedback.

And what one legendary VC told us at the time, he said, the the thing you're gonna hate the most about being a VC is you're gonna hate you're gonna hate the LPs.

They are just like the worst people in the world.

And he then he he gave us what we call the the mushroom talk, which is he said you need to treat LPs like mushrooms, uh, which is you put them in a cardboard box, you put the lid in the cardboard box, you put the box under the bed.

bad and you don't open it for two years.

And we said, okay, um, you know, that's one mentality.

And then we said, well, wait a minute.

We've been running public companies for the last 15 years.

We've been dealing with hedge fund managers.

Say what you will about LPs, like whatever you whatever you think.

At least when you walk in the room, you know they're not short your stock.

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