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 in the last two years, I think that that process has like whiplash reversed in an incredible way.

And I think the tech industry is more centralized in Silicon Valley than it has been in its entire existence.

And

I think it's AI very specifically.

And I think, you know, something very close to 100% of the quality AI companies are in California, and specifically in a 20 mile radius of where I'm sitting right now.

There are exceptions.

Um, and 11 Labs, of course, is one of the big exceptions, and Black Forest Labs, and you know, we have a whole bunch that we're very proud of.

Ms.

Stroll, there are definitely exceptions, but like, man, if you look at just like the value creation numbers and if you look at the talent base and if you look at the

flow of where people are going for better or for worse is in Northern California.

And so I I I just think in practice this region is gonna be the it's gonna be more central than it's been.

In the next decade it'll be more central than it's been in the last 50 years.

I'm a lot more optimistic than I was two years ago, and I'm a lot less optimistic than I was twenty years ago.

There is something magical in the American, I don't know what you want to call it, gestalt character psyche.

Quite honestly, a lot of it is the y inflow of people from all over the world.

And a lot of that is the the great Europeans who've moved here, you know, over over the last, you know, 400 years.

There's something about having a country that is this big and this powerful and this, you know, kind of let's say lucky and blessed in its geographics and its in its uh, you know, natural resources and size and scale and all the rest of it that no

Nevertheless, is like incredibly dynamic and has like risk taking at the core of its DNA and and a and a willingness and a history of like throwing the harpoon at like really big bets in extremely aggressive ways.

And there's just something amazing about that.

And you know, you always kind of worry, or at least I always kind of you always kind of worry that that's diminishing and kind of, you know, there's this term managerialism I use a lot, but you you know you always kind of worry that everything's just becoming managerial, everything's becoming bureaucratic, everything's becoming state.

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