Marc Andreessen

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

And they kind of know what it is and then they kind of

explain, you know, here's why we can't do that.

And then they kinda go back and then they kinda go out in public and they kinda kinda half pretend that they don't know what the answer is.

And so I d I don't know whether that's I don't know whether they view that as encouraging or di I guess the encouraging thing is I think the intelligence level is probably higher than it looks.

The discouraging thing is, you know, the courage part of it is probably not quite there.

And then they get unelected and then the cycle starts again.

Well, so there is this uh I mean which I don't know and just just talk geopolitics the whole time, but there there is this really fascinating uh as you know, the big you know, the big difference the American constitutional system versus the European kind of parliamentary system.

There is this thing where when a when an American president becomes deeply unpopular, he sinks down to like forty percent approval rating.

When a European politician becomes unpopular, he gets down to like six percent.

Yeah.

They start

forty.

That's that's a high point.

And they just nosedive straight to six.

And so I I don't know, I always look at that and I'm kinda like, Wow, if you know that your default path is to go from forty to six, like maybe it's time to try some something new.

We did

The question that I answered before of like concentration in Silicon Valley is like the mainline companies building AI.

Google and OpenAI and Anthropic and Meta and you know XAI and so like Silicon Valley, right?

So that's true for sure.

But I think there's a second phase to it, which again I'm I'm like very excited about.

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