Marc Andreessen

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

They're gonna use AI to be able to not do a lot of the grunt work they're doing today so that they can do higher value work.

And then now I'm just talking class.

Classical economics, which is just, you know, the kind of the other side from Marxism, classical economics says that the the actual function, the actual economic function of technology, and this includes AI, the actual function is to raise productivity and specifically to raise marginal productivity of the individual worker.

And again, this has happened many, many times.

You take an individual worker who used to write on pencil and paper and you give them a typewriter, and then they used to write on a typewriter and then you give them a word processor, and then they used to do hand accounting and now you give them a spreadsheet.

And and and and and by the way, social media manager, a job that didn't exist before the internet, right?

Technology actually creates this job.

Oh, that's very easy.

So uh number one, uh interest rates.

As you know, so interest rates, interest in interest rates uh were we're at zero.

And then interest rates went from zero to five percent at record speed like three years ago.

Every big company had to replan all of their financial all their cost of capital went up five points.

Like they all had to completely replan financials.

And then number two is they all overhired during COVID.

The the hiring binge the companies went on in COVID was just like wild.

Right.

And and it was the and it was the combination of the two.

It was it was the interest rates going to zero during COVID.

And then it was the just the complete loss of discipline at all these companies when they went virtual and when employees just became a you know an icon on a screen.

And they just, you know, because like, yeah, just like oh hire like tons more of them.

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