Marc Andreessen

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

And so specifically what you have happening right now is you have essentially every large company is overstaffed.

We could debate how much it's at least overstaffed by 25%.

I think most large companies are overstapped by 50%.

I think a lot of them are overstaffed by 75%.

And now they all have the silver bullet excuse, right?

Ah.

It's AI.

Well, I know this for a fact because number one, I talked to them.

But but number two, I know this for a fact because AI until like literally until like December was not actually good enough to do any of to do any of the jobs that they're actually cutting.

And and so it it like it just can't have been AI.

So the other thing is people look at the hiring rate for new hires and they look at you know the at the at the spike in uh how hard it is for new college graphs to get new jobs.

And again, people peg that on AI, but I think that's actually too

Two things.

Number one is okay, of course, the companies that overhired and and over invested and I have to bring down their spend and their headcount, obviously, they're not going to hire very very many people.

So that that's part of it.

And then the other is, you know, one might make the observation that maybe the skill set of a lot of college graduates over the last decade doesn't necessarily match to the job market.

And that's a you know very uncomfortable conversation for people to have.

But I think that that that also has I mean if you talk to any employer, they'll immediately tell you that.

Uh it's the culmination of raw frustration.

It's the

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