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 so what happened you're probably like this too.

So what happens is I'm just arguing with myself all the time.

And so by the time I write, I've been arguing with myself in my own head for two years and trying to figure out what the good arguments are.

And then it just all kind of comes it just did g I just like drop it on the page.

I often

number one, it's it's nice.

There's an upside to it.

So uh I don't I I would say I don't want to lose the upside.

I do like the upside to it.

Um but yeah, look, I the very specific form of that is I think well, so there's actually maybe you could say two problems.

There's the giving advice part and then there's actually the just asking questions part, which is also a problem because people will interpret the the the questions as as advice or directives.

Um I I just think you have to like the way I think about it is if I'm if I'm dealing with one of my partners at the firm or if I'm dealing with one of our portfolio CEOs, I just I had

have to be really careful to say, look, I'm not, I don't know what the right thing to do here is.

I I don't have the information that you have.

I I I don't believe I can dictate you know what this is.

Do you remember the concept of the of an in-flight magazine?

Does that ring a bell?

No, but tell me.

So in the old days before before phones and and and and tablets, um uh when you took an airline flight, there was an air there'd be a magazine from the airline in the in the in the pocket of the seat.

That's what everybody would kind of sit there and read if they didn't bring anything.

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