Marc Andreessen

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

magazine.

And then the the the pejorative was like adventure, it was basically uh board members who gave advice by way of in flight magazine, which is, you know, they flew in for the board meeting, they read the magazine.

The magazine said, you know, Java's gonna be a big thing.

And so they said, what's our Java strategy?

Right.

Or or for or for or for every other new thing that came along.

And you know, maybe the current version of that is whatever, whatever I read on X yesterday or whatever I saw on a YouTube video or whatever, right?

Um or in the newspaper.

You do have to be like really, really careful.

I think as you as you get more senior in this field, if you be really careful both in your firm and also with with founders, or you God forbid, telling them what to do, A.

B suggesting what they do, which is sort of the same as telling them what to do, which is dangerous.

And then C, even just asking questions, you know, becomes very dangerous because they interpret the questions.

And so it you just I think you just have to acknowledge that up front and bend over backwards and kind of say, Look, I you know, this is genuinely not what I'm trying to do and I'm just gonna ask questions and do that.

Generally the the way that plays out like at our firm is like I I

I said earlier, like Ben Ben and I almost never weigh in on a direct way on an investment that one of our partners is working on.

And the reason is just 'cause like we don't we don't want that warping effect to take place and specifically because we know we lack we lack the knowledge to be able to do that.

And so and and in particular, maybe obvious, but doing that in public is particularly dangerous, right?

If there are other people around and then there's like perceived social pressure.

And so if we're gonna have like a difficult conversation with somebody or we're gonna really question something, it's we we you

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