Marc Andreessen

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

What sectors are in and out of the strike zone?

I'll give you an example.

I mean, the most straightforward example is the deal we didn't do.

We should have done is the Android series A, which was just like sort of obvious that it was going to be special.

And you know, Palmer, we had worked with Palmer at Oculus, and it was just, you know, and his colleagues were clearly very capable.

And it was just kind of obvious that, you know, there was something, you know, very special.

But it was just like the say, like the politics, the cultural elements of that at the time when it first came around, I would say we got scared off in a way that I very much regret.

And so you'll notice that like we are now extremely enthusiastic investors in defense tech and in um you know things involving law enforcement.

enforcement, national security, public safety.

But 100% we would not make that same mistake again.

And so I and I think it I think it has to do with us actually you see what I'm saying it's it's like it's it's risk taking at the conceptual level beyond the level of of an individual company.

Mm.

And then like I said, it's it's it's generally Ben and me when when we've when we screwed that up.

You know, it's its impact on the world and it's it's in the form of what I described earlier with the you know, the idea of you know, the economic idea of consumer surplus.

But but conceptually it's just like, wow, like stuff that I worked on or built or helped build is something that's really like it's it's all over the world and people all over the world are using it and and and it's been tremendously, you know, on uh on net, tremendously beneficial.

I think that's one.

And then look, the other the other that I think rises in in importance over time is just the number of people that hopefully I've been able

able to have a positive impact on.

So, you know, the number of people who I've been able to, you know, help or support or help get through hard times or teach different things to, uh, who've been on, you know, gone on to be very successful.

And and I think as time as time's passing, it's more of that second category.

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