Marc Andreessen
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first heard Oct 2024
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And so we start these companies in the old model, right?
We start them out as in the Henry Ford model.
And so we start them out with a founder or a founder with colleagues, but there's a founder CEO.
And then we basically bet that the startup is going to be able to do things, specifically innovate in ways that the big incumbents in that industry are not going to be able to do.
And so it's a bet that basically by relighting
this sort of name on the door, you know, kind of thing, this new innovative thing with like a King monarchical, uh, political structure, um, that they're going to be able to innovate in a way that the incumbent is not going to be able to because the incumbent is being run by managers.
Right.
And, and, and, and by the way, and of course, venture being what it is, sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't, but we're constantly doing that.
But I've always viewed it my entire life as like, we're like raging against the dying of the light.
Like we're, we're, we're, we're sort of constantly trying to fight off managerialism, just basically swamping everything and every
and getting basically boring and gray and dumb and old, right?
And we're trying to keep some level of energy vitality in the system.
AI is the thing that would lead you to think, wow, maybe there's a third model, right?
And way to think about it would be maybe it's a combination of the two.
Maybe the new Henry Ford or the new Elon or the new Steve Jobs plus AI is the best of both.
Right.
Because it's sort of the spark of genius of the name on the door model, the Henry Ford model.
But then it's give that person AI superpowers to do all the managerial stuff and let the boss do all the managerial stuff.
That may be the actual secret formula.
And we've never even known that we wanted this because we never even thought it was a possibility.
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