Marc Andreessen

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

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

You know, we do learn from mistakes.

Uh, but the problem is learning from mistakes sometimes it's good and sometimes it's bad, right?

And uh if we just talk business for a moment, like in the venture mindset, this is a very big problem.

There's a founder version of the mistake, there's a venture version of the mistake.

The founder version of the mistake is if a founder starts a company in a category and the founder doesn't work, the founder is then emotionally angry at that category for the rest of his life and will not acknowledge uh when there's something that's gonna work in that category.

And I I've just

Seen that like over and over and over again.

And and and that's fine because most founders go on to do other things and that's fine and good.

And it it generally doesn't damage them from a business standpoint.

In venture, the same thing, the same thing happens.

If you invest in the category, or if if you invest in a kind of company or you invest in a kind of founder and it doesn't go well, it's extremely easy to learn from the mistake, right?

And to basically say, All right, I touched that hot stove, I'm never doing it again.

And then, you know, you can tell me what happens next.

Right, which is the next thing shows up and pattern matches, and it's the thing that you should invest in and you have the chance to invest in, but you touch the scalded stove and you know you're, you know, you're learning from your mistakes, right?

You're doing the responsible thing, and so you don't do it.

And so I think there's something that's particularly pernicious about learning from your mistakes in venture capital.

And then I I think that's also somewhat true about life.

You get married multiple times, as they say it's the triumph of hope over experience.

Like I think probably you want hope to triumph over experience.

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