Marc Andreessen

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

I I'm old enough to remember internet search.

Like you can't make money in internet search.

The internet search companies in the nineteen nineties did not work

Yeah, so by the way, just the other example, by the way, is AI.

AI was a tremendously good way to lose a lot of money in venture capital from 1945 to 2017.

I mean, look, what when I was getting my computer science degree in the late 80s, like AI was like the one field that you knew would never succeed.

Like there had actually been an investment boom for AI in the eighties and it failed.

And everybody, including all the computer scientists, were like, yeah, this field is dead.

And that and that happened like five times over the course of AI over the last 80 years.

And so, like that, you know, so again, another another great example.

Example.

So look, I think a couple of things in terms of how we run our firm or how you run a firm like this.

So so one is that as you well know, there are two categories of mistakes, right?

There's there's the mistake of commission and there's the mistake of omission.

Or there's a mistake of cost and there's the mistake of opportunity cost.

And so of course the mistake of a cost is you invest ten million dollars in a startup, it fails, you lose the money, that's bad.

The mistake of omission is you don't invest in Google and you lose a hundred billion dollars of opportunity cost, right?

And so

Of course, venture is like the most polarized possible economic field in which in which this is true.

And by the way, if you're running a bond business or something, uh, you know, debt debt business or something, you know, where you can't lose money or the whole thing doesn't work, then obviously you can't run in this kind of model.

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