Marc Andreessen

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

And in that case, you better learn from your mistakes.

But in venture, I I think you're always much more worried about the mistake of omission than you're worried about about the mistake of commission.

And then to your question, like I think in a lot of ways that's the key thing that Ben and I do at this point in our lives, um, in in in our roles at the firm.

is, you know, we're we're not like micromanaging the best the investment decisions of the firm.

And we have, I think, spectacular, you know, senior partners and junior partners that are doing a great job of that.

And we're in the room for it and so forth.

But like we're generally not advocating for or against a deal.

But what we are trying to do is to get everybody to constantly have this let's say risk forward worry about the mistake of omission over the mistake of commission mindset, this anti-scalded stove phenomenon.

You know, we we just routinely remind

people like yeah you're emotional about this because of your bad experience three years ago or six years ago or ten years ago and just like let that go.

You no longer have to pay for that sin and you're completely liberated to be able to kind of let that emotion uh you know fade into the distance and and be able to focus on the opportunity in front of you.

So I you know, quite honestly, it's it's the simplest answer in the world and it's the hardest answer in the world.

And it's it's the answer that I think every great investor ends up gr resolving to thirty years in, frankly.

I actually had this discussion actually with Arthur Rock, you know, who's sort of virtually the creator of of modern venture capital.

And he and he actually he actually wrote a paper on on this topic.

And I'll I'll just give you his conclusion, which is also my conclusion.

Arthur Rock, for people don't know, he invested in Apple and Intel.

Right in the seed rounds and like in many, many other great companies for like 30 years, was that uh he would have uh been a better venture investor had he fed all of the business plans uh and pitch deck straight into the shredder upon receiving them.

And if he had spent 100% of his time on the resume.

And I think that's basically right, which is the great founders will, you know, basically buy you enormous upside that may break rules in all kinds of directions and may break break precedent in all kinds of directions.

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