Marc Andreessen

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

And the world's best business plan executed by a mediocre.

Team will almost certainly get lapped by a great team.

Let me say, having said that, this sounds easy.

Of course, why is that hard?

Is because it's somewhat tautological, right?

Because we define great founders as the ones that have great great outcomes.

And so it's a lot easier after the fact to be able to say, oh yeah, you know, Steve Jobs is a great founder when you look at the success of Apple.

But nevertheless, I think that is the answer, which is when you have special people, you should back them almost, you know, basically almost without consideration of other factors.

And when when you don't, you shouldn't.

And at the end

end of the day, that simply is the core thing.

I'll just say, look, I think people have different takes on this.

Uh my personal formula is basically as follows, which is you need high IQ as table stakes.

Like you just need somebody who's like incredibly smart.

My basic test is if I have my notebook open um and they're talking, am I like writing down lots of notes or not?

And if I'm writing out lots of notes and I'm learning from them, then like that that indicates that their their level of you know intelligence and some of the other attributes that we'll talk about, but you know, indicates, you know, clearly that that they're very smart.

But I think that's table stakes.

Just intel just intelligence.

You know, there are many people who are very smart who are just grinders or just, you know, m the clerk mentality, you know, I'm gonna, you know, put me in the in the back office somewhere or, you know, doing research or something and I'm I'm never gonna build something.

And that and that's fine, but you know, IQ's not enough.

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