Marc Andreessen
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first heard Oct 2024
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The a16z Show · Marc Andreessen on Evaluating Founders and AI's Consumer Surplus · 30 Mar 2026
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I think the second thing you need really is what what my partner Ben calls courage, which is basically an absolute determination uh to succeed and to be able to, you know, confront problems directly and to be able to basically pound through anything.
And you know, there's
There's various kinds of ways to phrase this, but uh you know I think the Navy SEALs have the have the uh have the term uh embrace the suck.
Um so there's you know there's something to that.
Um I always like the old Looney Tunes cartoons, and I always like to say, I I want the founder who leaves a founder-shaped hole in any brick wall that he runs into, like a cartoon character.
My favorite is when they
Run off a mountain
they keep running.
I don't know if you see this.
Yeah.
And then they're suspended in midair for a moment and they hold up the sign and it says, Oops.
Um or my favorite one actually of that is uh there was uh one of the one of the little kid characters in it at one point, little, I don't know, little pig or something, uh uh did the thing and he goes out over the cliff and he's hanging in midair and he holds up a sign and he says, Uh, I'm a second grade.
They haven't taught us about gravity yet.
Which by the way, th th of course these this also happens in in uh in startups.
This is Reed Hoffman told me to build a parachute on the way down,
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
That sounds great.
You know, get out get out your uh get out get out your nitty needle and and and get going.
Um and so and then I think the third thing, so sort of IQ plus courage.
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