Marc Andreessen

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

And then I think it's something and this is kind of courage, but I would describe it as like, I don't know, something fundamental.

It's like drive, ambition.

Um, you know, I I occasionally quote uh Nietzsche Nietzsche, it's it's will to power.

It's sort of this determination. 'Cause you know, courage could just be I'm gonna solve problems and like that I would argue that's not enough.

And you know, Ben might say that that's not what he means, but like it's not just solving problems.

There's something about like you know, ambition.

And you know, in the world being what it is, some you know, that ambition, a lot of people express that as like ambition, you know, ambition to change the world, improve the world, humanity, da da.

I think that stuff's all great.

I think those founders are great.

I think those missions are often very compelling at uh you know, attracting you know lots of smart people.

I think that's great.

But I do I do think there's a more fundamental ambition, which is I want to build something of my own that that really demonstrates and I want to really demonstrate what I

can do.

And I have a very primal drive to do that.

And you know, it gets kind of, you know, you people cast moral dispersions on it and they call it greed or whatever.

So people don't want to talk about that.

And it's not, I'm not even talking about the money component.

I'm talking about like, I want to build something.

And then what I what I find on that, that one in particular, well actually number two and three, you you don't necessarily see them on the resume, but like you can generally see them in the background.

And I think if you spend enough time, you know, with people, you can get a sense of like, okay, you know, was their entire life basically a C

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