Marc Andreessen

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

People who knew both of those guys in their teenage years said, like, these are driven guys.

You know, it's it's very core to their to their origin stories.

And and so like y y you just you have to you have to be open to the idea that some people are just born that way.

Well

Well of course, that would require introspection.

So I don't know if

elegantly backing into it, okay?

I don't I don't know if I'm gonna give you a great answer to that.

But I'll tell you what I tell myself is at this point what I tell myself is I'm sort of I'm competing with myself.

I am trying to figure out how to be the best possible version of what I can be uh and what I can do.

And so the the the way I think about it basically is like, okay, how how good did you read uh was it Jocko Willink's book, uh Extreme Ownership?

Did you ever come across that?

A hundred percent.

And you know, his thing on extreme ownership, right?

So his thing for people who haven't heard his thing on extreme ownership is just any, you know, famous Navy SEAL commander, very accomplished guy, you know, and the kind of guy people would happily follow into battle or would be a great, you know, would be a great CEO or great founder, you know, that that kind of personality.

And he has this thing he says extreme ownership, and he says, Look, life just gets a lot simpler if you just assume everything is your own fault.

Right.

And it's just like, oh, I don't know, like, you know, whatever, whatever this LP didn't invest or this founder didn't take my money or whatever.

It's like, oh, okay, it's my fault.

It's not his fault.

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