Marc Andreessen

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

They're already miserable half the time.

Like we don't need to saddle them with more of that.

But I think there, I think there's something very, very powerful in that.

Um, it also has the enormous advantage of it's it's it becomes an intrinsic, intrinsic motivation over an extrinsic motivation, right?

So it's not a motivation to put points on a board, it's not a motivation to achieve a certain net worth, it's not a motivation to, you know, whatever, be in some league table to win some prize, you know, it these sort of external markers.

Because the problem with all the external markers of success is it's the it's the are you gonna get up in the morning when it really, really sucks?

Like the extrinsic motivations don't do that.

You need something intrinsic and and and for me that's the intrinsic motivation, which is like I know I can do this better.

You said that you're competing with yourself.

Do you feel you're

I think I'm my best version of myself cut relative to all my prior versions versions of myself.

But I am, you know, I'm still far short of what I would like to be.

So I I know of many, many areas of improvement.

What was the biggest one that you'd like to change?

Oh, I mean, I could I mean there's like I don't know, there's probably like a hundred So like I I'll give you an example.

I have a I have a strength and a liability, which is I get emotional.

The advantage of emotion is like when I when I commit, I deeply commit.

Then I fall in love with things and I become incredibly determined and I'll I'll kind of go, you know, very long lengths out of a sense of uh of emotion or love.

You know, the negative is, you know, I will get emotional and I've spent I've spent a lot of time, and people who know me will tell you I've spent a lot of time, you know, trying to not uh let's say get negatively emotional in meetings.

Do you have what people

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