Marc Andreessen

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

And so it's just like, all right, like maybe there's a point at which like some of that is helpful to like correct bad behaviors, but you know, it's clearly gone way too far.

And and people get like way too down the rabbit hole in this and it becomes very disabling.

And I

you know, you probably know a lot of people who are like that.

So the way I think about it is like inherently what you you know, what you do, what I do, what you know, venture startups, like look, these are high risk operations, right?

And you know, sometimes they go right, but they go wrong in a thousand ways before they go right.

And then even then they may not work.

So the the the nature of the beast is like just like tremendous variability and pressure.

Uh by the way, another thing I always thought about a lot as a founder, and I really see this now as a VC is that in particular founders have a very hard time ever finding anybody they can

Confide in.

As a founder, you you feel like if you admit that you have an issue, like you're being a bad leader, right?

Because you're you're showing a crack in the armor.

And if your people pick that up, they're gonna lose confidence in you.

Or if word gets around that like you're second guessing yourself or that your thing isn't going well or that you don't have total confidence in it, then it'll, you know, that all of a sudden investors won't want to invest and candidates won't want to join.

And so there there's this need as somebody, you know, if you're gonna lead one of these things, you have to do it with such a brave face and then, you know, kind of

I was c I always call it a metaphor sort of that you know that the duck looks totally placid above water and then it's paddling furiously underwater.

And so I I just think like in particular founders have a very hard time finding anybody that they can actually confide in.

And then and then what happens is I think everybody individually has an inaccurate view of what everybody else is feeling.

Because I think in practice everybody's kind of feeling, you know, very tense and nervous and anxious and you know, fearful and so forth.

But everybody's pretending they're not feeling that way, but everybody thinks everybody

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