Marc Andreessen

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The a16z Show · Marc Andreessen: Monitoring the Situation and the Future of Media · 21 Apr 2026 podcast

If an alien invasion happens later this afternoon, it will be turned into a social media meme and it will go viral.

If you track like how distributed is media versus how centralized is media, like centralized media sort of peaked somewhere around 1970, where, you know, literally like all the newspapers in every city consolidated down to like a single newspaper.

And then you ended up with only three television networks and all the radio stations, independent radio stations got bought up.

Obviously, those days are over.

The shape of the media determines the behavior basically from here on out.

And until there's something that fundamentally displaces social media, like this is the world we live in.

Good morning.

I could not be more excited.

So what is, I'm old enough to remember when CNN started, although I didn't actually have cable TV at the time, so I didn't see it, but I remember it and the impact that it had.

And then because I'm an obsessive, there's this book at one point that nobody's read, but the book is called Me and Ted Against the World, which is a great title.

So it's the founder of CNN is this guy, Reese Schoenfeld.

And he's actually the guy who convinced Ted Turner to go into the satellite business, which sort of created essentially modern cable TV, satellite TV, and then led downstream to streaming and everything else going on today.

And so this has been kind of lost to history.

But Ted Turner was like a great, amazing example of like exactly the kind of great founder that we work with.

Like just this like incredible will to power, very controversial character.

Like every other thing out of his mouth, like horrified, like he generated a huge number of headlines of like, can't believe Ted said that.

Yeah.

over and over again.

So like one of these real characters in the history of the media business.

And then this guy, Reese Schoenfeld, who was originally the lawyer that wired up Ted's first satellite deal.

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