Marc Andreessen

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

So in the movie world, the lawyer came up with the idea that there would be a black celebrity who would get attacked in the street by white racists, and that would be like a viral social media outrage thing.

And then literally the lawyer says, well, then, of course, we went out and cast, and Jussie Smollett had the best pitch for why he should be the black guy.

And then there was one of his underlings he's still mad at because the underling was tasked with the assignment of going out and hiring the attackers.

But this is in the heyday of diversity, and so he hired two black guys to be the attackers.

Right.

And he's like all confused because he's like, am I supposed to hire black people, not hire black people?

And it's like, well, not in this specific case.

You weren't supposed to hire black people to attack Jesse Smollett.

Anyway, so the Jesse Smollett thing is fresh in my mind.

But it was a great example, which is like what happened on the street in Chicago that night during the whatever, whatever blizzard cyclone thing it was like.

Kind of matters, kind of doesn't matter.

Whoever really knows, who knows, whatever.

We've got weird grainy video, whatever.

People say different things.

I mean, I think we now know what happened, but like in these events, like what actually happened in the street, who the hell knows?

But the fight, you see what I'm saying?

Like the moral tribes that were able to form up on, you know, one side where people are like, of course, this is what, you know, this is what happens to people all the time.

And the people on the other side that were like, of course, this is all fake and bullshit, right?

You had this chance for these moral tribes to pair up and fight.

And so so I think I think it basically I think it basically it basically has to have that.

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