Marc Andreessen
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The a16z Show · Marc Andreessen: Monitoring the Situation and the Future of Media · 21 Apr 2026
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And so we tend to overfocus on the thing that's basically present in our mind at that time, which may or may not be as important as other things that we're not focused on.
But in the paper, the significance of it is in the paper, they identify the role of a specific kind of person they call availability entrepreneur.
And the role of the availability entrepreneur is to try to inject into the public consciousness availability bias as a deliberate exercise to basically say, this is the specific thing that you should be focused on right now.
Like this is the specific person who's been hurt by something.
This is the specific whatever, you know, moral event that's happened.
This is the specific issue.
This is the specific thing.
And basically what they say is like every time you see an availability cascade, if you trace it back, there was always what they call the availability entrepreneur, which was basically the person who was like, aha, I am going to put – I'll give you the classic example.
And again, this is not a value judgment.
And, you know, this was like, you know, fantastically good that this happened.
But Rosa Parks was a classic example of this.
Like Rosa – like –
The story that we all got told in school was Rosa Parks was just like another, you know, sort of a random person, you know, with the thing on the bus.
Rosa Parks was like an – she was a trained activist.
Like she went to like – there was this whole like school of activists and they like – she was like a specifically trained – it was an – there was an availability entrepreneur who set up an availability cascade targeted on Rosa Parks that ended up causing fundamental and obviously very, very positive changes to American society.
But like –
It started as an op, like she started as an op.
But the point of the op was not to be the op.
The point of it was to be what happened, which was to become a nationwide movement that ultimately led to fundamental change.
And so anyway, the point is like, just because things start as ops doesn't mean they're not real, right?
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