Marc Andreessen

You get married multiple times, as they say, it's the triumph of hope over experience.

You get married multiple times, as they say, it's the triumph of hope over experience.

I think probably you want hope to triumph over experience in that domain.

I think probably you want hope to triumph over experience in that domain.

And I think there's a lot of other domains of life in which that's probably true.

And I think there's a lot of other domains of life in which that's probably true.

You can't make money in X. I'm old enough to remember internet search.

You can't make money in X. I'm old enough to remember internet search.

Like you can't make money in internet search.

Like you can't make money in internet search.

Internet search companies in the 1990s did not work out well.

Internet search companies in the 1990s did not work out well.

Yeah.

Yeah.

By the way, just the other example, by the way, is AI.

By the way, just the other example, by the way, is AI.

AI was a tremendously good way to lose a lot of money in venture capital from 1945 to 2017.

AI was a tremendously good way to lose a lot of money in venture capital from 1945 to 2017.

I mean, look, when I was getting my computer science degree in the late 80s, AI was the one field that you knew would never succeed.

I mean, look, when I was getting my computer science degree in the late 80s, AI was the one field that you knew would never succeed.