Modern Wisdom
#877 - Marc Andreessen - Elon Musk, The Changing World Order & America’s Future
14 Dec 2024
Marc Andreessen is a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz. America is entering a new chapter. With the recent election in the past, sweeping changes on the horizon, and a lot of uncertainty. Just how optimistic should we be about the upheaval the world is about to face? Expect to learn how we ended up on our current timeline, just how big the civil war is within the Democratic party right now, Marc’s thoughts on the motives and response to the Brian Thompson killing, how much government efficiency can be improved upon, Elon Musk's productivity secrets, how much of a political revolution is happening in Silicon Valley and much more... Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get the best bloodwork analysis in America and bypass Function’s 400,000-person waitlist at https://functionhealth.com/modernwisdom Get a 20% discount on Nomatic’s amazing luggage at https://nomatic.com/modernwisdom Get $150 discount on Plunge’s amazing sauna or cold plunge at https://plunge.com (use code MW150) Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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How much of a new timeline are we on right now?
We are on a very, very different new timeline. So, yeah. So, you know, I think the timeline split twice. It split once in the second week of July. And then it split again on November 6th. And I don't know. You tell me. I mean, can you feel it?
The sense in the air, the ambiance has certainly taken a hard pivot. Lots of people that were happy are now unhappy. And lots of people that were unhappy are now fucking ecstatic.
So I think actually I've detected something interesting and maybe it's just my world or maybe business, but I think it's broader, which is, I actually think a fairly large number of people who didn't vote for Trump are actually feeling, people who run organizations who did not vote for Trump are feeling liberated.
They're feeling like they can make changes that they have been wanting to make for a long time. And they can really dial down a lot of the things that have really been causing the problems.
So the blast radius of the good vibes is wider than people might've anticipated. Yeah.
I think it's wider than people anticipated. And I've been in some discussions where people are like, yeah, it really feels like the air is coming out of the... It really feels like the tension is draining out of the system in an interesting way this time, which is, of course, the exact opposite of how it felt in 2016. And so it's... I don't know. I'm cautiously optimistic that actually...
You know, look, I don't think there's any like overnight, you know, transformation and there's going to be continued, you know, drama and strife and so forth.
But I think a lot of institutions, I think a lot of leaders and a lot of institutions, including ones that are left leaning, I think they've just simply had it with a lot of the chaos of the last 10 years and a lot of the drama and a lot of the pressure and conflict. And I think they're just done with it. And they want their, you know, if it's a company, they wanted to get back to business.
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