Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen is a co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). He is best known for co-creating the Mosaic web browser and co-founding Netscape, as well as co-founding the software company Opsware, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard. He holds a BS in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and serves on the board of Meta.
“software is eating the world... this cycle extends.”
Source→“What's more impressive to you, someone who went to Stanford or someone who is followed by Patrick Collison, Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, etc. I think most people would say the latter.”
Source→“Mark Andreessen wrote a blog post about me joining the firm.”
Source→“Brian Arthur — Author of 'Increasing Returns to Scale', recommended to Acharya by Marc Andreessen.”
Source→“Someone like Mark has been very full throated in support of working on sort of capital I important work in the national interest.”
Source→“Mark had famously said software's eating the world. Turns out AI has solved software, right?”
Source→“It's an absolute attack on young people... if you want to live and work as a young person in a place where you're going to have access to top-flight economic opportunity... number one, you're not going to own a house... And then the other thing is there's a really fundamental kind of stress point... are you ever going to be able to get married and have a family?... birth rates are crashing... people are not even reproducing at reproduction levels.”
Source→“As our partner Marc often says, technology is the dog that caught the bus and we've never seen before that countries are kind of feverishly demanding the latest versions of the model.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.