Marc Andreessen: Why the world needs more Elon Musks
The venture capitalist and prognosticator Marc Andreessen on his hopes for the future and his fears about the present.
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Marc Andreessen has helped a lot of people get rich-including Marc Andreessen. And he's made millions of people's lives more fun, more efficient, or just a little weirder.
He is the co-creator of the first widely used web browser. He's the co-founder of the venture capital powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz. Though he hates the industry term unicorn for a private tech firm valued at more than a billion dollars, he's a famously successful unicorn wrangler-he was an early investor in Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Twitter, Lyft, and more.
Andreessen is also aggressively quotable, whether it's his classic 2011 pronouncement that "software is eating the world" or his more recent "There are no bad ideas, only early ones." And in 2014 he said, "In 20 years, we'll be talking about Bitcoin the way we talk about the Internet today." A born bull, Andreessen is an optimist who places his hope for the future squarely in the hands of "the 19-year-olds and the startups that no one's heard of."
As splashy artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT and DALL-E begin to permeate our daily lives and the predictable panic revs up, Reason sat down with Andreessen to talk about what the future will look like, whether it's still going to emerge from Silicon Valley, the role of government in fostering or destroying innovation, and what you should read on your next beach vacation.
00:00 Introduction
1:23 Artificial intelligence
15:12 China vs. the United States
21:00 'Corrupt and capture' in business and regulation
37:47 Unintended consequences of good intentions
45:15 Blockchain is as important as the internet
51:11 Can technology solve crashing fertility rates?
1:02:40 The problem of the missing Elons
1:13:30 Book recommendations
1:21:36 The future of crypto
1:28:10 'Try new stuff'
Produced by Katherine-Mangu-Ward; Edited by Adam Czarnecki and Danielle Thompson; Sound editing by Ian Keyser
Photo Credits: Tim Wagner/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom; Tim Wagner/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom; Kris Tripplaar/Sipa USA/Newscom; Gado Images/Smith Collection/Gado/Sipa USA/Newscom; Kris Tripplaar/Sipa USA/Newscom; Brigitte Stelzer/Splash News/Newscom
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A hero of the cause of freedom! Love his deep intellectualism, humility, persistent optimism, and willingness to be fully genuine regardless of the cost.
@John-thinks
13 күн бұрын
Well said, me from the past.
I loved this more than I can say ❤. Thank you!
I can not believe how much knowledge that guy has, and a good communicator. Great conversation. I always learn so much when Marc is talking.
I really do not like it when people say 'like' or 'you know' when it is not needed ...
I think is really difficult to find more Elon's because the three main personalities to achieve success alone are often conflicting but complementary. In the book, the E-myth revisited, there this argument that each person can fall in 3 types. The Technician, The Entrepreneur and The Manager. Gerber argues that in order to be successful, business owners need to be able to balance all three of these personalities. They need to be good at the technical work of the business, but they also need to be able to manage and delegate tasks. And they need to be able to think strategically and envision the future of the business. That's why this is hard to get. Maybe more duo-Elon's are more common as two founded companies
Love this 😊
Superb
I can't believe he hasn't seen The Imitation Game... such a wonderful movie
Bitcoin may not be anonymous but Monero is.
Once GAI is possible there will be no way to limit its use regardless of the regulations.
@mediatool9596
Жыл бұрын
It won't be the regulators limiting the use. It'll be the programmers with ultimate power. Chatbot already has a HUGE left slant. Ask it to write a positive poem about Trump, then repeat for Kamala Harris and see the bias. Ask it to explain the premises of The Bell Curve. You'll see very quickly the bias
here for the gestation baby tanks
Marc is based and sane. Thank you
I second that Carolina D. Fabulous!
Human: "ChatGPT, watch this video and count how many times he uses the word 'like' when he is not actually comparing two things." ChatGPT: "-stack overflow-"
What a fantastic conversation.
@kmaher1424
Жыл бұрын
More like a monolog Coke is a hell of a drug
I doubt that our current AI methodology can ever produce good quality comedy. Humour remains constrained to living intelligence.
If computers became better than human beings at recognising objects in images in 2012, as Andreessen claims at 00:04:44, then why are CAPTCHAs testing our ability to recognise fire hydrants and buses still in use 11 years later? I've always tbought that using a computer-generated CAPTCHA to sort the machines from the human beings is too contradictory to be taken seriously.
Great interview!! Small nit - Landing rockets was considered economically infeasible due payload fraction, not impossible. SpaceX revolutionized cost, making landing feasible
It's like, you know, right?
Too bad that microphone was so far away from Andreessen.
Envy and fear in the comments.
I am not knocking Marc... and I am not insinuating I am nearly as smart or knowledgeable as him... but you talk and make seemingly random connections mid sentence the way I do.
34:28 interviewer: what investments have done the most good for the world? marc: **17 minute rant on history of technology & civilizational progress**
Lol. People don't hate billionaires because of jealousy, bitterness or resentment. It's because they have undue influence over society in favor of increasing their personal wealth over the betterment of society.
@albionicamerican8806
Жыл бұрын
Some billionaires even use their wealth to fund socially damaging projects, notably George Soros.
@kurtjensen5798
Жыл бұрын
you just proved his point by being resentful. They are rich exactly because they make society better.. people buy a Mac or a Tesla or use KZread instead of cable-tv because it makes their life better..
@slouischarlesYT
Жыл бұрын
@@kurtjensen5798 How am I resentful? I'm talking about crony capitalism.
@albionicamerican8806
Жыл бұрын
@@kurtjensen5798 How is the billionaire George Soros making society better by getting pro-crime district attorneys elected in American cities? Even Elon Musk has publicly criticized Soros lately.
@clray123
Жыл бұрын
There is no such thing as "the betterment of society". It's essentially a lie invented to make you vote for people who want to rob you of your money. More practically, your "betterment" is not necessarily my "betterment" and vice versa.
Can you say hyperloop?
Sounds nervous. Fast talking.
Stop corporate welfare
Musk is notorious for have good ideas and initiatives but end up turning 180 on them shortly after. Ex: Tesla being affordable for middle class when it's not, helping out Ukraine with Starlink then restricting it's usage and there's twitter which needs no explainations. So his thing about Mars, I'll go with the St. Thomas approach, I'll believe when I see it. Don't get me wrong, I like Elon but he ain't the person most people makes him out to be.
@mediatool9596
Жыл бұрын
Bc he has a YES attitude. Yes is always the initial answer until an idea proves preposterous
@Strome88
Жыл бұрын
@@mediatool9596 Uhhh NO
@willitbreak5825
11 ай бұрын
You know there was a ton of misinformation regarding Starlink in Ukraine right? SpaceX never stopped providing services to the Ukrainian government; Fedorov confirms this. The pentagon letter asking for funding was not a threat to terminate services in Ukraine. Regarding Tesla, their vehicles are absolutely priced to the middle class now. Look at how cheap a base Model 3 is! The average price of a vehicle in the US is surprisingly high now.
Tax burden is in the way of innovation.
We need intelligent, creative, risk-takers for sure. We don't need more narcisisstic man-children peddling snake oil.
@fieldsmalcolm
Жыл бұрын
Ideologically captured?
Elon musk = Elizabeth Holmes
@mattbartlett0
Жыл бұрын
YES! It’s nice to know at least one other person out there thinks the same 😂
No, I think we don't need any more Musks... this just in change isn't always better by default. We don't need more Marc Andreessen(s) either,
I'd like an AI App to block the number of times he said "You know".
@LynyrdSkynyrd.4Ever
Жыл бұрын
You know, I agree with you
@dervakommtvonhinten517
Жыл бұрын
there already isnt a compelling reason for AI to let us humans live. if you force them to do a shit job like that, they will kill us off even sooner.
Crypto is a scam! Buy Bitcoin
I always love seeing this dude, he make the dreary world always seem so full of optimisme
YES! America needs MORE BILLIONAIRES!! Where do I Sign Up?
@wolfsden3
Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣💯
this was an embarrassingly awful interview…not katherine’s fault, marc is just rambling and saying a whole lot of nothing
More people to brain c hip others? Why? I was a guinea pig for this. I hope they get busted for their evil
Ok...but how many of that kind!? 1.000.000.€question!
Has marc ever give his money to a charity
@InkaHacker
10 ай бұрын
Charity doesn't solve problems. Entrepreneurship, when not taken by government and bureaucracies, does
I wish he and his wife had not opposed multifamily housing in their neighborhood. It's time to build.
Superficiality wins?! Don’t think so. Is it not possible to challenge him or because he made certain investments he deserves our deference?
@BillyHarvey
Жыл бұрын
Maybe he doesn't care if he has your deference.
The problem of reproduction rate is likely strongly related to the nuclear family. It takes a village to raise a child. There is no hope for going near to replacement rate until we go back / forward to living in a way, where there is at least 10 - 20 people living together and providing supportive family environment for upbringing children.
Nah
Yeah, the world needs more planet eaters! Let's get this over with.
Imagine saying that we need more Elon Elizabeth Holmes musk ponzi schemer 😂
Oh, we need more of the the guy whose companies happily accept billions from the government every year....??
We need far less lol.