Why Technology Still Matters with Marc Andreessen

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With much coverage of technology lined with pessimism, the a16z Podcast returns to highlight the bright side of technology, alongside the founders building it. But before featuring the solutions in progress, we wanted to explore why building the future is still so important.
And who better to traverse this ground than a16z’s own cofounder Marc Andreessen, who has built and invested in the future time and time again, especially when it wasn't the obvious thing to do.
Together with Marc, this episode explores technology through the lens of history - including the three stages of human psychology as we encounter new technologies, how that process often manifests in regulation, when to change your mind, the Cambrian explosion of opportunity coming from distributed work, the importance of founder-led companies, and perhaps most importantly, we examine why there's still much reason for optimism.
Topics Covered:
00:00 - Welcome back!
02:12 - The importance of tech today
05:34 - Historical negativity toward technology
10:13 - The invention of the bicycle
14:01 - Innovation vs status in society
21:57 - Automobile moral panic and red flag laws
26:28 - Balaji’s arc on social networking
29:28 - Surfacing signal from noise
36:10 - The role of timing in innovation
40:04 - Today’s major unlocks
47:51 - Remote work and society reshuffling
53:08 - Changing your mind
57:52 - Retaining a lens of optimism
1:08:58 - What Marc’s excited about
1:13:39 - Bourgeois vs managerial capitalism
1:23:12 - Reform vs starting anew
Resources:
* Marc on Twitter: / pmarca
* Pessimist’s Archive: pessimistsarchive.org/
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@a16z Жыл бұрын

Timestamps! 00:00 - Welcome back! 02:12 - The importance of tech today 05:34 - Historical negativity toward technology 10:13 - The invention of the bicycle 14:01 - Innovation vs status in society 21:57 - Automobile moral panic and red flag laws 26:28 - Balaji’s arc on social networking 29:28 - Surfacing signal from noise 36:10 - The role of timing in innovation 40:04 - Today’s major unlocks 47:51 - Remote work and society reshuffling 53:08 - Changing your mind 57:52 - Retaining a lens of optimism 1:08:58 - What Marc’s excited about 1:13:39 - Bourgeois vs managerial capitalism 1:23:12 - Reform vs starting anew

@nephiindustries Жыл бұрын

Great, thanks so much az16!!

@brigadeweb Жыл бұрын

3 podcasts in the same day. You're spoiling us.

@DerDudelino Жыл бұрын

Man, such a cool guy. I absolutely love the enthusiasm of Marc Andreesen, which feels genuine despite difficult times in Silicon Valley right now. And I'm with him - I think we are way too fast to judge. People and especially journalists were hammering on Horizon by Meta, even though this might be an early Alpha and they still need a year more or so, to figure out how to basically build a VR open world where sensors track a ton of data but it also looks good. Personally I'd never underestimate someone, that has built one or if you add Instagram two of the biggest social media platforms which wasn't just luck or "because he had money". But really hard work. So I'm more in the "give them some time, try it out, if you like it, use it. If you don't, don't use it" camp.

@themagic8310 Жыл бұрын

It's always pleasure to hear from Marc.

@nephiindustries Жыл бұрын

It’s always amazing to hear from experts such as Marc on these issues!

@Textras Жыл бұрын

Finding signal from noise is the next major unlock in social networks. Great episode.

@jonyeazel Жыл бұрын

my new favorite podcast. looking forward to this.

@SandHillRoad Жыл бұрын

so stoked seeing Steph as the new a16z podcast host

@Kingtuttle9000 Жыл бұрын

She’s great 👌

@nat.serrano Жыл бұрын

Marc knows a lot of interesting facts because he reads a lot, how I wish to have access to his library or at least if he can recommend some obscure history books for me to read

@kryptu Жыл бұрын

very insightful views by Marc. Thanks for sharing.

@StephSmithio Жыл бұрын

I learned so much in this interview! My personal favorite part: the red flag laws (21:57). What was yours?

@mohitgoyal2980 Жыл бұрын

Electricity example ! Thinking second order and third order

@indieBen Жыл бұрын

I think it would deserve a succession of blog posts or almost an e-book with all the things he said 😅

@NotMe-rn7jm Жыл бұрын

great podcast loved it! always great to hear Marc. So insightful!.

@d1amonddbw 5 ай бұрын

Superb! Really enjoyed show.

@justinpfortier Жыл бұрын

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.” -Douglas Adams

@abdirashidabdi9051 Жыл бұрын

Followed Marc, since the days of Netscape. I should add really admire not only the genius, he's quite articulate.

@dannyiskandar Жыл бұрын

Amazing

@d1amonddbw 5 ай бұрын

Top Notch! Keep up the Xlnt job. Thanks

@jl6523 Жыл бұрын

This was excellent

@AdityaJain-nd5ku Жыл бұрын

Great podcast! also found a new drinking game: one shot for every 'basically' ;)

@hasantarek6521 Жыл бұрын

awesome job

@abdulal-asaad510 Жыл бұрын

I have this downloaded and I listen to it time I fee pessimistic. See you at Tech Week 2023

@mattjohnstondev Жыл бұрын

great job Steph!

@kurazav Жыл бұрын

This is good, real good.

@lanhuage7209 Жыл бұрын

Great episode

@planetaryhealthfirstmarsnext Жыл бұрын

❤love this!

@indieBen Жыл бұрын

I must say, Marc is pretty solid ! I am impressed! His brain and knowledge goes super fast but, he is pretty legit 😅😉

@1ntrcnnctr608 Жыл бұрын

1:11:47 finally - feels like im waiting for this since 1000s of incarnations. experiment idea: now lets all listen to the same Sound at the same Time n imagine that marvelous Pale Blue Dot w all the wonderful life on it.

@ChrisAthanas 10 ай бұрын

38:11 alchemy is a psychological and spiritual approach to evolving the human condition

@MassimoTodaro74 Жыл бұрын

Good luck Steph!

@nbme-answers Жыл бұрын

3:02 start

@AndreyAzimov Жыл бұрын

Congrats Steph!!! Great podcast!

@StephSmithio Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Mr Andrey!!!

@vladvrinceanu5430 Жыл бұрын

@@StephSmithio there is nothing wrong with the timing of these rollouts? i mean. 3 full podcasts in the same day! it's all ok?

@StephSmithio Жыл бұрын

@@vladvrinceanu5430 Intentional! We're back with a bang. 💥 You've got a full week to catch up before we start dropping episodes every Tuesday and Thursday. :)

@oxglowinc.1614 Жыл бұрын

awesome

@stephentackett4064 Жыл бұрын

1:09:31 Where can we find out more?

@DigitalNomadOnFIRE Жыл бұрын

Cities are only laid out around cars in the USA. In Europe (and New York City) they're laid our around humans. In parts of Europe also around bicycles, trams, busses and trains. They are already human not car centred. Vast 'stroad' ridden areas of the USA are covered in acres of ugly asphalt, empty parking spaces for that 1 day near Christmas that's very busy. Then sprawling dormitory suburbs with zero commercial buildings (no community, no local shops, no local cafes etc) because of brain deed zoning laws. An absolute hellscape where you're guaranteed to be stuck in traffic in an ugly place that's bad for walking all the time. Either in a tiny city apartment or in a single family home - with no mid scale buildings. Urban planning in the US has been a wasteland for decades, only now is it beginning to improve. Segways (and bicycles) already work in Europe.

@dave_sakamoto Жыл бұрын

See you at Tech Week!

@crazieeez Жыл бұрын

Strange how the last 3 years US life expectancy has declined. The rate of suicide went up. Obesity went up. Stress and depression went up. If technology is progressing like it does to produce these results, I think there should be a cause for concern that technology can do harm to society. Often technology has been viewed as a bright light but there are many dark corners of technologies that produce macro effects detrimental to humanity.

@yes-vy6bn Жыл бұрын

life expectancy seems to be bc of government corruption more than anything. first allowing a drug onto the market without proper testing, then mandating people take the virtually untested drug. big pharma didn't even test if the drug could seep into the bloodstream, let alone what the effect of this would be. literal willful ignorance so they could make more money (both the drug companies and the government regulators. though possibly more of a fearful response on the part of the regulators). now of course we have studies from independent researchers finding it seeps into the blood in literally everyone injected, and causes measurable cardiovascular damage (using blood biomarkers they use to see if someone has had a heart attack) in everyone injected too. it's not like this was unpredictable either; moderna had been attempting to make mRNA drugs for years, but literally every single one failed due to toxicity, even the low hanging fruit. moderna was on the verge of bankruptcy when suddenly they were able to sell a drug that wasn't fully tested. this is a scandal orders of magnitude larger than vioxx

@BloodHassassin Жыл бұрын

Did you consider external factors such us COVID?

@crazieeez Жыл бұрын

@@BloodHassassin US life expectancy declined 2 years before COVID hit.

@constantinerocky5352 Жыл бұрын

Is this video for the LPs? Since you lot all in FTX

@rapidsk8 Жыл бұрын

technology has always existed, it simply evolves

@chrism.1131 Жыл бұрын

1:09:30 ... What is the "this could change everything" moment Marc was talking about?

@nosaiyare5190 Жыл бұрын

Been listening to Steph since the hustle & MFM but this is the first time I'm seeing her

@bradm8529 Жыл бұрын

What’s with the Frank Ocean reference at the beginning?

@pikiwiki Жыл бұрын

Prometheus is also an example of forethought

@ChrisAthanas 10 ай бұрын

1:07:30 NASA says we can't go to the moon until we figure out the van allen belt problem

@russellsapalmer Жыл бұрын

The segway had a future, it became all these e-scooters (Bird, Lime, etc.) and micro-mobility

@prosperwilliams Жыл бұрын

❤

@jonathanantoine4962 Жыл бұрын

Please improve audio quality, this is hard to listen in a noisy environment

@mustavogaia2655 Жыл бұрын

I dont now if it is due to every other influencer/analyst somehow regutgitate something Andreessen said somewhere, but most of his intervirews sound repetitive and somehow vacuous.

@DigitalNomadOnFIRE Жыл бұрын

As president when you go in you need an enforcer who will fire any civil servant who doesn't do what's required. The incompetence of politicians stops this happening.

@arndt3203 Жыл бұрын

U got to understand history/past to see future

@tuckerbugeater Жыл бұрын

the past is full of death and suffering. humans haven't changed their biology.

@flavioguzman Жыл бұрын

Wow Steph is here

@user-wr4yl7tx3w Жыл бұрын

And real estate zoning laws too, especially in your own backyard?

@Theloniouspunk1 Жыл бұрын

Aliens develop an upper-middle class lifestyle and this is why we don't see them in the universe. Love that idea.

@DigitalNomadOnFIRE Жыл бұрын

Love A Sixteen Zed. Weird they don't know how to pronounce it...

@investquest4551 Жыл бұрын

Marc is my favourite hard boiled egg.

@nickm1727 Жыл бұрын

Technology is a decentralizing and democratizing force, but for some reason these big tech companies and investors all force centralization of power and money. Maybe in 2023 we can cut out all the middle men (investors, corporate people, HR departments, etc), but that is obviously bad news for Mark. These investors are probably getting hit very hard in 2022, so they probably need to pull more money from people and hence why we have these podcasts.

@richban100 Жыл бұрын

it could be fusion with the gold and lead thing but it could work with ai : /

@flinskikun Жыл бұрын

He can be an egg on Halloween without any effort.

@matveyshishov Жыл бұрын

What did you see in biotech, Marc, WHAT DID YOU SEE?

@tseringnamgyal6662 Жыл бұрын

Marc Andreessen looks like the character from One Punch Man lol !!!

@LaRa-qv9pi Жыл бұрын

Speed down! Jesus!

@ruh6755 Жыл бұрын

Big fan of yours Steph. Would love to connect. !

@srourfamily Жыл бұрын

Atomic boombs And Pills what funk world

@Eggs-n-Jakey 2 ай бұрын

alchemy lmao, I doubt she meant something past the 20th century, ps Steph is a great interviewer!

@PeacefulEmpire Жыл бұрын

It was not Prometheus, technology is not the power of Fire, you might find it in Greek Myth with the son of Hera God of Technology and Smith to technical things, I cant pronounce his name correctly right now Epaephastus, he also made a metal net in the space so we could see the secrets of War and Love with Ares and Venus whom cheat on him.

@StonedApe420 Жыл бұрын

Alchemists did succeed. They turned cellulose to gold. And are now attempting to turn millivolts to gold.

@DigitalNomadOnFIRE Жыл бұрын

You see the exact same reaction to crypto.

@omarreis4394 Жыл бұрын

This guy speaks very fast. Had to reduce the playback speed..

@atleticofa Жыл бұрын

Bitcoin matters. The rest is noise.

@kurtjensen5798 Жыл бұрын

I love Marc, but laughed at the Segway explanation.. "we are not going back to horses" he said. Yeah, but has he heard of bikes? Great tech, you get excersize while going somewhere. Almost every city in Europe has bike lanes. Everyone use bikes in Europe, even rich people... america with 30% obesity could use some of that.. but yeah seems US always has to reinvent the wheel, so maybe SegWay is the way to go there..

@giulio2898 Жыл бұрын

Red flag law of today: KYC requirements for any person receiving crypto coming from a Gov blacklisted protocol

@danielm.3511 9 ай бұрын

Marc Andreessen seemed really smart until he praised Elon Musk, now I am unsure what to think of all he said.

@vladvrinceanu5430 Жыл бұрын

wtf something is wrong with content publication. 3 podcasts in a bunch of hours

@a16z Жыл бұрын

We launched 3 to signal the return of the podcast. Moving forward, you can look forward to new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday!

@mustavogaia2655 Жыл бұрын

@@a16z Maybe it was not wise - the third one didnt appear for me.

@JonathanKnegtel Жыл бұрын

Can you please ask Marc not to use airpods & get a proper mic!

@karamthomas777 Жыл бұрын

Did we actually go to the moon? 🤭

@krimdelko Жыл бұрын

Marc is confused. “Embracing remote work after observing lockdowns”. Disappointing. He says every idea lots of smart people work on (voluntarily) will eventually happen. The inverse holds, too. “Every idea lots of people are forced to work on by government coercion eventually doesn’t happen.

@DigitalNomadOnFIRE Жыл бұрын

US requires cars and for the last few decades has been built around cars, that's why it's a stroad riddled hellscape. Europe doesn't require cars, I've never owned one and wouldn't have one if it were free. Living in a walkable city, cycling, trams, busses, trains are just far better. Cars suck.

@tuckerbugeater Жыл бұрын

You live in a mouse utopia.