Marc Andreessen: Why the world needs more Elon Musks

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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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@John-thinks Жыл бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

Well said, me from the past.

@carolina_D Жыл бұрын

I loved this more than I can say ❤. Thank you!

@ZeroStateReflex 9 ай бұрын

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.

@michaelweber5702 Жыл бұрын

I really do not like it when people say 'like' or 'you know' when it is not needed ...

@InkaHacker 11 ай бұрын

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

@davepearen8954 Жыл бұрын

Love this 😊

@noanyobiseniss7462 Жыл бұрын

Bitcoin may not be anonymous but Monero is.

@jayjam9106 Жыл бұрын

Superb

@kilgortrout3432 Жыл бұрын

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

@SharifMatar Жыл бұрын

here for the gestation baby tanks

@onseatsjc Жыл бұрын

I can't believe he hasn't seen The Imitation Game... such a wonderful movie

@ReadTheShrill Жыл бұрын

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-"

@richbirecki Жыл бұрын

Marc is based and sane. Thank you

@spacemonkey1053 Жыл бұрын

I second that Carolina D. Fabulous!

@timmoteus 11 ай бұрын

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.

@JohnPartyka Жыл бұрын

I doubt that our current AI methodology can ever produce good quality comedy. Humour remains constrained to living intelligence.

@BedrockLeadership Жыл бұрын

Too bad that microphone was so far away from Andreessen.

@LibertarianJRT Жыл бұрын

What a fantastic conversation.

@kmaher1424 Жыл бұрын

More like a monolog Coke is a hell of a drug

@aewtech Жыл бұрын

It's like, you know, right?

@Hawking1969 Жыл бұрын

Envy and fear in the comments.

@slouischarlesYT Жыл бұрын

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 KZfaq 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.

@ThatGuyz82 Жыл бұрын

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.

@jamieK111 Жыл бұрын

Great interview!! Small nit - Landing rockets was considered economically infeasible due payload fraction, not impossible. SpaceX revolutionized cost, making landing feasible

@henrycrum3018 Жыл бұрын

Can you say hyperloop?

@bpashler Жыл бұрын

Sounds nervous. Fast talking.

@icecactus11 Жыл бұрын

Stop corporate welfare

@ShinnahWilde Жыл бұрын

Tax burden is in the way of innovation.

@nbme-answers Жыл бұрын

34:28 interviewer: what investments have done the most good for the world? marc: **17 minute rant on history of technology & civilizational progress**

@bsmithhammer Жыл бұрын

We need intelligent, creative, risk-takers for sure. We don't need more narcisisstic man-children peddling snake oil.

@fieldsmalcolm Жыл бұрын

Ideologically captured?

@paulvalentine4157 Жыл бұрын

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,

@Strome88 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл 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.

@germanshepherd6638 Жыл бұрын

Elon musk = Elizabeth Holmes

@mattbartlett0 Жыл бұрын

YES! It’s nice to know at least one other person out there thinks the same 😂

@WNH3 Жыл бұрын

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.

@livingpurgatory3 Жыл бұрын

More people to brain c hip others? Why? I was a guinea pig for this. I hope they get busted for their evil

@davidbasset7557 Жыл бұрын

this was an embarrassingly awful interview…not katherine’s fault, marc is just rambling and saying a whole lot of nothing

@viorelpiscanu9425 Жыл бұрын

Ok...but how many of that kind!? 1.000.000.€question!

@Mr.McMello Жыл бұрын

Crypto is a scam! Buy Bitcoin

@sumgai2585 Жыл бұрын

YES! America needs MORE BILLIONAIRES!! Where do I Sign Up?

@wolfsden3 Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣💯

@lucagattoni-celli1377 Жыл бұрын

I wish he and his wife had not opposed multifamily housing in their neighborhood. It's time to build.

@thedude7319 Жыл бұрын

I always love seeing this dude, he make the dreary world always seem so full of optimisme

@Badtime2312 Жыл бұрын

Has marc ever give his money to a charity

@InkaHacker 11 ай бұрын

Charity doesn't solve problems. Entrepreneurship, when not taken by government and bureaucracies, does

@RadekPilich Жыл бұрын

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.