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Is AI causing Big Tech layoffs? No, according to Marc Andreessen. Rather, it’s because of sloppy, lazy Covid era over-hiring. 25% to 75% excess headcount: “Employees became an icon on a screen. “Essentially every large company is overstaffed… “It’s at least overstaffed by 25%. I think most large companies... show more

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Marc Andreessen says AI is the "silver bullet excuse" for companies laying people off, but most layoffs are actually due to higher interest rates and overstaffing during COVID: "This entire labor displacement thing is 100% incorrect. It's completely wrong. It's classic zero-sum economics." "It was the combination of the two—interest rates going to zero during COVID, and then the complete loss of discipline at all these companies when they went virtual and when employees just became an icon on a screen." "What you have happening right now is that essentially every large company is overstaffed. We could debate how much—it's at least overstaffed by 25%. I think most large companies are overstaffed by 50%. A lot of them are overstaffed by 75%." "And now they all have the silver bullet excuse—it's AI." Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 with Harry Stebbings

Marc Andreessen says AI is the "silver bullet excuse" for companies laying people off, but most layoffs are actually due to higher interest rates and overstaffing during COVID: "This entire labor displacement thing is 100% incorrect. It's completely wrong. It's classic zero-sum economics." "It was the combination of the two—interest rates going to zero during COVID, and then the complete loss of discipline at all these companies when they went virtual and when employees just became an icon on a screen." "What you have happening right now is that essentially every large company is overstaffed. We could debate how much—it's at least overstaffed by 25%. I think most large companies are overstaffed by 50%. A lot of them are overstaffed by 75%." "And now they all have the silver bullet excuse—it's AI." Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 with Harry Stebbings

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🚨 Marc Andreessen Says the AI Layoffs Hype is ‘100% Incorrect’ “Essentially every large company is overstaffed. We could debate how much but it's at least by 25% … And now they all have the silver bullet excuse — it's AI. I know this for a fact because I talk to them.”

🚨 Marc Andreessen Says the AI Layoffs Hype is ‘100% Incorrect’ “Essentially every large company is overstaffed. We could debate how much but it's at least by 25% … And now they all have the silver bullet excuse — it's AI. I know this for a fact because I talk to them.”

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Marc Andreessen on why companies are cutting headcount, and why AI is taking the blame for something it didn't cause: "Why are we seeing layoffs every year? Why is every CEO I'm meeting saying, 'Oh, we're flat headcount or we're reducing.'" His answer points straight to interest rates. "Every big company had to replan all of their financials. All their cost of capital went up five points." When rates spiked, companies were forced to rethink everything. That cracked open a deeper problem: the hiring binge of the COVID era. "What you have happening right now is you have essentially every large company that is overstaffed." So why is AI taking the heat? Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 is blunt: "They all have the silver bullet excuse, right? Ah, it's AI." But the timeline doesn't hold up. Marc makes it clear the numbers simply don't support that story: "AI, until literally December, was not actually good enough to do any of the jobs that they're actually cutting. So it just can't have been AI." The same logic applies to new graduates struggling to land work. People are quick to point at automation, but Marc sees two more grounded explanations. First, the over-hiring hangover: companies that ballooned headcount during COVID are now pulling back hard and not bringing new hires in on top of that. Second, a harder conversation about skills. Marc puts it plainly: "Maybe the skill set of a lot of college graduates over the last decade doesn't necessarily match to the job market. That's a very uncomfortable conversation. But if you talk to any employer, they'll immediately tell you that." The real story is simpler than people think. Companies overspent when money was cheap, overhired during COVID, and now the skills coming out of universities don't match what the job market needs.

Marc Andreessen on why companies are cutting headcount, and why AI is taking the blame for something it didn't cause: "Why are we seeing layoffs every year? Why is every CEO I'm meeting saying, 'Oh, we're flat headcount or we're reducing.'" His answer points straight to interest rates. "Every big company had to replan all of their financials. All their cost of capital went up five points." When rates spiked, companies were forced to rethink everything. That cracked open a deeper problem: the hiring binge of the COVID era. "What you have happening right now is you have essentially every large company that is overstaffed." So why is AI taking the heat? Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 is blunt: "They all have the silver bullet excuse, right? Ah, it's AI." But the timeline doesn't hold up. Marc makes it clear the numbers simply don't support that story: "AI, until literally December, was not actually good enough to do any of the jobs that they're actually cutting. So it just can't have been AI." The same logic applies to new graduates struggling to land work. People are quick to point at automation, but Marc sees two more grounded explanations. First, the over-hiring hangover: companies that ballooned headcount during COVID are now pulling back hard and not bringing new hires in on top of that. Second, a harder conversation about skills. Marc puts it plainly: "Maybe the skill set of a lot of college graduates over the last decade doesn't necessarily match to the job market. That's a very uncomfortable conversation. But if you talk to any employer, they'll immediately tell you that." The real story is simpler than people think. Companies overspent when money was cheap, overhired during COVID, and now the skills coming out of universities don't match what the job market needs.

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Marc Andreessen on going direct, in 2013: “We’ve lived in this world... where content only comes from content companies.” “I think content is going to increasingly come from everybody.” “The stuff that we do is complicated and new.” “And so we’re trying to take more responsibility to be able to articulate complex subjects to large audiences.” “I think increasingly, it’s direct communication.” Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 at CDX Forum 2013:

Marc Andreessen on going direct, in 2013: “We’ve lived in this world... where content only comes from content companies.” “I think content is going to increasingly come from everybody.” “The stuff that we do is complicated and new.” “And so we’re trying to take more responsibility to be able to articulate complex subjects to large audiences.” “I think increasingly, it’s direct communication.” Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 at CDX Forum 2013:

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“The regulatory landscape is fairly scary right now." Marc Andreessen on AI regulation: "We were headed towards extreme overregulation—up to and including possibly full outlawing of the technology, which is very spooky." "The action in the US has now shifted to the states. There are now thousands of AI bills, and many of them are actually quite scary." "The situation in Europe is quite alarming. There are a number of European countries really trying hard to kneecap American technology." Source: Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 at Cisco AI Summit

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.Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 on cults and meaning: “We’re still running basically in cults. It’s just our cults are at a thousandth or a millionth the level of intensity.” “We’re trying to fill the void. And the void is a void of bonding.” “We are ungrounded. We are uncentered. And we all feel it.” Marc recommends The Ancient City by Fustel de Coulanges for more on this subject.

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Marc Andreessen says that because AI will be the control layer on everything from finance to home security, the Biden administration was trying to create a censorship regime on AI, where 2 or 3 AI companies had control of the market and were in turn controlled by the government

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For years, I have warned that AI will turn into AGI by 2030. Well, I recently heard Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 tell Joe Rogan that it’s ALREADY HERE. This means AI is operating beyond expert human capability in most areas of knowledge, and you’re going to have that in your pocket. This is incredible, yet terrifying at the same time. Bill Gates once said he couldn’t create Microsoft in today’s world, and he’s right. He couldn't. But with AGI, if you know how to prompt, your small company can compete against giant corporations. But the key is asking the right questions. Andreessen said THAT is the skill everyone should master now: how to prompt. It’s not infinite knowledge that’s the focus. It’s discernment with your questions. This is a turning point for all of humanity, and I hope we can use it right without forming Skynet. Listen to Marc Andreessen explain this on The Joe Rogan Experience if you really want to understand how game-changing this is.

For years, I have warned that AI will turn into AGI by 2030. Well, I recently heard Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 tell Joe Rogan that it’s ALREADY HERE. This means AI is operating beyond expert human capability in most areas of knowledge, and you’re going to have that in your pocket. This is incredible, yet terrifying at the same time. Bill Gates once said he couldn’t create Microsoft in today’s world, and he’s right. He couldn't. But with AGI, if you know how to prompt, your small company can compete against giant corporations. But the key is asking the right questions. Andreessen said THAT is the skill everyone should master now: how to prompt. It’s not infinite knowledge that’s the focus. It’s discernment with your questions. This is a turning point for all of humanity, and I hope we can use it right without forming Skynet. Listen to Marc Andreessen explain this on The Joe Rogan Experience if you really want to understand how game-changing this is.

Glenn Beck

96,308 views • 1 month ago

Yah. It’s pretty screwed up when loyalists are sidelined for technocrats who want open borders. Basically Marc Andreessen Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 is literally camping out at Mar a Lago by his own words and helping Trump hire people, while actively advising Trump’s inner circle while he’s headlining fundraisers for anti-Trump Senators who support open borders and who called for Trump to be jailed. What a piece of shit. Literally there is NO VETTING. It’s a very dangerous situation that this type of infiltration is allowed to happen around President Donald J. Trump and nobody does anything about it. Marc Andreessen needs to be excommunicated. According to Business Insider, “Marc Andreessen Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 said in a recent podcast appearance that since Election Day, he has spent roughly “half” his time at Mar-a-Lago discussing policy issues with President-elect Donald Trump. Speaking with Bari Weiss for an episode of her “Honesty” podcast, the venture capitalist and vocal Trump supporter said he’s “not claiming to be in the middle of all the decision-making” but is trying to help shape policy in a second Trump administration. “I’ve been trying to help in as many ways as I can,” Andreessen said. “Trump brings out a lot of feelings in a lot of people. People have very strong views. And then there are many political topics that, you know, we’re very deliberately not weighing it on.” He added that he’s “Not Mr. Foreign policy, or Mr. Abortion policy, or guns” because he’s “not an expert on those things,” but has instead focused his input on issues he does have experience in, like technology and economics.” See video below.

Yah. It’s pretty screwed up when loyalists are sidelined for technocrats who want open borders. Basically Marc Andreessen Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 is literally camping out at Mar a Lago by his own words and helping Trump hire people, while actively advising Trump’s inner circle while he’s headlining fundraisers for anti-Trump Senators who support open borders and who called for Trump to be jailed. What a piece of shit. Literally there is NO VETTING. It’s a very dangerous situation that this type of infiltration is allowed to happen around President Donald J. Trump and nobody does anything about it. Marc Andreessen needs to be excommunicated. According to Business Insider, “Marc Andreessen Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 said in a recent podcast appearance that since Election Day, he has spent roughly “half” his time at Mar-a-Lago discussing policy issues with President-elect Donald Trump. Speaking with Bari Weiss for an episode of her “Honesty” podcast, the venture capitalist and vocal Trump supporter said he’s “not claiming to be in the middle of all the decision-making” but is trying to help shape policy in a second Trump administration. “I’ve been trying to help in as many ways as I can,” Andreessen said. “Trump brings out a lot of feelings in a lot of people. People have very strong views. And then there are many political topics that, you know, we’re very deliberately not weighing it on.” He added that he’s “Not Mr. Foreign policy, or Mr. Abortion policy, or guns” because he’s “not an expert on those things,” but has instead focused his input on issues he does have experience in, like technology and economics.” See video below.

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227,600 views • 1 year ago