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.Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 on the proposal that would end open-source software: "It's a kill shot to the industry. How can any software developer anticipate the use of the software down the road?" "If I run a hotel and a criminal stays at the hotel and they plan their operation,... show more

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Marc Andreessen: "Overall, the world, especially the western world, it's just stagnant." "Every once in a while you have somebody that comes along... I actually have an idea how to make things like fundamentally better." "Nobody licensed us to do any of this." "Anybody can start, build a product, start a company." "It's shocking to me how few people actually give it a shot." "The fate of the world over the next 1500 years is riding on the people who actually want to give it a shot." Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 with David Senra

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Marc Andreessen says the US is in a foot race with China in AI, and the next phase will be fought in robotics, not code. "This is a full on race. It's a foot race. It's a game of inches. We're not going to have a five year lead. We're going to have maybe a six month lead. We have to run fast. We have to win. We can't put constraints on our companies that the Chinese government isn't putting on their own companies." "Even if they never quite catch us in software, they might just lap us in hardware and that'll be that. The good news is I think there's a growing awareness... across the political spectrum in the US that de-industrialization went too far. And there's a growing desire to figure out how to reverse that." "I say I'm guardedly optimistic that we'll be making progress on that, but I think there's a lot of work to be done." Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸

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.Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 wrote Why Software Is Eating the World in one draft, and it went on to become a canonical piece of tech writing. Almost a decade later, when he wrote It's Time to Build, no one would publish it.

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.Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 says national security professionals actually want criminals using crypto, not less: "They're hoping that more criminals and terrorists use crypto and use blockchains because there's a trail." "The alternative is the hawala system... Two cousins in two countries, money never actually moves, one just tells the other the family has it. No digital trail whatsoever, because nothing has happened digitally. No paper trail, no nothing." "There was a term a while ago that national security people were kicking around. They called crypto prosecution futures." Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 Chris Dixon Robert Hackett

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Anish Acharya: We're going to see a "YouTube moment for software": "If you think about YouTube 20 years ago—we had lots of video and lots of television, and it was high production quality, and it wasn't clear that we needed more and 20 years later, YouTube's a $550 billion enterprise that would be one of the biggest companies in the world if it was independent." "I think the same thing is going to happen for software. People want to make software, and for the first time they can—and they can distribute it and they can consume it." "Sometimes it's going to be important software. Sometimes it's going to be totally trivial. It's going to be software for a bachelor party weekend, software for a joke, software for a prompt. We have this sort of seriousness about software that we had about video and television 20 years ago." "Now it's like—I just took a video on my phone. It's going to be like—I just made an app on my phone. Same energy." Anish Acharya on BILLIONS with Guillaume Moubeche

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Marc Andreessen: Software isn't precious anymore. In this new world, high quality software is infinitely available. "We've always lived in a world in which software is this precious thing that you have to think about very carefully." "It was really hard to generate good software, and there was only a small number of people who could do it." "Those days are just over." "If you need new software to do X, Y, or Z, you're just going to wave your hand and get it." "Things that used to be hard, or even seem like an insurmountable mountain to get through, all of a sudden, I think, become very easy." Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 with Latent.Space

Marc Andreessen: Software isn't precious anymore. In this new world, high quality software is infinitely available. "We've always lived in a world in which software is this precious thing that you have to think about very carefully." "It was really hard to generate good software, and there was only a small number of people who could do it." "Those days are just over." "If you need new software to do X, Y, or Z, you're just going to wave your hand and get it." "Things that used to be hard, or even seem like an insurmountable mountain to get through, all of a sudden, I think, become very easy." Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 with Latent.Space

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"I became tech support for the internet." Marc Andreessen on the early days of Mosaic, the first graphical web browser: "If you used Mosaic, there was a submit a bug report or whatever." "And that went to an email box and that email box was me." "For like three years." "I was getting bombarded with tech support requests, and by the way, tech support for the internet means you're tech support for everything." Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 with David Senra

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"The grand unification of AI and crypto is about to happen." — Marc Andreessen "It's now obvious that AI agents are going to need money—it's already happening." "It's that William Gibson quote: the future is already here, it just isn't distributed yet." "My friends who are the most aggressive users of OpenClaw have given their Claws bank accounts and credit cards. And not only have they done it—it's obvious that they needed to do it, because it's obvious that they needed to be able to spend money on their behalf." "And by the way, OpenClaw—if you don't give it a bank account, it's just going to break into your bank account anyway and take your money. So you might as well do it." Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 with Latent.Space

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Marc Andreessen on why startups need to scale to have impact: “Startups are where a lot of the innovation happens.” “The thing that startups can’t do until they become big companies is have a big impact on the world.” “You have to get big to have a big impact.” “Otherwise the opportunity to make an impact with what you’ve invented... is going to be cut off and somebody else is going to step in and do it.” Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 at Fortune Brainstorm 2009:

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Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz explain the problem with the conventional wisdom of judging markets on how they look today: “As [we] go through our careers, we just see more and more examples where the mistakes that we or others make is, - The market for Uber and Lyft must be the market for taxi cabs, - Or the market for cloud software must be the same as the market for on-prem software, - Or the market for GPUs must be the market for people who like to play games.” The winners build technology that unlocks something on the supply side and grows market size by orders of magnitude. Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 benahorowitz.eth

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#WATCH | Mumbai, Maharashtra: On the Jevons paradox and software demand expansion, Neelkanth Mishra, Executive Director Designate of the World Bank, says, “…If you think about what the major cost of a software firm is, it is people. So, if the writing of software is getting automated, those firms will be the first to make adjustments. But on the whole, it seems that the Jevons paradox—which dictates that as the cost of writing software falls, the amount of software written goes up—is actually playing out. If an XYZ company, which is a product company, was spending, say, $100 million on writing software and can now do it for $70 million, they might need to lay off some people; that is their business priority. But if the amount of software written goes up three to four times, the number of software engineers in the ecosystem will not change… This panic and paranoia about massive job losses is something that I think is, at this stage, unfounded.”

#WATCH | Mumbai, Maharashtra: On the Jevons paradox and software demand expansion, Neelkanth Mishra, Executive Director Designate of the World Bank, says, “…If you think about what the major cost of a software firm is, it is people. So, if the writing of software is getting automated, those firms will be the first to make adjustments. But on the whole, it seems that the Jevons paradox—which dictates that as the cost of writing software falls, the amount of software written goes up—is actually playing out. If an XYZ company, which is a product company, was spending, say, $100 million on writing software and can now do it for $70 million, they might need to lay off some people; that is their business priority. But if the amount of software written goes up three to four times, the number of software engineers in the ecosystem will not change… This panic and paranoia about massive job losses is something that I think is, at this stage, unfounded.”

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Marc Andreessen: We need to drastically increase the number of founders: "It's shocking to me how few people actually give entrepreneurship a shot. The fate of the world over the next 1,500 years is riding on the people who actually want to give it a shot." — Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸

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People will tolerate any level of chronic pain to avoid acute pain. Marc Andreessen says most would rather lose slowly than have the hard conversation to stop the bleeding. Your job as a leader is to create a culture that surfaces ugly truths to treat problems before they become terminal. Source: Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 on Cheeky Pint with John Collison and Charlie Songhurst

People will tolerate any level of chronic pain to avoid acute pain. Marc Andreessen says most would rather lose slowly than have the hard conversation to stop the bleeding. Your job as a leader is to create a culture that surfaces ugly truths to treat problems before they become terminal. Source: Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 on Cheeky Pint with John Collison and Charlie Songhurst

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Marc Andreessen on the imperative of speed in AI adoption: "Both the AI utopians and the AI doomers are far too optimistic." "They believe that because the technology makes something possible, 8 billion people all of a sudden are going to change how they behave. It's like—no. So much of how the existing economy works is just wired in." "We're going to be lucky as a society if AI adoption happens quickly. Because if it doesn't, what we're going to have is stagnation." Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 with Latent.Space

Marc Andreessen on the imperative of speed in AI adoption: "Both the AI utopians and the AI doomers are far too optimistic." "They believe that because the technology makes something possible, 8 billion people all of a sudden are going to change how they behave. It's like—no. So much of how the existing economy works is just wired in." "We're going to be lucky as a society if AI adoption happens quickly. Because if it doesn't, what we're going to have is stagnation." Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 with Latent.Space

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ANDREESSEN: “Today AI is software … But there's another turn on AI that's coming, which is the turn to embodied physical AI, which is robotics … Elon Musk believes that robotics is going to be the biggest industry in the history of the planet.” 🎥 Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 Joe Lonsdale

ANDREESSEN: “Today AI is software … But there's another turn on AI that's coming, which is the turn to embodied physical AI, which is robotics … Elon Musk believes that robotics is going to be the biggest industry in the history of the planet.” 🎥 Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 Joe Lonsdale

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397,733 views • 1 year ago

.Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 says the winner of the US-China AI race could dictate what all 8 billion people on Earth use — but open source introduces a third possibility: "The stakes are basically: what is the world going to run on?" "In the long run, somebody's gonna win. And the world will either be running on American AI or be running on Chinese AI." "The open source thing is super fascinating because it throws a wrench into all of this. It raises a third possibility that neither the US nor China are going to be the platform — it may just be open source." Marc Andreessen with Jeetu Patel at Cisco AI Summit

.Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 says the winner of the US-China AI race could dictate what all 8 billion people on Earth use — but open source introduces a third possibility: "The stakes are basically: what is the world going to run on?" "In the long run, somebody's gonna win. And the world will either be running on American AI or be running on Chinese AI." "The open source thing is super fascinating because it throws a wrench into all of this. It raises a third possibility that neither the US nor China are going to be the platform — it may just be open source." Marc Andreessen with Jeetu Patel at Cisco AI Summit

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101,985 views • 6 months ago