Marc Andreessen: belief

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…Putting aside product-market fit, what’s the question you are most trying to figure out about who makes a good founder? Again, this is the macro human-behavior question of all time, but the biggest question is, I think, and continues to be, and will probably always be — it’s a little bit the nature-nurture question, or let’s say it’s inherent capability of whatever form for whatever reason, and then training. That training is less formal training for entrepreneurship, but it’s on-the-job training, and hopefully, it’s coaching, and hopefully, we can help people with that. I’d start by saying, my presumption is, there are not enough great founders in the world. I think that’s obvious. We could have a big discussion as to whether that’s the case or not. I think there aren’t. I think it’s pretty clear there aren’t. If there aren’t, how do we get more of them? Where do they come from? Should you be starting with a hundred million people and try to train as many as you can? Or 10 million or a million, or a hundred thousand or 10,000 or a thousand? What’s the up-front criteria? What do they have to show up with by the time they become engaged in the activity and open to the training? Then how much can we train? How many people? Maybe it’s much more nurture than we think. Maybe it’s actually not nature. Maybe it’s much more nurture. Maybe we just need much more comprehensive and rigorous training, much more freely available to a lot more people. Like in Florence.…

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