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Marc Andreessen on Learning to Love the Humanities
15 Jun 2022 18 published claims 2 attributable people
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“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.”
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“Necessary disclaimer on that: in my line of work, a false negative — saying something is not going to work and then it works — is a much bigger mistake than the false positive of saying something’s going to work and then it doesn’t work.”
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“Being part of that banking system, I think, would have been very exciting at that time.”
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“There were a set of these shows that basically propelled you — I think the line they would always use is “20 minutes into the future.”
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“Morgan, to his enormous credit, rebuilt the library and hired Edison to do it all over again. That moment, extending through the 1920s, was in a lot of ways, in my view, the most relevant origin of what we’re living through today.”
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“Exactly. I don’t know. It’s one of these things you learn in venture capital. It’s like 90 percent of the battle is over by the time it starts.”
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“Then it opens up this exit option, and I think that, as usual with any human system, it turns out that matters a lot.”
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“I would say the case studies of Tesla and SpaceX — and this is something we’re spending a lot of time on in our firm — really leads me to wonder if the Janeway thesis is actually wrong, and if, actually, we should be much more open-minded about this.”
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“Everything today is filtered through our politics. It’s really hard to understand, in my view, how people thought, especially before the 1960s, and again, I think, even before the 1930s, through our political lens.”
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“We learned from Twitter that today’s supposedly rigorous thinkers are often not very rigorous at all.”
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“Maybe, I think, it grows the media business, but it doesn’t have to cause it to explode like that, but having it be a better proposition for creators, having it be a better proposition for consumers, having content come into existence that didn’t exist before.”
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“Incentives matter, economics matter. It is better, in general, when there is a way for there to be monetary value assigned to productive work.”
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“I think a lot of it is the authority figures just basically showing up and exposing the emperor, quite literally, in a lot of cases has no clothes.”
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“I think that’s why California has the tech industry in the north and the media industry in the south. It’s because those are the two parts of the virtual frontier: the networks and then the content in the imaginary world.”
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“Then I read this profile that I recommend to everybody, which is, Tom Wolfe, the great novelist, journalist, wrote a profile of Bob Noyce, who was the original founder of Intel and basically the father of the chip industry.”
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“The reason I say that is because, one, it’s reductive, or it’s looking backwards, which is to say, we used to have in-person meetings, and now we have some people remote, so now we need hybrid meetings.”
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“The reason I think that that’s probably right is because at least the history in the Valley is, if we have a sharp entrepreneur with the ability to attract a team, the ability to tell a story and have a vision, and then they’ve got insight into a technological dislocation — an actual change to the technology foundation of the field that they’re working in — then you have a shot for a successful start-up.”
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“That stuff, I don’t tend to read more than once. It’s almost entirely, I would say, broadly speaking, it’s political theory, it’s history, it’s economic theory a little bit, although it’s probably more economic history.”
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