Marc Andreessen on the front foot

Marc Andreessen

helped define the web as we know it, has founded multiple billion dollar companies, and is a legendary VC and champion of the tech industry. His firm is also an early backer of Substack.

You’d be insane not to subscribe to his Substack.

Don’t miss

• How tech got caught flat footed when the media turned, and why

  Lulu Cheng Meservey
  is right about going direct.

• If the early web is not a good analogy for AI, what is?

• Insane Facebook AI Slop!! (

  Noah Smith
  and I went deep on this in a previous episode)

• How Marc is trying to use AI to replace me

• The dead internet theory, wireheading, and romance novels

• Substack, internet history, the collapse of centralized institutions

• randa
  asks “Why is pmarca promoting dime square writer girlies”?

• Gen X and Gen Z allying against the hated Millennials, to whom I am apparently a traitor

• Retweeting

  Mills Baker
  into a tech career

• Becoming open minded

More from Marc

• Why AI Will Save The World

• The Techno-Optimist Manifesto

• The true story — as best I can remember — of the origin of Mosaic and Netscape. (video)

• The Little Tech Agenda

Thanks as always to

Cara Best

for the music.

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Since nobody wrote any funny Notes about this whole situation, here are a few clips from last week’s episode with Nate Silver