This was a good interview on Farnham Street’s The Knowledge Project – listen here. Marc Andreessen: It’s the most natural thing in the world to… Read More »Marc Andreessen on Scar Tissue, Trying and Failing in the Probabilistic Domain
We don’t believe there’s a tension between product and business, we believe there’s a staging, which is in this [the tech] industry you don’t have… Read More »Marc Andreessen: product vs business
Netscape’s secret is that we’re in the middle of an exploding market. Marc Andreessen It’s as simple and as difficult as that.* *In one sense,… Read More »Marc Andreessen on the secret of Netscape’s success (c.1995)
Marc Andreessen is super smart, bracingly abrasive, and almost always worth listening to. This is a summary of a post from 2007, revived (embalmed?) on… Read More »Resource: Marc Andreessen on talent and hiring
Ben Horrowitz and Marc Andreessen are usually fun and full of useful ideas, and this three-hour (!) recording of two conversations they had on Clubhouse,… Read More »Resource: One on One with A and Z
With the proviso that I’m not at all convinced by the premise that scaling fast and making billions of dollars are worthy ends in themselves,… Read More »Podcast recommendation: Starting Greatness, with Mike Maples Jr
Clayton Christensen’s The Innovators Dilemma is a business classic, providing a framework for understanding how technological or business model innovations (or more usually, both) allow… Read More »Resources: Clayton Christensen on disruptive innovation
Here’s Mark Andreessen on the A16z podcast summarising what it means for software to eat the world: [In the original 2011 essay] I made three… Read More »Podcast recommendation: Mark Andreessen on Software Eating the World (2019)
More from Marc Andreessen’s brilliant interview on The Moment with Brian Koppelman. This time: how breaking into the network in order to get funding isn’t… Read More »Marc Andreessen: the test
WTF?! In San Francisco, Uber has 3x the revenue of the entire prior taxi and limousine industry. WTF?! Without owning a single room, Airbnb has… Read More »Resources: Software is eating the world