Marc Andreessen

2 months ago | a16z.com | Marc Andreessen

When we started a16z, we decided that we were going to take a very network and media heavy approach to venture capital. That we wanted to treat venture as not only a craft, but also a product, and staff an organization set up for that goal. We sometimes called ourselves “a media company that monetizes via investing”. While these efforts are commonplace in 2025, they were not when we began them in 2009.

Feb 9, 2025 | yuribezmenov.substack.com | Yuri Bezmenov |Marc Andreessen

Comrades: The Pulitzer Prize should be renamed The Propagandist Prize. Institutions are comprised of people. When meritocracy is sacrificed for woke diversity, an institution rots from within. All we need to do is look at the Pulitzer board to understand why it has faded to farcical irrelevance. The selection committee is commissars all the way down.

Feb 9, 2025 | justhereforthelulz.com | Marc Andreessen

Personal ProductivityThe much maligned first meal of the day can be a super powerFollowing a successful landing in Normandy in early June 1944, Allied forces fought a bloody, six-week battle to break out of the hedgerow country. By the end of July, American and British forces had broken out of the hedgerows and were pursuing rapidly retreating German forces across the French heartland.

Jan 28, 2025 | cyberfeed.pl | Marc Andreessen

It took about a month for the finance world to start freaking out about DeepSeek, but when it did, it took more than half a trillion dollars — or one entire Stargate — off Nvidia’s market cap. It wasn’t just Nvidia, either: Tesla, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft tanked. DeepSeek’s two AI models, released in quick succession, put it on par with the best available from American labs, according to Alexandr Wang, Scale AI CEO.

Jan 26, 2025 | exponentialview.co | Azeem Azhar |Marc Andreessen

Hi, itā€™s Azeem.Ā Two seismic shifts in AI this week show how fast the landscape is evolving. The US governmentā€™s ā€œStargateā€, a $500 billion partnership with OpenAI to build massive AI infrastructure.