Marc Andreessen on Software, Immortality, and Bitcoin

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🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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What's the single best thing happening in technology right now? According to entrepreneur and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, it's the ability to live in rural Wisconsin but still earn a Silicon Valley salary. Andreessen also explains to EconTalk host Russ Roberts why software is still eating the world, why he's an optimist, and why he's still bullish on Bitcoin and the blockchain.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:13.0	Institution.
0:14.0	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.4	You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.8	Today is April 27th, 2022.
0:39.8	My guest is entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Marc Andreessen.
0:44.0	He's the co-author of Mozeyek, the first widely used web browser, co-founder of Netscape,
0:50.0	and co-founder of General Partner of the Silicon Valley Venture Capital from Andreessen Horowitz,
0:55.0	also known as A16z.
0:57.4	He was here on econtalk in May of 2014, which was a very, very long time ago, talking about
1:04.4	venture capital and the digital future.
1:07.5	And at that point, a few years earlier, he had written a very provocative piece for the
1:11.4	Wall Street Journal where you said software is going to eat the world, has it, will it,
1:19.1	and explain what you meant by that, and to one extent, you were right or wrong.
1:23.5	Yeah, so that piece was, yeah, that was in 2011.
1:26.8	That had a couple of messages in it.
1:30.3	There was an explicit message in an implicit message.
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