Marc Andreessen

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.6 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 194 minutes

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Marc Andreessen is a prominent entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer best known for his key role in the development of the early internet. In the early 90s, Marc co-created Mosaic, a pioneering web browser, while a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. In 1994, he founded Netscape, launching the popular Netscape Navigator browser. After selling Netscape to AOL in 1999 for $4.3 billion, Marc founded Opsware, selling it later for $1.6 billion. In 2009, he co-founded Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm that has backed, among others, Airbnb, Facebook, Instagram, and SpaceX. Known for his insights into technology, Marc's early work with Mosaic and Netscape significantly shaped the internet's growth, and his ongoing contributions continue to influence the tech industry. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra ------ House of Macadamias https://www.houseofmacadamias.com/tetra ------ Squarespace https://squarespace.com/tetra

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0:00.0	Tetrogrammitan
0:02.0	Tetracketameter
0:05.0	Tetracketameter
0:09.0	You know, every year there are some number of thousands of very, right, you know, people, you know, many of them young, some of them, you know, older and more experienced,
0:29.6	who come up with ideas for new tech products and new tech companies.
0:33.6	And they, you know, they, and typically a small group of their friends get together and they
0:37.6	decide to kind of throw the harpoon and start a, start a company and try to build a product.
0:42.3	And, you know, and they, you know, they need some level of money and then they need like
0:45.7	some level of basically support, like institutional support. So, you know, they're often,
0:50.8	they're often young, less experience. They often have not been through the journey before.
0:54.7	They're going to need to gather a lot of resources along the way.
0:56.8	They're going to need to hire a lot of people.
0:58.2	They're going to, you know, basically they'll have big opportunities they want to pursue.
1:01.9	They'll have problems that will pop up.
1:06.1	Even the great, successful companies, you know, from the outside, they look like everything
1:08.9	is great on the inside. They're typically, you know, some form of rolling disaster.
1:11.8	There's always something going wrong.
1:13.3	So basically, they, you know, they're sort of at some point looking for partners who can help
1:16.8	them do that.
1:17.4	And so venture capital kind of bundles the money, you know, kind of with the help.
1:20.6	And then, you know, a couple of, you know, probably misnomeras to it. You know, one is the, you would think like the day job is saying yes, you know, to new companies.
1:28.2	It's actually saying no, you know, we pass on almost everything. So, you know, the sort of, you know,
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