What Next: TBD | Marc Andreessen’s New Deal

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🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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What drove Marc Andreessen’s transformation into a political actor, and what is he looking for from having Washington in his thrall? Guest: Zoe Schiffer, WIRED journalist covering business and Silicon Valley. Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Evan Campbell and Patrick Fort. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.3	Earlier this week, the news organization's semaphore broke the story of a group chat.
1:10.3	No, not the Pentagon one. This one has roughly 300
1:15.0	very powerful people in it. Their Silicon Valley executives like Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale,
1:21.8	billionaires like Mark Cuban, and right-wing media figures like the Daily Wires Ben Shapiro.
1:32.5	But at the group's heart was one man, venture capitalist Mark Andresen.
1:38.4	I called up journalist Zoe Schiffer to ask if she was surprised to see Andresen at the chat center.
1:40.2	Not at all, no.
1:44.5	Zoe is the director of business and industry at Wired Magazine.
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