Marc Andreessen on on what motivates great entrepreneurs
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Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic: We invest in seed to late-stage technology companies, across the consumer, enterprise, bio/healthcare, crypto, fintech and games spaces. a16z is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial company building process; we know what it’s like to be in the founder’s shoes. The firm is led by general partners, many of whom are former founders/operators, CEOs, or CTOs of successful technology companies, and who have domain expertise ranging from biology to crypto to distributed systems to security to marketplaces to financial services. We aim to connect entrepreneurs, investors, executives, engineers, academics, industry experts, and others in the technology ecosystem. We have built a network of experts including technical and executive talent; top media and marketing resources; Fortune 500/Global 2000 companies; as well as other technology decision makers, influencers, and key opinion leaders. a16z uses this network as part of our commitment to help our portfolio companies grow their business, so our operating teams provide entrepreneurs with access to expertise and insights across the entire spectrum of company building. https://a16z.com/portfolio/ https://a16z.com/podcasts/ https://a16z.com/videos/ http://a16z.com/subscribe See Disclosures: https://a16z.com/disclosures/
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Marc Andreessen says don't ever do diamonds in the rough. Only do diamonds. This is an investor ego thing. "I'm the one who's going to find the thing nobody else knows about. All the other VCs are just herd animals — I'm going to do the thing nobody else can think of." But there are hundreds of smart, hungry VCs out there working full-time to sniff out great deals. It's all they do. So if a company has real venture merit, it's likely already on people's radar — "95 to 99 times out of 100." And when something seems undiscovered, it usually means one of two things: 1. The company is "offside" for a fundamental reason — wrong geography, wrong structure. 2. There's a real reason no one else wanted it. "There's a reason why it's a diamond in the rough that actually ends up becoming a big problem." Marc Andreessen on 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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A special edition of the a16z Build newsletter, 100% focused on New Media roles: Sequence: hiring a Growth Marketer in NYC Kindred: hiring a VP of Marketing in SF ElevenLabs: hiring a B2B Marketing Lead Kalshi: hiring a Lifecycle Marketing Manager in NYC Variant: hiring a Storyteller in SF ...and more.
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Four astronauts are circling the Moon right now. Their 10-day mission is well-supplied: 90 days of oxygen, 60 days of water, five kinds of hot sauce. But imagine if Artemis II was instead designed as a 1,000-day mission to Mars and back. Any attempt to describe that difficulty upgrade would be both a caricature and a vast understatement. What does long-duration human survival actually look like? The best answer on Earth may be at the bottom of the world. Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica. The most isolated permanently-inhabited structure humanity has ever built. More remote than the ISS. Dark for 6 months straight. Continuously staffed for decades. Fuel costs ~$40/gallon to deliver. The winter fuel bill alone: $18 million. Every gallon of drinking water costs 620 watt-hours of electricity to produce. Showers are capped at 2 minutes, twice a week. One-sixth of the station is dedicated to entertainment. Keeping humans mentally healthy in extreme isolation is as hard an engineering problem as keeping them physically alive. The logistics, infrastructure, and hard-won lessons from Antarctica all matter for what comes next, on Earth and beyond. Full article by Christian Keil linked in comments.
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ChatGPT has 900 million weekly active users. Here’s what they’re using it for:
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