Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen is a co-founder and general partner of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). He co-created the Mosaic web browser and co-founded Netscape. His public work includes extensive commentary and investment activity in AI and technology.
a16z Frontier Targets Founders Before New Technology Categories Exist
a16z is expanding its crypto fund into a16z Frontier, a mandate to back founders working in areas that have not yet become established investment categories. Chris Dixon, Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen argue that advances in AI could let small teams attempt more ambitious projects and create opportunities across fields that were once treated separately. The firm’s thesis, Horowitz says, is to ask not whether an idea is too ambitious, but whether it is ambitious enough.
AI Will Expand Work, Not Replace It, Andreessen Argues
Marc Andreessen argues to Erik Torenberg that AI is more likely to expand work than eliminate it, turning coders, product managers and designers into more generalist “builders” whose productivity and bargaining power rise with the tools. He treats the current wave of AI anxiety as driven partly by stale experience with older models, hostile media narratives and institutions with incentives to preserve fear. His “golden age” thesis is conditional: the upside arrives where companies, workers and governments allow AI-driven capability to become more output, new roles and new firms.