Marc Andreessen
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Marc Andreessen exemplifies The Visionary by repeatedly identifying transformative technological shifts before consensus forms. As co-creator of Mosaic and co-founder of Netscape, he helped commercialise the web at its very inception. At Andreessen Horowitz he has championed cloud computing, cryptocurrency, and AI as they emerged, and his software-eating-the-world thesis became a defining framework for an era. He leads by naming the future early and committing capital behind the claim.
“Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people for decades. Why stop now?”
“The Ancient City by Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges -- the single best book I have found on who we are and how we got here.”
“The two premodern religions were ancestor worship and nature worship (see "The Ancient City" by Fustel de Coulanges). The two postmodern religions are evidently identitarianism and environmentalism. Is this a coincidence, or something deeper?”
Wikiquote: “Public record read”
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