Marc Andreesen did a round of podcasts recently (Lenny's podcast, 20 minute VC, conversation with Founders podcast) - here were the top few highlights for me from the co-founder of Netscape and a16z:
- "We’re living in a world where we don’t understand how good good can get cause we’ve been capped by our own biology. AI will be way better than the best human coder, doctor, lawyer, in many ways. It’s already at 130-140 IQ, humans max out around 160, and continuing to improve. The idea of human equivalency will be a quick footnote - what does the world look like when AI then becomes much better than that?"
- The craziest story: Marc was basically single handle tech support for the entire internet for 3 years in the mid 90s. Cause everyone used Netscape to use the Internet, so whenever anyone had trouble using the Internet in the early days they would send a help request and he was the one person who would answer.
- “1:1 Tutoring is the most proven way to improve education results, and now with AI everyone can have it”
- “In industry after industry there’s all these embedded assumptions that just don’t make sense anymore…these broken assumptions are where startups come from”
