#458 – Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America

Marc Andreessen is an entrepreneur, investor, co-creator of Mosaic, co-founder of Netscape, and co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) - Introduction

(12:46) - Best possible future

(22:09) - History of Western Civilization

(31:28) - Trump in 2025

(39:09) - TDS in tech

(51:56) - Preference falsification

(1:07:52) - Self-censorship

(1:22:55) - Censorship

(1:31:34) - Jon Stewart

(1:34:20) - Mark Zuckerberg on Joe Rogan

(1:43:09) - Government pressure

(1:53:57) - Nature of power

(2:06:45) - Journalism

(2:12:20) - Bill Ackman

(2:17:17) - Trump administration

(2:24:56) - DOGE

(2:38:48) - H1B and immigration

(3:16:42) - Little tech

(3:29:02) - AI race

(3:37:52) - X

(3:41:24) - Yann LeCun

(3:44:59) - Andrew Huberman

(3:46:30) - Success

(3:49:26) - God and humanity



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