Marc Andreessen

“Awesome, Lenny. Thank you. It's great to be here.”

“This is a very, very historic time. I think 2025 was maybe the most interesting year in my entire career and probably life, and I think I would expect 2026 to exceed that.”

“And so I think there is a magic formula in here that I think is going to apply much more broadly. And really, for parents interested in this, now it'd be a great time to really start to think hard abo...”

“And so I think that combination of faster productivity growth, faster economic growth, and then slower population growth and less immigration actually means there's going to be much less of this kind ...”

“And so I would say the timing has worked out miraculously well in the sense of, we're going to have AI and robots precisely when we actually need them, to keep the economy from actually shrinking. And...”

“I was going to start by saying, I've been wrong about tons of things, but I buried those out back behind the shed.”

“And so that's the track that the best people are going to be on, and I think that's the thing to lean hard into.”

“Yeah. So again, here, I go back. And again, pardon maybe the history lesson, but I go back coding. So, the first...”

“And that is, overwhelmingly, a good thing. The tasks are definitely changing. The nature of the job is changing. But are human beings going to be involved in the coding process and overseeing the AI c...”

“Do you remember? I don't know when you were doing it, but do you remember... At least early on, did you ever hit this where C coders were looking down their nose at you and being like-”

“That's funny because, of course, it was so notorious for being impossible to understand.”

“I think that's going to be another great example of that.”