#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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