#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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