https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1511929365264805897
He's also been non-stop tweeting about "current thing", is there some SV drama that's gotten him worked up?
He then went on to found another company that had a $1.6 billion exit just 4 years after the AOL acquisition.
He then ran a VC that went from 300mm to 2.7bn in three years.
I would say he knows something about the world. Maybe he doesn't know anything on certain topics or you disagree with him, or he has an ego. But to write him off as a "programmer who got lucky" is wrong, especially considering that the fields he succeeded in were very cutting edge. He didn't just invest in Manhattan real estate or some crap.
Some life advice, go into every interaction with people assuming they know something you don't. You'll get a lot farther that way.
He's also very nerdy - and how could he not be if he was building browsers in his 20s while I was chasing skirts or trousers at that age - and I don't get along with super nerds outside of work. It's okay at work, they tend to do better than other psychological types. Is it me or him, then? I don't know, but I muted him, his takes have zero to negative effect on my mood.
I put a lot more weight on what people do when they had no name than what they did in this industry with its personality cults once they got the ball rolling.
Btw - I made a bunch of money in the dotcom bubble of the late 90's and early 2000's without even trying that hard. It was like buying Bitcoin in 2013. Maybe you've forgotten that AOL bought Time-Warner for $182 billion in 2000. It was ridiculous at the time and seems even more astonishing in retrospect. Good times.
I enjoy listening to their opinions on technology and business. They also throw in stuff on leadership, history and have interesting takes on the VC industry.
All VCs have this problem of missing big bets which they seem to want to figure out how to avoid making.
… okareaman typed into a web browser, the very technology Andreesen became wealthy pioneering.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb
You are also at all time high surveillance. You're also at all time high freedom of movement restriction. I could go on, but I'm tired of gritting my teeth.
Maybe "number of humans" is not a good metric.
But maybe it's just more generally red as euphemism for conservative (b/c of how political maps are coloured in the US).
https://www.quora.com/Could-a-large-solar-flare-fry-disk-dri...
Also some stuff might get even more exciting in the political arena, WRT the revelations of corruption around certain high profile figures.
Also the threat of cyber attacks seems very real.
the "current thing" refers to everyone bandwagoning on supporting ukraine when they didnt do anything to help them for like 10 years and there were tons of people warning "putin is going to invade someday."
This can't happen with books.
It seems like he’s become emboldened by Elon Musk’s tweeting and is trying to play a similar role.
(I have no opinion of pmarca, good or bad, except perhaps that he wastes too much time thinking about Internet drama.)
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministries_of_Nineteen_Eighty-...
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/05/politics/republican-states-bo...
and
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/04/07/book-ban...
Drunk tweeting is a thing.
