#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
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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 PODCAST LINKS: -
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