Marc Andreessen: Venture Capital Investment Philosophy

A interview and Q&A with Venture Capitalist and Co-Founder of Andreessen Horowitz, Marc Andreessen. In this interview Marc discusses what he looks for in investments and how his model of a venture capital firm has aided his success. Marc also talks of the two traits he looks for in founders, that of courage and genius and how rare they are to find in combination. Like if you enjoyed Subscribe for more:http://bit.ly/InvestorsArchive Follow us on twitter:http://bit.ly/TwitterIA Video Segments: 0:00 Introduction 0:51 Technology Bubble 4:38 MBA's flocking to the tech sector is a sign of a bubble 5:20 How great tech companies are built 9:27 MBA's to help the business side of tech start ups 12:18 Coming up with current VC model 16:43 Identifying founders 21:10 Your most courageous moment 22:53 Your relationship with Ben Horowitz 27:30 Dealing with allegations in press 29:32 How do you spend your day 31:57 Particular technologies you are excited about/Best & worst pitches 38:36 What matters most to you and why 41:00 Start of Q&A 41:02 Why are you interested in the News business? 47:10 If you were an MBA, where would you go to work? 50:06 Path for affordable internet and frontier technologies? Interview Date: 8th March,2015 Event: Stanford Graduate School of Business Supporting document: http://bit.ly/MAarticle Original Image Source:http://bit.ly/MAVCPic Investors Archive has videos of all the Investing/Business/Economic/Finance masters. Learn from their wisdom for free in one place. For more check out the channel. Remember to subscribe, share, comment and like! No advertising.

Comments

1. What is the name of the book he mentioned? couldn't find in google
2. Did he ever think about using that thing as a dildo? Wow
3. He talks so fast
4. I know I'm not the only one who chuckled when I saw that head
5. its not intimidating, of course can make suggestions etc, ts not idiotic, fool. The founders are not wussx, less tough etc
6. this was great thank you
7. Dude this guys a fucking real life alien!! Fk! They are! Real..
8. Wow. Some eye opening comments, and some reallyy interesting information. Great talk overall
9. A venture egg.
10. Lol, that shape of the head...looks like an egg.
11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO836hHCmZA
12. Tech isn't in a bubble?! ...does he have to say that because his job is partly about selling tech companies to Investment Banks?
    
    Everyone has "Users", yeh? Does he mean Signups or Monthly Active Users?
    
    Anyone who has run a tech startup knows that Users doesn't mean PAYING subscribers.
13. Old video
14. great video, thank you