# Marc Andreessen

Markdown copy of https://realalpha.app/people/marc-andreessen/ on Real Alpha, the best minutes from long interviews with the people building AI. Cite and link the page, not this copy.

Real Alpha has cut 3 moments of Marc Andreessen (Co-founder & General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz) talking, from an interview on a16z Podcast published Oct 22, 2026.

- Role: Co-founder & General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

## What Marc Andreessen said

- [AI is widening the gap between startups and incumbents](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-is-widening-the-gap-between-startups-and-incumbents/)
  a16z Podcast · Oct 22, 2026 · 7 min
  > “We would have built the whole damn internet. It would have been absolutely incredible.” — Marc Andreessen · [19:32](https://realalpha.app/v/-9XQMHhpypc/?t=1172)
- [AI is making games, film and hardware easier to reinvent](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-is-making-games-film-and-hardware-easier-to-reinvent/)
  a16z Podcast · Oct 22, 2026 · 6 min
  > “And one of the things that you can reverse engineer now is any piece of hardware, right?” — Marc Andreessen · [35:06](https://realalpha.app/v/-9XQMHhpypc/?t=2106)
- [Open source keeps AI learning and power distributed](https://realalpha.app/s/open-source-keeps-ai-learning-and-power-distributed/)
  a16z Podcast · Oct 22, 2026 · 8 min
  > “And so every kid in the world, I think, should have as their birthright the ability to, like, fully understand and utilize this technology.” — Marc Andreessen · [42:32](https://realalpha.app/v/-9XQMHhpypc/?t=2552)

## The episode

- [The Frontier Ideas a16z Wants to Fund Now | Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz & Chris Dixon](https://realalpha.app/v/-9XQMHhpypc/) · a16z Podcast · Oct 22, 2026