Marc Andreessen deserves a place on the Mount Rushmore of Silicon Valley. His presence in the tech space is unprecedented and he's one of the most prolific investors. The world of online writing is in debt to him.

He co-founded Netscape, where he created one of the first web browsers. He invented the tweetstorm, and has helped form the internet. He coined the idea “software is eating the world”, which has defined humanity's evolution over the last decade.

Marc isn’t just a mad man creator. He’s a passionate historian and cultural critic too. Name the topic. Marc has an opinion.

This episode is a masterclass into a combination of tech and liberal arts in a way to fuel your writing. I came to chat with him about writing, but left with a PhD in obscure Silicon Valley history and a list of book recommendations large enough to fill The Library of Congress.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:37 It's Time To Build
00:03:00 Editing
00:04:00 Frustration
00:05:00 Outline
00:06:30 Reading
00:08:00 Audiobooks & podcasts
00:10:00 Information intake
00:10:38 Groupchats
00:14:25 Writing
00:16:20 Twitter
00:16:50 Meme Lord & Software is eating the world
00:18:40 Distribution
00:19:50 Tweetstorm
00:23:30 Personal Blog
00:24:00 Lateral Thinkers (Venkatesh Rao, Balaji Srinivasan, Peter Thiel)
00:27:40 LLM
00:28:00 Software as a literary genre
00:33:30 Learning to code as a kid
00:34:45 Constraints
00:36:40 Roman a Clef
00:39:00 Writing at a16z
00:43:40 Hyperlinks
00:45:40 Comments
00:50:00 Reading
00:54:40 Science Fiction
00:58:00 Green Tea
00:58:30 Office
00:59:45 Music
01:01:00 Walking
01:01:20 Ben Horowitz
01:04:50 Manifesto
01:05:00 The Kanye of Blogs
01:09:30 Feedback
01:10:40 Critique
01:13:50 Twitter
01:16:00 Pmarca screenname

SPEAKER LINKS:
Website: https://www.a16z.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmarca

WRITE OF PASSAGE:
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PODCAST LINKS:
Website: https://writeofpassage.school/how-i-write/
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-write/id1700171470
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2DjMSboniFAeGA8v9NpoPv

ABOUT THE HOST:
I’m David Perell and I’m a writer, teacher, and podcaster. I believe writing online is one of the biggest opportunities in the world today. For the first time in human history, everybody can freely share their ideas with a global audience. I seek to help as many people publish their writing online as possible.