The Ben & Marc Show
Hosted by Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen and Ben and Marc · Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz
4.5from 301 ratings
- 35
- Episodes
- 30
- Transcribed
- 301
- Ratings
- 2023
- First episode
About The Ben & Marc Show
Andreessen Horowitz ("a16z") co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz explore everything from science to business to culture, all through the lens of technology.
- Publisher
- Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz
- Category
- business · society & culture · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 23 Oct 2023
- Latest episode
- 15 Jan 2026
Latest episodes
30 of 35 episodes have a transcript.
15 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT
a16z, AI and Investing in the new era (ft. Packy McCormick)
26 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT
The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm
19 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT
Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We’re Fixing It)
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a16z, AI and Investing in the new era (ft. Packy McCormick)
Published 15 Jan 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] You you're not going to be able to Accurately model the market size to you can't you can't see it yet like you you change one of the major variables and you you can't do that And you know, and then you can call that the leap of faith or whatever But it's like okay if you if you make the change to supply side then all of a sudden the market gets 10 or 100 or a thousand times larger Like you can almost never validate that with math at the time of the investment But that's the thing that makes the outperformers, you know, really go Um, and I just I just think like as Ben and I kind of go through our careers We just see more and more examples where the mistakes that we or others make is oh, this must be as you know The market for Uber and less must be the market for taxi caps, right? […]
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- Erik Torenberg
- Packy McCormick
- Margit Wennmachers
- Palmer Luckey
- Brian Schimpf
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.2 / 5
- 132 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 169 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 66 / 100
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- Quality
- 73
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts The Ben & Marc Show?
Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen and Ben and Marc host the show. Published by Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz.
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