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#458 – Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America

January 26, 2025 · 3 h 57 min

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Marc Andreessen is an entrepreneur, investor, co-creator of Mosaic, co-founder of Netscape, and co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

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OUTLINE:

() – Introduction

() – Best possible future

() – History of Western Civilization

() – Trump in 2025

() – TDS in tech

() – Preference falsification

() – Self-censorship

() – Censorship

() – Jon Stewart

() – Mark Zuckerberg on Joe Rogan

() – Government pressure

() – Nature of power

() – Journalism

() – Bill Ackman

() – Trump administration

() – DOGE

() – H1B and immigration

() – Little tech

() – AI race

() – X

() – Yann LeCun

() – Andrew Huberman

() – Success

() – God and humanity

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