#2501 - Marc Andreessen
5/19/20263 hr 26 min
Marc Andreessen is a co-founder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, co-creator of the Mosaic internet browser and co-founder of Netscape, and author of “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto.”www.youtube.com/@a16zhttps://pmarca.substack.comhttps://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/www.a16z.com Perplexity: Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at https://pplx.ai/rogan. Great Coffee, Great Mission – Black Rifle Coffee is America’s Coffee. Visit https://blackriflecoffee.com/joerogan today to get 30% off your next order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsJoe Rogan· Host0:01
Joe Rogan podcast, check it out The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. [upbeat music] We're rolling? All right. Mr. Andreessen, good to see you, sir.
Marc Andreessen· Guest0:15
Great to be back. Thank you.
Joe Rogan· Host0:16
So we were just talking about this wild crime spree that happened this weekend in Austin. [laughs] So it seems like it was... Was it teenagers that were doing this? Yeah. Yeah? 15 and 17. You're not on a microphone there, fella. 15 and 17 years old. 15 and 17 years old?
Marc Andreessen· Guest0:31
That's terrible. Terrible.
Joe Rogan· Host0:32
And what was the purpose? Just going crazy? Think so, yeah. They stole cars, and stole guns, and switched cars, and- And they shot, and they shot at, like, f- 10 different locations and persons. One person's... At least one person's in critical condition.
Marc Andreessen· Guest0:43
Yeah.
Joe Rogan· Host0:43
They shot multiple people.
Marc Andreessen· Guest0:45
Yeah.
Joe Rogan· Host0:45
So you were saying that the reason why they had a hard time catching them is because of they had Flock cameras in Austin- Yeah ... but then they shut those cameras off for political reasons.
Marc Andreessen· Guest0:56
Correct. Yes. Yeah. And so- So please explain that. Yeah. So these guys are driving around in cars, and yeah, they're switching cars, whatever. Y- yeah. And they're... And they, they went to, like, a dozen locations and, like, fight, you know, and tried sh- shooting, shooting up buildings, and people, and houses, and, and all kinds of stuff. And so okay, so you got these guys running around. So they, there's this system called Flock, which is one of our companies. And, and what they do, it's kind of like in the movies. You, you take all the municipal cameras, and traffic cameras, and everything, and you feed them into an AI, AI, and the AI is able to f- first find a license plate in, in real time. So you can, you can find that. But, but second, you can actually find a car even if you don't have the license plate, 'cause you can find, like, distinct markings of the car. It'll... On the car. It'll track the car. And so th- this