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Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger
Worth hearing for the unusually concrete account of supply-driven markets, venture-scale market-sizing errors, and a16z’s role as a founder confidence engine. The broad optimism is familiar, but the Substack investment logic and operating model add material not found elsewhere in the corpus.
problem with that again is this sort of this presumption that you can predict market sizes based on the dynamics that exist in the market today. Um, but if there's a fundamental change on the supply side, if there's if there's a fundamental breakthrough, a fundamental capability that doesn't exist yet, you you're not going to be able to accurately model the market size because you can't you can't see it yet. Like you you you've changed one of the major variables and you you you can't do that. And you know, and then you could call that the leap of faith or whatever, but it's like, okay, if you if you make the change in the supply side, then all of a sudden the market gets 10 or 100 or thousand times larger. like you 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 and I just
Marc Andreessen discusses the growing freedom of online information, the investment case for Substack, and why supply-side breakthroughs can create markets far larger than current forecasts suggest. He also describes Andreessen Horowitz as a mechanism for helping founders navigate the messy real world, build confidence, and turn technically strong ideas into companies.