Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America | Lex Fridman Podcast #458

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:*
0:00 - Introduction
1:09 - Best possible future
10:32 - History of Western Civilization
19:51 - Trump in 2025
27:32 - TDS in tech
40:19 - Preference falsification
56:15 - Self-censorship
1:11:18 - Censorship
1:19:57 - Jon Stewart
1:22:43 - Mark Zuckerberg on Joe Rogan
1:31:32 - Government pressure
1:42:19 - Nature of power
1:55:08 - Journalism
2:00:43 - Bill Ackman
2:05:40 - Trump administration
2:13:19 - DOGE
2:27:11 - H1B and immigration
3:05:05 - Little tech
3:17:25 - AI race
3:26:15 - X
3:29:47 - Yann LeCun
3:33:21 - Andrew Huberman
3:34:53 - Success
3:37:49 - God and humanity

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