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Andreessen Horowitz leaders on AI, quotes with sources

40 quotes from Andrew Chen, Steven Sinofsky, David George, Ben Horowitz, Martin Casado, Marc Andreessen

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AI is fantastic at automating tasks that have verifiable outcomes, which is why we’re seeing amazing strides from coding, mathematical proofs, and workplace productivity is an extension to that.Andrew ChenSep 8, 2026· Post
That’s a fair question at the dawn of the AI age when an app might take about as much time to build as editing a Youtube video. So this means average product retention will collapse, and the days of seeing >20% D30 will feel like a dream.Andrew ChenSep 8, 2026· Post
The future of marketing (and by extension, a large swath of product) is zero-sum and PvP - the abundance of apps/videos/pods/creators/experiences will mean we have infinity times more supply than demand.Andrew ChenSep 8, 2026· Post
In the case of AI, the connection of AI to freedom of expression is unshakable and irrefutable.Steven SinofskyJul 11, 2026· Essay
The easiest algorithm I have for this is to ask if some new technology will be used by the government alone before it is approved or neutered for use by everyone else. If that is the case then history tells us the technology is being used for control or even oppression first and foremost.Steven SinofskyJul 11, 2026· Essay
But the claim that AI will produce economy-wide, permanent unemployment is unhelpful marketing, bad economics and worse history. To the contrary, productivity gains should increase demand for labor, because labor becomes more valuable.David GeorgeMay 6, 2026· Essay
Doomers want you to ignore the history of innovation, freeze-frame the collapsing cost of cognition, and call it the whole movie.David GeorgeMay 6, 2026· Essay
Here’s the thing, though: precedent (and intuition) shows that when the cost of a powerful input falls, the economy does not politely stand still.David GeorgeMay 6, 2026· Essay
That is what a real general-purpose technology does: it reorganizes the economy and expands the frontier of useful work.David GeorgeMay 6, 2026· Essay
If America fails to win technologically, it will lose economically, militarily, geopolitically, and culturally.Ben HorowitzJan 9, 2026· Essay
If we fail to push the policies of the country in the right direction, America will likely lose its position as the global leader in technology.Ben HorowitzJan 9, 2026· Essay
So, at this moment of profound technological opportunity, it is fundamentally important for humanity that America wins.Ben HorowitzJan 9, 2026· Essay
AI projects, on the other hand, are taking far more capital, by far smaller teams, and turning that into historic growth rates for both new users and revenue.Martin CasadoNov 19, 2025· Essay
I’d argue that whether or not AGI emerges from a single model, the impact of this meta economic machinery is functionally similar. That is, it reduces a massively broad class of technical problems to simply a matter of economics.Martin CasadoNov 19, 2025· Essay
In fact, we’ve gotten so good at scaling AI with GPUs that power not compute is the primary limitation.Martin CasadoNov 19, 2025· Essay
There’s a reason the fastest-growing AI companies are hiring software engineers as fast as they can.Martin CasadoNov 19, 2025· Essay
But with AI, we fast-forwarded: from paradigm to tools in under a decade, now used by hundreds of millions.Steven SinofskyMay 30, 2025· Essay
The challenge is the future doesn’t just wait around for everyone to come to a consensus.Steven SinofskyMay 30, 2025· Essay
Writing and learning with AI is the typewriter, the word processor, the encyclopedia, and the almanac rolled into one. Seeing it as something scarier than that is just fear of new tools and new paradigms.Steven SinofskyMay 30, 2025· Essay
Enterprise IT is excited because one big promise of AI, especially agentic AI, is that everything will connect to everything.Steven SinofskyMar 28, 2025· Essay
Code will be more of a disposable commodity, with less reuse, and instead generated on the fly for personalized use.Andrew ChenMar 10, 2025· Post
This will change, and it means that over time, software will become dominated by youth culture the same way that social media is.Andrew ChenMar 10, 2025· Post
In recent years, innovative AI products that didn’t build their own models were derided as low-tech “GPT wrappers.” Yet consumer products for the past few decades have been low-tech, with seemingly small moats and yet have generated huge value.Andrew ChenFeb 4, 2025· Post
The big difference is that instead of taking two decades to sort this all out, as it took between the dotcom and Web 2.0 cycles, we’re speedrunning the whole thing in just a few years.Andrew ChenFeb 4, 2025· Post
It was either going to be a startup or someone outside the current center of leadership and innovation in AI, which is mostly clustered around trillion-dollar companies in the US.Steven SinofskyJan 27, 2025· Essay
The cost of AI, like the cost of mainframe computing to X.25 connectivity (the early pre-TCP/IP protocol for connecting computers over phone lines), literally forces the market to develop an alternative that scales without the massive direct capital.Steven SinofskyJan 27, 2025· Essay
But despite all the hubbub and competing interests, there actually is a reasonable policy position the United States can take: to focus on marginal risk and apply our regulatory energy there.Martin CasadoDec 16, 2024· Essay
In the end, we might conclude the best policy for human welfare is to invest aggressively in AI rather than to encumber it.Martin CasadoDec 16, 2024· Essay
We should only depart from the existing regulatory regime, and carve new ground, once we understand the marginal risks of AI relative to existing computer systems.Martin CasadoDec 16, 2024· Essay
Regulatory agencies are being green lit in real time to do the same to Artificial Intelligence.Marc AndreessenJul 5, 2024· Essay
Artificial Intelligence has the potential to uplift all of humanity to an unprecedented quality of living and must not be choked off in its infancy. We can do this by requiring that AI behaves within the law and rules of our society without regulating math, FLOPs, methods of R&D, and other misguided ideas.Ben HorowitzDec 14, 2023· Essay
However our regulatory regime and processes are built based on a model of crude industrial revolution era technologies. As a result, we risk harming far more people than we save with our “safety” measures.Ben HorowitzDec 14, 2023· Essay
We believe any deceleration of AI will cost lives. Deaths that were preventable by the AI that was prevented from existing is a form of murder.Marc AndreessenOct 16, 2023· Essay
We believe Artificial Intelligence is our alchemy, our Philosopher’s Stone – we are literally making sand think. We believe Artificial Intelligence is best thought of as a universal problem solver.Marc AndreessenOct 16, 2023· Essay
We believe that if we make both intelligence and energy “too cheap to meter”, the ultimate result will be that all physical goods become as cheap as pencils.Marc AndreessenOct 16, 2023· Essay
AI is highly likely to be the control layer for everything in the world.Marc AndreessenJun 6, 2023· Essay
AI is quite possibly the most important – and best – thing our civilization has ever created, certainly on par with electricity and microchips, and probably beyond those. The development and proliferation of AI – far from a risk that we should fear – is a moral obligation that we have to ourselves, to our children, and to our future.Marc AndreessenJun 6, 2023· Essay
Fortunately, I am here to bring the good news: AI will not destroy the world, and in fact may save it.Marc AndreessenJun 6, 2023· Essay
In our new era of AI: Every child will have an AI tutor that is infinitely patient, infinitely compassionate, infinitely knowledgeable, infinitely helpful. The AI tutor will be by each child’s side every step of their development, helping them maximize their potential with the machine version of infinite love.Marc AndreessenJun 6, 2023· Essay
My view is that the idea that AI will decide to literally kill humanity is a profound category error.Marc AndreessenJun 6, 2023· Essay
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