ClaimsMarc Andreessen

“each of our GP’s has the ability to pull the trigger on a deal without a vote or without consensus.”

Marc Andreessen, a16z cofounder, interviewee 1 January 2018 The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Marc Andreessen (#163) (Tim Ferriss blog) archived copy

Factual Their own work or organisation

Each general partner at Andreessen Horowitz can make a deal without a vote or consensus.

Own records only Only the person's or their organisation's own records speak to it, so it is not scored.

Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.

Reasoning

Internal decision process of the firm.

Cite this claim

Marc Andreessen, “Each general partner at Andreessen Horowitz can make a deal without a vote or consensus.” (said 1 January 2018). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_d08bdac42477, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_d08bdac42477

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

Reply to this claim

For Marc Andreessen, or someone speaking for them: a correction or counter-evidence. Replies are read before anything is shown; an approved reply shows your name, role, date, statement and link. Your email address is never shown and is deleted 30 days after the decision (privacy).

More factual claims by Marc Andreessen

  1. Mostly true Factual 26 January 2025
    “One is Substack, and I’m super proud of those guys because they started from scratch and declared right up front that they were going to be a free speech platform.”

    Substack started from scratch and declared up front that it would be a free speech platform.

  2. Mostly true Factual 26 January 2025
    “I joined the board there in 2007 so I've seen everything in the last almost 20 years every step of the way.”

    Marc Andreessen joined the Facebook board in 2007.

  3. Mostly true Factual 1 January 2018
    “Peter flatly says the iPhone doesn’t count as innovation.”

    Peter Thiel flatly says the iPhone does not count as innovation.

  4. Mostly true Factual 1 January 2018
    “We started out; we didn’t do any healthcare related stuff here, investments here.”

    Andreessen Horowitz initially made no healthcare-related investments.

  5. Resolved true Factual 1 January 2018
    “And we’ve now done an almost complete 180 on that.”

    Andreessen Horowitz has since reversed course almost completely and is now deeply invested in healthcare.

All of them

Verdicts are made automatically; how verdicts are made.