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Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen co-created the Mosaic browser, cofounded Netscape, and is cofounder and general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

1,009 claims collected, 216 researched, 105 resolved. Report of 4 November 2026, method 0.1.0+c876030c.

Scores by kind of claim

Each kind of claim is scored on its own, out of 100: the share that held up, with the range it likely falls in. Fewer resolved claims give a wider range.

  • Factual claims

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

    67 61 73

    High confidence, 94 factual claims resolved. From 11 documents, 1995 to 2026; 19 documents sampled from 30 candidates found.

    Not scored: 44 unresolvable, 17 checkable only against their own records.

  • Predictions

    Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

    60 44 76

    Low confidence, 11 predictions resolved. From 6 documents, 1995 to 2025; 19 documents sampled from 30 candidates found.

    Not scored: 41 unresolvable, 1 checkable only against their own records. 4 more fall due later.

    Does not yet allow for how likely each prediction was when made.

  • Promises

    Commitments to the person's or organisation's own future action, with something to deliver: was it delivered?

    Insufficient record: 0 promises resolved, 5 needed for a score.

    Not scored: 3 unresolvable.

All types combined: 66 (likely 61 to 72, high confidence), from 105 claims: 94 factual claims, 11 predictions. It mixes kinds of claim in different proportions for different people, so compare people kind by kind.

Marc Andreessen's claims

1,009 claims, sorted by newest said. Choose a claim to read it in full.
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Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 the level of contempt for the taxpayer is just off the charts. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 And the commonality there is in both cases, you’re lying. You believe something internally, and then you’re lying about it in public. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not researched Factual 26 Jan 2025 The president has total latitude over which DOGE recommendations to implement. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 AI policy and governance
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 It’s gone. That entire thing was fake and is completely rotten. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 And he was like the Typhoid Mary of all this stuff in corporate America. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 But the other thing that happens is they no longer have an accurate gauge at all or any way to estimate how many people agree with them. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Mostly true Factual 26 Jan 2025 The US Constitution requires Congress to authorize money to be spent by the executive branch. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 AI policy and governance
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 All of our problems are basically demoralization campaigns Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Unresolvable Prediction 26 Jan 2025 If federal (and for state schools, state) taxpayer funding were withdrawn, universities would instantly go bankrupt. Prediction · 26 Jan 2025 Other
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 We must double down and we must celebrate murders in the street of health insurance executives. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not researched Factual 26 Jan 2025 The First Amendment applies to the US government. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 that was the first one that was in the mainstream press Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 our education system is good enough for foreigners to be able to come here preferentially in a very large number of cases Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not researched Factual 26 Jan 2025 Most rules Americans live under come from agency regulations rather than bills passed by Congress. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 AI policy and governance
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 We built an ossified system, an ossified, centralized, corrupt system, where we're surprised by the results. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Unresolvable Factual 26 Jan 2025 Anger over online censorship probably increased enthusiasm among right-leaning voters in the recent US election. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 AI policy and governance
Mostly true Factual 26 Jan 2025 Under the current interpretation of appropriations, a president who does not want to spend appropriated money cannot decline to spend it. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 AI policy and governance
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 They can expose any element of unconstitutional or silly government spending. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 It should be the distilled wisdom of everybody who came before you. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Mostly false Factual 26 Jan 2025 Getting Amish voters to the polls was one of the reasons Trump won the 2024 election. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 AI policy and governance
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 And sitting here today, they have the widest spectrum of speech and conversation anywhere on planet Earth. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 And in the valley, that 60% for the last decade decided to be woke and extremely, I would say, on edge on a lot of things. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 they’re drawing on a much deeper, richer talent pool than they had the first time. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not researched Factual 26 Jan 2025 The US founders established a representative democracy rather than a direct democracy. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 AI policy and governance
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 And I think quite honestly, as of November, I think people are done with it. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not researched Factual 26 Jan 2025 The executive teams and boards of directors of major tech companies were almost all Democrats. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 $100 is a meal out, it’s a trip to the amusement park. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 And so you actually can’t know until you put it to the test. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 I am extremely encouraged, what I’ve seen so far. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 the US is just flat out primed for growth. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 I think what happens is they conform to the belief system around them, and I think most of the time they’re not even aware that they’re… Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 I think this framework is exactly why Trump took over the Republican Party. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 We would all be much better off today had he been in charge of the response. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Mostly true Factual 26 Jan 2025 Incumbent universities, through accreditation, are in complete control of who gets access to federal student loan money. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 Other
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 I’m not sure about that. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 And then just this general idea of progress is bad, and technology is bad, and capitalism is bad, and building businesses is bad and… Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 at the dinner parties and at the conferences, no, there’s none of that. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 There's too much happy talk in these conversations. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Mostly true Factual 26 Jan 2025 Marc Andreessen does not speak for DOGE and is not in charge of DOGE. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 AI policy and governance
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 I would put him up there with Elon in terms of somebody who’s really affecting how all this is playing out. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 which is just this last 10 years of misery is just over. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 Identity politics is worshiping ancestors. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 We don’t have enough good founders, we don’t have enough engineers, we don’t have enough scientists. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 These people have enormous contempt for the taxpayer. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 no, we weren’t true to our principles. We were too weak. We were too soft. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 Anybody who argues against it is obviously doing so from a position of racism, is probably a fascist and a Nazi. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Mostly true Factual 26 Jan 2025 The United States is the main place where the world's best and brightest foreign students get educated. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 AI, the economy and work
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 one of the really core ones is an absolute dedication to the truth. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not researched Factual 26 Jan 2025 Andreessen said that the investors of the person he was discussing have been remarkably supportive of what that person did, and that many of them agree with him. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 Economics and markets
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 It’s not that they’re enforcing the actual ideology of the workers of the world uniting. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 I think he’s been a real hero on a lot of topics where we needed to see heroism. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 Flagrant criminality, felonies, like obvious felonies. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 And I think it’s a really interesting open question in a fight between the employees and the employer it’s not crystal clear that the… Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not researched Factual 26 Jan 2025 Universities are funded by four primary sources of federal funding, the largest being the federal student loan program. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 Other
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 You need to get 40 people to sign off on anything, any one of them can veto it. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 At least what I’ve seen and what you’re seeing with the appointments is it looks much, much better. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 So regulation is a big part of the way the power gets exercised. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 And they’re sitting there right now feeling like reality has just smacked them hard in the face because they lost the election so badly. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 And so the idea that any group of experts is going to sit around the table and decide on the truth is deeply anti-Western and deeply… Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 I’m extremely, extremely thrilled by what he’s done on almost every front for the last 30 years. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 So preference falsification is when you believe something and you can’t say it, or, and this is very important, you don’t believe something… Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 First of all, you have to elect people who don’t do it. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 The one thing we know is that none of this stuff is running well, we know that for sure. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 He said on that show what he really believes. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not researched Factual 26 Jan 2025 Ronald Reagan was a very controversial figure at the time he took office. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 AI policy and governance
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 humor is a way to have deniability, right? Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 The soft version is somebody clicks a button in Washington and you were erased from the internet, which good news, you’re still alive. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 He’s 100% consistent in my experience. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 I'm just not building a censorship engine. I'm just not doing it. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not researched Factual 26 Jan 2025 Jon Stewart recently attacked Marc Andreessen. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 Their own work or organisation
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 the plans and intentions are clear and the staffing supports it Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 And so he had access to the exact same written materials that we have access to, and so we’ve learned nothing. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Unresolvable Factual 26 Jan 2025 Most of the Republican Party's institutional base were Bush Republicans. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 AI policy and governance
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 And there's no way to replace them without letting them fail. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 The professors and the students, the professors and the feral students. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 That turns out to be very, very important. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 Decline is a choice. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 the 60% go with the first 20%, not the second 20%. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Unresolvable Factual 26 Jan 2025 Around 2012-2013, internet companies rapidly pivoted toward social media censorship and content banning. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 And so when Elon says something, it sounds like crazy shit, but in his mind it’s true. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not researched Factual 26 Jan 2025 The online censorship complex existed and expanded from roughly 2013 to 2023. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not researched Factual 26 Jan 2025 Andreessen said the number of US federal agencies is somewhere between 450 and 520, and that nobody is quite sure. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 AI policy and governance
Not researched Factual 26 Jan 2025 The person under discussion has in the past year been backpedaling from "that stuff" as fast as he possibly can, for example by pulling out of a corporate net-zero alliance. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 Economics and markets
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 I feel it for sure in Silicon Valley. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 So it’s not hard authoritarianism, but it is soft authoritarianism. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 my views on things are very different than they were 10 years ago on lots of topics. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 Regulation was more important, administrative power was more important, and then just flat out demands and flat out threats were ultimately… Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not researched Factual 26 Jan 2025 The US is currently adding a trillion dollars to the national debt every 100 days. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 Economics and markets
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 I think he exhibited, I would say, conspicuous bravery and had a big impact with that. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 Full traditionalism is communitarianism, it’s ethnic particularism, it’s ethnic chauvinism, it’s this incredible level of resistance to… Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Unresolvable Prediction 26 Jan 2025 Andreessen said he thinks it may be that, with the continued growth of Substack and other new platforms, a tremendous amount of previously forbidden conversations can now shift back into public view, though he did not know that everything would. Prediction · 26 Jan 2025 Philosophy, ethics and society
Unresolvable Prediction 26 Jan 2025 Andreessen said he thinks that if taxpayers come to understand the level of crisis, the funding will evaporate. Prediction · 26 Jan 2025 Other
Mostly true Factual 26 Jan 2025 The US is adding a trillion dollars to the national debt every 100 days, and it is now passing the size of the Defense Department budget and compounding. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 Economics and markets
Not researched Factual 26 Jan 2025 Andreessen said that at the end of each federal fiscal year on September 30, remaining money that agencies don't know how to spend productively is deliberately spent unproductively, in what he called the great budget flush, amounting to hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 AI policy and governance
Mixed Factual 26 Jan 2025 The system that has been built for these people is paid for virtually 100% by taxpayer money. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 Economics and markets
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 The voters actually have a voice and they actually exercise it, and they don’t just listen to ads. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 the ring of power was wielded in grossly irresponsible ways. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 but these are Einstein’s of politics. Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not checkable Not checkable 26 Jan 2025 And the reason it’s a lonely job is because your words carry tremendous weight Not checkable · 26 Jan 2025
Not researched Factual 26 Jan 2025 Few federal employees are working in the office, and most federal buildings are still empty. Factual · 26 Jan 2025 AI policy and governance
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Factual Their own work or organisation

“I should say Jon Stewart attacked me recently, so I’m not that thrilled about him”

Marc Andreessen, interviewee 26 January 2025 Transcript for Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America (Lex Fridman)

Jon Stewart recently attacked Marc Andreessen.

Not researched Checkable, but outside the sample that was researched.

Cite this claim

Marc Andreessen, “Jon Stewart recently attacked Marc Andreessen.” (said 26 January 2025). Verdict: not researched. Reliability API, claim c_b0ba9bc98705, method 0.1.0+c876030c. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_b0ba9bc98705

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