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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.

    See the factual claims

  • 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.

    See the predictions

  • 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.

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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 · page 5 of 11

1,009 claims, sorted by newest said. Choose a claim to read it in full.
VerdictKindSaidClaimTopic
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 Our enemies are not bad people – but rather bad ideas. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 Our enemy is statism, authoritarianism, collectivism, central planning, socialism. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Unresolvable Factual 16 Oct 2023 Technology-powered productivity growth is the main driver of economic growth, wage growth, and the creation of new industries and jobs. Factual · 16 Oct 2023 Economics and markets
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We believe that there is no material problem – whether created by nature or by technology – that cannot be solved with more technology. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 It’s time to be a Techno-Optimist. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 Our enemy is the Precautionary Principle, which would have prevented virtually all progress since man first harnessed fire. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We believe the techno-capital machine is not anti-human – in fact, it may be the most pro-human thing there is. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We believe a Universal Basic Income would turn people into zoo animals to be farmed by the state. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We believe free markets are the most effective way to organize a technological economy. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 Technology is built by a virtual United Nations of talent from all over the world. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We believe we must help them find their way out of their self-imposed labyrinth of pain. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We believe America and her allies should be strong and not weak. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We believe the ultimate moral defense of markets is that they divert people who otherwise would raise armies and start religions into… Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We believe technology is a lever on the world – the way to make more with less. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 Centralized planning is doomed to fail, the system of production and consumption is too complex. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 Our enemy is stagnation. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We believe in an absolute rejection of resentment. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 Technologically strong liberal democracies safeguard liberty and peace. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We believe technology is liberatory. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We believe energy need not expand to the detriment of the natural environment. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We believe in fulfilling our potential, becoming fully human – for ourselves, our communities, and our society. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We are not necessarily left wing, although some of us are. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Mixed Factual 16 Oct 2023 In a market system, society captures about 98% of the value of technological innovation, a 50:1 ratio to the innovating company's share. Factual · 16 Oct 2023 Economics and markets
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We are materially focused, for a reason – to open the aperture on how we may choose to live amid material abundance. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We believe intelligence is the ultimate engine of progress. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 Technology is the glory of human ambition and achievement, the spearhead of progress, and the realization of our potential. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We believe technological change, far from reducing the need for human work, increases it, by broadening the scope of what humans can… Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 Our enemy is deceleration, de-growth, depopulation – the nihilistic wish, so trendy among our elites, for fewer people, less energy, and… Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We believe the ultimate mission of technology is to advance life both on Earth and in the stars. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 It’s time to build. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We believe technology opens the space of what it can mean to be human. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We owe the past, and the future. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 Our present society has been subjected to a mass demoralization campaign for six decades – against technology and against life – under… Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 It is time to be Techno-Optimists. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We believe our planet is dramatically underpopulated, compared to the population we could have with abundant intelligence, energy, and… Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We believe there is no conflict between capitalist profits and a social welfare system that protects the vulnerable. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We invite everyone to join us in Techno-Optimism. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 Our civilization was built on a spirit of discovery, of exploration, of industrialization. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 But we believe intrinsic motivations – the satisfaction of building something new, the camaraderie of being on a team, the achievement of… Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 Our enemy is corruption, regulatory capture, monopolies, cartels. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We believe in not Utopia, but also not Apocalypse. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We believe markets are generative, not exploitative; positive sum, not zero sum. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We believe a market sets wages as a function of the marginal productivity of the worker. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We believe in the Silicon Valley code of “pay it forward”, trust via aligned incentives, generosity of spirit to help one another learn and… Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We believe growth is progress – leading to vitality, expansion of life, increasing knowledge, higher well being. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We believe the measure of abundance is falling prices. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 16 Oct 2023 We believe in making everyone rich, everything cheap, and everything abundant. Not checkable · 16 Oct 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 we're back to one of those moments, whatever in the 1970s with the Soviet Union, where they're, like--there are a choice of two systems and… Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 the process by which the precautionary principle is actually engaged with, I find fairly horrifying. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 anybody who has ever programmed a computer knows that's not how these things work. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 By the way, this is classic of apocalypse cults. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 I think we should have these arguments, debates, I think people should try different things. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 that's specifically the risk on AI right now, which is we're not going to get the payoff. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Mixed Factual 2 Sep 2023 Richard Nixon created a project in 1972 called Project Independence, and proposed building 1,000 new US nuclear reactors. Factual · 2 Sep 2023 Economics and markets
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 gunpowder is one of the things that led to society's basically growing up into the nation state that we have today. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 generally they are creating a fake version of Christianity. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 The role of mechanization in our society is to take out the drudge work, to take out the things we don't have to do Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 At some point computers get so sophisticated that they'll be basically more sophisticated than a human brain. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 It's actually a good test. It's a good test whether anybody wants any such limitations, but they have the capability to do that. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 We have many thousands of cults at any point in time. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Unresolvable Prediction 2 Sep 2023 Andreessen guessed that within a couple of years of 2023, the dominant discussion about AI would be the United States or the West versus China. Prediction · 2 Sep 2023 AI policy and governance
Mixed Factual 2 Sep 2023 In the research literature, IQ is typically linked to outcomes with a correlation of about 0.4 to 0.5. Factual · 2 Sep 2023 Science and research methods
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 we would propose the right way to solve this is in a decentralized way, kind of consistent with how the Internet works Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 I would not make an absolute statement of all these things are good or even that all these things are net positive. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 And of course, the opposite is true, which is the premium music experience is not listening to music on your stereo or on your phone. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 It's the ultimate thought-partner in, I think, an incredibly compelling way. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 Because it has crystallized intelligence--it has all this data--it's able to basically be extremely comprehensive. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 A hundred years ago, if you were rich, you had a car. If you were poor, you had a horse. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 We say, 'We're no longer operating in science.' Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 There's no science to these claims. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 they've constructed a new religion around a new Godhead. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Own records only Factual 2 Sep 2023 Andreessen Horowitz holds certain meetings where everyone puts their phones face down. Factual · 2 Sep 2023 Their own work or organisation
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 At that point, we basically created a proxy religion. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 When a national leader says a country wants to be a leader in X, they mean one of two things. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Mostly true Factual 2 Sep 2023 Ray Kurzweil kind of took that idea to the next level and applied it specifically to AI. Factual · 2 Sep 2023 AI safety and alignment
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 it would be good to have a general solution for this kind of thing that gives people the ability to exercise control and verification on… Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 I actually think it's concentrated to actually a quite extreme degree and to a degree that's probably not healthy Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 Well, that's what you'd want to say, if you had an early lead and you wanted to convince other people to maybe back off a little bit and… Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 I actually think nuclear weapons have been net positive Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 I'm not a utopian and things are overdetermined. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 they've got the other 40 minutes to spend with their kids. That's more valuable than anything. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not researched Factual 2 Sep 2023 The thing being discussed is one of the few exceptions to the rule that almost nothing is about 40% causative of anything. Factual · 2 Sep 2023 Science and research methods
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 This is not human intelligence, but this is much, much closer to human intelligence than anything we've ever gotten. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Mostly false Factual 2 Sep 2023 The precautionary principle was developed by the German Greens in the 1970s. Factual · 2 Sep 2023 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 What tends to happen--I think, at least my reading of it--what tends to happen is they don't actually construct the new ideas they think… Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 I think that's something that people should think very hard about. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 Probably that's not what Netanyahu has in mind. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 there's this interesting phenomenon where a lot of these things become art forms. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 I think that generally in life, making up your own religion is a bad idea. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 written culture led to the creation of the Enlightenment and science and technology and everything around us today. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Mostly false Prediction 2 Sep 2023 The EU may pass a law as soon as October 2023 that effectively bans AI inside the EU. Prediction · 2 Sep 2023 AI policy and governance
Not researched Factual 2 Sep 2023 Some AI-risk advocates are now advocating real-world violence, including airstrikes on data centers and potentially nuclear war, to offset the risk of a runaway AI in another country. Factual · 2 Sep 2023 AI safety and alignment
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 it seems that we've finally reached the point where that technology is actually starting to work. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 you have a generation of extremely smart people who have kind of thought themselves into an apocalypse cult. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 I think we should generally proceed with at least an implicit assumption that new technologies are net positive. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 it's just self-evidence that these things are working in this sort of breakthrough way. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 Any apocalypse cult has this characteristic. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 For me, it's all work. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 The challenge is that the temptation--at least in the world I'm in--the temptation is then to try to roll your own. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
Not checkable Not checkable 2 Sep 2023 that's for me where it leaves the realm of practical reality and just ends up being this sort of quasi-religious fantasy. Not checkable · 2 Sep 2023
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Marc Andreessen

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“Our enemies are not bad people – but rather bad ideas.”

Marc Andreessen 16 October 2023 The Techno-Optimist Manifesto (a16z)

Our enemies are not bad people – but rather bad ideas.

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Marc Andreessen, “Our enemies are not bad people – but rather bad ideas.” (said 16 October 2023). Verdict: not checkable. Reliability API, claim c_696a994a1187, method 0.1.0+c876030c. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_696a994a1187

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