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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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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

57 claims

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VerdictKindSaidClaimTopic
Unresolvable Prediction 31 Mar 2026 Fears of AI-driven mass labor displacement, based on the lump of labor fallacy, will again prove wrong. Prediction · 31 Mar 2026 AI, the economy and work
Unresolvable Prediction 7 Jan 2026 Falling AI token prices will drive huge demand for AI. Prediction · 7 Jan 2026 AI, the economy and work
Not yet due Prediction 7 Jan 2026 It is very likely that AI chips will become cheap and abundant within five years. Prediction · 7 Jan 2026 AI compute, hardware and data
Not yet due Prediction 7 Jan 2026 With hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars being invested, the unit cost of AI companies will drop sharply over the next decade. Prediction · 7 Jan 2026 AI compute, hardware and data
Unresolvable Prediction 7 Jan 2026 Andreessen said he tends to think the AI industry will be structured similarly to the computer industry, with a very small number of giant models running in huge data centers and a cascade of smaller models below. Prediction · 7 Jan 2026 AI capabilities
Unresolvable Prediction 7 Jan 2026 AI models will cascade down to very small models running on single chips embedded in every physical object. Prediction · 7 Jan 2026 AI capabilities
Unresolvable Prediction 7 Jan 2026 The smartest AI models will always be at the top, while small models will be greater in number. Prediction · 7 Jan 2026 AI capabilities
Not yet due Prediction 7 Jan 2026 Andreessen said he highly doubts that the product forms people use today (as of January 2026) will be the same in five or ten years. Prediction · 7 Jan 2026 AI capabilities
Unresolvable Prediction Nov 2025 Putting AI into physical objects that move around the world will bring closer an integrated intellectual and physical experience. Prediction · Nov 2025 AI capabilities
Unresolvable Prediction Nov 2025 Robots with AI will be able to gather much more real-world data. Prediction · Nov 2025 AI capabilities
Unresolvable Prediction Nov 2025 He is pretty convinced that AI models will clear the bar of human-level creativity. Prediction · Nov 2025 AI capabilities
Unresolvable Prediction 8 Oct 2025 If AI produced hyper-acceleration of productivity, the result would be hyper-deflation of prices. Prediction · 8 Oct 2025 AI, the economy and work
Unresolvable Prediction 8 Oct 2025 AI-driven employment shifts will not happen at anywhere near the velocity people expect. Prediction · 8 Oct 2025 AI, the economy and work
Unresolvable Prediction 1 May 2025 When AI is doing everything else, venture capital may be one of the last remaining fields people still do. Prediction · 1 May 2025 Economics and markets
Own records only Prediction 1 May 2025 Marc Andreessen says the relationship-driven work of venture capital may be literally timeless, i.e. persist indefinitely despite AI. Prediction · 1 May 2025 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Prediction 26 Jan 2025 The DOGE effort will turn out very different from previous government-efficiency programs. Prediction · 26 Jan 2025 AI policy and governance
Unresolvable Prediction 26 Jan 2025 If US debt growth is not fixed, the US will at some point enter a hyper-inflationary spiral and become like Argentina or Brazil. Prediction · 26 Jan 2025 Economics and markets
Resolved true Prediction 26 Jan 2025 Andreessen said energy independence and large net energy exports are a matter of choice, and that he thinks the new Trump administration will choose to pursue them. Prediction · 26 Jan 2025 AI policy and governance
Mostly true Prediction 26 Jan 2025 The incoming Trump administration will do as much as it can through executive orders and then use legislation and regulatory changes for the rest. Prediction · 26 Jan 2025 AI policy and governance
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
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
Unresolvable Prediction 26 Jan 2025 If the debt problem is not fixed, the US will at some point enter a hyperinflationary spiral and become like Argentina or Brazil. Prediction · 26 Jan 2025 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Prediction 16 Oct 2023 Any deceleration of AI development will cost lives. Prediction · 16 Oct 2023 AI policy and governance
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
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
Resolved true Prediction 2 Sep 2023 There will be Chinese AI systems that embody Communist ideology. Prediction · 2 Sep 2023 AI policy and governance
Unresolvable Prediction 2 Sep 2023 AI will be one of the key technologies shaping the world for hundreds of years, amid a new Cold War dynamic between the US and China. Prediction · 2 Sep 2023 AI policy and governance
Unresolvable Prediction 12 Jun 2023 Freedom-oriented regimes will generally want to make the US bet on AI. Prediction · 12 Jun 2023 AI policy and governance
Unresolvable Prediction 12 Jun 2023 It is entirely possible that fundamentally better neural network architectures will now be invented. Prediction · 12 Jun 2023 AI timelines and forecasting
Unresolvable Prediction 12 Jun 2023 Authoritarian-oriented regimes will be tempted to take the Chinese path on AI. Prediction · 12 Jun 2023 AI policy and governance
Unresolvable Prediction 12 Jun 2023 Many countries around the world will have to make a fundamental choice between US and Chinese AI. Prediction · 12 Jun 2023 AI policy and governance
Unresolvable Prediction 12 Jun 2023 Which AI bet (US or China) a country takes will help tilt its political system in the future, as AI shapes its politics and culture. Prediction · 12 Jun 2023 AI policy and governance
Unresolvable Prediction 12 Jun 2023 There may be decades of architectural breakthroughs still ahead in AI. Prediction · 12 Jun 2023 AI timelines and forecasting
Mixed Prediction 12 Jun 2023 Andreessen said he was pretty confident that within roughly two years of June 2023, AI systems' limited persistent memory across sessions would be a solved problem. Prediction · 12 Jun 2023 AI timelines and forecasting
Mostly true Prediction 12 Jun 2023 Andreessen said he thought the rate of AI technological improvement from mid-2023 onward would be very rapid. Prediction · 12 Jun 2023 AI timelines and forecasting
Unresolvable Prediction 12 Jun 2023 Countries like Israel will have their own AI capabilities, but much of what they have will be derived from the United States. Prediction · 12 Jun 2023 AI policy and governance
Unresolvable Prediction 6 Jun 2023 Artificial intelligence will not destroy the world, and may instead save it. Prediction · 6 Jun 2023 AI timelines and forecasting
Not yet due Prediction 18 Apr 2020 The institutional failure over the coronavirus pandemic will have effects through the rest of the 2020s. Prediction · 18 Apr 2020 Other global risks
Resolved true Prediction 18 Apr 2020 The essay "It's Time to Build" will be the target of criticism. Prediction · 18 Apr 2020 Their own work or organisation
Unresolvable Prediction 1 Jan 2018 Commercial drones will become a giant market in industries such as oil and gas and insurance. Prediction · 1 Jan 2018 Technology
Unresolvable Prediction 1 Jan 2018 Autonomous drone technology is about to tip and become very widely usable. Prediction · 1 Jan 2018 Technology
Unresolvable Prediction 1 Jan 2018 Sky Deal's autonomous consumer drones will be a very big advance in what hobbyists can do. Prediction · 1 Jan 2018 Technology
Unresolvable Prediction 1 Jan 2018 Entrepreneurial opportunity is more likely to be in areas people think of as cult and fringe. Prediction · 1 Jan 2018 Economics and markets
Mostly true Prediction 1 Jan 2018 In the three months after January 2018, the US economy will destroy more jobs than the World Economic Forum projected AI would destroy over the next five years. Prediction · 1 Jan 2018 AI, the economy and work
Unresolvable Prediction 1 Jan 2018 The things being described, which the speaker said would be used for drones, will become things people rely on to make their lives safer and better, and will be taken completely for granted. Prediction · 1 Jan 2018 Technology
Unresolvable Prediction 20 Aug 2011 Andreessen expected that over the next 10 years many more industries would be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not. Prediction · 20 Aug 2011 Technology
Unresolvable Prediction 20 Aug 2011 In Andreessen's view, health care and education are next up for fundamental software-based transformation. Prediction · 20 Aug 2011 Technology
Unresolvable Prediction 20 Aug 2011 The trend toward hybrid and electric vehicles will accelerate the shift of cars to software control. Prediction · 20 Aug 2011 Technology
Unresolvable Prediction 20 Aug 2011 If the new software companies perform as expected, they will become highly valuable cornerstone companies in the global economy, addressing markets far larger than tech has historically pursued. Prediction · 20 Aug 2011 Economics and markets
Resolved false Prediction 20 Aug 2011 Within 10 years of 2011, at least five billion people worldwide will own smartphones. Prediction · 20 Aug 2011 Technology
Mostly false Prediction Jun 1995 George Gilder predicts that within five to ten years the Internet will essentially be free. Prediction · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Prediction Jun 1995 Andreessen said he thought a lot of companies were going to start taking advantage of "that"; the material does not say what "that" refers to. Prediction · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Prediction Jun 1995 Among other things, commercialization will guarantee that the Net will be there. Prediction · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Mostly true Prediction Jun 1995 Catalogs of Internet resources will be supported by advertising in the future. Prediction · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Prediction Jun 1995 Some day it should be possible for everyone to publish on the Net as easily as using word processing. Prediction · Jun 1995 Technology
Unresolvable Prediction Jun 1995 Five or ten years is about the right timeframe to think about consumers shifting their commerce online, because that is about how long it takes for consumer habits to change on a broad scale. Prediction · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
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Marc Andreessen

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Prediction AI, the economy and work

“It’s always been wrong; it’s going to be wrong again,”

Marc Andreessen, a16z cofounder, on 20VC podcast 31 March 2026 Marc Andreessen says AI layoffs are a farce (Fortune)

Fears of AI-driven mass labor displacement, based on the lump of labor fallacy, will again prove wrong.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Reasoning

Prediction with no horizon about future labor displacement.

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Marc Andreessen, “Fears of AI-driven mass labor displacement, based on the lump of labor fallacy, will again prove wrong.” (said 31 March 2026). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_ab0b716cb349, method 0.1.0+c876030c. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_ab0b716cb349

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