What's changed isn't that Andreessen is wrong; it's that we aren't in the wild west days of Silicon Valley any more. Big Tech companies and other incumbents hav

What's changed isn't that Andreessen is wrong; it's that we aren't in the wild west days of Silicon Valley any more. Big Tech companies and other incumbents have a lot to gain by cultivating an early, painless regulatory capture in collaboration with the right political actors. His Baptists and Bootleggers theory captures the dynamic well. People have a lot to gain by cynically slowing the development of tech. The bazaar of the past is now the cathedral, and Andreessen — irritatingly to many on HN — remains wedded to the now weaker bazaar. To me, this demonstrates his authenticity.