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Marc Andreessen Says One Job Is Mostly Safe from AI: Venture Capitalist

21 points by davidw 3mo ago

cdrnsf 3mo ago
It could definitely take over coming up with hilariously bad takes for him.
jackb4040 3mo ago
One Job Is Mostly Safe from AI: Crackheads
- mdotk 3mo ago
  Had me rolling
sango_ta 3mo ago
"Everyone's job is automatable but mine!"
dirtyaura 3mo ago
It is same time hilarious take as described in the article but also a weird take for smart man in many ways: surely entrepreneurship itself will also change if AI did replace most of the human jobs. Why would those psychological factors matter as much as they did?
- theonemind 3mo ago
  It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it - H.L. Mencken
cliglot 3mo ago
You can’t even parody these people anymore for fucks sake.
nylonstrung 3mo ago
In reality, VC is probably the most threatened because value and investment dollars have increasingly accrued to large public companies and a handful of a growth companies, the power law has never been stronger and returns never more stratified. You can't just build a fund throwing out money at Seed and Series A SaaS companies anymore, more than ever company spend is going towards a few AI providers as "buy vs build" shifts in the opposite direction than before And additionally you could argue that LLM coding is replacing the need for much of pre-Seed and Seed money that would go towards hiring the first 1-3 engineers and MVP development
- bko 3mo ago
  The value accrues to much later stages. The odds of a 10x used to diminish after the early rounds. Idds that a $100bn valuation goes to $1t are now higher than a $100m gets to $1bn But VCs note this and they just move up the stack so it's mostly fine. The thing that VCs have to contend with primarily is not so much throwing money at random seed or series A companies, but managing conflicts. They can't invest indiscriminately and generally have to pick a winner to back in each category. It's probably more relevant at the early stage, but it's very frowned upon by founders if their investor also invests in their competitors. And at the end of the day, VCs have to convince the hottest companies to take their money, and most companies would object.
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libertine 3mo ago
For some time a lot of people though these guys were going to be the "cool" elites that can influence the government positively, and people were willing to vote for this administration because it would be "their turn at the table". They're just cringe, awkward, and just as damaging - if not more - then the previous elites in modern times. At least the oil barons, big pharma, banks etc stayed in the shadows - these guys are celebrity divas... How many iterations are we going to need to end this sort of wealth?
NonHyloMorph 3mo ago
That is not a job by definitionn of capital.
digitaltrees 3mo ago
Haha. Lots of founders are excited that we don't need VCs
grttw1 3mo ago
Oh man vc’s and partners alike are in for a rude awakening: the financing of future early stage ventures will not need these vultures. Their desperate attempt to cling on to the past world is gonna be comical whilst they fade away into irrelevancy.
- cyanydeez 3mo ago
  I'm fairly certain fascism is what they'd doing to cling to their gains...in real time, riught now...
- coldtea 3mo ago
  >Their desperate attempt to cling on to the past world is gonna be comical whilst they fade away into irrelevancy.. Yeah, they'll be so devastated that they'd be soaking stacks of Benjamins crying in their 500000 sq ft 1 billion dollar mansions with 20,000 acres surrounding nature...
sharts 3mo ago
This is how you know these people are out of touch and shouldn’t be listened to
whazor 3mo ago
VCs are more likely to be replaced by a simple statistical model.
- rwmj 3mo ago
  Exactly this. VCs are bottlenecked by being able to find patterns in piles of data from a start up, and then scaling that across the many companies they consider. If only there was some technology that was well suited to this task ...
ahartmetz 3mo ago
I'm just gonna copy and paste my comment from another thread here: >Aka I thought the stuff that these other guys are doing was not so difficult. No one can replace me, of course. >Many such cases.
calldacopsidgaf 3mo ago
However, not safe from molotov cocktails
- cindyllm 3mo ago
  [dead]
joebuckwilliams 3mo ago
This is ancient news. Why is it here?

21 points by davidw 3mo ago

cdrnsf 3mo ago

It could definitely take over coming up with hilariously bad takes for him.

jackb4040 3mo ago

One Job Is Mostly Safe from AI: Crackheads

mdotk 3mo ago
Had me rolling

sango_ta 3mo ago

"Everyone's job is automatable but mine!"

dirtyaura 3mo ago

It is same time hilarious take as described in the article but also a weird take for smart man in many ways: surely entrepreneurship itself will also change if AI did replace most of the human jobs. Why would those psychological factors matter as much as they did?

theonemind 3mo ago
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it - H.L. Mencken

cliglot 3mo ago

You can’t even parody these people anymore for fucks sake.

nylonstrung 3mo ago

In reality, VC is probably the most threatened because value and investment dollars have increasingly accrued to large public companies and a handful of a growth companies, the power law has never been stronger and returns never more stratified. You can't just build a fund throwing out money at Seed and Series A SaaS companies anymore, more than ever company spend is going towards a few AI providers as "buy vs build" shifts in the opposite direction than before And additionally you could argue that LLM coding is replacing the need for much of pre-Seed and Seed money that would go towards hiring the first 1-3 engineers and MVP development

bko 3mo ago
The value accrues to much later stages. The odds of a 10x used to diminish after the early rounds. Idds that a $100bn valuation goes to $1t are now higher than a $100m gets to $1bn But VCs note this and they just move up the stack so it's mostly fine. The thing that VCs have to contend with primarily is not so much throwing money at random seed or series A companies, but managing conflicts. They can't invest indiscriminately and generally have to pick a winner to back in each category. It's probably more relevant at the early stage, but it's very frowned upon by founders if their investor also invests in their competitors. And at the end of the day, VCs have to convince the hottest companies to take their money, and most companies would object.
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libertine 3mo ago

For some time a lot of people though these guys were going to be the "cool" elites that can influence the government positively, and people were willing to vote for this administration because it would be "their turn at the table". They're just cringe, awkward, and just as damaging - if not more - then the previous elites in modern times. At least the oil barons, big pharma, banks etc stayed in the shadows - these guys are celebrity divas... How many iterations are we going to need to end this sort of wealth?

NonHyloMorph 3mo ago

That is not a job by definitionn of capital.

digitaltrees 3mo ago

Haha. Lots of founders are excited that we don't need VCs

grttw1 3mo ago

Oh man vc’s and partners alike are in for a rude awakening: the financing of future early stage ventures will not need these vultures. Their desperate attempt to cling on to the past world is gonna be comical whilst they fade away into irrelevancy.

cyanydeez 3mo ago
I'm fairly certain fascism is what they'd doing to cling to their gains...in real time, riught now...
coldtea 3mo ago
>Their desperate attempt to cling on to the past world is gonna be comical whilst they fade away into irrelevancy.. Yeah, they'll be so devastated that they'd be soaking stacks of Benjamins crying in their 500000 sq ft 1 billion dollar mansions with 20,000 acres surrounding nature...

sharts 3mo ago

This is how you know these people are out of touch and shouldn’t be listened to

whazor 3mo ago

VCs are more likely to be replaced by a simple statistical model.

rwmj 3mo ago
Exactly this. VCs are bottlenecked by being able to find patterns in piles of data from a start up, and then scaling that across the many companies they consider. If only there was some technology that was well suited to this task ...

ahartmetz 3mo ago

I'm just gonna copy and paste my comment from another thread here: >Aka I thought the stuff that these other guys are doing was not so difficult. No one can replace me, of course. >Many such cases.

calldacopsidgaf 3mo ago

However, not safe from molotov cocktails

cindyllm 3mo ago
[dead]

joebuckwilliams 3mo ago

This is ancient news. Why is it here?