Marc Andreessen is one of the most fascinating people to listen to right now.
Some people know a lot about a little, some people know a little about a lot, but Andreessen knows a lot about a lot. As best I can tell, there are very few topics that this guy can’t go super deep on.
He just say down with Lex Fridman and they talked for almost four hours….and it was absolutely fascinating!
It felt like 40 minutes, not 4 hours, just moving from one topic to the next, and giving really incredible insights that you’ve never considered before on each topic.
Anyway, I love listening to him and learning from him, but for some reason he has me blocked on Twitter, which is disappointing. Perhaps it was because I once asked why he had a big old giant cone head, I don’t know. Marc, let’s be friends again on X, ok?
Anyway, all joking aside, out of the nearly 4 hour interview, all of which was fascinating, there was one little clip that I have to share with you…and I think you’re going to like it.
Andreessen makes very clear he’s not on DOGE and not part of the Trump Administration, although he is consulting and helping where he can (he refers to himself as an unpaid intern), but he says he’s seen the “secret plans” they have for DOGE and he said it blew his mind!
He goes on to say it’s nothing less than you’d expect from Elon, absolutely brilliant.
And he also addresses why things like this have failed in the past, but why he thinks DOGE will succeed.
It’s so good!
Watch here:
Marc Andreessen says he's seen the DOGE "secret plans" and they blew his mind!
Says they will roll out soon… pic.twitter.com/F3qQDbZu7A
— Noah Christopher (@DailyNoahNews) January 27, 2025
FULL TRANSCRIPT:
Government people, one hundred percent of them, are super cynical on this topic. They’re like, “This is impossible. This could never possibly work.”
And I’m like, “Well, I can’t tell you what the secret plans are, but blow my mind.” And all three of those, they have ideas that are really quite amazing, as you’d expect from the people involved.
So, over the course of the next few months, that’ll start to become visible. And then the final thing I would say is this is going to be very different than attempts like that.
There have been other programs like this in the past. The Clinton administration had one, and then there were others before that—Reagan had one. The difference is, this time, there’s social media.
ADVERTISEMENTIt’s interesting—one of the reasons people in Washington are so cynical is because they know all the bullshit. They know all the bad spending, all the bad rules, and all the—
I mean, look, we’re adding a trillion dollars to the national debt every hundred days right now. And that’s compounding. It’s now passing the size of the Defense Department budget.
It’s compounding, and pretty soon it’s gonna be adding a trillion dollars every 90 days. Then it’s gonna be adding a trillion dollars every 80 days, and then a trillion dollars every 70 days.
If this doesn’t get fixed at some point, we enter a hyperinflationary spiral, and we become Argentina or Brazil—and kablooey, right?
Everybody in DC knows that something has to be done. But everybody in DC also knows for a fact that it’s impossible to do anything.
They know all the problems, and they also know the sheer impossibility of fixing it. But I think what they’re not taking into account, what the critics are—
This clip comes at about the 2 hr 17 minute mark and if you’d like to watch the full interview I have that for you right here:
Enjoy!
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