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The Ben & Marc Show Podcast Transcripts

Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz · 31 episodes with transcripts

Andreessen Horowitz ("a16z") co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz explore everything from science to business to culture, all through the lens of technology.

Spoken has transcripts of 31 The Ben & Marc Show episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from January 15, 2026.

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  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1713388101/episodes \
  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
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        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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Latest The Ben & Marc Show transcripts

a16z, AI and Investing in the new era (ft. Packy McCormick)

January 15, 2026

Marc Andreessen (0:00)

What virtually everybody finds, including Elon Musk, is the real world is just really, really big and really, really messy.

Packy McCormick (0:06)

Yeah, I think it's so interesting, right? Because from a technology perspective, it feels like you can build products pretty immediately that are going to win.

Ben Horowitz (0:11)

Our entire way of doing everything as humans, we think is going to change. We reinvented the computer, and the new computer is far better than the one that we have been building on for the last 50 or so years.

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