Andreessen's 3-Hour Breakfast

A story about Amjad Masad's surprising first meeting with Marc Andreessen during fundraising for a16z.

"One of the craziest stories was when we were raising from a16z, Marc invited me to breakfast at 10am at his house. I went there expecting to talk about the business, but instead we spent 2-3 hours talking about politics and the world and all sorts of things that interested him.

I realized this guy is more than just a technologist - he's a philosopher. Right now he's going out talking about these things, his Joe Rogan interview went viral, and he's always had interesting ideas about the world.

The interesting thing about a16z is his partner Ben is the executor, the executive. He wrote 'The Hard Thing About Hard Things' where he teaches about running a company, hiring executives, and scaling. So you have this duo of the doer and the philosopher. I think that's really amazing and they have really big plans - they're just getting started."