Matthew Panzarino chats with a16z's Marc Andreessen about matchmaking for businesses, what Twitter reveals about society, and the opportunity landscape of AI. #a16z #AI #business #ceo #x #society

Yeah, so the way our firm works, so the philosophy is that we very much try to, in as many cases as we can, help founders develop into being fantastic CEOs. And what we discovered is one of the, as we sort of thought about how that goes, we realized early on that one of the reasons that founders get replaced by professional CEOs early on in a lot of companies is because professional CEOs, you hire a professional CEO, he walks in the door, he or she walks in the door, they've been in the industry for 20, 25 years in a lot of cases, they have all these relationships, they've got this giant network, which is just really hard for a founder who spent a lot of their time probably in a cubicle writing code before they started the company to really catch up to. And so a lot of what we do at our firm is to try to basically bridge that gap, and we think about it as giving the founders superpowers to help them be great CEOs.