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Marc Andreessen

Venture capitalist and Netscape co-founder

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Co-created the first popular web browser and became a leading venture capitalist who champions faster technology and lighter regulation, notably in his Techno-Optimist Manifesto.

Marc Andreessen sits in the right-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly free market and slightly libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly tech-optimist on technology, strongly free market on economy and strongly growth-first on environment. The profile is close to the middle on culture, religion and interventionism.

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Where Marc Andreessen sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authoritySlightly libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureCentered on culture
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentStrongly growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyStrongly tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceSlightly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionCentered on religion
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismCentered on interventionism
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Marc Andreessen

Peter Thiel Venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder98%Julian Simon American economist, 1932 to 199897%Elon Musk Entrepreneur behind Tesla, SpaceX and X96%Vivek Ramaswamy American entrepreneur and politician96%Václav Klaus President of the Czech Republic, 2003 to 201396%Matt Ridley British science writer and businessman95%Liz Truss Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 202295%Michael Shellenberger American writer and activist95%

People furthest from Marc Andreessen

Petra Kelly German Green co-founder, 1947 to 19928%Leo Tolstoy Russian novelist and moral thinker, 1828 to 19109%Pope Francis Pope, 2013 to 202510%Dorothy Day American journalist and Catholic Worker founder, 1897 to 198010%

Political views closest to Marc Andreessen

Effective accelerationismArgues that rapid technological progress, especially in AI and energy, is the best path…95%MinarchismLimits the state to a minimal "night-watchman" role of courts, police and defense.88%Techno-libertarianismBelieves that digital technology, encryption and open markets can shrink the state and…86%Thatcherism and ReaganismFree-market economics, tax cuts, deregulation and a firm stance toward the Soviet Union.83%

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