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What Does Martin Casado Think of Network Effects? · Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Martin Casado on Frontier Model Economics, AI's Slowdown, and the Cursor Deal

My guest today is Martin Casado, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Martin has spent three decades building and investing in technology infrastructure. We discuss why traditional approaches to investing often fail to capture disruptive technologies, how AI is reshaping the economics of software, and why the ability to turn capital directly into…

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  1. What Are the Four Venture Investing Mindsets? at 2:00

    Martin Casado names four mindsets people bring to venture and private-market tech investing: a traditional finance mindset, productive investors, frontier… Full answer

  2. What Does Martin Casado Think of Network Effects? at 12:34

    Martin Casado calls the fuss over network effects a personal annoyance and a pedantic habit. Defensibility is not really worth talking about most of the time. Full answer

  3. Why Do Startups Always Buy the Smartest AI Model? at 26:19

    Martin Casado says two competing startups never pick a dumber model to get ahead. Full answer

  4. Was Early Internet Security Worse Than Now? at 32:38

    Martin Casado lived through the early internet on the ground, with formal studies in security, and the era was way worse than the breaches happening now. Full answer

  5. What Is the Mythical Man Month? at 37:37

    Martin Casado says the mythical man month means you cannot increase the speed of engineering by adding people. Full answer

  6. What Was Larry Page Asked About Orbital Compute? at 42:34

    Martin Casado heard that someone asked Larry Page how much compute will be orbital. Full answer

  7. What Does Martin Casado Believe About Private Market Money? at 48:43

    Martin Casado believes money put into private markets grows private markets. Full answer

  8. Has Software Become a Capital Problem? at 1:03:32

    Martin Casado believes software has become a capital problem, and he treats the shift as industrial-revolution scale. Full answer

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