Timestamps

2:00 Context: Marc Andreessen’s essay, It’s Time to Build

5:45 Further context: Why Software is eating the World

11:00 It’s Time to Build - Things aren’t being built, coronavirus is showing that we can build faster, stagnation,

18:00 Why is everything moving so fast in the world of bits, but not the world of bricks? Lack of desire, inertia

20:30 The politics of the post

22:00 What the opportunity for non software companies looks like

25:00 Short term responses to Covid-19 vs jobs of the future

30:00 Critiques of the Marc Andreessen’s post

33:45 Ezra Klein’s response - the problem with the current political setup, inertia and vetocracy

39:00 Building in a world of atoms - sustaining vs iterative

42:30 Why do we have Twitter and no flying cars?

49:00 The need to create mechanisms for safer bet investments that are better for society

52:00 Allowing for failure in the world of atoms

57:00 Creating new priorities and venture building

1:00:00 Where will these new priorities come from?

1:04:00 Does he mean it when he’s challenging the left to prove a superior model?