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Marc Andreesen's Career Advice in the AI Age - read it Vibe Founders!
Marc Andreessen's 2025 career advice
Company stage
Raw startups and massive corporations both have major downsides
• Sweet spot are Series C to Series E companies
• Best risk/reward ratio for career development
• Why this stage works:
• They've hit product-market fit (reduced risk of complete failure)
• They're on the knee of the growth curve (lots of opportunity)
• If you're talented, you can pick up new responsibility very quickly
Skills
• Be so good they can't ignore you. Focus on getting excellent at your craft
• Learn to break problems down to fundamental elements and reason up from there
• Thinking in limits, optimization, and systematic analysis work in any field
• Develop taste, having good judgment and taste is unquantifiable but critical
• Don't rely on meetings, build something that demonstrates your capabilities
• Build a track record, consistent delivery of high-quality work creates compound credibility
Networking
• Silicon Valley concentration is real, Al has slammed everything back to Northern California
• Better to have deep relationships with a few key people than shallow ones with many
• The best way to build relationships is to genuinely help people solve problems
• Participate in the ecosystems where your industry congregates
• Early relationships and investments in people compound over time
Mindset
• Embrace chaos, high-growth environments are messy but provide the most opportunity
• Be willing to take risks, the biggest career risks come from being too conservative
• Choose opportunities that maximize how quickly you can learn and grow
• Build for compound growth in skills, relationships, and opportunities
• Stay curious, most successful people are interested in understanding how things work
Current landscape
• Al is the new platform shift, not just another software trend
• Modern tech companies own the entire value chain, not just pieces
• A few companies will capture most of the value; position yourself 0 reply
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