Episode · a16z Podcast · 2026-10-22

Books mentioned on The Frontier Ideas a16z Wants to Fund | Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz & Chris Dixon

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a16z is expanding a16z crypto into a16z Frontier, a broader mandate to back founders building at the edges of what's possible. Chris Dixon joins Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, and Erik Torenberg to explain why founders should increasingly ask not “is this too ambitious?

Marc Andreessen discussed The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

   Douglas Adams · at 56:29

   The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is a beloved comedic science fiction classic that satirizes bureaucracy, existentialism, and the absurdities of the universe.

   Discussed

   “Douglas Adams had like the defining description uh of um the guy who wrote Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy of like how technology is received on a generational level”

   Marc Andreessen The Frontier Ideas a16z Wants to Fund | Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz … 2026-10-22 ▶ Play 56:29

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