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The Techno-Optimist Manifesto

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto

Marc Andreessen
2025
92 pages ยท about 1h 32m to read OL44588637Wgoodreads

Standalone edition of the 2023 a16z essay; Andreessen has written no conventional book

About Marc Andreessen

Co-author of Mosaic and co-founder of Netscape; co-founder and general partner, Andreessen Horowitz

"Why Software Is Eating the World" and the pmarca essays are primary sources that later technology writing quotes directly; he has essays rather than books.

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