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Marc Andreessen revealed how Harvard Business School was built on a broken 1941 theory, and how it's now collapsing...
Andreessen co-founded Netscape in 1994 and a16z in 2009.
He has sat on Meta's board since 2008.
He has spent 30 years backing founders and watching managerial CEOs lose to them.
The pattern traces back to one book: James Burnham's The Machiavellians (1941).
Burnham argued every great company had been founder-run.
Henry Ford ran Ford. Bob Noyce ran Intel.
Today, Elon Musk runs Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink.
Then, he said, something broke.
Between the 1880s and the 1920s, a new philosophy replaced the founder. It was called managerialism.
The professional manager would now hold a portable skill, usable across any business.
The consequences were:
- Harvard Business School
- Stanford Business School
- Management as a universal skill
- The 1970s conglomerate
"That assumes the managers are going to do a good job," Andreessen says.
For 30 years, they haven't.
Managers can run something static, he says. Soup is soup. A bank is a bank. A car is a car.
But when the industry changes, the manager freezes.
Look at SpaceX.
"Imagine being a professionally trained manager, trained at a top management school, working for a rocket launch company, competing with SpaceX."
Then Elon's rockets started landing on their butt.
"Your management skills ... what good are they at that point?"
Andreessen's conclusion:
"You're much more likely to build something important in the 21st century if you start with the founder and train them on management."
Nil Ultra retweeted
“Your child’s assignment is in ParentVue. Have you checked Canvas? The homework is in EduSpot. The grades are available on Teacherly. I mentioned this in the WhatsApp group. It was literally sent to your comcast dot net email address. Canvas has it for you. It’s in Canvas.”
Nil Ultra retweeted
The endless streams of profanity and vulgarity that fill public spaces are one of the clearest signs of prole drift, and the degradation of America. It's very depressing to see, and must be reversed
“Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?"
-Theodore Roosevelt
I’ve thought about this a lot lately as I see more and more public figures using profanity to make a point. It seems like they’re trying to demonstrate passion or attract a younger audience. Whatever the case, I think it lessens the impact of what they’re trying to say. There is a time and a place for profanity and it isn’t in public or in professional conversation. It is indeed the “parlance of the fool.”
Nil Ultra retweeted
Back around 1968 you could live in Hopkins Minnesota, in the suburbs of Minneapolis.
You work at the Honeywell plant making cluster bombs. Your wife shops at the Country Club market. Your kids go to school at Hopkins High.
The air now in early autumn is cool and clear, and when you stand on your back porch after work, drinking a Hamms, it smells strongly of woodsmoke.
This would have been a pretty good life.
Nil Ultra retweeted
“Louisiana and Mississippi have been going at it since Thomas Jefferson bought the neighborhood from Napoleon for fifteen sheets, folks. And looking back, Tommy might’ve overpaid. Tonight you’ve got two states separated by a river, united by bourbon, and divided by whether Lane Kiffin is an offensive genius or Benedict Arnold with a laminated play sheet, k?”
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Get a haircut every 2 weeks to stay sharp, wait 5 secs before answering the phone to control the rhythm, always arrive 15 mins early, stay away from free lunches, never talk about people who aren't in the room, and when anger rises, wait 10 mins before reacting. These habits may look rigid, but they're the hidden discipline of the elite.
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Fullback. Winston. Miller Genuine Draft. 3 things America used when it was once a proper country.
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Remember when truckers DRESSED like they actually had a job.
Back in the day, it was boots, clean clothes and pride in how you represented trucking.
No pajamas.
No shower shoes at the fuel island.
No looking like you just rolled out of the sleeper at Walmart.
Maybe I’m old-school… but professionalism used to mean something.
Should truckers still DRESS for the job?
Nil Ultra retweeted
I resigned from U.K. politics decades ago. But it should be noted that a "unifed Ireland" entails the murder of a small nation, the Ulster Protestants, known to American history as the "Scotch-Irish," who have been in Ireland since before the Pilgrims emigrated to Massachusetts
Nil Ultra retweeted
“We’ll have 2 clocks sir?”
“Yes soldier. One the fans, coaches, players and announcers can see…and no one only 2 people can see”
“Which on will we use sir?”
“No one knows”
Nil Ultra retweeted
Needing to have water within arm’s reach at all times is a surprisingly recent phenomenon
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Objection: "I need to sell all the assets so my estate can be split equally among my children."
Equal is not equitable, and splitting a dynamic business into equal cash piles is how generational wealth evaporates in forty-eight months. When you liquidate a firm to divide cash, you trade a productive economic engine for tax drag and passive bank accounts.
Give the operating control to the child who actually has the competence to lead it, and use separate assets, real estate holdings, or life insurance structures to balance the estate for the others.
Preserve the enterprise intact. Covenantal inheritance is about building a lasting institution, not handing out equal lottery tickets.
Nil Ultra retweeted
My 5-year old just signed up for flag football and I’m coaching. Here’s a live look at me coaching toddlers at 9am on a Saturday in October
Nil Ultra retweeted
Wounded in Korea, hated his job, dead of a heart attack at 48. Probably also disappointed with all three children if we’re being honest.
Nil Ultra retweeted
My 15yr old granddaughter still hasn't emptied the dishwasher.
I asked her to do it four hours ago.
Now she's freaking out because she can't find her phone...
Which is on silent in the dishwasher.
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