A16Z founder: American Century and Small Technology Company

Author: Marc Andreessen and Ben HOROWITZ, A16Z; Compile: 0xjs@Bit chain vision world

Translator Note: As the main beneficiary of globalization, Silicon Valley has always been the “iron powder” of the United States Democratic Party.But now Trump is conquering Silicon Valley.Silicon Valley’s famous VC A16Z two founders MARC Andreessen and Ben Horowitz announced on July 16th.>Transfer from Democratic Biden to TrumpEssenceAs for the reasons behind its steering, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz have already beenJointly wrote Yu 2024 yearsJuly 5thPublished on the A16Z official website, the article is titled “The Little Tech Agenda”.A16Z hopes to support politicians to support small technology companies and ensure that the 21st century will continue to become the United States.AphrodisiacNot onlyIt is the American election, and the country’s competition between China and the United States.The following is a joint article for Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz:

Our name for technology startups is “Little Tech”, as well as large technology companies.

Throughout our career, Little Tech has been independent of politics.However, as the old joke of the Soviet Union said: “You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.”

We believe that bad government policies are now the biggest threat to small technology companies.

We believe that the key role of technical hegemony in the United States and small technology startups in ensuring this hegemony is the same important first -class political issues as other issues.

It’s time for a small technology company to come out.

As a company, our political efforts are fully concentrated on defending small technology companies.Except for direct related issues with small technology companies, we will not participate in political struggles.But we will do our best to fight for small technology companies -to fight for research, invent, create employment, and build future freedom.

We found that there are three types of politicians:

• Those who support small technology companies.We also support them.

• Those who oppose small technology companies.We also oppose them.

• Those who are in the middle -they want to be supported, but they have concerns.We sincerely cooperate with themEssence

We support or oppose politicians, regardless of their party or their position on other issues.

We will be committed to this for a long time.

USA

The reason why the United States leads the 20th century is because we are in a leading position in three aspects:

1. Technology—— The United States promoted the second industrial revolution in the 1930s and began to promote the computer revolution since the 1940s.

2. Economy——The free market system in the United States has created huge social wealth and significantly improved the quality of life of the people.

3. Military——The military strength in the United States has promoted the victory of the First World War and the Second World War, and catalyzed the unilateral surrender and disintegration of the Soviet Union.

Each dimension enhances each other with the other two dimensions:

• Our technical advantages provide motivation for our economy and military.

• Our economic growth has returned our huge investment in technology and military.

• Our military advantage allows us to avoid the infringement of foreign threats and hostile ideology that might destroy our technology, economy, and people.

Moreover, the success of the United States has a positive spillover effect on most other parts of the world.American technology is a global standard.The US economy is the main production and consumer partners of many other countries.Since World War II, the U.S. military has maintained the overall peace and prosperity of the world, reaching unprecedented levels in the history of the world.

Opponents said that the golden age of the United States has passed, and the role of the United States in these three fields in the 21st century will weaken.We do not agree with this view.There is no reason for the United States’ leading position in technology, economy and military aspects to continue in the next few decades.There is no reason to become the second American century in the 21st century.

Startup

The leading position of American technology is the result of the complex system established in the past 150 years, including our pioneering spirit, our professional ethics, our rule of law, our deep capital market, our higher education system, and the government’s long -term period for scientific researchinvest.University, government and enterprise laboratories have played a key role.butThe pioneer of American technology hegemony has always been a startup.From Edison and Ford to Hughes and Lockchids, to SpaceX and Tesla, the road leads to the garage.

The startup company is a group of brave rejection and uncomfortable people gather together, with dreams, ambitions, courage, and special skills to create new things in the world and create a product that can improve people’s lives.Go to create a company that may continue to create more new things in the future.

The huge advantage of any new startup is a piece of white paper -an opportunity to imagine and realize a different and better world.

But startups have been at a disadvantage from the beginning.Specifically, they must compete with existing companies with overwhelming brands, market positions, customer base and financial strength -these existing companies try to kill the competition of startups in the cradle.

The currentcomers often have another huge advantage -allowing government and startup competitors to compete.

The company that dominates is not the case from the beginning.In fact, they were just startups at the beginning, fighting all the way, until they reached the power position, and then they sought lock income and pulled up the rope behind them.They integrate themselves into the political system and seek regulatory capture -a wall of laws and regulations that protect and consolidate their status, and new startups cannot expand its scale.

Historically, the result of market supervision was the government forced monopoly and Carter.

All monopoly companies and the motto of Carter are: “We don’t care because we don’t need it.”

When this cycle continues, when a large company can use government weapons to deal with start -ups, the result is stagnation and then decline.

There are many signs of stagnation and decline in the US economy today.Economists use productivity growth to measure the speed of technological progress in the economy.andToday’s productivity growth has experienced extremely powerful technological popularity such as computers and the Internet, before the 1970s after 50 years of computers and the Internet.

The consequences of the real world are amazing:

• Low productivity growth means low economic growth.

• Slow economic growth means that the quality of life of ordinary people is slow, and even completely backward.For example, prices soaring, stagnation of education, medical care and housing -this must be a sign of regulatory capture.

• Low economic growth also means the rise of zero and politicsBecause the interests of some people must be at the cost of taking away the things of another person.

• Zero and politics corrode the opportunity and development spirit of the nationEssenceWe can feel this corrosion around us.

The way to prevent this result is to encourage new startups -promoting innovation, competition and growth -and prevent large companies from using government weapons to suppress them.

question

The U.S. government is far more hostile to emerging startups than before.

For example:

• Regulatory agencies have been allowed to use strong investigations, prosecution, intimidation and threats to hinder the development of emerging industries such as blockchain.

• Regulatory agencies are approved the same measures for AI in real time.

• Regulatory agencies are applying direct pressure to the bank, asking for exclusion of unsolved startups and founders from the financial system.

• Regulatory agencies are punishing punishment to prevent start -ups from being acquired by the government’s preferred large companies in many other aspects.

• As customers in key areas such as national defense and intelligence, the federal government is more inclined to favors large existing enterprises than ever, rather than innovative startups.

• Moreover, the government is currently proposed to levy taxes that have not realized capital income, which will definitely kill startups and venture capital industry that provides funds for it.

The increasingly commonly -inventory bias of the US government has a significant and realistic threat to the success of the success of American technology -thus threatening the US economy, the American army and the American people.

Why did this happen?Some reasons are clear decisions.Some reasons are inertia accumulation.butAs a industry, technology startups do not appear in Washington, DC and political systems, not appear as big as large companiesEssenceAs long as this imbalance continues, the war against technology startups and threats to the United States will continue.

Therefore, it is necessary to defend a small technology company politically.

opportunity

Turning to destructive policies is just the side of the coin.We can also imagine to introduce positive policies to encourage the booming development of technology startups -to benefit these startups and customers, and forcing large enterprises to maintain vitality and vitality in the competition of startups.

For example:

• Regularly regulatory reforms such as medical care, education, and housing, deprived the regulatory capture of existing regulators, and achieve higher -quality services at lower prices.

• Focusing on the policy of automation and the reconstruction of the American manufacturing industry, the entire industry is transferred back to China and created millions of new middle -class employment opportunities.

• Emerging companies build a defense system at the forefront of autonomy and AI to reshape the US military industry foundation.

• Environmental reforms encourage the development and deployment of nuclear power to achieve unlimited clean energy production.

• Expand high -skilled immigrants and encourage foreign graduates from American universities and other schools to establish new companies and industries in the United States.

• In addition, there is a plan to promote the success of American technology companies globally to fight against hostile China and the EU that regulates enthusiasm.

We do not doubt that the US government, which truly wants start -ups to succeed and the vigorous development of emerging industries, will greatly improve the living standards of ordinary Americans and ensure that the United States’ technology, economic and military strength in the next decades will remain strong.

The glory of the second American century is in front of us.Let us grasp it.