This should have happened a long time ago, but better late than never. Marc Andreessen - the co-founder of Netscape and currently the co-founder of Ning, is now writing a blog at blog.pmarca.com. Here’s his introductory post, and today he weighs in on the “bubble” meme. It’s a long post, but can be summed up in this quote: “The human psyche seems to have a powerful underlying need to predict doom and gloom.”
The New York Times also wrote about this today, citing a recent blog post that I wrote at TechCrunch. So this particular round of predictions may have been started by me.
But as I argued before, my post wasn’t about bubbles, it was about the state of silicon valley. I still agree with my post from January arguing that we are in a very different world today than we were seven years ago.
Yes, I just said I agree with myself, but the point is that I feel the same way as I did in January. You can’t predict bubbles when you are in the middle of one, which means you can’t predict them at all.
Welcome to the blogosphere, Marc. And thanks for being an expert at our upcoming TechCrunch20 Conference.