emily: so you are way behind mark andreessen. you are not at 100 tweets a day.on: i am sort of between peter thiel and mark andreessen in my tweet volume. no, it's my one outlet that a pr team does not control for me to be able to just share my thoughts on the technology industry. emily: i guess i wonder, like, why aren't you more scared? aaron: that might be partly generational. i mean, i grew up on chat rooms. i'm sure i will say something stupid someday that i wake up to in the morning and pull a donald trump or something, and then regret tweeting for the rest of my life. emily: how much of it is strategy? aaron: it is probably less, actually, strategic than you might think. because my brain is sort of all over the place. so it is actually very representative of the random notions that i have. emily: i've had the benefit of seeing you do magic. aaron: i am less active now as a magician. emily: that's a very hard thing to learn -- aaron: yeah, some would say it's impossible. emily: what have you learned from that? or how has it affected your career? aaron: so

in the tech world, mark andreessen gets into between -- the tweetstorms.rnanke could get into a miniature novel. matt: it is not as snappy. brendan: this is what bloggers do. i think this particular argument about secular stagnation, i wonder why larry summers gets to own it. matt: secular stagnation? which is? brendan: growth is going to stop, there's nothing we can do. it is cyclical and you can only get growth through population growth or innovation. there is some population growth. maybe the innovation is over. maybe the internet is not what it was cracked up to be good indoor plumbing hugely innovative -- i got dinged for saying "indoor plumbing." the internet possibly not as good for productivity. internet it -- ben bernanke says that is hogwash. matt: i got halfway through the story and i was bored to tears. number three, weeding out the competition crapkraft foods and model -- mondeliz? it came during the breakup of the former kraft food and model these? what a horrible name for it. brendan: it doesn't mean anything dirty in anything which. matt: i

andreessen-horowitz. you have also tweeted 33,000 times. mark: in? emily: in one year. mark: thank you. emily: which is more than all three founders of twitter combined. mark: yes. that is true. emily: since twitter started, by the way. mark: i really think the stock in the company should be rebalanced. [laughter] emily: we are going to reference some of your tweets throughout this conversation, and i wanted to start with this one, given the anniversary of netscape. this is true, when i came to silicon valley in 1994, i thought i had missed all the opportunity, fun, and excitement. it felt post-apocalyptic. when did you realize you were wrong? mark: it really took the internet taking off. silicon valley had been on fire in the late 1970's and 1980's with the pc, and with software, with companies like oracle taking off, and microsoft, adobe, and apple, and all these local companies. and then the valley crashed really hard in the late 1980's. what i learned is, the talent, the latent talent, the number of people in the valley who were talented and qualified and skilled, who had been throu