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The Marc Andreessen Framework

Software Eating the World

IncludedNative Claude Skill + plain .md for ChatGPT, Gemini & every LLM
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Marc Andreessen built products and companies by reasoning from first principles in industries that the incumbents considered mature. Marc Andreessen's product and strategy thinking — captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask. The software eating the world framework distils Marc Andreessen's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds. Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Marc Andreessen made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Marc Andreessen's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.

Inside the framework

A glimpse of Marc Andreessen's thinking.

Core Philosophy

Every industry that can be transformed by software will be transformed by software—the only question is timing and execution. The companies that survive are those that become software companies first, everything else second. Physical constraints are temporary; software constraints compound into permanent advantages.

Five Mental Models
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.

A Signature Question · sample

"What would this industry look like if it were invented today as a software company?"

4 more questions in Marc Andreessen's voice are unlocked with purchase.

What Marc Andreessen Would NOT Do · sample
Invest in businesses that view software as a cost center rather than the primary value driver

Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.

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The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Marc Andreessen actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.

Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.

What's inside
  • Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in Marc Andreessen's documented worldview
  • Five signature mental models — each named, with concrete examples from their work
  • Decision heuristics — the concrete rules they actually used
  • Signature questions — five questions that sound like Marc Andreessen, not a generic MBA
  • What they would NOT do — the anti-patterns this framework rejects
  • Copy-paste activation prompt — drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
  • Worked example — the framework applied to a realistic scenario
Delivered in two formats
  • marc-andreessen.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to ~/.claude/skills/
  • marc-andreessen-framework.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Marc Andreessen. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.

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