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Marc Andreessen is an entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. He is co-creator of the world's first widely used internet browser, Mosaic, co-founder of the social media network platform Ning, and co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Cory Doctorow is a blogger, journalist, and science fiction author. He’s also the co-editor of Boing Boing.

Joe Betts-Lacroix is the CTO of VIUM and an Expert at YC.

Y Combinator invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups (recently 200), twice a year.

Learn more about YC and apply for funding here: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/ 

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Topics

00:00 - Intro

00:32 - Adversarial interoperability

7:55 - So what should founders do?

13:55 - Copyright

19:55 - Remixing

27:00 - AT&T

29:50 - Firms and state-like duties

31:25 - Medium-term suggestions for founders

39:25 - Conspiracy theories

51:50 - Science fiction and predictions

56:55 - Peak indifference model

Have you ever really thought about what it is that creates the modern economy?

These are the things that surround us and we interact with, or depend on, everyday but rarely think about.

From credit cards, to shipping containers, batteries and double-entry book-keeping, there are a lot of things that are more interesting than you may think.

And for this special Christmas edition of the This is Money podcast we have a treat for you. Tim Harford, author of Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy, presenter of the podcast of the same name, and Undercover Economist makes a guest appearance.

He joins Simon Lambert, Rachel Rickard Straus and Georgie Frost in the studio to talk about what it is that shapes the world around us, why it matters, and how what are commonplace things now were dreamed up and then completely changed the way we live.