Dan Primack

Primack wrote Fortune’s daily Term Sheet newsletter; his archive on Fortune includes Term Sheet issues dated October 14 to 25, 2016.⁠[1]

On May 15, 2017, Andreessen HorowitzAndreessen HorowitzAndreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. It invests from the seed stage through the growth stage and provides operational support to its portfolio companies.Open the full entry (a16z) released the episode “a16z Podcast: From Jobs to Flying Cars,” recorded at a16z’s Tech Policy Summit in Washington, D.C., in which Primack, then with AxiosAxiosAxios is a US digital news media company founded in 2016 by former Politico executives Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz and launched in January 2017. It is known for short news items and industry newsletters in the “Smart Brevity” style, especially for its Washington political coverage, and publishes local news newsletters in cities across the United States through Axios Local. Since 2022 it has been owned by Cox Enterprises.Open the full entry, interviewed a16z co-founder Marc AndreessenMarc AndreessenMarc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist, a co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). While in college he helped develop the graphical web browser Mosaic, then co-founded Netscape and Loudcloud (later renamed Opsware), and has long served as a director of Meta; he has also published essays such as “Why Software Is Eating the World.”Open the full entry.⁠[2]

The interview addresses two common narratives about the technology industry: that it builds frivolous products, and that it has an outsized destructive effect, including on jobs. Andreessen argues that the real problem is too little technological innovation and, drawing on Baumol’s cost disease, discusses how each narrative is partly true in different sectors; the two also discuss the roles of policymakers and entrepreneurs on jobs, and why Andreessen stopped tweeting. The episode was uploaded to the a16z YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is Google’s video-sharing and creator platform, founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim and acquired by Google in 2006. Built around video uploading, viewing, and creator earnings, the platform has developed Shorts, YouTube Music, Premium, YouTube TV, and products for children, and is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.Open the full entry channel on January 1, 2019, under the title “a16z Podcast | From Jobs to Flying Cars.”⁠[2][3]

Primack is a business editor at Axios and writes the daily Axios Pro Rata newsletter, covering dealmakers across venture capital, private equity and M&A; Axios describes the newsletter as “Dan Primack’s briefing on VC, PE & M&A for dealmakers.”⁠[4][5]

Axios: Official website: https://www.axios.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[4]

X: Public account: https://x.com/danprimack (opens in a new window).⁠[4]