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What I learned from reading  The Pmarca Blog Archive Ebook by Marc Andreessen.---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---[0:01] In this series of posts I will walk through some of my accumulated knowledge and experience in building high-tech startups.  [3:15] Great things about doing a startups: Most fundamentally, the opportunity to be in control of your own destiny — you get to succeed or fail on your own, and you don’t have some bozo telling you what to do. For a certain kind of personality, this alone is reason enough to do a startup.The opportunity to create something new — the proverbial blank sheet of paper. You have the ability — actually, the obligation— to imagine a product that does not yet exist and bring it into existence, without any of the constraints normally faced by larger companies.The opportunity to have an impact on the world — to give people a new way to communicate, a new way to share information, a n