Lots of people have strong opinions on Marc Andreessen going every direction, so it’s best to probably try and determine that for yourself and you can start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen

I just find it amusing that you can hold forth on lifehacker stuff and people will take you seriously. If the article was "Pmarca guide to rebuilding the small-block Chevy 350" or "Pmarca guide to Indonesian literature" then that would raise judicable questions of authority.

The world is always filled with people trying to learn how to impose some amount of order upon their disorderly lives. People look up to him, or discovered him through his blog when he was actively writing it (including yours truly) and either learned something from it or didn’t. At the very least, Marc Andreeson wasn’t just some random dude in 2007 that made a habit of posting Lifehacker-esque blog entries and if he had posted a guide to rebuilding a small-block Chevy 350 I would have skipped over it that day in NetNewsWire.