Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen
Marc Lowell Andreessenis an American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. He is the coauthor of Mosaic, the first widely used Web browser; cofounder of Netscape; and cofounder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard. Andreessen is also a cofounder of Ning, a company that provides a platform for social networking websites. He sits on the board of directors of Facebook, eBay, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth9 July 1971
CityCedar Falls, IA
CountryUnited States of America
Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.
The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box.
So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.
In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.
The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision.
Most of the big breakthrough technologies/companies seem crazy at first: PCs, the internet, Bitcoin, Airbnb, Uber, 140 characters.. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, ‘I don’t get it, I don’t understand it. I think it’s too weird, I think it’s too unusual.’
Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't.
The 2 hardest things you'll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving.
We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.
Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce.
Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not
Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded
People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.
A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.