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
There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
The Net used to be 50 percent men and 50 percent men pretending to be women,
I don't like to not call a spade a spade.
I'm really excited about anything that is able to address the really big markets, so anything that's universally appealing.
Internet sites themselves are becoming incredibly sophisticated and complex, and every company is under intense pressure to move as fast as possible to address increasing competitive challenges,
I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with these URLs. Hopefully they'll take advantage of them.
I'm looking forward to my new role, which will allow me to combine my desire to focus more time on getting involved with start-ups with the opportunity to contribute to AOL's future success.
The hardest part is deciding which color you want, ... and that's the way it should be.
The idea that you can now build different types of devices, plug them into the network and they're all sort of equal in the eyes of the network, they're all equally able to access the services of the network, that's really profound.
And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before.
This is a consumer phenomenon and people will care about what it has to offer them. We are not the market going from here on out.
You know, magic markets don't appear all the time, so you take advantage of them.
If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.
Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.