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
We have to try hard and liberate ourselves from assumptions.
We have to make this stuff much more simple at every step of the chain. That's our opportunity. We've come a long way, but we still only reach three percent of the world population. We can make this more widespread.
We have to make this stuff much more simple at every step of the chain,
I have yet to take capital losses on any company. Then again, it's still early.
I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.
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 really excited about anything that is able to address the really big markets, so anything that's universally appealing.
I don't like to not call a spade a spade.
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,
Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook. He can't conceive of a world where social status or getting laid or, for that matter, doing drugs, is not the most important thing.
Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.
The joke about SAP has always been, it's making '50s German manufacturing methodology, implemented in 1960s software technology, delivered to 1970-style manufacturing organizations, like, it's really - yeah, the incumbency - they are still the lingering hangover from the dot-com crash.
If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.