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
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.
Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't.
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
A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.
The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet.
Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.
Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.
There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless.
In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day