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Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen
American Businessman
Born: Jul 9, 1971
Companies People Technology Think Time You
Related authors: Bill Gates Henry Ford Jim Rohn Les Brown Peter Drucker Stephen Covey Steve Jobs Warren Buffett
In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month. Marc Andreessen
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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. Marc Andreessen
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Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one. Marc Andreessen
Big Everyone Easy Pocket General Purpose Computer Underestimate Practically Got Big One Going Really
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. Marc Andreessen
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I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do. Marc Andreessen
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If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing. Marc Andreessen
You Change Unhappy Doing Should
It's hard to do that with people who think emotionally. A lot of people think in terms of people, emotions, and feelings. That's more complicated. Engineering mentality makes it, in theory, a little easier. Marc Andreessen
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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. Marc Andreessen
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Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely. Marc Andreessen
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People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications. Marc Andreessen
People Think Way Out Carry Web About Tend Perhaps Get Information Place Really Applications
You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt. Marc Andreessen
You Technology Changes Along Then Adapt
You know, magic markets don't appear all the time, so you take advantage of them. Marc Andreessen
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I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies. Marc Andreessen
Entrepreneur Three Been Times Companies Started
Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed. Marc Andreessen
Will Every Almost Failed Idea Dot-Com Succeed
I think the tech stock, the public market is still completely traumatized by the dotcom crash. I think the investors and reporters and analysts and everybody is determined to not get taken advantage of again, and that is what everybody who lived through 2000, what they kind of remember. Marc Andreessen
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I enjoy not being a public company. Marc Andreessen
Enjoy Being Public Public Company Company
TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using. Marc Andreessen
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Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't. Marc Andreessen
Time You Business Trust Will Complain Say Out About Over Readers Still Go Model Taste Want Either Public Newspaper Newspapers Declining Business Model Works Even Public Trust
There is an enormous market demand for information. It just has to be fulfilled in a way that fits with the technology of our times. Marc Andreessen
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A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet. Marc Andreessen
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Consumers are freeing up an enormous amount of time that they were spending with stereotypical old media, and clearly, that time is going primarily two places: videogames and online. Marc Andreessen
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If there's been a crisis in a market, you don't tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren't in the system anymore. Marc Andreessen
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I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying. Marc Andreessen
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I'm really excited about anything that is able to address the really big markets, so anything that's universally appealing. Marc Andreessen
Big Address Markets Able About Excited Anything Really Appealing Universally
Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years. Marc Andreessen
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It's much harder these days as a start-up to do physical devices. Marc Andreessen
Physical Days Devices Much Harder Start-Up
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