Marc Andreessen
description: American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
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Googled: The End of the World as We Know It
by Ken Auletta · 1 Jan 2009 · 532pp · 139,706 words
employees constantly say they were on a quest to bring information to the masses, as if they toiled for a nonprofit that awarded no bonuses. Marc Andreessen, thirty-eight, who transformed the Internet into a mass medium by helping invent what became the Netscape browser when he was a student and who
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Netscape philosophy too, for the same January 1998 month Page and Brin presented their paper, the company that grew out of the browser invented by Marc Andreessen announced that it was revealing the source code to its browser; the new open-source browser would later be named Mozilla. The presentation was a
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in 1997, he asked Campbell to join his board. Today Campbell serves as a mentor to some of the Valley’s most successful entrepreneurs, from Marc Andreessen to Steve Jobs, whom he walks and talks with most weekends in Palo Alto, where they are neighbors. He estimates that he spends about 10
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, California; in the spring, he coaches the eighth-grade girls in what’s called powder puff football. He doesn’t have a lot of enemies. Marc Andreessen said of Campbell, “He’s been incredibly important in the Valley. Business is changing so quickly,” and less experienced entrepreneurs turn to Campbell for guidance
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. He remembers his experiences as an executive at Netscape, where the three senior executives—founder Jim Clark, CEO James Barksdale, and the browser’s inventor, Marc Andreessen—“were not in sync.” Pulling in different directions, Netscape lost its focus. Page and Brin bucked each other up in another way: they burned with
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2009, when the company he wanted Viacom to buy—MySpace—had slumped and Murdoch brought in new management, including Jason Hirshhorn as chief digital officer. MARC ANDREESSEN HAS SPENT much of his life working in the digital sandbox, achieving the fame and financial success others seek. A large man with an immense
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next year to the technology group in Menlo Park, under Frank Quattrone. He worked on the 1995 Netscape IPO, going on the road with cofounders Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark, and with CEO James Barksdale. In October 1995, he joined Netscape as their chief deal maker and Wall Street liaison. He helplessly
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asked of the experienced coach, “Where was Bill?” He said Campbell spends too much time dispensing hugs. “I find him all hat and no cattle.” MARC ANDREESSEN was of two minds about Google. On the one hand, he believed, “Google is in a great position,” particularly with YouTube, which he thought will
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and Xbox 360 platforms, and expending half a billion dollars to advertise on Viacom platforms. Google and Facebook were not yet joined in battle, observed Marc Andreessen, who joined the Facebook board in the summer of 2008, but they were engaged “in a little shadow boxing.” Mindful of his experience at Netscape
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media companies ride, crash into, or are submerged by. “I think they’re naive, not evil,” said CBS’s Quincy Smith. He said his friend Marc Andreessen thinks he’s naive to be so trusting. But Smith doesn’t subscribe to a conspiracy theory because “I don’t think anybody can be
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enormous benefit to other companies as well. Referring to the Internet as “a magic box where whatever you want to do, it’s all there,” Marc Andreessen credited Google with making the box “more magical. Google makes the world a much better place because it makes everything findable. Many companies spend a
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risks” and “innovate”—to do the bold things Schmidt described—that will continue to set Google apart. However, companies with large appetites can get fat. Marc Andreessen believes Google aims “to do everything,” but is dubious that they can succeed. Andreessen also believes that in the digital age, technology alters the competitive
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. One begins to hear anxious whispers in Silicon Valley that “free” might not be free. “I think people are getting more willing to pay,” said Marc Andreessen, who cited iTunes and Amazon’s Kindle as successful online pay services. “More and more of what people do, they do online. I think most
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. Looking back on the investment mistakes made by newspapers, it is not hard to understand the too-sweeping contempt that people like Jeff Jarvis or Marc Andreessen harbor for them. Take the New York Times Company, which, though rightly proud of its flagship newspaper, has made its economic predicament worse with a
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—which is a cousin of the belief that a computer can assemble news without editors—will diminish the thoughtful journalism a democracy requires. I asked Marc Andreessen, as I did others, to make believe he was the publisher of a newspaper. “What would you do?” The answer he shot back at me
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appears to be a long way from becoming real. Craig Silverstein, Google employee number 1, said a thinking machine is probably “hundreds of years away” Marc Andreessen suggests that it is a pipe dream. “We are no closer to a computer that thinks like a person than we were fifty years ago
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, 2007. 16 “We are in the advertising business”: author interview with Eric Schmidt, October 9, 2007. 17 likens Google to ... Andy Kaufman: author interview with Marc Andreessen, May 5, 2007. 17 “I sometimes feel”: author interview with Eric Schmidt, March 2, 2007. 17 seventy million dollars: Adam Lashinsky, “Where Does Google Go
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his mind: Jennfier Reingold interview with John Scully in Fortune, July 21, 2008. 84 “He’s been incredibly important in the valley”: author interview with Marc Andreessen, September 15, 2008. 85 one of Schmidt’s initial targets ... “all things take care of themselves”: author interviews with Sheryl Sandberg, September 10, 2007, and
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refugee: author interviews with Jason Hirschhorn, February 12 and 21, 2008, and e-mail exchanges, March 2009. 149 Marc Andreessen has spent much of his life... an investor and board member: author interviews with Marc Andreessen, May 9, 2007, and June 9, 2008. 150 They named the site Ning: author interview with Andreessen, March
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“I am very disappointed in Eric Schmidt”: author interview with roger McNamee, April 27, 2008. 221 “Google is in a great position”: author interview with Marc Andreessen, March 27, 2008. 221 “Google is a precocious company”: author interview with Tim Wu, September 20, 2007. 222 “I worry about complexity”: author interview with
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, June 23, 2008. 224 half a billion dollars: Microsoft/Viacom joint press release, December 19, 2007. 224 “in a little shadow boxing”: author interview with Marc Andreessen, June 9, 2008. 225 “Is Google’s culture great”: Adam Lashinsky “Google Is No. 1: Search and Enjoy” Fortune, January 29, 2007. 226 “controlled chaos
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Michael Moritz, March 31, 2009. 283 ”It’s very simple“: author interview with Sergey Brin, October 10, 2007. 283 ”a magic box“: author interview with Marc Andreessen, February 20, 2009. 284 Google search often sends them 80 to 90 percent of their visitors: Randall Stross, ”Everybody Loves Google, Until It’s Too
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that it is Google’s willingness to ”experiment“: author interview with Sergey Brin, March 26, 2008. 295 Google aims ”to do everything“: author interview with Marc Andreessen, March 27, 2008. 295 ”The French regarded“: Clay Shirky Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, The Penguin Press, 2008. CHAPTER 16: Where
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, April 10, 2009. 301 “Wrestling had bigger audiences”: author interview with Robert Pittman, February 29, 2008. 301 “I think people are getting”: author interview with Marc Andreessen, June 9, 2008. 301 Each of the 40,000: author interview with Scott Heiferman, January 25, 2008. 301 “one quarter of CBS‘s”: author interview
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interview with Larry Page, March 25, 2008. 305During the wrenching transition to print: Clay Shirky blog, March 13, 2009. 306 “Sell it!”: author interview with Marc Andreessen, June 9, 2008. 307 more than a few papers “will disappear”: Rupert Murdoch speech at the D Conference attended by author, May 28, 2008. 307
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8, 2007. 309 “for newspaper companies”: author interview with Andrew Lippman, February 10, 2009. 309 “Can you put it behind a wall”: author interview with Marc Andreessen, February 20, 2009. 310 Attorney General Eric Holder: Randall Mikkelsen, “U.S. Law Chief Open to Antitrust Aid for Newspapers,” Reuters, March 18, 2009. 310
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Telegraph, March 3, 2008. 327 “hundreds of years away”: author interview with Craig Silverstein, September 17, 2007. 327 “We are no closer”: author interview with Marc Andreessen, March 27, 2008. 327 In his provocative book: Nicholas Carr, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, W. W. Norton & Company, 2008
Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
by Jacob Silverman · 9 Oct 2025 · 312pp · 103,645 words
quarantine measures, which were cast as an extension of the bureaucratic, nanny-state, professional-managerial class politics so despised by people like billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and Vivek Ramaswamy. They bridled at not being allowed to run their businesses—and their employees’ lives—as they liked, even during a major pandemic
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substantive at stake. In practical terms, Musk acted as an authoritarian confident of his power. But he was not alone. We have already briefly met Marc Andreessen—a pioneer of the web browser, Netscape founder, Facebook board member, and a top venture capitalist. He was Silicon Valley royalty, personally worth an estimated
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smart and loyal. Silicon Valley elites tended to dismiss expertise. “Everything you read makes sense if you simply translate ‘experts’ as ‘crazy people,’” according to Marc Andreessen.3 That attitude provided broad rhetorical and ideological cover for tech moguls to refashion any industry in their image, from taxis to healthcare to real
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was an audience for tech-driven, conservative-friendly media. With its audio-only format, Clubhouse also affirmed how much these guys loved talking—Sacks and Marc Andreessen, a Clubhouse investor, became regular podcasters. In the fall of 2021, Sacks launched Callin, a podcast platform, with $12 million in series A funding. Building
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about Boudin.16 “We must [hold] the ‘Killer DA’ accountable,” Calacanis wrote on X.17 The effort ultimately raised more than $59,000 from Calacanis, Marc Andreessen, and other venture capitalists, which Calacanis gave to Susan Dyer Reynolds as she launched a publication called Gotham that portrayed the city as a fallen
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most prominent was on the island of Roatan. It was called Próspera and it had accrued $120 million in venture capital support from Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen, Balaji Srinivasan, Peter Thiel, and other prominent investors.10 They also obtained funding from Pronomos, a financial firm headed by Patri Friedman, the grandson of
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tech moguls in order to build an entirely new city on Solano County farmland.3 Funded by some of the biggest names in venture capital—Marc Andreessen, Michael Moritz, Reid Hoffman, Laurene Powell Jobs—Flannery Associates had already spent at least $800 million acquiring some 60,000 acres of land, making it
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“startup founder” permanently etched before his name, Sramek moved to San Francisco. He founded a company called Memo; it folded about 14 months later, though Marc Andreessen, a future California Forever investor, praised the software on Twitter. Sramek got a fellowship at Y Combinator, a prestigious startup incubator that can allow founders
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. “San Francisco is the inverse Soviet Union. There are goods on the shelf, but the goods are locked up, and the criminals are free,” wrote Marc Andreessen in 2022.29 How did a moderately accomplished tech and finance professional manage to convince some of the biggest names in tech financing to pour
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seven years quietly, and so, it’s nice to be able to tell it,” said Sramek in an interview with Andreessen Horowitz, whose co-founder Marc Andreessen was a California Forever investor. Sramek lamented the “limited engagement between the defense community and at least some of the venture firms.” Now things were
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” subculture, which Forbes described as “a philosophy that calls for technology to advance no matter the cost.”31 For this group, software was boring; as Marc Andreessen exhorted his faithful, it was time to build cool stuff. Sramek, who was supposed to be building a large planned community, was talking about allying
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climate change and sustainability, like John Doerr. We have people who really care about building stuff again, in the physical world and advanced manufacturing, like Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon.” Sramek wouldn’t disclose the size of investors’ stakes. He said that Mather’s was “small” and that his own was “very
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people in society, the most successful, send their kids to the most politically radical institutions, which teach them how to be America-hating communists,” said Marc Andreessen. Their elite credentials helped these “America-hating communists” get in the doors of tech companies, only for their executives and investors to realize that these
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band of venture capitalists and tech CEOs best known by the general public for these kinds of X posts: Elon Musk, Joe Lonsdale, David Sacks, Marc Andreessen, Shaun Maguire—i.e. the men who appear in this book. They were all very rich and controlled a lot of capital beyond their own
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conservatives had already turned on the money spigot for Trump, the Trump assassination attempt and Vance’s ascension prompted them to fully open the tap. Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, who headed the highly influential VC firm bearing their names, announced on their podcast that they would be donating to pro-Trump
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photo from June 2016, a grinning Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman can be seen standing with 14 tech industry luminaries—including Reid Hoffman, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Sam Altman, and Michael Moritz. The photo—which was taken at a San Francisco dinner where MBS, who had just invested $3.5 billion in
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, but a second victory, after everything that had happened, would signal that something fundamental had changed in the political firmament. Elon Musk, David Sacks, and Marc Andreessen watched the election returns come in alongside Trump at Mar-a-Lago.3 Musk left early, already certain that Trump would win, according to the
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unmitigated triumph. “Trump will fill his top ranks with billionaires, former CEOs, tech leaders and loyalists,” Axios reported two days after the election. “Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, David Sacks, Joe Lonsdale and other tech leaders are helping pick staff and drive policies to quickly expand AI, crypto and other business frontiers.”8
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-19094875 8 https://witi.com/conferences/2019/fortlauderdale/speakers.php chapter 14: the tap turns off 1 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/opinion/marc-andreessen-trump-silicon-valley.html 2 https://www.wsj.com/articles/silicon-valley-bank-svb-financial-what-is-happening-299e9b65 3 https://x.com/Jason/status
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
by Sebastian Mallaby · 1 Feb 2022 · 935pp · 197,338 words
grandchildren. The gap between VC rhetoric and VC practice is easily mocked. In April 2020, in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic, the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen proclaimed that it was “time to build.” “Where are the high-speed trains, the soaring monorails, the hyperloops, and yes, the flying cars?” he demanded
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, created in New Mexico. The first precursor of the worldwide web, the network-management software Gopher, was from Minnesota. The first browser was developed by Marc Andreessen at the University of Illinois. The first search engine, Archie, was invented by Alan Emtage at McGill University in Montreal. The first internet-based social
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lab at the University of Illinois: it was another instance of government science kick-starting the online revolution. But the lead inventor of the browser, Marc Andreessen, did not stay in Illinois for long. The government was good at basic science. It was not good at turning breakthroughs into products that changed
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bought the entire amount himself, seizing half the total equity.[68] (When Mosaic Communications, by then renamed Netscape, went public the following year, the young Marc Andreessen owned just 3 percent—the same share that Clark had owned in Silicon Graphics.)[69] But however much Clark despised venture capitalists, he needed their
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connection. Luke Nosek was a high-octane computer scientist who had arrived in the Valley after studying at the University of Illinois a bit after Marc Andreessen. This Max—his full name was Max Levchin—was a product of the same computer science course. They were all libertarians. Levchin told Thiel he
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million renminbi (about $15 million) and a thousand employees worth more than 10 million ($1.5 million). He sounded like Jim Clark of Netscape, liberating Marc Andreessen’s coding friends from the University of Illinois. Of course, the riches also flowed to Xu, whose firm had laid its hands on fully two
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the confidence to pay more. For another, the two-tier pricing enabled him to up his headline bid while controlling his blended cost of acquisition. Marc Andreessen, the 1990s software prodigy who had co-founded Netscape, had a ringside seat during these bidding wars: he was a Facebook board member. He watched
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American in spirit as a Kravis or a Vanderbilt. The most striking sign of Milner’s influence came from a surprising quarter. In early 2009, Marc Andreessen, the Netscape founder and Facebook board member, launched a venture firm together with a fellow Netscapee, Ben Horowitz. Like other splashy new entrants—Accel in
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population—were writing all the software that was transforming modern life. Anything that boosted the productivity of this small tribe would be immensely valuable. Predating Marc Andreessen’s declaration that “software is eating the world,” this last prepared-mind exercise became the springboard for a raft of Sequoia investments: Unity, a software
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of this obsequious nonsense tended to view Pishevar as perceptive, even wise, and Kalanick was among those who enjoyed basking in his flattery. But soon Marc Andreessen signaled that a16z might be ready to value Uber at somewhere around $300 million. It was five times more than Benchmark had paid, less than
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hand, technology libertarians are wrong to pretend that state interventions have contributed nothing. As we have seen, the internet began as a Pentagon project, and Marc Andreessen built the first web browser when working at a government-backed university laboratory. Two government policy changes—the lifting of restrictions on pension-fund investments
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. Gompers et al., “How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?,” Journal of Financial Economics 135, no. 1 (Jan. 2020): 169–90. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 36 Marc Andreessen, “It’s Time to Build,” Andreessen Horowitz website, April 18, 2020, a16z.com/2020/04/18/its-time-to-build. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 37
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Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2005), 37. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 87 Reflecting on the Valley of twenty-five years later, the venture investor Marc Andreessen observes, “So the myth in Silicon Valley is that the VC turns on the founder and boots him and brings in a CEO. The more
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Julia Boorstin, “Facebook Scores $200 Million Investment, $10 Billion Valuation,” CNBC, May 26, 2009, cnbc.com/id/30945987. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 7 Dan Primack, “Marc Andreessen Talks About That Time Facebook Almost Lost 80% of Its Value,” Fortune, June 18, 2015, fortune.com/2015/06/18
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/marc-andreessen-talks-about-that-time-facebook-almost-lost-80-of-its-value. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 8 Milner, author interviews. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 9 Milner,
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REFERENCE 40 Andreessen appeared on Charlie Rose on February 19, 2009. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 41 The quotation is taken from Andreessen’s blog. See Marc Andreessen, “The Truth About Venture Capitalists,” pmarca (blog), June 8, 2007. In addition, academic survey work suggests that the most important VC skill is deal selection
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interview. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 51 The Zynga investment was profitable. The Foursquare investment was a disappointment. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 52 Dan Primack and Marc Andreessen, “Taking the Pulse of VC and Tech,” June 18, 2015, in The a16z Podcast, produced by Andreessen Horowitz, youtu.be/_zbZ9ja19RU. Andreessen also cited Milner
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recruits Neil Shen and launches Sequoia China. 2009 Yuri Milner makes a growth investment in Facebook, offering tech founders a way of delaying IPOs. 2009 Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz form a venture partnership, quickly becoming industry leaders. 2010 Sequoia China backs Meituan, which later surpasses Google as the most profitable bet
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of his analysis of the global social-media business. The resulting $300 million investment in Facebook made Milner a Valley celebrity and quickly inspired imitators. Marc Andreessen (left) and Ben Horowitz (right) launched a new venture partnership in 2009, immediately vaulting into the top tier. Big characters with big reputations as coders
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
by Ben Horowitz · 4 Mar 2014 · 270pp · 79,068 words
Internet. Several months later, I read about a company called Netscape, which had been cofounded by former Silicon Graphics founder Jim Clark and Mosaic inventor Marc Andreessen. I instantly decided that I should interview for a job there. I called a friend who worked at Netscape and asked if he could get
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schooling. The next day the hiring manager called back to let me know that they wanted me to interview with cofounder and Chief Technical Officer Marc Andreessen. He was twenty-two years old at the time. In retrospect, it’s easy to think both the Web browser and the Internet were inevitable
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technologies such as replication were incisive and on point. After the interview, I phoned my brother and told him that I’d just interviewed with Marc Andreessen, and I thought that he might be the smartest person I’d ever met. A week later, I got the job. I was thrilled. I
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telling Mike or me, revealed the entire strategy to the publication Computer Reseller News. I was livid. I immediately sent him a short email: To: Marc Andreessen Cc: Mike Homer From: Ben Horowitz Subject : Launch I guess we’re not going to wait until the 5th to launch the strategy. — Ben Within
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fifteen minutes, I received the following reply. To: Ben Horowitz Cc: Mike Homer, Jim Barksdale (CEO), Jim Clark (Chairman) From: Marc Andreessen Subject: Re: Launch Apparently you do not understand how serious the situation is. We are getting killed killed killed out there. Our current product is
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IPO. Six months in, we had nearly two hundred employees. Silicon Valley was on fire, and Loudcloud was billed in a Wired cover story as “Marc Andreessen’s second coming.” We traded our first office—where you’d blow a circuit if you ran the microwave and coffeemaker at the same time
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and hired, losing all my investors’ money, jeopardizing all the customers who trusted us with their business—made it difficult to concentrate on the possibilities. Marc Andreessen attempted to cheer me up with a not-so-funny-at-the-time joke: Marc: “Do you know the best thing about startups?” Ben: “What
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war and I needed a wartime general. I needed Mark Cranney. As a final step in making the hire, I needed to explain it to Marc Andreessen. As cofounder and chairman of the board, Marc’s opinion mattered deeply to the board and Marc was still uncomfortable with Cranney. Marc trusted me
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have Chief Marketing Officers, Chief Revenue Officers, Chief People Officers, and Chief Snack Officers? There are two schools of thought regarding this, one represented by Marc Andreessen and the other by Mark Zuckerberg. Andreessen argues that people ask for many things from a company: salary, bonus, stock options, span of control, and
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down? Why did so few startup advisers and venture capitalists have any experience starting companies? As these thoughts rolled around in my head, I sent Marc Andreessen an instant message: “We ought to start a venture capital firm. Our motto for general partners would be ‘some experience required’ as in some experience
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a good idea and then put in long hours helping me edit it. None of this would have been possible without my longtime business partner Marc Andreessen seeing things in me that nobody else did. Beyond that, it’s been amazing to work with him for the past eighteen years. He’s
The Internet Is Not the Answer
by Andrew Keen · 5 Jan 2015 · 361pp · 81,068 words
. What is particularly striking is how few people successfully jumped from one train to the other. But one person who did make the leap was Marc Andreessen. Indeed, more than any other single individual, Andreessen was responsible for transforming the nonprofit Internet into a winner-take-all economy. Andreessen had become familiar
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the telephone.15 It wasn’t, of course. But the email did have profound consequences for the future of the Internet economy. Clark, recognizing both Marc Andreessen’s precocity and the astonishing growth of the Web, saw an opportunity to finally make a Tom Perkins–sized fortune. “So the hell with the
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the tail of an executive jet he bought with some of his proceeds from the IPO.19 And the just turned twenty-four-year-old Marc Andreessen, who two years earlier had been making $6.85 an hour as a NCSA programmer, was suddenly worth $58 million, thus becoming the first in
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, Yahoo, eBay, and thousands of failed Internet startups, including my own, an online music website backed by Intel and SAP called AudioCafe. And it crowned Marc Andreessen, who was featured sitting shoeless on the cover of Time magazine in February 1996, as the young disruptive hero of the Internet revolution. But the
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Web 1.0 and 2.0 periods, the Internet mostly disrupted media, communications, and retail. And so, in the twenty years after Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen founded Netscape in April 1994, Schumpeter’s gale of creative destruction mostly swirled around the photography, music, newspaper, telecommunications, movie, publishing, and retail industries. Over
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krona, an alternative in which middlemen and thus banks and banking fees are eliminated. Writing in the New York Times to explain “why Bitcoin matters,” Marc Andreessen—who now is the managing partner of Andreessen Horowitz, a $4 billion Silicon Valley venture fund with $50 million invested in Bitcoin-based startups like
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on you,” Uber boasted in advertising UberCHOPPER. “This is the epitome of luxury, convenience, and style.”116 “Uber is software [that] eats taxis,” an admiring Marc Andreessen stated in describing the San Francisco–based transportation service.117 Yet that’s not all it eats. Tom Perkins promised that Silicon Valley’s one
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company in Silicon Valley, where it is “seen as the messiah” and the next $100 billion Internet sensation by San Francisco’s tech crowd.119 Marc Andreessen certainly admires the customer-friendliness of the mobile service. “You watch the car on the map on your phone as it makes its way to
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. It’s the creative destruction inflicted by distributed capitalist networks like Uber or Airbnb, in which anyone can become a cabdriver or a hotelier. And Marc Andreessen—whose Mosaic Web browser opened the Internet’s moneyed second act—is right. Uber is certainly going to be a “killer experience” for its early
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his “aha” moment, the kind of alchemic epiphany that transformed a serial failure who’d missed both the Facebook and Twitter boats into the next Marc Andreessen. What if this app featured filters? Systrom thought. What if it enabled its users to create photos that had a warm and fuzzy glow, the
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become “a second plotline” for its 150 million users with Meanwhile on Instagram being the preface for a whole generation of Internet users. “Software,” as Marc Andreessen likes to boast, “is eating the world.”44 Everybody wins. One hundred and fifty million people can’t be wrong? Right? Wrong. “There’s a
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ride the startup till its inevitable IPO, love Uber, of course. “Uber is software [that] eats taxis. . . . It’s a killer experience,” you’ll remember Marc Andreessen enthused.10 Tragically, that’s all too true. On New Year’s Eve 2013, an Uber driver accidentally ran over and killed a six-year
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in a world without print newspapers. Charles Leadbeater says the Web has lost its way. Emily Bell frets about our new media one percent economy. Marc Andreessen is concerned with the impact of anonymous networks on civic life. MIT’s Ethan Zuckerman worries that the Internet’s “Original Sin,” its reliance on
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. 105 Evan Spiegel, LA Hacks Keynote Address, April 11, 2014. 106 Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (New York: Routledge, 2005), p. 83. 107 Marc Andreessen, “Why Bitcoin Matters,” New York Times, January 21, 2014. 108 Ibid. 109 Colin Lecher, “How Did a $10 Potato Salad Kickstarter Raise More than $30
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Francisco Split by Silicon Valley’s Wealth,” Los Angeles Times, August 14, 2013. 117 Paul Sloan, “Marc Andreessen: Predictions for 2012 (and Beyond),” CNET, December 19, 2011, news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57345138-93/marc-andreessen-predictions-for-2012-and-beyond. 118 Mark Scott, “Traffic Snarls in Europe as Taxi Drivers Protest Against
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Patch for Uber’s Challenge to Taxis,” New York Times, January 26, 2014. 10 Paul Sloan, “Marc Andreessen: Predictions for 2012 (and Beyond),” CNET, December 19, 2011, news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57345138-93/marc-andreessen-predictions-for-2012-and-beyond. 11 Jordan Novet, “Confirmed: Uber Driver Killed San Francisco Girl in Accident
The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
by Margaret O'Mara · 8 Jul 2019
other industry works; alter how humans communicate, learn, and collectively mobilize; upend power structures and reinforce many others. As one made-in-the-Valley billionaire, Marc Andreessen, put it a few years back, “software is eating the world.”4 This book is about how we got to that world eaten by software
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, point-and-click experience. Within months of its 1993 release, the new browser had seized the imagination of Silicon Valley insiders. Its chief student inventor, Marc Andreessen, headed west to capitalize on the excitement. Andreessen found a first landing spot in the scrubby cubicles of EIT, where Marty Tenenbaum was busily building
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Internet providers. They found a seasoned CEO, Tim Koogle, a Stanford graduate who’d been working in tech companies big and small for two decades. Marc Andreessen offered Yang and Filo server space at Netscape so they could move off Stanford’s overburdened network.13 The corporate exclamation point and goofball job
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a half times their offering price, peaking at $75. Netscape came out of the day with a staggering valuation of $2.3 billion. On paper, Marc Andreessen now had a net worth of $80 million. Jim Clark was a billionaire. “People started drinking my Kool-Aid,” Clark gleefully told his biographer, Michael
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was a persuasive bipartisan pitch. “We’ve been able to get stuff through Congress at a time that it is hard to do that,” observed Marc Andreessen; with the Valley humming, it was hard for policymakers “to be anti–high tech.”31 John Doerr’s TechNet became one conduit for younger new
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1995, Gates and his colleagues had realized that not only would the Internet world grow large, but it might consume Microsoft’s core business altogether. Marc Andreessen was another Bill Gates: he didn’t just want to build a piece of software; he wanted to create an entirely new platform that would
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make Microsoft’s OS irrelevant. And like 1980-vintage Bill Gates, 1995-vintage Marc Andreessen wasn’t subtle about his sweeping ambitions to pummel Windows so thoroughly that the market behemoth would be little more than “a poorly debugged set
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raged at the same time, as Pam Edstrom and her troops repositioned Gates as the seer of the Internet age and Netscape’s team promoted Marc Andreessen as the Internet’s chief poster boy. Gates wrote a bestselling book on the online future called The Road Ahead. Andreessen, a twenty-four-year
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whomever John Doerr asked him to; he remained intensely curious about technology, but he also knew the good optics of hobnobbing with young stars like Marc Andreessen and Kim Polese. Silicon Valley also meant gold-plated fundraising, and Doerr was particularly helpful on that count as well. The tech executives who endorsed
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inner circle had become funders and close advisors. Peter Thiel had given Facebook its first big investment back in 2004 and was a board member. Marc Andreessen was a mentor as well, meeting Zuckerberg regularly for hash-and-egg breakfasts at a local diner. Star executives had joined from Yahoo! and Google
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Medvedev’s visit, it made a small group of people in Silicon Valley and Seattle very, very rich. THE POWER OF PLACE By the time Marc Andreessen took to the opinion pages of The Wall Street Journal in the summer of 2011 to pronounce that “software is eating the world,” the new
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kings of the 1990s who reinvented themselves as angel investors and venture capitalists saw their net worth climb. At the head of the pack was Marc Andreessen, who in 2009 founded a new-style VC firm with partner Ben Horowitz designed to nurture young technical founders into savvy company leaders, rather than
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. Others, like Sean Parker and Ram Shriram, had parlayed early success with one company into enduring networks of influence and talent-spotting. Still others, like Marc Andreessen and Chamath Palihapitiya, followed the path from entrepreneurship to venture capital first laid by David Morgenthaler and Burt McMurtry. All thrived in a ferociously competitive
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. John Doerr, “The Coach,” interview by John Brockman, 1996, Edge.org, https://www.edge.org/digerati/doerr/, archived at https://perma.cc/9KWX-GLWK. 4. Marc Andreessen, “Why Software Is Eating the World,” The Wall Street Journal, August 20, 2011, C2. Billions of dollars of public investment later, many of the would
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31, 2016. 4. Michael Lewis, The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story (New York: W.W. Norton, 1999). 5. Gupta, Done Deals, 380. 6. Marc Andreessen interviewed by David K. Allison, Computerworld Honors Program Archives, June 1995, Mountain View, Calif. 7. David Bank, “Why Sun Thinks Hot Java Will Give You
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs, part VII, Kauffman Foundation Research paper, 2012; “International Students,” Stanford Engineering, accessed May 27, 2018, archived at https://perma.cc/EFS3-3X7N. 4. Marc Andreessen, “Why Software Is Eating the World,” The Wall Street Journal, August 20, 2011. 5. Richard L. Florida and Martin Kenney, “Venture Capital, High Technology and
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Tech Bubble,” The American Prospect, Winter 2016. 9. Katie Hafner, “Google Options Make Masseuse a Multimillionaire,” The New York Times, November 12, 2007; Kevin Maney, “Marc Andreessen puts his money where his mouth is,” Fortune, July 10, 2009. 10. In September 2018, after reported infighting within Kleiner, Meeker abruptly quit, bringing along
On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
by Nate Silver · 12 Aug 2024 · 848pp · 227,015 words
is off the charts, even compared to Wall Street. And it is quite proud of this. “We believe in embracing variance, in increasing interestingness,” wrote Marc Andreessen, the Netscape cofounder turned VC whose egg-shaped head is synonymous in the Valley with hard-boiled, stubborn resolve, in his October 2023 “Techno-Optimist
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it catastrophically collapse than someone who had never done so at all. And Andreessen Horowitz is proud of its investment in Flow. In February 2023, Marc Andreessen invited me to an a16z conference at the spectacularly beautiful Amangiri hotel in Canyon Point, Utah. I thought it would be worth going for the
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leave it there.” Is VC Success a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? Andreessen Horowitz is a lot like Harvard. And Founders Fund is a lot like Stanford. Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel would probably resist the comparison, between Andreessen’s dislike for the Village and Thiel’s skepticism of postsecondary education.[*27] But the
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a certain collegiality among people in the River. *3 To complicate things a bit, a number of VCs in this chapter, including Khosla, Thiel, and Marc Andreessen, began their lives as founders. But the trend rarely goes the other way. VCs don’t usually leave to go all-in on one company
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something of a swing voter. He has distanced himself from the faction known as “e/acc” or “effective accelerationism,” a term used by Beff Jezos, Marc Andreessen, and others as a winking dig at effective altruism. (Altman has tipped his hat to e/acc too, once replying “you cannot out accelerate me
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analogies,” said Jaan Tallinn, a founding engineer at Skype who is now the cofounder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at Cambridge. Marc Andreessen, for instance, is fond of saying that AI models are just math. “Math doesn’t WANT things. It doesn’t have GOALS. It’s just
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much time in the River, but this seems somewhat hardwired in human nature.) Anyone’s totalizing vision of the future, be it Le Guin’s, Marc Andreessen’s, or mine, is someone else’s nightmare. “Utopia always leaves somebody out,” Émile Torres told me. The Best Arguments for and Against AI Risk
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7), and the frequency of inventions is inversely related to their TRS magnitude (there are ten TRS 7s for every TRS 8). Techno-optimist: After Marc Andreessen’s “Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” someone who believes that technological growth furthers human interests and should proceed apace with few constraints. Tell (poker): A verbal or
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in Los Gatos, California; web.stanford.edu/class/e145/2007_fall/materials/noyce.html [inactive]. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT 2023 “Techno-Optimist Manifesto”: Marc Andreessen, “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” Andreessen Horowitz, October 16, 2023, a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “being uniquely careful”: Vitalik
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27, 2023, vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html#ai. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT a given fund: Per interview with Marc Andreessen. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT sworn to secrecy: Chamath Palihapitiya et al., “#AIS: FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver on How Gamblers Think,” All-In with
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TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Andreessen, who had: Dawn Chmielewski, “Asked Why He Supports Clinton over Trump, Marc Andreessen Responds: ‘Is That a Serious Question?,’ ” Vox, June 14, 2016, vox.com/2016/6/14/11940052/marc-andreessen-donald-trump-hillary-clinton. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT the “cross hairs”: Mike Isaac, “Facebook, in
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Research Institute, July 10, 2023, static1.squarespace.com/static/635693acf15a3e2a14a56a4a/t/64f0a7838ccbf43b6b5ee40c/1693493128111/XPT.pdf. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “Math doesn’t WANT”: Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), “The obvious counterargument to AI foom et al arguments is that they are category error. Math doesn’t WANT things. It doesn’t have
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
by Adam Becker · 14 Jun 2025 · 381pp · 119,533 words
: Extinctionists who want a holocaust for all of humanity, versus Expansionists who want to reach the stars and Understand the Universe,” he wrote.8 And Marc Andreessen wants an eternally triumphal “techno-capital machine” to conquer the cosmos with AI and the power of entrepreneurship.9 Other tech billionaires have provided millions
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problems that currently face humanity. One of those imaginary problems is the idea that we’re not using enough energy, a concern Bezos shares with Marc Andreessen, the internet pioneer and venture capitalist. A variation on this point is made by MacAskill in What We Owe the Future. He acknowledges that there
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).” Cowen, “A Simple Point About Existential Risk,” https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/11/a-simple-point-about-existential-risk.html. 5 Dumpster Fire Space Utopia Marc Andreessen wants the respect he’s due. “Technology is the glory of human ambition and achievement, the spearhead of progress, and the realization of our potential
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tech billionaires extend through Sam Altman’s power fantasy of his own ascension to king of the world straight to the permanent galactic fascism of Marc Andreessen. While those specific visions are implausible, the fact that billionaires harbor such dreams is an indication of the risks that we as a society are
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, August 24, 2023, video call Şerife Wong, January 3, 2024, San Francisco, CA Eliezer Yudkowsky, May 24, 2024, video call INTERVIEW REQUESTS Sam Altman (declined) Marc Andreessen (declined) Jeff Bezos (ignored) Nick Bostrom (declined) Eric Drexler (declined) Ray Kurzweil (declined) William MacAskill (canceled, ignored requests to reschedule) Elon Musk (ignored) Stuart Russell
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, podcast, YouTube, www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSM0xd8xHUM. 8 Elon Musk (@elonmusk), Twitter (now X), May 14, 2024, https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1790391774097088608. 9 Marc Andreessen, “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” Andreessen Horowitz, October 16, 2023, https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/. CHAPTER 1 1 Within limits. MacAskill, at least in
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/stop-the-robot-apocalypse. 124 Ibid. 125 Reich interview. 126 Ibid. 127 Srinivasan, “Stop the Robot Apocalypse.” 128 Gerard, interview with author. CHAPTER 5 1 Marc Andreessen, “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” Andreessen Horowitz, October 16, 2023, https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/. 2 “A Short History of the Web,” CERN, accessed
Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
by Nathaniel Popper · 18 May 2015 · 387pp · 112,868 words
’s chief executive, Dick Costolo; LinkedIn’s founder Reid Hoffman; Rupert Murdoch’s son, James; and perhaps the most recognizable venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, Marc Andreessen, an enormous man with a shiny bald head. Wences found his way to a table with another budding Bitcoin nut, Chris Dixon, one of the
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, had also been agitating to get his firm, Andreessen Horowitz, to look at cryptocurrency startups and had been finding a receptive ear in his boss, Marc Andreessen. They had both found their way to the new company being created by Jed McCaleb, the original founder of Mt. Gox. Jed’s new company
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enough that it attracted interest from venture capitalists who were still queasy about tying their firms to Bitcoin. Both of the founders of Andreessen Horowitz, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, signed up to put some of their own personal money into Balaji’s project, as did several of the original founders of
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at the code underlying Bitcoin. These views were crystallized, and projected to a much broader audience, the day after Wences’s breakfast with Hoffman, when Marc Andreessen, cofounder of the investment firm that had put $25 million into Coinbase, published a lengthy cri de coeur on the New York Times website, explaining
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Silbert knew Dimon personally. When he saw Dimon’s comments about Bitcoin, he quickly e-mailed Dimon a link to the pro-Bitcoin essay that Marc Andreessen had written in the New York Times. A few days later, Dimon called Silbert. Dimon had clearly read Andreessen’s essay and sympathized with the
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his belief in the transformative impact that Bitcoin would ultimately make as it became “the prevalent transaction medium on the internet.” Fred’s biggest backer, Marc Andreessen, was increasingly vocal about his belief that the Silk Roads of the world were quickly giving way to more Coinbases. Andreessen frequently noted that in
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; Paul Walker; Marty Chavez; Alexander Kuzmin; Nicole Navas; Lyn Ulbricht; Josh Dratel; John Collins; Jennifer Shasky Calvery; Sebastian Serrano; Chris Larsen; Chris Dixon; Balaji Srinivasan; Marc Andreessen; Kim Milosevic; Brian Armstrong; Fred Ehrsam; John O’Brien; Belle Casares; Patrick Strateman; Yifu Guo; Marcie Braden; Alex Waters; Brian Klein; Nejc Kodric; Paul Chou
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later introduced Thiel to Mark Zuckerberg: David Kirkpatrick, The Facebook Effect (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010). 294“The gulf between what the press and many”: Marc Andreessen, “Why Bitcoin Matters,” DealBook, New York Times, January 21, 2014, http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/why-bitcoin-matters/. 295He believed that it could
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by Walter Isaacson · 6 Oct 2014 · 720pp · 197,129 words
WELL. CVC launches Q-Link, which becomes AOL. 1991 Linus Torvalds releases first version of Linux kernel. Tim Berners-Lee announces World Wide Web. 1993 Marc Andreessen announces Mosaic browser. Steve Case’s AOL offers direct access to the Internet. 1994 Justin Hall launches Web log and directory. HotWired and Time Inc
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public dollars, but it paid off thousands of times over by seeding a new economy and an era of economic growth. Tim Berners-Lee (1955– ). Marc Andreessen (1971– ). Justin Hall (1974– ) and Howard Rheingold (1947– ) in 1995. CHAPTER ELEVEN THE WEB There was a limit to how popular the Internet could be
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said more than two decades later. “I had no idea that people would put literally everything on it.”32 Yes, everything. Enquire Within Upon Everything. MARC ANDREESSEN AND MOSAIC For people to summon forth sites on the Web, they needed a piece of client software on their own computers that became known
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-Champaign, which had been funded by the Gore Act. The man, or overgrown kid, most responsible for Mosaic was a gentle but intense undergraduate named Marc Andreessen, a corn-fed six-foot-four jolly giant born in Iowa in 1971 and raised in Wisconsin. Andreessen was a fan of the pioneers of
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them to the beauty of both. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I want to thank the people who gave me interviews and provided information, including Bob Albrecht, Al Alcorn, Marc Andreessen, Tim Berners-Lee, Stewart Brand, Dan Bricklin, Larry Brilliant, John Seeley Brown, Nolan Bushnell, Jean Case, Steve Case, Vint Cerf, Wes Clark, Steve Crocker, Lee
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, 2011. 34. Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web, 56. 35. Gillies and Cailliau, How the Web Was Born, 217. 36. Author’s interview with Marc Andreessen. 37. Author’s interview with Marc Andreessen. 38. Robert Reid, Architects of the Web (Wiley, 1997), 7. 39. Gillies and Cailliau, How the Web Was Born, 239; alt.hypertext
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, 12:22:43 GMT, http://www.jmc.sjsu.edu/faculty/rcraig/mosaic.txt. 40. Author’s interview with Marc Andreessen. 41. Gillies and Cailliau, How the Web Was Born, 240. 42. Author’s interview with Marc Andreessen. 43. Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web, 70; author’s interview with Tim Berners-Lee. 44. Author’s
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interview with Marc Andreessen. 45. Author’s interview with Tim Berners-Lee. 46. Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web, 70. 47. Berners
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, Martin Nisenholtz, and Paul Sagan, “Riptide,” Harvard Kennedy School, http://www.niemanlab.org/riptide/. 51. Author’s interview with Marc Andreessen. 52. Author’s interview with Tim Berners-Lee. 53. Author’s interview with Marc Andreessen. 54. John Markoff, “A Free and Simple Computer Link,” New York Times, Dec. 8, 1993. 55. This section
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