"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."
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Marc Andreessen, born on July 9, 1971, in Cedar Falls, Iowa, is a pioneering entrepreneur and influential venture capitalist, renowned for co-creating the groundbreaking web browser Mosaic, which revolutionized internet accessibility in the 1990s. He co-founded Netscape, a pivotal player in the early internet boom, and later established the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. A visionary in technology, his investments have shaped Silicon Valley, fostering innovation in industries ranging from software to cryptocurrency, cementing his legacy as a key architect of the digital age.
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"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."
Marc Andreessen
"To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something."
Marc Andreessen
"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"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."
Marc Andreessen"Amazon drove Borders out of business, and the vast majority of Borders employees are not qualified to work at Amazon. That's an actual, full-on problem. But should Amazon have been prevented from doing that? In my view, no."
Marc Andreessen
"The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do."
Marc Andreessen"People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. 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."
Marc Andreessen"Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the DMV and look around, you're like, 'Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.'"
Marc Andreessen
"Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better."
Marc Andreessen"One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one of the first computers in the history of the world which got sold to the Department of Defense for, I don't know, tens and tens of millions of dollars at the time."
Marc Andreessen