Marc Andreessen quotes

Marc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer, known for co-creating the Mosaic web browser and co-founding Netscape. As a prominent venture capitalist, he has played a major role in funding and shaping innovative technology companies. He continues to influence the tech industry through his work at Andreessen Horowitz and his thought leadership. Here are 85 of his quotes:

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

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.

Marc Andreessen

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

Marc Andreessen

The process of planning is very valuable, for forcing you to think hard about what you are doing, but the actual plan that results from it is probably useless.

Marc Andreessen

Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people for decades. Why stop now?

Marc Andreessen

[Netscape will soon reduce Windows to] a poorly debugged set of device drivers.

Marc Andreessen

The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.

Marc Andreessen

At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.

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In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.

Marc Andreessen

There is a constant need for new systems and new software.

Marc Andreessen

I don't waste time being depressed.

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Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.

Marc Andreessen

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

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You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

Marc Andreessen

With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired - the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later.

Marc Andreessen

People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out ecommerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications. Think of each website as an application, and every single click, every single interaction with that site, is an opportunity to be on the very latest version of that application.

Marc Andreessen

The big advantage that we have as a venture capital firm over a hedge fund or a mutual fund is we have a 13-year lockup on our money. And so enterprise can go in and out of fashion four different times, and we can go and invest in one of these companies, and it's okay, because we can stay the course.

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More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

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Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.

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Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high.

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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.

Marc Andreessen

Tech stocks are trading at a 30-year-low when compared to the multiples of industrials (companies). It's the weirdest bubble when everyone hates everything.

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