Marc Andreessen quotes - page 4

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:

Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

Marc Andreessen

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

I don't think objectively we are in a tech bubble when tech stocks are at a 30 year low.

Marc Andreessen

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.

Marc Andreessen

I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanthropy.

Marc Andreessen

When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.

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

There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new thing that ends up being hugely relevant to a high percentage of people or businesses. But it's really really hard to predict those. I don't believe anyone can.

Marc Andreessen

I would say the consumer Internet companies - in a lot of ways, if you go inside the consumer Internet companies and you see how they run, it's how all their businesses are going to run.

Marc Andreessen