Marc Andreessen Quotes

• 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

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

  Marc Andreessen

• 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

• The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box.

  Marc Andreessen

• The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient.

  Marc Andreessen

• The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

  Marc Andreessen

• Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.

  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

• 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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• So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.

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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.

  Marc Andreessen

• 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

• Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.

  Marc Andreessen

• 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

• PCs don’t suck. They’re inadequate.

  Marc Andreessen

• 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.

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• Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.

  Marc Andreessen

• Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.

  Marc Andreessen

• One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes… but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes – and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.

  Marc Andreessen

• One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it.

  Marc Andreessen

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Birth:	19th April, 1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman

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