Marc Andreessen Quotes

• 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

• On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries – without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees.

  Marc Andreessen

• Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn’t. Today, it’s probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say – shift happens.

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• No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It’s brutally difficult.

  Marc Andreessen

• Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust – it has a business model that either works or it doesn’t.

  Marc Andreessen

• My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.

  Marc Andreessen

• 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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• It’s really rare for people to have a successful start-up in this industry without a breakthrough product. I’ll take it a step further. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, ‘I don’t get it, I don’t understand it. I think it’s too weird, I think it’s too unusual.’

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• It’s much harder these days as a start-up to do physical devices.

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• It’s hard to do that with people who think emotionally. A lot of people think in terms of people, emotions, and feelings. That’s more complicated. Engineering mentality makes it, in theory, a little easier.

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

  Marc Andreessen

• Innovation accelerates and compounds.

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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

• In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.

   

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• In short, software is eating the world.

  Marc Andreessen

• In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month.

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• If you’re unhappy, you should change what you’re doing.

  Marc Andreessen

• If you’re the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People’s lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It’s a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.

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• If we’re in a bubble, it’s the weirdest bubble I’ve ever seen, where everybody hates everything.

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• If there’s been a crisis in a market, you don’t tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren’t in the system anymore.

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

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