Marc Andreessen

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  • “Around ’93, ’94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.” -Marc Andreessen

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  • “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

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  • “I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.” -Marc…

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  • “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

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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.” -Marc Andreessen

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  • “If I want to get work done, that’s usually about 3 in the morning.” -Marc Andreessen

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  • “I know where I’m putting my money.” -Marc Andreessen

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  • “These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.” -Marc Andreessen

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  • “Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.” -Marc Andreessen

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  • “I need more raw experience. I’ve read and watched a lot of things, but I haven’t done a lot of things.” -Marc Andreessen

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  • “Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.” -Marc Andreessen

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  • “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

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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

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  • “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

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

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  • “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

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