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Marc Andreessen quotes

American Businessman April 26, 1971

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Marc Andreessen quote: "Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it..."
Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks. 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
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
Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away. Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen quote: "Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie."
Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie. Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen quote: "I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of..."
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
TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using. Marc Andreessen
Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook. He can't conceive of a world where social status or getting laid or, for that matter, doing drugs, is not the most important thing. 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. 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
Marc Andreessen quote: "The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car..."
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
First of all, every new company today is being built in the face of massive economic headwinds, making the challenge far greater than it was in the relatively benign '90s. Marc Andreessen
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
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
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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