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Marc Andreessen, born July 9, 1971, is an influential American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. He co-authored Mosaic, the first widely used web browser, in 1993 while at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Andreessen later co-founded Netscape Communications Corporation in 1994, which became a major player in the early web browser wars. more Marc Andreessen, born July 9, 1971, is an influential American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. He co-authored Mosaic, the first widely used web browser, in 1993 while at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Andreessen later co-founded Netscape Communications Corporation in 1994, which became a major player in the early web browser wars. In 2009, he co-founded Andreessen Horowitz, a private venture capital firm, with Ben Horowitz. The firm has invested in numerous successful technology companies, including Facebook, Twitter, and Airbnb. Andreessen's contributions to the internet and technology sectors are significant, marked by his role in the development of seminal internet software and his strategic investments in groundbreaking startups. less

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"The distinctive feature of today’s world is not the prevalence of change, but the acceleration of change."
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"The things that haven't been done before are the things that break new paths."
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"The best way to be successful in tech is to build something that people love so much they tell their friends."
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"When product and marketing are doing their jobs well, you'd think that the product almost sells itself."
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"A pioneer is one who finds new land, prepares it for the future by drudging and suffering, and makes it easier for others to come along later."
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"There's always more opportunity and more good news out there than there is bad news."
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"Innovation accelerates and compounds, so we see richer ideas per unit of time."
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"Strong companies, with strong cultures, generate a lot more energy than they consume."
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"Every industry and company that is not a software company will be disrupted by a software company."
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"The world is going to have more and more of a winner-take-all economy."
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"The ability to change faster than your competition purely, purely as a function of the ability to get feedback from the market and respond to it, that iterative process—we think is magical"
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"The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories: people who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do"
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"In short, software is eating the world because it is building automation into every aspect of the modern economy"
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