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Marc Andreessen
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 9
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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.
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Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.
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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.
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The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.
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There is the opportunity to do more and better if you're smaller and more nimble.
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The transfer is guaranteed to be safe and secure, everyone knows that the transfer has taken place, and nobody can challenge the legitimacy of the transfer. The consequences of this breakthrough are hard to overstate.
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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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I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.
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Start-ups should be based on radical ideas. There should be a high failure rate for start-ups, because if there isn't their ideas aren't bold enough.
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There is a constant need for new systems and new software.
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There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
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I think that every technology company that's more than 20 years old will break up
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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The transformation of Apple is probably the biggest tech story of the last 15 years.
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We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.
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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.
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There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at least from the last 20 years, if you bet on the side of the optimists, generally you’re right.
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I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.
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Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.
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If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.
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