Marc Andreessen Quotes

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Marc Andreessen

Profession : Businessman

Birth : July 9, 1971

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.

Marc Andreessen

Tech stocks are trading at a 30-year-low when compared to the multiples of industrials (companies). It's the weirdest bubble when everyone hates everything.

Marc Andreessen

Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one.

Marc Andreessen

I'm quite bullish. We're coming up on year 15 of a flat stock market. Historically that's a pretty good sign. So I'm not a hedge-fund manager but if I was I think I'd be feeling pretty good.

Marc Andreessen

I don't think objectively we are in a tech bubble when tech stocks are at a 30 year low.

Marc Andreessen

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

Marc Andreessen

I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.

Marc Andreessen

I don't waste time being depressed.

Marc Andreessen

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

There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new thing that ends up being hugely relevant to a high percentage of people or businesses. But it's really really hard to predict those. I don't believe anyone can.

Marc Andreessen

If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant.

Marc Andreessen

I don't like to not call a spade a spade.

Marc Andreessen

There is a constant need for new systems and new software.

Marc Andreessen

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

Marc Andreessen

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.

Marc Andreessen

When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.

Marc Andreessen

I have yet to take capital losses on any company. Then again, it's still early.

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

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

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