Marc Andreessen Quotes

• Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks.

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• I don’t like to not call a spade a spade.

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• Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

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• You know, magic markets don’t appear all the time, so you take advantage of them.

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• You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

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• With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired-the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

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• We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies.

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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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• We are single-mindedly focused on partnering with the best innovators pursuing the biggest markets.

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• 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.

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• Today’s stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.

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• Today’s leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.

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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.

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• There’s always more demands than there’s time to meet them, so it’s constantly a matter of trying to balance them.

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• There’s a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They’re completely fearless.

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• 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.

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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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Birth:	19th April, 1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman

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