Marc Andreessen
The Software Visionary
1971-present
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. Co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser. Co-founder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
12 quotes
On Innovation
"Software is eating the world."Wall Street Journal op-ed, 2011
"The best product ideas come from solving a problem you have yourself."a16z podcast
"The most valuable businesses of coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than to make them obsolete."Why Software Is Eating the World
"Big breakthrough ideas often seem crazy at first. If they didn't, someone else would have already done them."a16z blog
On Thinking
"In the future, there will be two kinds of jobs: those where you tell a computer what to do, and those where a computer tells you what to do."Interview with The Atlantic
"Retail is going to go the way of newspapers. Most retailers are going to go out of business."Interview with Charlie Rose
"Strong views, loosely held."a16z investment philosophy
On Strategy
"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."Tweet
"There are only two ways to make money in business: One is to bundle; the other is unbundle."Attributed, based on Jim Barksdale quote
"The #1 reason people fail in startups is they don't make something people want."Interview with TechCrunch
"The product-market fit is when you build a product that creates significant customer value. It's the only thing that matters."Stanford lecture