Marc Andreessen

Innovation accelerates and compounds.

— Marc Andreessen

In short, software is eating the world

— Marc Andreessen

“Software is eating the world”

— Marc Andreessen

I know where I'm putting my money

— Marc Andreessen

PCs don't suck. They're inadequate.

— Marc Andreessen

I enjoy not being a public company.

— Marc Andreessen

I don't waste time being depressed.

— Marc Andreessen

Adaptability is key.

— Marc Andreessen

Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.

— Marc Andreessen

The great companies get built by their founders

— Marc Andreessen

There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.

— Marc Andreessen

It's much harder these days as a start-up to do physical devices.

— Marc Andreessen

The most important thing is to get on the right horse.

— Marc Andreessen

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

— Marc Andreessen

The multipurpose device will always fail.

— Marc Andreessen

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

— Marc Andreessen

The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision.

— Marc Andreessen

There is an enormous market demand for information. It just has to be fulfilled in a way that fits with the technology…

— Marc Andreessen

It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!

— Marc Andreessen

Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.

— 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…

— Marc Andreessen

The 2 hardest things you'll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving.

— Marc Andreessen

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

— Marc Andreessen

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

— Marc Andreessen

Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law…

— Marc Andreessen

There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new…

— Marc Andreessen

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was…

— Marc Andreessen

There's no such thing as median income; there's a curve, and it really matters what side of the curve you're on. There's…

— Marc Andreessen

Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and…

— Marc Andreessen

The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this…

— Marc Andreessen

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they…

— Marc Andreessen

The transfer is guaranteed to be safe and secure, everyone knows that the transfer has taken place, and nobody can challenge the…

— Marc Andreessen

More and more major industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many…

— Marc Andreessen

Smart tech investor thinks about: a) future product roadmap, b) bottoms-up market size & growth, c) talent and skill of team. Essentially…

— Marc Andreessen

Most of the big breakthrough technologies/companies seem crazy at first: PCs, the internet, Bitcoin, Airbnb, Uber, 140 characters.. It has to be…

— Marc Andreessen

People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out ecommerce.…

— Marc Andreessen

Breakthrough ideas look crazy, nuts. It’s hard to think this way — I see it in other people’s body language, and I…

— 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…

— Marc Andreessen

It's really rare for people to have a successful start-up in this industry without a breakthrough product. I'll take it a step…

— Marc Andreessen

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

— Marc Andreessen