Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
I have yet to take capital losses on any company. Then again, it's still early. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
I think that every technology company that's more than 20 years old will break up — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Any successful company in the valley gets acquisition offers and has to decide whether or not to take them. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
First of all, every new company today is being built in the face of massive economic headwinds, making the challenge far greater… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Innovation doesn't come from the big company. It never has and never will. Innovation is something new that looks crazy at first… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
China is very entrepreneurial but has no rule of law. Europe has rule of law but isn't entrepreneurial. Combine rule of law,… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
The 2 hardest things you'll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape,… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Amazon drove Borders out of business, and the vast majority of Borders employees are not qualified to work at Amazon. That's an… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out ecommerce.… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
I'm really excited about anything that is able to address the really big markets, so anything that's universally appealing. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one of the… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it! — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Smart tech investor thinks about: a) future product roadmap, b) bottoms-up market size & growth, c) talent and skill of team. Essentially you are… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
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… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
You know, magic markets don't appear all the time, so you take advantage of them. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
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… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
