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
In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
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 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
A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Skype has a great engineering team, which I like to describe as 'all of Estonia.' — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based… — 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
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 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'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
