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
Start-ups should be based on radical ideas. There should be a high failure rate for start-ups, because if there isn't their ideas… — 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
Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't. — 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
