Marc Andreessen Quotes

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• I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.
• In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.
• Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.
• I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when…
• Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.
• Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.
• In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet…
• The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the…
• The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision.
• Most of the big breakthrough technologies/companies seem crazy at first: PCs, the internet, Bitcoin, Airbnb, Uber, 140 characters.. It has to be a radical product.…
• An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools,…
• The gulf between what the press and many regular people believe Bitcoin is, and what a growing critical mass of technologists believe Bitcoin is, remains…
• The transfer is guaranteed to be safe and secure, everyone knows that the transfer has taken place, and nobody can challenge the legitimacy of the…
• Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated…
• Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.
• Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new…
• 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 that…
• Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.
• I don't waste time being depressed.
• I don't think objectively we are in a tech bubble when tech stocks are at a 30 year low.

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