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

I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.

— Marc Andreessen

If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.

— Marc Andreessen

I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.

— Marc Andreessen

In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.

— Marc Andreessen

The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box.

— Marc Andreessen

All's fair in love, war and ride-sharing.

— Marc Andreessen

I think that every technology company that's more than 20 years old will break up

— Marc Andreessen

Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.

— Marc Andreessen

If you think you can execute a previously failed idea, you just have to be able to show that now is the…

— Marc Andreessen

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

— Marc Andreessen

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

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

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

So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.

— Marc Andreessen

Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing…

— Marc Andreessen

If there's been a crisis in a market, you don't tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people…

— Marc Andreessen

In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a…

— Marc Andreessen

A very large percentage of economic activity is shifting online and it makes sense that there are more services that are going…

— 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

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

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

— Marc Andreessen

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle

— Marc Andreessen

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

— Marc Andreessen

If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.

— Marc Andreessen

I don't like to not call a spade a spade.

— Marc Andreessen

The transformation of Apple is probably the biggest tech story of the last 15 years.

— Marc Andreessen

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture…

— Marc Andreessen

Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't.

— Marc Andreessen

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it.

— Marc Andreessen

My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.

— 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

Skype has a great engineering team, which I like to describe as 'all of Estonia.'

— Marc Andreessen