D: All Things Digital Conferences
Being an entrepreneur is not about being in love with an idea, it’s about being in love with running a company.
— Max Levchin, co-founder and former CTO of PayPal, on lessons learned as a young entrepreneur
Tech and media bigs on the red-hot seat.
Co-Founder and General Partner
Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen is one of the few to achieve the trifecta: pioneer a software category used by more than a billion people, establish multiple billion-dollar companies, and launch an influential venture capital company. He co-created the Mosaic Internet browser and co-founded Netscape, which later sold to AOL for $4.2 billion. He co-founded Loudcloud, which sold to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion. He is now a co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm with $1.2 billion to give away to technology companies. His Bachelor of Science degree in computer science is from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where there is a plaque in his honor.
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Voices
Today when Marc Andreessen talks about how software is eating the world, the companies he evokes are merely parroting the playbook of Skype, which did eat the phone companies and thus set the template for the notion that software is eating the world.
— Om Malik, writing on Skype’s 10th birthday