Marc Andreessen Quotes

There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new thing that ends up being hugely relevant to a high percentage of people or businesses. But it's really really hard to predict those. I don't believe anyone can.
There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless.
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 no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.
These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.
This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.
To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something.
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.
Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.
TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using.
We are single-mindedly focused on partnering with the best innovators pursuing the biggest markets.
We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.
We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies.
Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.
When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.
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 in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.
With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired-the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later.
Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks.
You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.
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