Marc Andreessen quotes - page 3

I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies. (Marc Andreessen)
I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty. View quote
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Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks. View quote
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Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say - shift happens. View quote
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If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant. View quote
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Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded. View quote
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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. View quote
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I know where I'm putting my money. View quote
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Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation. View quote
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Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today. View quote
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A very large percentage of economic activity is shifting online and it makes sense that there are more services that are going to charge. It also means there are going to be more people willing to pay. (Marc Andreessen)
Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies. View quote
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There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them. View quote
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In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day. View quote
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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 application was approximately $150,000 a month. View quote
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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 in more cases than not. View quote
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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. View quote
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The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient. View quote
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You go on Facebook, you buy social advertising. And you can very cost-effectively target people who are in the market for your product from all over the world. View quote
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China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley. View quote
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This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over. (Marc Andreessen)
Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon. View quote
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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 beginning of the planet. View quote
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No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult. View quote
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If there's been a crisis in a market, you don't tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren't in the system anymore. View quote
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