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“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.”

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Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen is an entrepreneur born on July 9, 1971. He is the co-inventor of the Mosaic web browser, which significantly propelled the proliferation of the internet in the early 1990s. Subsequently, he founded Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm that has become one of the most successful in the world, investing in numerous well-known technology companies such as Facebook. more

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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.”

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“Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.”

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“People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications.”

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“If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.”

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“I enjoy not being a public company.”

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“Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.”

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“Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks.”

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