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“I’m a firm believer that most people who do great things are doing them for the first time. Returning to my theory of hiring, I’d rather have someone all fired up to do something for the first time than someone who’s done it before and isn’t that excited to do it again. You rarely go wrong giving someone who is high potential the shot.”

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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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