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.

— Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen Quotes

I always had the old-school model that I’m going to work for as long as I’m relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I’m going to learn about philanthropy.

— Marc Andreessen

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.

— Marc Andreessen

The gulf between what the press and many regular people believe Bitcoin is, and what a growing critical mass of technologists believe Bitcoin is, remains enormous.

— Marc Andreessen

Around ’93, ’94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.

— Marc Andreessen

I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones.

— Marc Andreessen

I’ve been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.

— Marc Andreessen

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services – from movies to agriculture to national defense.

— Marc Andreessen

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

— Marc Andreessen

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

If you’re unhappy, you should change what you’re doing.

— Marc Andreessen

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.

— Marc Andreessen

There is a constant need for new systems and new software.

— Marc Andreessen

You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.

— Marc Andreessen

I know where I’m putting my money.

— Marc Andreessen

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It’s brutally difficult.

— Marc Andreessen

There’s always more demands than there’s time to meet them, so it’s constantly a matter of trying to balance them.

— Marc Andreessen

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.

— Marc Andreessen

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.

— Marc Andreessen

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.

— Marc Andreessen

If we’re in a bubble, it’s the weirdest bubble I’ve ever seen, where everybody hates everything.

— Marc Andreessen
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