3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.
3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen I need more raw experience. I’ve read and watched a lot of things, but I haven’t done a lot of things.
3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen There is an enormous market demand for information. It just has to be fulfilled in a way that fits with the technology of our times.
3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen 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.
3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen Today’s stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don’t have to be that good to be much better.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.
3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.
3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen People are so bad at driving cars that computers don’t have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you’re like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.
3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.
3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that’s far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.
