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. Marc Andreessen on business
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. Marc Andreessen on business
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. Marc Andreessen on business
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. Marc Andreessen on business
The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content. Marc Andreessen on car
Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today. Marc Andreessen on car
If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing. Marc Andreessen on change
One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly. Marc Andreessen on change
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. Marc Andreessen on communication
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. Marc Andreessen on computers
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. Marc Andreessen on computers
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. Marc Andreessen on computers
Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation. Marc Andreessen on education
I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things. Marc Andreessen on experience
Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation. Marc Andreessen on health
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 on home
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. Marc Andreessen on morning
If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning. Marc Andreessen on morning
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 on movies