Quotes By Marc Andreessen

I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.

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

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.

In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month.

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.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

Adaptability is key.

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.

The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient.

You know, magic markets don't appear all the time, so you take advantage of them.

So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.

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.

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

I don't waste time being depressed.

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.

I enjoy not being a public company.

Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded.

I'm quite bullish. We're coming up on year 15 of a flat stock market. Historically that's a pretty good sign. So I'm not a hedge-fund manager but if I was I think I'd be feeling pretty good.

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

It's really rare for people to have a successful start-up in this industry without a breakthrough product. I'll take it a step further. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, 'I don't get it, I don't understand it. I think it's too weird, I think it's too unusual.'

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

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.

Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.

Any successful company in the valley gets acquisition offers and has to decide whether or not to take them.

Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.

Tech stocks are trading at a 30-year-low when compared to the multiples of industrials (companies). It's the weirdest bubble when everyone hates everything.

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

If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant.

I have yet to take capital losses on any company. Then again, it's still early.

Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook. He can't conceive of a world where social status or getting laid or, for that matter, doing drugs, is not the most important thing.