Top 100 Marc Andreessen Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.”

— Marc Andreessen

52. “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

53. “There is a constant need for new systems and new software.”

— Marc Andreessen

54. “I enjoy not being a public company.”

— Marc Andreessen

55. “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

56. “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

57. “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

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

— Marc Andreessen

59. “We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.”

— Marc Andreessen

60. “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

61. “Whatever you’re selling, storage or networking or security, you’re going head to head with the incumbent players.”

— Marc Andreessen

62. “I think that every technology company that’s more than 20 years old will break up.”

— Marc Andreessen

63. “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

64. “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

65. “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

66. “Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks.”

— Marc Andreessen

67. “The 2 hardest things you’ll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving.”

— Marc Andreessen

68. “Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.”

— Marc Andreessen

69. “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

70. “Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn’t. Today, it’s probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say – shift happens.”

— Marc Andreessen

71. “I’ve been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.”

— Marc Andreessen

72. “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.”

— Marc Andreessen

73. “The great companies get built by their founders.”

— Marc Andreessen

74. “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

75. “I would say the consumer Internet companies – in a lot of ways, if you go inside the consumer Internet companies and you see how they run, it’s how all their businesses are going to run.”

— Marc Andreessen

76. “People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications.”

— Marc Andreessen

77. “If there’s been a crisis in a market, you don’t tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren’t in the system anymore.”

— Marc Andreessen

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

— Marc Andreessen

79. “The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.”

— Marc Andreessen

80. “Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high.”

— Marc Andreessen

81. “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

82. “The multipurpose device will always fail.”

— Marc Andreessen

83. “I don’t think objectively we are in a tech bubble when tech stocks are at a 30 year low.”

— Marc Andreessen

84. “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

85. “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

86. “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.”

— Marc Andreessen

87. “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.”

— Marc Andreessen

88. “When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War.”

— Marc Andreessen

89. “Innovation accelerates and compounds.”

— Marc Andreessen

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

— Marc Andreessen

91. “At a certain point in your career – I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.”

— Marc Andreessen

92. “I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.”

— Marc Andreessen

93. “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.”

— Marc Andreessen

94. “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

95. “Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it’s so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one.”

— Marc Andreessen

96. “There’s a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They’re completely fearless.”

— Marc Andreessen

97. “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

98. “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

99. “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

100. “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.”

— Marc Andreessen