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Netscape was the first company to attempt to capitalize on the emerging World Wide Web. [17] [18] It was founded under the name Mosaic Communications Corporation on April 4, 1994, the brainchild of Jim Clark who had recruited Marc Andreessen as co-founder and Kleiner Perkins as investors.
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After AOL acquired Netscape in late 1998, Andreessen went on to found Opsware with Ben Horowitz, Tim Howes, and In Sik Rhee. Originally named Loudcloud, the company provided computing, hosting and software services to consumer facing internet and e-commerce companies.
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- Marc Lowell Andreessen, July 9, 1971 (age 52), Cedar Falls, Iowa, U.S.
Clark and Andreessen founded Netscape, and developed the Netscape Navigator web browser. The founding of Netscape and its IPO in August 1995 launched the Internet boom on Wall Street during the mid-to-late 1990s. Clark's initial investment in Netscape was $4 million in 1994; he exited with $1.2 billion when Netscape was acquired by AOL in 1999.
Aug 9, 2015 · The Netscape Navigator homepage on Aug. 9, 1995. Advertisement. Before Netscape Navigator, the internet was an abstract concept, used primarily by the military and academia. “I’m not sure the...
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Apr 3, 2014 · Netscape, of course, was the company that would launch the dot com era. Though not technically the first internet startup per-se, Netscape was the first internet startup that mattered. It produced the first widely popular internet application, Netscape Navigator, and it grew symbiotically with the explosion in popularity of the World Wide Web.
The company was founded in April 1994 as Mosaic Communications Corp. by James H. Clark and Marc Andreessen. Clark had previously founded and been chairman of Silicon Graphics, Inc., a manufacturer of computer workstations.
Apr 30, 2024 · On February 18, 1999, he became chief technology officer at America Online, Inc. (AOL), which had purchased Netscape the previous year. Andreessen, however, left AOL after only seven months. He then founded LoudCloud, Inc. (later called Opsware), in October 1999; it was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2007.
