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  1. In the 1990s, just out of college, Andreessen went knocking on VC doors in Silicon Valley, looking to fund what became the breakthrough web browser Netscape Navigator. Within 18 months the...

  2. Jul 7, 2014 · For John’s high school senior-class photo, the broad-shouldered, 165-pound, 6-foot 4-inch teen couldn’t afford a jacket, dress shirt, and tie, so he borrowed them from his chemistry teacher.

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  3. Nov 5, 2023 · Venture capitalist billionaire Marc Andreessen dreams of ‘becoming technological supermen’ in a ‘techno-optimist’ manifesto built on a dark colonial vision.

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  4. Aug 20, 2015 · The early 90s recession hit the valley hard. PC shipments even fell in 1991, for the first time one record. But when Jim Clark recruited Marc Andreessen to “do something” on the web, the stage was set for a new kind of company, a new way of doing business.

  5. Nov 8, 2023 · John Battelle, Marc Andreessen and Dan Rosensweig at Web 2.0 Conference, October 2004; photo by Esther Dyson. Nevertheless, it quickly became clear that Andreessen intended to get in on this new network effects gold rush. He acknowledged that software was increasingly open source and that “the new lock-in is clearly data.”.

  6. Jan 27, 2015 · Andreessen---who sometimes during the mid–1990s was called the “next Bill Gates”---supposedly boasted that Netscape would reduce Windows to a mundane set of poorly debugged device drivers.

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  8. Jul 25, 2005 · As engineer John Giannandrea (employee No. 18) memorably observes, Netscape brought the world Internet time, which whirls much faster than reality's clock.

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