Marc Andreessen Quotes

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• My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy

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  Dramatic, Economic, Economy

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• Innovation accelerates and compounds.

  Marc Andreessen

  Innovation, Compounds, Accelerate

  "Marc Andreessen On Innovation" by Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. September 23, 2009.

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• The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision.

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  Differences, People, Vision

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• In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.

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  Business, Intriguing, Entrepreneurship

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• There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at least from the last 20 years, if you bet on the side of the optimists, generally you’re right.

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  Years, People, Lasts

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• In short, software is eating the world

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  World, Eating, Software

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• Most of the big breakthrough technologies/companies seem crazy at first: PCs, the internet, Bitcoin, Airbnb, Uber, 140 characters.. 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.’

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  Crazy, Character, Technology

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• In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day

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  Guy, Trying, Ordinary

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• Innovation doesn't come from the big company. It never has and never will. Innovation is something new that looks crazy at first glance. It comes from the 19-year-olds and the start-ups that no one's heard of.

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  Crazy, Years, Innovation

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• You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.

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  Sleep, Two, Emotion

  "The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers". Book by Ben Horowitz, March 4, 2014.

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• My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.

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  Running, Long, Goal

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• The most important thing is to get on the right horse.

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  Horse, Important, Important Things

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• We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is anywhere near as good as they are.

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  People, Employee, Threatened

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• People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

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  People, Computer

  "Jobs fight: Haves vs. the have-nots". Interview with Tim Mullaney, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 16, 2012.

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• 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

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  Suicide, Example, Borders

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• Learning to code is the single best thing anyone can do to get the most out of the amazing future in front of us.

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  Code, Best Things, Can Do

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• Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.

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  Innovation, Growth, Bigger

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

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  Technology

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• The 2 hardest things you'll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving.

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  Running, Talking, People

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• I don't waste time being depressed.

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  Waste, Wasting Time, Being Depressed

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

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  Unhappy, Should, Ifs

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• 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.

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  Thinking, People, Information

  "The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. April 24, 2012.

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• Out of ten swings at the bat, you get maybe seven strikeouts, two base hits, and if you are lucky, one home run. The base hits and the home runs pay for all the strikeouts

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  Running, Home, Swings

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• 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.

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  Morning, Real, People

  "Andreessen on Charlie Rose: 'I Am Creating A Fund'". Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. February 20, 2009.

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• 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.

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  School, Kids, Technology

  "The Charlie Rose Show", charlierose.com. February 19, 2009.

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