Marc Andreessen Quotes - Page 4

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• The transfer is guaranteed to be safe and secure, everyone knows that the transfer has taken place, and nobody can challenge the legitimacy of the transfer. The consequences of this breakthrough are hard to overstate.

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  Taken, Challenges, Safe

  "Why Bitcoin Matters". dealbook.nytimes.com. January 21, 2014.

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• Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

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  Player, Networking, Selling

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

  Marc Andreessen

  War, Entrepreneur, Grandfather

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• Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

  Marc Andreessen

  Technology, Years, Adoption

  "Conversation With Marc Andreessen". Interview with Joanna Glasner, www.wired.com. February 14, 2003.

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• Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks.

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  Believe, Looks, Bigs

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• Innovation accelerates and compounds.

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  Innovation, Compounds, Accelerate

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

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• TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using.

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  Writing, Years, People

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• The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early.

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  Clouds, Years, Ideas

  "'Grandpa' Andreessen Says We Live in Dang Exciting Times". "All Things D" live blog, allthingsd.com. June 1, 2011.

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• Skype has a great engineering team, which I like to describe as 'all of Estonia.'

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  Team, Engineering, Estonia

  "'Grandpa' Andreessen Says We Live in Dang Exciting Times". "All Things D" interview, allthingsd.com. June 1, 2011.

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• I know where I'm putting my money.

  Marc Andreessen

  Knows

  "Why Software Is Eating The World" by Marc Andreessen, www.wsj.com. August 20, 2011.

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• Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

  Marc Andreessen

  Hair, Ties, Born

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• Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't.

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  People, Broken, Ethical

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

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  Connections, Information, Environment

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

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• Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce.

  Marc Andreessen

  Looks, Pages, Host

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

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

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  Thinking, Phones, Years

  "Marc Andreessen: Predictions for 2012 (and beyond)". Interview with Paul Sloan, www.cnet.com. December 19, 2011.

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• I enjoy not being a public company.

  Marc Andreessen

  Enjoy, Company

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• I think that every technology company that's more than 20 years old will break up

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  Technology, Thinking, Years

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• I don't think objectively we are in a tech bubble when tech stocks are at a 30 year low.

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  Thinking, Years, Lows

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• There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.

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  Valleys, Graduates, Late

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• 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

  Phones, Years, People

  "Why Software Is Eating The World" by Marc Andreessen, www.wsj.com. August 20, 2011.

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• The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

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  Past, Car, Long

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• At Microsoft, they all rock back and forth like Gates, they wear the same glasses, they have the same hair style. Maybe they grow them in tanks.

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  Glasses, Hair, Rocks

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• 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.

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  Mean, Careers, Entrepreneur

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• It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!

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  Computer, Used, Okay

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• All's fair in love, war and ride-sharing.

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  Love, War, Tax Evasion

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