How Marc Andreessen Got His Dream Crushed By Microsoft And Bounced Back To Become The Most Powerful Man In Silicon Valley (HPQ, EBAY)

Marc Andreessen's life is enough to fill many regular lives.

Now he's one of the most powerful VCs in Silicon Valley.

Before that he co-founded Opsware, a company that went through one of the best turnaround stories in the throes of the dotcom bust. And oh yes, before that he built the first modern web browser, and started a company, Netscape, which ignited the dotcom bubble and the still-ongoing antitrust proceedings against Microsoft.

Yesterday Bloomberg TV made one of their Game Changers documentaries on Andreessen and it's available online. It's a great story and we thought we'd share some of the highlights.

(Disclosure: Marc Andreessen is an investor in Business Insider.)

Andreessen grew up in rural Wisconsin, dreaming of leaving the countryside

He attended the University of Illinois and worked at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), where he got a taste of the internet

He built Mosaic, the first web browser that was truly easy to use. It got 1 million downloads in just 9 months

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