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Marc Andreessen Just Dropped A Big Brain Bomb On Quora
This morning around 4 AM, Marc Andreessen logged onto Quora and started answering questions for about an hour. It looks like it was the first time he's answered anything on the question-and-answer...
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Andreessen Horowitz Invests $80 Million In Twitter
Silicon Valley's hottest VC firm, Andreessen Horowitz, now owns an $80 million stake in Twitter, Kara Swisher reports. What's weird about AH's stake is how it got it: buying shares off employees and...
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Andreessen Horowitz Buying Twitter Stock Amid Takeover Talks? Is This Cool?
Yesterday two pieces of news relating to Twitter broke. First, Andreessen Horowitz has recently invested $80 million in Twitter by buying stock on the private markets. Second, Google and Facebook have...
View ArticleMarc Andreessen Is On Bloomberg "Game Changers" Tomorrow Night
Bloomberg TV's "Game Changers" is a nice series of documentaries on businesspeople who are, well, game changers. They often do tech titans -- Twitter's founders recently -- and this week we're treated...
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How Marc Andreessen Got His Dream Crushed By Microsoft And Bounced Back To...
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...
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How To Use RockMelt, The Social Web Browser From The Founder Of Netscape
With all the buzz surrounding the latest versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer, the public beta release of RockMelt, the social web browser, fell through the cracks. RockMelt is based on Google...
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Eric Schmidt, Sean Parker, Marc Andreessen Invest In Boutique Bank Raine
Raine, new boutique bank with some very high profile backers from the tech and media world, is starting to look for deals, the FT reports. Check out the names attached to Raine: Investors: Google...
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ANDREESSEN: There's No Tech Bubble
Marc Andreessen spoke at the D conference last night. He still doesn't think there's a tech bubble, in part because everyone else does. The core of Marc's argument is that major tech stocks like...
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Marc Andreessen: Robots Will Replace Human Drivers
Marc Andreessen thinks that robots are better drivers than humans, and in 10 or 20 years only outlaws and renegades will pilot their own cars. Here's what he told the New York Times: Google is working...
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Marc Andreessen's House Is "Pretty Much" Decorated For Christmas Year Round
Here's a cute detail from Marc Andreessen's interview with the New York Times magazine. His wife is apparently a nut about Christmas so the house is decorated year round for the holiday: Q: I spoke...
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FINALLY, SOME GOOD NEWS FOR YAHOO: Marc Andreessen Wants To Buy It (YHOO)
Yesterday, Kara Swisher reported that a bunch of private equity firms are sniffing around Yahoo. That in itself is nothing new--and it's not necessarily good news for the company. A Joe-Schmo private...
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Glam Media Buys Marc Andreessen's Ning
Online publishing giant Glam Media has bought Ning, Marc Andreessen's company that helps users build specialized social networks. Bloomberg reported the price as $150 million, which is about 5x Ning's...
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Marc Andreessen: The "Clock Is Ticking" On Oracle (ORCL)
Marc Andreessen thinks that the clock is ticking on Oracle and other old-line software and infrastructure companies. His evidence: not a single one of Andreessen-Horowitz's startup investments use...
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MARC ANDREESSEN: Steve Jobs Used To Walk Around Palo Alto All The Time. Once...
Charlie Rose and Bloomberg TV pulled together an amazing group of folks to talk about Steve Jobs last night—Marc Andreessen, Eric Schmidt, and Walt Mossberg, all of whom knew him. We published the...
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Worst Miss Ever? Microsoft Tried To Buy Netscape In 1994 (MSFT)
Microsoft tried to buy browser maker Netscape in late 1994. But Netscape turned down the offer because the price was too low. That could be the biggest miss in history: Microsoft eventually created...
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Marc Andreesseen Might Become Chairman Of Yahoo
Famed Silicon Valley entrepreneur and VC Marc Andreesseen might become the next chairman of Yahoo, reports Kara Swisher at AllThingsD. As private equity firm Silver Lake works on buying Yahoo,...
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The First Yahoo Bids Are Coming In, And They Look Pretty Low (YHOO)
At least two private equity groups placed bids on Yahoo today, and both bids valued the company at more than $20 billion. A consortium led by Silver Lake bid $16.60 per share for a minority stake,...
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Okay, Now I Understand The Wacky Silver Lake - Andreessen Deal For Yahoo, And...
Frustration with Yahoo's feckless board went into overdrive recently when the board began soliciting ideas, proposals, and offers from anyone who had them. The whole process seemed designed to avoid...
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FOR THE RECORD: I Just Bet Keith Rabois $1 That I Can Fix Yahoo
Square COO and Valley tech star Keith Rabois was just bellyaching on Twitter about how Yahoo's a goner. "Put a fork in it," Keith said. So I pushed back on that. Yahoo can be fixed, I said. All Yahoo...
View ArticleMeet The Guy Whispering In Marc Andreessen's Ear About Yahoo (YHOO)
Along with private equity firm Silver Lake, Silicon Valley's most powerful venture capitalist, Marc Andreessen, is leading an effort to buy a big stake in Yahoo. One of Andreessen's advisors on the...
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