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When Mark Zuckerberg Met Marc Andreessen, He Didn't Know What Netscape Did
Mark Zuckerberg is so young, that the first time he met Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, he didn't know what Netscape did. Andreessen told the story to Wired as part of a long interview: One of the...
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Valley Legend Marc Andreessen: You're Crazy If You Think We're In A Tech Bubble
After Facebook bought Instagram — a company with a semi-non-existent business model — for more than $1 billion, the tech community once again started screaming "bubble" over and over. Marc Andreessen,...
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This Quote Explains The Difference Between Silicon Valley And The Rest Of The...
Marc Andreessen was on Charlie Rose this week, and he dropped this super smart nugget on the tech industry: The core idea we have, the core theory we have, is that the fundamental output of a...
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Marc Andreessen On Stage At Fortune Brainstorm: Hardware Is Coming Back To...
We are in Aspen, Colorado where in a few minutes ago Fortune's Brainstorm conference kicked off with an interview of Marc Andreessen. 350 people have come to this event. Andreessen is a Silicon Valley...
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Marc Andreessen Tells Us What He Thinks Of New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer (YHOO,...
In a dramatic and surprising move, Yahoo just hired famous Google VP Marissa Mayer to be its CEO. So what does the Silicon Valley cognoscenti think? To find out, we asked Marc Andreessen. Marc...
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Marc Andreessen Says Ross Levinsohn Would Have Been 'A Great CEO' For Yahoo...
Hiring Google VP Marissa Mayer to be its CEO, Yahoo passed on interim CEO Ross Levinsohn. This surprised a lot of people in the industry who thought Levinsohn would have done an excellent job in the...
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Yahoo Employees Share Tips For Their New CEO
Yahoo announced today that Marissa Mayer, a long-time Google executive and the company’s 20th employee, would be taking over as the company’s top executive. According to Bloomberg, Mayer is Yahoo’s...
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With A $300 Million Return On A $17 Million Startup Investment, Andreessen...
Ever since Marc Andreessen formalized his startup investing by creating a firm, Andreessen Horowitz, back in 2009, the firm has been treated like one of Silicon Valley's top startup investors. But in...
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Instead Of Retiring After Selling His Company For $2 Billion, This Guy Went...
Just over a year ago, Michael Rubin scored the entrepreneurial hit of a lifetime: he sold an e-commerce company, GSI Commerce, to eBay, for ~$2 billion. So naturally, Rubin took the money and sailed...
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Marc Andreessen Leaves The Board Of App.net After Founder Dalton Caldwell...
Yesterday, Dalton Caldwell wrote a very public, scathing post about Facebook. It alleged that Facebook uses shady tactics to acquire companies which include intimidation and bullying. Caldwell and his...
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Why You Have To Meet Shannon Callahan—She Can Make Your Silicon Valley Career
If you work in the tech industry, you ought to know Shannon Callahan. The Andreessen Horowitz partner has the power to change your career—not just once, but repeatedly. And as Business Insider found...
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Top Groupon Investors And A Board Member Did Not Think The Company Should...
In her lead-in to an exclusive interview with Groupon CEO Andrew Mason, All Things D's Kara Swisher just reported this bombshell: It’s not well known, but last year before it went public, Groupon...
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10 Things You Need To Know This Morning
Good morning! Here's the news: Marissa Mayer has poached another employee from Google. Andrew Schulte, who worked as a product marketing manager at Google, is joining Yahoo as Mayer's chief of staff....
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After Selling His Startup For $1.2 Billion, Yammer CEO Calls The End Of...
Silicon Valley as we know may be coming to an end, says early PayPal employee and Yammer founder, David Sacks. Last month, Sacks sold Yammer to Microsoft for $1.2 billion. He declared the (potential)...
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Facebook Board Member Marc Andreessen Is Selling A Few Shares To Cover Taxes...
Facebook board member Marc Andreessen is selling some shares of Facebook, according to a filing with SEC. He is doing to cover a tax bill, not because he has lost faith in the company. Additionally,...
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Yammer's David Sacks: The Internet Is STILL Over (MSFT)
Yammer CEO David Sacks ruffled a lot of feathers in the tech industry when he wrote on his Facebook page that Silicon Valley as we know it may be coming to an end. Today he dug in and explained his...
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How A US Intelligence Officer Convinced Andreessen Horowitz To Invest In...
Marc Andreessen has been personally invested in Facebook from almost the very beginning. But the venture capital firm he cofounded with Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz, only invested much later at...
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Marc Andreessen Reveals The Feature He Almost Included In Web Browsers But...
Marc Andreessen is a tech entrepreneur and investor who co-created the first widely used Web browser, Mosaic. His company went on to create key Web technologies like JavaScript, SSL, cookies, and...
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Check Out Rap Genius, The Song Lyrics Site That Andreessen Horowitz Just...
Andreessen Horowitz just invested $15 million into Rap Genius, a Wikipedia-like platform for explaining song lyrics. While the word "rap" is in the name, the site isn't specific to hip-hop. We took it...
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Instagram's CEO Quietly Dissed A Major Investor
At an event in San Francisco Thursday night, Instagram founder Kevin Systrom said that the most important thing to take into consideration when raising money for a startup is finding the right people...
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