Here's The Smart Advice Marc Andreessen Gives Every Startup He Invests In
After launching Netscape 20 years ago, Marc Andreessen has had a remarkable second act as a successful and prolific venture capitalist. His firm's portfolio includes some of Silicon Valley's most...
View ArticleMarc Andreessen Asks This Optimistic Question Every Time He Critiques A Startup
Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape and early investor in Pinterest and Facebook, is an optimist.In general, he believes optimists win, and pessimists lose.In an interview with New York Magazine's...
View ArticleANDREESSEN: The American Middle Class Is A Historical Accident
New York Magazine tech columnist Kevin Roose recently sat down for an epic interview with Netscape creator and power-tweeter Marc Andreessen. They occasionally veered into talking about the future of...
View ArticleThe 55 Unknown Rock Stars In Tech, According To Marc Andreessen
On Sunday, investor Marc Andreessen launched into another one of his famous tweetstorms.This time, Andreessen was inspired by Jessica Lessin's article in The Information, “Silicon Valley’s Frontman...
View ArticleMarc Andreessen Explains The 1 Thing People Get Wrong About Silicon Valley's...
The technology industry has come under increasing scrutiny for the lack of diversity in its workforce, particularly when it comes to the number of black, Hispanic, and female employees at major players...
View ArticleMarc Andreessen Slams Paul Krugman's Attack On Amazon
Paul Krugman thinks Amazon is bad for America. He came out swinging in a recent column over Amazon's war with book publisher Hachette.Super investor Marc Andreessen has jumped in with a little sarcasm...
View ArticleWhy Marc Andreessen Loves Being Called An 'Idiot' On Twitter
Marc Andreessen is no stranger to Silicon Valley. He was around during the dot com boom and bust of the early aughts, and he's still there today. Netscape, which he co-founded in 1994, went on to...
View ArticleMarc Andreessen Says This Harvard Report Holds The Key To Solving The Gender...
Famed Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen spoke earlier today at WSJD Live.At the end of his sessions, someone from the audience asked him how his firm, Andreessen Horowitz, is working to fix some...
View ArticleMarc Andreessen Says The '90s Dot-Com Bubble Startups Were 'All Right But...
Billionaire investor Marc Andreessen thinks the startups from the late '90s dot-com bubble years would have worked better if they were founded now.Speaking at the WSJD Live conference, Andreessen said...
View ArticleHere's Marc Andreessen's Number One Piece Of Advice To People Looking To Succeed
Fortune asked 40 CEOs for their best advice to anyone looking to succeed. The whole thing is worth reading, but one of favorites comes from venture capitalist Marc Andreessen.His advice comes via...
View ArticleUnpublished Vintage Pictures Show Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, And More Silicon...
The 1980s and 1990s were a pivotal time for innovation in Silicon Valley. In 1981, shortly after Apple released the Apple 1, IBM introduced the first PC. A few years later, the World Wide Web would be...
View ArticleSnoop Dogg And Marc Andreessen Backed This No-Fee Trading App Launching Today
It's sleek. It's easy to use. It's designed to give first time, small-scale investors a leg up on Wall Street hotshots.And it just launched today.Robinhood, a zero-commission brokerage app for iPhone,...
View ArticleMarc Andreessen Dismisses Secular Stagnation Theories As 'Silly' In A...
Marc Andreessen is optimistic.He believes US economy is not facing an era of secular stagnation.Secular stagnation is the idea that the economy won't be able to create enough demand to sustain its...
View ArticleLarry Summers Fires Back At Marc Andreessen's Anti-Secular-Stagnation...
Larry Summers is out with a new blog post (and tweetstorm) responding to Marc Andreessen's tweetstorm from late last month criticizing Summers' warning of secular stagnation. Secular stagnation is the...
View ArticleEmbracing Our Robot Overlords Won't Save Us From A Weak Economy
It's time to welcome our robot overlords, says University of Manchester economist Diane Coyle in the Financial Times. While there's a lot of fear out there about how machines will replace human jobs in...
View ArticleNow anybody can use Robinhood, the no-fee trading app backed by Snoop Dogg...
It's sleek. It's easy to use. It's designed to give first time, small-scale investors a leg up on Wall Street hotshots.And after months of waiting, it's now open to anyone who wants to join.Robinhood,...
View ArticleMarc Andreessen went on an epic but flawed tweetstorm about the sharing...
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen went on a tweetstorm last week about how the sharing economy reduces income inequality. It was interesting, but it was fundamentally flawed.For ease of reading, I've...
View ArticleSheryl Sandberg and Marc Andreessen think sending women to corporate 'boot...
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, the author of Lean In, has been outspoken about tech's miserable diversity numbers. In August, she told USA Today: "I also want to be clear that we are not on the path to...
View ArticleIf you haven't been watching HBO's 'Silicon Valley,' here are all the reasons...
'Silicon Valley' cast on best behavior at S.F. premiere — without @nottjmillerhttp://t.co/bewTxvRgvYpic.twitter.com/gZUnOZOLMT— Cromwell Schubarth (@SVBizCrom) April 9, 2015Many of the Valley's elite...
View ArticleMarc Andreessen says there's a good reason his VC firm doesn't have a single...
Marc Andreessen says there's not a single female general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, the VC firm he cofounded, because his offers to women keep getting turned down.During an interview with...
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