Marc Andreessen
Also known as pmarca
Co-author of Mosaic, co-founder of Netscape and of Andreessen Horowitz.
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- Marc Andreessen is an American venture capitalist and former software engineer.
- He co-wrote Mosaic, the first widely used graphical web browser, then co-founded Netscape.
- He later co-founded Loudcloud (Opsware) and Ning.
- In 2009 he and Ben Horowitz started the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz.
Key facts
- Born
- 9 July 1971, Cedar Falls, Iowa; raised in New Lisbon, Wisconsin1
- Education
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, bachelor's in computer science, December 19931
- Mosaic
- Built it with Eric Bina at NCSA; released in 19931
- Netscape
- Co-founded it with Jim Clark; IPO in 1995; acquired by AOL for $4.3 billion in 19991
- Loudcloud / Opsware
- Co-founded it with Ben Horowitz, Tim Howes and In Sik Rhee; renamed Opsware in 2003 and later sold to Hewlett-Packard1
- Ning
- Co-founded and chaired it; sold to Mode Media in 20111
- Andreessen Horowitz
- Announced with Ben Horowitz on 6 July 2009; co-founder and general partner1
- eBay
- On its board from 2008 to 20141
- Writing
- "Why Software Is Eating the World", Wall Street Journal essay (2011); "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto" (October 2023)1
- PCAST
- Appointed to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in 20261
- Honours
- World Wide Web Hall of Fame, 1994; Time 100, 20121
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