Marc Andreessen Quotes

It's an old - and true - cliche that VCs rarely actually say 'no' - more often they say 'maybe', or 'not right now', or 'my partners aren't sure', or 'that's interesting, let me think about it'

At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanthropy.

The gulf between what the press and many regular people believe Bitcoin is, and what a growing critical mass of technologists believe Bitcoin is, remains enormous.

The transformation of Apple is probably the biggest tech story of the last 15 years.

If we're in a bubble, it's the weirdest bubble I've ever seen, where everybody hates everything.

When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War.

The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision.

The 2 hardest things you'll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving.

There is the opportunity to do more and better if you're smaller and more nimble.

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

Out of ten swings at the bat, you get maybe seven strikeouts, two base hits, and if you are lucky, one home run. The base hits and the home runs pay for all the strikeouts

We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.

The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient.

There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.

Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks.

There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.

It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!

Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one.

I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.

I don't waste time being depressed.

The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box.

People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications.

If you think you can execute a previously failed idea, you just have to be able to show that now is the time.

Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.

The multipurpose device will always fail.

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

Skype has a great engineering team, which I like to describe as 'all of Estonia.'

I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.

Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.

If there's been a crisis in a market, you don't tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren't in the system anymore.

Tech stocks are trading at a 30-year-low when compared to the multiples of industrials (companies). Its the weirdest bubble when everyone hates everything.

I think that every technology company that's more than 20 years old will break up

I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

I don't think objectively we are in a tech bubble when tech stocks are at a 30 year low.

Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon

The most important thing is to get on the right horse.

Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.

In short, software is eating the world.

The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before.