Marc Andreessen Quotes - Page 5

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

  Marc Andreessen

  Hate, Ifs, Bubbles

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• 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'

  Marc Andreessen

  Thinking, Fundraising, Interesting

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

  Marc Andreessen

  Computer, Used, Okay

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• There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new thing that ends up being hugely relevant to a high percentage of people or businesses. But it's really really hard to predict those. I don't believe anyone can.

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  Believe, People, Together

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• Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

  Marc Andreessen

  Distance, Party, Phones

  "The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. April 24, 2012.

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• All's fair in love, war and ride-sharing.

  Marc Andreessen

  Love, War, Tax Evasion

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• These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.

  Marc Andreessen

  Home, Thinking, Underwear

  "Is Marc Andreessen through with the press?" by John C. Abell, www.wired.com. May 16, 2008.

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• 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.

  Marc Andreessen

  Purpose, Pockets, Underestimate

  "Andreessen: There Is No Tech Bubble (And the Smartphone Is Still Under-Hyped)" by Michael V. Copeland, www.wired.com. May 01, 2012.

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• When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.

  Marc Andreessen

  Matter, Machines, Salesman

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

  Marc Andreessen

  Years, Apples, Stories

  "'Grandpa' Andreessen Says We Live in Dang Exciting Times". "All Things D" interview, allthingsd.com. June 1, 2011.

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

  Marc Andreessen

  Past, Car, Long

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• I would say the consumer Internet companies - in a lot of ways, if you go inside the consumer Internet companies and you see how they run, it's how all their businesses are going to run.

  Marc Andreessen

  Running, Way, Internet

  "Marc Andreessen On The Future Of Enterprise". Interview with Alexia Tsotsis, techcrunch.com. January 27, 2013.

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• There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless.

  Marc Andreessen

  Entrepreneur, Fearless, Generations

  "Marc of the valley on newspapers and" by Kevin Maney, www.wired.com. October 29, 2008.

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• More and more major industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures. Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.

  Marc Andreessen

  Running, Technology, Agriculture

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• Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies

  Marc Andreessen

  Hate, Technology, All Time Low

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• The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.

  Marc Andreessen

  Numbers, Trends, Fads

  "Marc Andreessen On The Future Of Enterprise". Interview with Alexia Tsotsis, techcrunch.com. January 27, 2013.

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