People

Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen

Formal First Name
Marc
Dates
7/9/1971 - present

Marc Andreessen is a Cofounder and General Partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is an innovator and creator, one of the few to pioneer a software category used by more than a billion people and one of the few to establish multiple billion-dollar companies. Andreessen's biggest score was as a seed investor in Facebook. Andreessen is famous for his quote, “Software is eating the world.”

Industries

Software

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Publications

A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs

Professional Experience


Academic History

Marc Andreessen co-created the highly influential Mosaic Internet browser and co-founded Netscape, which later sold to AOL for $4.2 billion.

He also co-founded Loudcloud, which as Opsware, sold to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion.

He later served on the board of Hewlett-Packard from 2008 to 2018.