More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services – from movies to agriculture to national defense. – Marc Andreessen
TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using. – Marc Andreessen
The joke about SAP has always been, it’s making ’50s German manufacturing methodology, implemented in 1960s software technology, delivered to 1970-style manufacturing organizations, like, it’s really – yeah, the incumbency – they are still the lingering hangover from the dot-com crash. – Marc Andreessen
Tech stocks are trading at a 30-year-low when compared to the multiples of industrials (companies). It’s the weirdest bubble when everyone hates everything. – Marc Andreessen
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. – Marc Andreessen
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
Around ’93, ’94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years. – Marc Andreessen
Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world. – Marc Andreessen
There’s no such thing as median income; there’s a curve, and it really matters what side of the curve you’re on. There’s no such thing as the middle class. It’s absolutely vanishing. – Marc Andreessen
People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out ecommerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications. Think of each website as an application, and every single click, every single interaction with that site, is an opportunity to be on the very latest version of that application. – Marc Andreessen
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. – Marc Andreessen
I’ve been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don’t do. – Marc Andreessen
It’s really rare for people to have a successful start-up in this industry without a breakthrough product. I’ll take it a step further. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, ‘I don’t get it, I don’t understand it. I think it’s too weird, I think it’s too unusual.’ – Marc Andreessen
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
One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one of the first computers in the history of the world which got sold to the Department of Defense for, I don’t know, tens and tens of millions of dollars at the time. – Marc Andreessen
My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy. – Marc Andreessen
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
I need more raw experience. I’ve read and watched a lot of things, but I haven’t done a lot of things. – Marc Andreessen
Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today. – Marc Andreessen
So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection. – Marc Andreessen
I think the tech stock, the public market is still completely traumatized by the dotcom crash. I think the investors and reporters and analysts and everybody is determined to not get taken advantage of again, and that is what everybody who lived through 2000, what they kind of remember. – Marc Andreessen
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. – Marc Andreessen
The big advantage that we have as a venture capital firm over a hedge fund or a mutual fund is we have a 13-year lockup on our money. And so enterprise can go in and out of fashion four different times, and we can go and invest in one of these companies, and it’s okay, because we can stay the course. – Marc Andreessen
A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet. – Marc Andreessen