Visionary:Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen
Biography
Co-founder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz, influential tech investor and thinker.
Category
Venture Capitalist
Notable Quotes
On Creative Destruction in AI Era
"Software is eating the world."
—Marc Andreessen, Wall Street Journal (2011), August 20, 2011
On AI Governance and Regulation
"AI will not destroy the world, and in fact may save it."
—Marc Andreessen, The Techno-Optimist Manifesto (2023), October 16, 2023 Link
On Network Effects and Platform Monopolies
"The bundling and unbundling of industries is the natural cycle of markets and technology."
—Marc Andreessen, The Tim Ferriss Show (2016), May 29, 2016, Episode 163
On Zero Marginal Cost Society
"Every market that has been transformed by software has seen dramatic price declines."
—Marc Andreessen, Recode Decode (2019), October 14, 2019, Interview by Kara Swisher
On Innovation Cycles and Market Bubbles
"The smartphone is the most important platform in the history of computing."
—Marc Andreessen, Benedict Evans Newsletter (2020), January 15, 2020