35 Facts About Marc Andreessen

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Marc Lowell Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, venture capital investor, and software engineer.

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Marc Andreessen is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser with a graphical user interface; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

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Marc Andreessen co-founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard.

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Marc Andreessen sits on the board of directors of Meta Platforms.

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Marc Andreessen was one of six inductees in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame announced at the First International Conference on the World-Wide Web in 1994.

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Marc Andreessen was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and raised in New Lisbon, Wisconsin.

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Marc Andreessen is the son of Patricia and Lowell Andreessen, who worked for a seed company.

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Marc Andreessen worked in the AIX graphics software development group responsible for the MIT X Window implementation and ports of the 3D language APIs: SGI's Graphics Language and PHIGS.

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Marc Andreessen worked at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, where he became familiar with Tim Berners-Lee's open standards for the World Wide Web.

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Marc Andreessen then met with Jim Clark, the founder of Silicon Graphics, who had recently exited the firm.

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Marc Andreessen was featured on the cover of Time and other publications.

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Marc Andreessen's hiring as its chief technology officer was contingent on the completion of the acquisition.

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Loudcloud sold its hosting business to EDS and changed its name to Opsware in 2003, with Marc Andreessen serving as chairman.

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On September 1,2009, an investor group that included Marc Andreessen Horowitz acquired a majority stake in Skype at a valuation of $2.75 billion, which was considered risky.

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Marc Andreessen first joined the eBay board of directors in 2008, and served on it for six years.

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In October 2014, Marc Andreessen announced his resignation from the board due to the company's decision to break off its online payments unit PayPal.

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Icahn advocated for the PayPal split while Marc Andreessen opposed the spin off, resulting in public disputes.

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Marc Andreessen was accused by Icahn of putting his own interests in front of what was best for shareholders.

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Marc Andreessen advises the leaders of companies in which Marc Andreessen Horowitz invests, including Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Mark Pincus of Zynga.

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In 2012, Marc Andreessen was named in the Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world assembled by Time.

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In 2013, Marc Andreessen was one of five Internet and Web pioneers awarded the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.

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Marc Andreessen cofounded and chaired Ning, the third company he established after Netscape and Loudcloud.

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Marc Andreessen joined Glam Media's board of directors following the sale.

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Marc Andreessen is a personal investor in companies including LinkedIn and boutique bank Raine.

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Marc Andreessen serves on the board of Facebook, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Kno, Stanford Hospital, Bump Technologies, Anki, Oculus VR, OpenGov, Dialpad, and TinyCo.

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Marc Andreessen is advisor to Asana and director of CollabNet.

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Marc Andreessen is on an advisory board for Neom, the Saudi Arabian government's plan to build a futuristic megacity in the desert.

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In February 2016, Marc Andreessen posted a tweet in response to India's decision to apply net neutrality to Facebook's proposed project Free Basics.

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Marc Andreessen later deleted the tweet following criticism from Indians and non-Indians alike.

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The lawsuit alleges Marc Andreessen secretly coached Zuckerberg through a process to win board approval for the stock change, while Marc Andreessen served as an independent board member representing stockholders.

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Marc Andreessen is the founder of the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund and daughter of Silicon Valley real estate billionaire John Arrillaga.

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In 2012, Marc Andreessen expressed some support for Republican candidate Mitt Romney.

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In 2022, Marc Andreessen advocated against the construction of 131 multifamily housing units in their affluent Atherton, California town.

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Marc Andreessen's comments sparked criticisms of hypocrisy, as he had previously argued for increased housing supply, in particular in California.

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Marc Andreessen has a chapter in Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans.