1. Marc Lowell Andreessen is an American businessman and former software engineer.
44 Facts About Marc Andreessen
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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; he co-founded Ning, a company that provides a platform for social networking websites.
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Marc Andreessen is an inductee in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame.
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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 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 has worked at Netscape, Opsware, founded Marc Andreessen Horowitz, and invested in many successful companies including Facebook, Foursquare, GitHub, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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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 on the cover of Time and other publications.
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Marc Andreessen's hiring as its chief technical 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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Marc Andreessen Horowitz began with an initial capitalization of $300 million; within three years the firm grew to $2.7 billion under management across three funds.
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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 joined the eBay board of directors in 2008 and served on it for six years.
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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 has invested in multiple special economic zones including California Forever in northern California, Prospera off the coast of Honduras, and Praxis in an as yet to be announced location.
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Marc Andreessen has invested in Pronomos Capital, which is funding multiple special economic zone projects across the world.
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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 after 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 Meta, 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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Marc Andreessen has shared insight about DOGE's plans in various interviews.
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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 2009, Marc Andreessen issued a $25,000 reward for information leading to a conviction in the 1987 unsolved murder of Barbara Blackstone, a teacher from New Lisbon High School in Wisconsin, where he had attended.
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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 endorsed and voted for Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
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In 2012, Marc Andreessen donated $100,000 to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
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In July 2024, Marc Andreessen announced he would donate to Super PACs that support Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign.
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Marc Andreessen is a mega-donor to the political superPAC and pro-cryptocurrency advocacy group Fairshake.
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Marc Andreessen came out against president Joe Biden's re-election bid, saying he feared higher taxes on billionaires and stricter regulations on industries he invests in.
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On Joe Rogan's podcast in November 2024, Marc Andreessen claimed that some cryptocurrency users have been unfairly debanked.
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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.