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If we're in a bubble, it's the weirdest bubble I've ever seen, where everybody hates everything. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

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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

#companies #dramatic #economic #economy #large

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#business #business model #complain #declining #either

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#building #company #difficult #easy #established

Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#browser #comments #connected #consuming #create

Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#borders #business #corresponding #dramatic #eating

So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

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Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#computer #computers #find #hook #just

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#balance #balance sheets #brand #brand new #building

Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it. ↗

— Mario Andretti

#believe #does #family #honest #honorable