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The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#building #companies #company #during #extremely

You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. ↗

— James Baker

#good #house #know #need #playing

It's hard to do that with people who think emotionally. A lot of people think in terms of people, emotions, and feelings. That's more complicated. Engineering mentality makes it, in theory, a little easier. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#easier #emotionally #emotions #engineering #feelings

Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook. He can't conceive of a world where social status or getting laid or, for that matter, doing drugs, is not the most important thing. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#actual #completely #conceive #doing #facebook

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

#academics #around #conventional #conventional wisdom #internet

I know where I'm putting my money. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#know #money #putting #where

A very large percentage of economic activity is shifting online and it makes sense that there are more services that are going to charge. It also means there are going to be more people willing to pay. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#also #charge #economic #economic activity #going

Consumers are freeing up an enormous amount of time that they were spending with stereotypical old media, and clearly, that time is going primarily two places: videogames and online. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#clearly #consumers #enormous #freeing #going

I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#consumers #feature #i #i think #phones

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

#again #completely #crash #determined #everybody