The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior. Marc Andreessen Read Quote
I would say the consumer Internet companies – in a lot of ways, if you go inside the consumer Internet companies and you see how they run, it’s how all their businesses are going to run. Marc Andreessen Read Quote
The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there’s a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally. Marc Andreessen Read Quote
If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, ‘Oh, my God, you’re going to kill all the jobs.’ Marc Andreessen Read Quote
Entrepreneurs say in an economic boom it’s actually hard to build a company because everybody’s too excited and there is too much money funding too many marginal companies. Marc Andreessen Read Quote
I think the American system is incredibly well developed. I think the founding fathers were geniuses. Marc Andreessen Read Quote
I love the ‘Daily Show,’ and I think Jon Stewart is hysterical. But literally, the answer to every single problem is, ‘Congress should pass a new law.’ It’s this unbelievably optimistic view of, ‘We can pass a law, and then everybody will get along.’ Marc Andreessen Read Quote
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 Read Quote
So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection. Marc Andreessen Read Quote
