TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using. Marc Andreessen Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
There’s a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They’re completely fearless. Marc Andreessen Read Quote
If there’s been a crisis in a market, you don’t tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren’t in the system anymore. Marc Andreessen Read Quote
It’s really rare for people to have a successful start-up in this industry without a breakthrough product. I’ll take it a step further. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, ‘I don’t get it, I don’t understand it. I think it’s too weird, I think it’s too unusual.’ Marc Andreessen Read Quote
I’m really excited about anything that is able to address the really big markets, so anything that’s universally appealing. Marc Andreessen Read Quote
I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty. Marc Andreessen Read Quote
We are single-mindedly focused on partnering with the best innovators pursuing the biggest markets. Marc Andreessen Read Quote
