This is Marc Andreessen now of Andreesen-Horowitz and the co-founder of Netscape, the first company to sell web software.
In this brief clip, he talks about what the climate was like for Internet entrepreneurs in 1994.
Take-aways:
“The prevailing …
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Yes, it’s true – I did it
Life is full of surprises – and sometimes they’re even pleasant.
Out of the blue, and twenty year after the fact, someone writing in Time Magazine gave me credit for the fundamental insight that made the early Internet industry possible …
The real Secret: How successful businesses get that way
A few years ago, there was a wildly successful movie/book/craze called “The Secret.” To me, “The Secret” was massive wishful thinking bottled and sold like snake oil.
This article is not about THAT “Secret.”
It’s about what less than 1 …
When the commercial web was born
I gave this talk twenty years ago today on November 5, 1994.
In case you forgot (or are too young to remember), “normal” people didn’t use the Internet back then.
There was no Facebook, no Google, no eBay, no Amazon …
“We cared more” – The secret of how to make big things happen
This is Mark Zuckerberg from a talk he gave in 2013.
Try to forget that he is 21st richest man in the world and that no one in all of history ever got there faster.
If you do that you …
Billion dollar babies
By Ken McCarthy in Business advice, inspiration, Internet history, Internet insight, Media/Tech history, Web/Tech
You may not aspire to build a billion dollar company, but you can learn a lot from these guys.
Marc Andreessen – co-inventor of the web browser – interviews Peter Thiel – founder of PayPal and friend of lots …