One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly. Marc Andreessen advantageaggressivelyattack share on social
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 consumerfeaturephone Change image and share on social
I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanthropy. Marc Andreessen activityfocuslearn Change image and share on social
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 browsercommentconnect share on social
Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened. Marc Andreessen acceleratebigcompound Change image and share on social
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 anymorecrisismarket Change image and share on social
China is very entrepreneurial but has no rule of law. Europe has rule of law but isn't entrepreneurial. Combine rule of law, entrepreneurialism and a generally pro-business policy, and you have Apple. Marc Andreessen applebusinesschina Change image and share on social
I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things. Marc Andreessen experiencehavelot Change image and share on social
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 basebillionfunction share on social