Marc Andreessen
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"Marc Lowell Andreessen" is an American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. He is best known as coauthor of Mosaic (web browser)/Mosaic, the first widely used Web browser; as cofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation; and as cofounder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard. Andreessen is also a cofounder of Ning (website)/Ning, a company that provides a platform for social networking websites. He sits on the board of directors of Facebook, eBay, and HP, among others. A frequent keynote speaker and guest at Silicon Valley conferences, Andreessen is one of only six inductees in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame announced at the World Wide Web Conference 1/first international conference on the World Wide Web in 1994.

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This is the best possible time for big companies to go after online opportunities, ... This is also the best possible time to start a company, if you're willing to build for the long-term.

From there, we all benefit even if we're not related to these apps, because they're now online.

To have people spending 55 minutes online is fascinating, because they are not doing something else. There are a fixed number of minutes in a day.

The Net used to be 50 percent men and 50 percent men pretending to be women.

You can't determine whether to build a bridge by counting the number of swimmers. Consumers don't care about technology at the end of the day.

I think it's all really positive for the industry. It will force the industry to make the changes that are required to make the Internet viable in the long run.

This is a consumer phenomenon and people will care about what it has to offer them. We are not the market going from here on out.

We have to try hard and liberate ourselves from assumptions.

I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with these URLs. Hopefully they'll take advantage of them.