Marc Andreessen
Sign in to saveAlso known as Marc L. Andreessen, Marc Lowell Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 0
Top works
- Techno-Optimist Manifesto
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1974-01-28
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 65
- Total plays
- 477
Marc Andreessen is a prominent Silicon Valley entrepreneur, investor, and technologist and the cofounder and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Marc+Andreessen">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data
· 2014 · cited 60,457x
- MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space
· 2012 · cited 24,163x
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 22,969x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,519x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,410x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “[Netscape will soon reduce Windows to] a poorly debugged set of device drivers.”
- “Software is eating the world”
- “Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people for decades. Why stop now?”
- “The Ancient City by Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges -- the single best book I have found on who we are and how we got here.”
- “The two premodern religions were ancestor worship and nature worship (see "The Ancient City" by Fustel de Coulanges). The two postmodern religions are evidently identitarianism and environmentalism. Is this a coincidence, or something deeper?”
- “I'm glad there's OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Marc Lowell Andreessen , ( 1971-07-09 ) July 9, 1971 (age 54) , Cedar Falls, Iowa , U.S.
- Education
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ( BS )
- Occupations
- Investor entrepreneur software engineer
- Known for
- Mosaic Netscape Opsware Andreessen Horowitz
- Spouse
- Laura Arrillaga ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2006 )
- Children
- John
- Relatives
- John Arrillaga (father-in-law)
- Website
- a16z .com /author /marc-andreessen
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Marc Andreessen-9 (cropped).jpg
Show 5 more facts
- official blog URL
- blog.pmarca.com
- Commons category
- Marc Andreessen
- date of birth
- 1971-09-09
- name in native language
- Marc Andreessen
- social media followers
- 1194558
Sources (11)
via Wikidata · CC0
~28 min read
Article
Marc Lowell Andreessen (/ænˈdriːsən/ an-DREE-sən; born July 9, 1971) is an American businessman, venture capitalist, and former software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first web browser to display inline images; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He co-founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard; he also co-founded Ning, a company that provides a platform for social networking websites. In 2024 he became an advisor to Donald Trump. Andreessen's net worth is estimated at $1.9 billion as of January 2025.
Early life and education