Marc Andreessen

Context:
- He can be associated with Marc Andreessen Quotes, such as:
  - “Did I stumble into an International Workers Party conference?”
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See: Mosaic (Web Browser), Netscape Communications, Entrepreneur, Investor, Autodidact.

References

https://a16z.com/2023/06/06/ai-will-save-the-world/
- NOTES: It presents an optimistic view of the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential impact on society. The author contrasts the utopian vision of AI's role in improving various aspects of life with the prevalent societal panic often associated with AI. Additionally, the author categorizes those concerned about AI into "Baptists" who genuinely believe AI could be harmful and "Bootleggers" who may have ulterior motives.
- SEE: Bootleggers and Baptists.

(Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen Retrieved:2015-11-19.
- Marc Lowell Andreessen (born July 9, 1971) is an American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. He is best known as coauthor of Mosaic, the first widely used Web browser; as cofounder of Netscape; 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, a company that provides a platform for social networking websites. He sits on the board of directors of Facebook, ^[1] eBay, ^[2] 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 First International Conference on the World-Wide Web in 1994.

http://fortune.com/2015/11/14/zipcar-co-founder-tech-basic-income/
- QUOTE: In this regard, [Robin] Chase is an outlier — though not unique. Tech executives don’t tend to spend a lot of time discussing what some call the “precariat”— a class of workers whose lives are marked by incessant instability and insecurity. When the entrepreneur and investor Marc Andreessen was asked recently at the Fortune Global Forum about whether technology is exacerbating income inequality, he snapped: “Did I stumble into an International Workers Party conference?”

(Andreessen, 2011) ⇒ Marc Andreessen. (2011). “Why Software Is Eating The World." Wall Street Journal, August 2011.
- QUOTE: We believe that many of the prominent new Internet companies are building real, high-growth, high-margin, highly defensible businesses. …
  … My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy. …
  … More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services — from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures. Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not. …
  … Software is also eating much of the value chain of industries that are widely viewed as primarily existing in the physical world. In today's cars, software runs the engines, controls safety features, entertains passengers, guides drivers to destinations and connects each car to mobile, satellite and GPS networks.