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he's a media vc. facebook is basically his crown jewel and that's it. facebook/media is cool i guess, but i don't see how he know much about anything else such
by debt 10y ago
he's a media vc. facebook is basically his crown jewel and that's it. facebook/media is cool i guess, but i don't see how he know much about anything else such as robotics or ai.
just look at andreesen horowitz investments. many are largely media companies(buzzfeed, stack exchange). they've tried doing finance which is a much bigger market but like clinkle clearly imploded and coinbase probably is next(literally transfers went down the other day eek). so fb is still all he's got.
he hasn't invested in any big winners yet beyond fb/media. so why should i listen to this guys advice(unless of course if i'm building a media company).
- tyingq 10y agoHe founded Opsware and sold it for $1.6 billion in cash. Netscape sold for more than that.
- colmvp 10y agoNot necessarily about Marc, but I honestly find it so frustrating to see media outlets interview people who have zero experience writing, doing research, or leading an AI related company/research institution but still ask them about their opinion on the future impact of AI, while completely ignoring individuals who are on the forefront of the field. If you read interviews on the topic of say, cancer research, it would make sense for journalists to talk to an oncologist or a person who works for the American Cancer Society, versus just any doctor or a philosopher.
- skynode 10y agoThe media (in 2017 at least) is not necessarily here to inform the public. Some of these vanilla interviews are staged by actors on both sides of the aisle just to keep the capitalist machine oiled and keep the relevant guys relevant. As an analogy, Marc can have an opinion (and y'all should hear it) about ML/AI not because he has great domain knowledge but because he's Marc Andreessen and he controls a large chunk of one of the most hallowed means of production.
- seppin 10y agohalo effect. what's worse, asking a guy like Mark Cuban what he thinks about anything just b/c he has money. And is on a TV show.
- seppin 10y agohalo effect. what's worse, asking a guy like Mark Cuban what he thinks about anything just b/c he has money. And is on a TV show.
- saosebastiao 10y agoHis focus generally is media, which I don't think is a bad thing (VCs are really bad at understanding media, he's working in an area with large arbitrage opportunities). But his largest investments have been outside media. Anki, Qik, Sigma Networks, Equinix, Asana. He's certainly not out of his element when he isn't talking media.
- icelancer 10y agoNot aware of Opsware/Netscape I guess.
- rmason 10y agoRemember the time he went walking with Mark Zuckerberg and Zuck says I know you did something famous back in the day, what exactly was it? Answer: I'm the father of the browser. He had a career before Netscape, he wrote the Mosaic browser for the Mac and Windows while he was still a student at the University of Illinois. After having to install tcp/ip on my Windows machine (Trumpet Winsock) that is the first browser that I used, perhaps a week(?) after it launched. Interestingly after getting into a spat when he wanted to use the Mosaic name with his new company his alma mater licensed the code to Bill Gates so he could quickly launch Internet Explorer 1.0 and use it to destroy Netscape. So he really is the father of the modern browser.
- tyingq 10y agoNetscape's web server was also a pioneer...offering the first well defined way (NSAPI) to avoid the fork and exit slowness of CGI. Was Rob McCool's work, but during Andreessen's tenure.
- bigtimeidiot 10y ago>so why should i listen to this guys advice Andreesen is a bit of a blowhard at times, but he's incredibly sharp and has a great track record. Trust, but verify.