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>A small percentage of people that make it big can duplicate that success. And Andreesen is one of them. He's one of the few entrepreneurs who has created two

>A small percentage of people that make it big can duplicate that success. And Andreesen is one of them. He's one of the few entrepreneurs who has created two billion dollar companies, and now is running one of the most highly regarded venture capital operations. He's a mile a minute, super smart, and his accomplishments aren't so surprising after watching him speak: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/author/marc_andreessen http://ecorner.stanford.edu/author/marc_andreessen

rhizome 14y ago
He's one of the few entrepreneurs who has created two billion dollar companies This is a highly rosy take on history.
- loumf 14y ago
  America Online, the largest Internet access service, said today it will acquire Netscape Communications in a deal valued at $4.2 billion. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-218360.html http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-218360.html HP today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Opsware Inc. (Nasdaq: OPSW), a market-leading data center automation software company, through a cash tender offer for $14.25 per share, or an enterprise value (net of existing cash and debt) of approximately $1.6 billion on a fully diluted basis. http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2007/070723xa.html http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2007/070723xa.html
  - kirinan 14y ago
    While I can't disagree with the numbers, these were acquired at what could be considered the peak of a bubble, thus possibly way over-priced. Although, to say that he didn't create something awesome (both Opsware and Netscape) would be trivializing what he has done, and it isn't fair to him either. I think it would be fair to say he knows far more about business/what it takes to make a start-up than 99% of the world.
    - loumf 14y ago
      Right, and one of the things he stresses is timing. Opsware was famously founded before a crash and figured out how to survive to the next bubble. http://bhorowitz.com/2010/03/17/the-case-for-the-fat-startup/ http://bhorowitz.com/2010/03/17/the-case-for-the-fat-startup...
  - rhizome 14y ago
    Now Google "Jim Clark," and reflect upon possible scenarios under which Netscape was born and Andreesen's role therein. Opsware had the benefit of the already-successful, a privilege of the Fundamental Attribution Error, which is the mechanism of VC that he has the ability to use in his current endeavors, while also making use of the other engine of venture capital: connections.

rhizome 14y ago

He's one of the few entrepreneurs who has created two billion dollar companies This is a highly rosy take on history.

loumf 14y ago
America Online, the largest Internet access service, said today it will acquire Netscape Communications in a deal valued at $4.2 billion. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-218360.html http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-218360.html HP today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Opsware Inc. (Nasdaq: OPSW), a market-leading data center automation software company, through a cash tender offer for $14.25 per share, or an enterprise value (net of existing cash and debt) of approximately $1.6 billion on a fully diluted basis. http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2007/070723xa.html http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2007/070723xa.html
- kirinan 14y ago
  While I can't disagree with the numbers, these were acquired at what could be considered the peak of a bubble, thus possibly way over-priced. Although, to say that he didn't create something awesome (both Opsware and Netscape) would be trivializing what he has done, and it isn't fair to him either. I think it would be fair to say he knows far more about business/what it takes to make a start-up than 99% of the world.
  - loumf 14y ago
    Right, and one of the things he stresses is timing. Opsware was famously founded before a crash and figured out how to survive to the next bubble. http://bhorowitz.com/2010/03/17/the-case-for-the-fat-startup/ http://bhorowitz.com/2010/03/17/the-case-for-the-fat-startup...
- rhizome 14y ago
  Now Google "Jim Clark," and reflect upon possible scenarios under which Netscape was born and Andreesen's role therein. Opsware had the benefit of the already-successful, a privilege of the Fundamental Attribution Error, which is the mechanism of VC that he has the ability to use in his current endeavors, while also making use of the other engine of venture capital: connections.