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"Loudcloud" Loudcloud was a failure. It morphed into opsware. So he was wrong about loudcloud (timing and otherwise). http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/23

by larrys 14y ago

"Loudcloud" Loudcloud was a failure. It morphed into opsware. So he was wrong about loudcloud (timing and otherwise). http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/23/marc-andreessens-loudcloud-finally-rains-money/ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/23/marc-andreessens-lo... "After many adventures–in which the young company suffered many defeats, "

gojomo 14y ago
Morphing a 1999-founded 'failure' into a billion-dollar success, over the difficult period of the early 200X's, provides more support for the proposition that Andreesen is a persistent genius, than the proposition he's just been lucky.
SkyMarshal 14y ago
I'll take a $1.6 Billion exit 'failure' any day.