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What happened to Marc Andressen's past blog postings?

14 points by mingyeow 17y ago

mingyeow 17y ago
I loved his articles. tried to find them, but realized all of the archives were completely gone. Anyone knows why, or has an archive?
- ScottWhigham 17y ago
  Bug?
- yagibear 17y ago
  http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://blog.pmarca.com http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://blog.pmarca.com
revorad 17y ago
It says in the about section: "This blog is on temporary hiatus -- will be back soon with a new design and fresh content!"
- mingyeow 17y ago
  i think it always said that, but had the articles present. why would he take down those articles?
  - revorad 17y ago
    Oh ok, I didn't know it always said that. I thought maybe it's some side effect of redesigning the site.
jng 17y ago
He should publish them as a book. I loved the last chapter of his start-up guide: "Title: how to hire a CEO for your start-up. Body: Just don't. If there's no one among the founders who can be CEO, leave ASAP." It would be awesome if he started writing again.
- jhancock 17y ago
  You think Eric Schmidt has done a bad job leading Google? You really think two guys with zero experience even working for, much less leading, a company wouldn't have slipped up by now? I think it very wise Larry and Serge enabled Schmidt to take the helm. Andressen got a bum deal with Netscape. Their VC appointed leadership, IMHO, was, uh, lacking. But hey, them's was the early days.
  - methree 17y ago
    In my judgment, Eric joined long after Google was in startup mode.
    - jhancock 17y ago
      yes, that was my point. He wasn't a founder and has done a great job. My point was simply that I disagree with Andressen in that your job as a founder and to investors is to keep an open mind. If you have what it takes to be CEO, do it. If not, acknowledge it and find someone who can.
      - obecalp 17y ago
        Then your point is moot. The context is startup. Eric does a good job for a post-startup, which is already very profitable with a revenue of $86m in 2001 (http://investor.google.com/fin_data2003.html http://investor.google.com/fin_data2003.html). As a matter of fact, many think that Eric is more "lucky" than "good", given his track record at Novell.
  - siong1987 17y ago
    And, Larry and Sergey hired a guy who has a PHD in EECS to be their CEO.
    - jhancock 17y ago
      I'm sure his educational background is useful. His experience in running Novel and fighting Microsoft is most likely what helps most. I've seen tech companies run by very smart PHD's and not run well. I'm not sure there's a correlation.
gruseom 17y ago
He hasn't taken all of them down: http://blog.pmarca.com/2009/07/introducing-our-new-venture-capital-firm-andreessen-horowitz.html http://blog.pmarca.com/2009/07/introducing-our-new-venture-c... Given the inaugural nature of that post and the new design, I'd say the site is being repurposed.

14 points by mingyeow 17y ago

I loved his articles. tried to find them, but realized all of the archives were completely gone. Anyone knows why, or has an archive?

ScottWhigham 17y ago
Bug?
yagibear 17y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://blog.pmarca.com http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://blog.pmarca.com

revorad 17y ago

It says in the about section: "This blog is on temporary hiatus -- will be back soon with a new design and fresh content!"

mingyeow 17y ago
i think it always said that, but had the articles present. why would he take down those articles?
- revorad 17y ago
  Oh ok, I didn't know it always said that. I thought maybe it's some side effect of redesigning the site.

jng 17y ago

He should publish them as a book. I loved the last chapter of his start-up guide: "Title: how to hire a CEO for your start-up. Body: Just don't. If there's no one among the founders who can be CEO, leave ASAP." It would be awesome if he started writing again.

jhancock 17y ago
You think Eric Schmidt has done a bad job leading Google? You really think two guys with zero experience even working for, much less leading, a company wouldn't have slipped up by now? I think it very wise Larry and Serge enabled Schmidt to take the helm. Andressen got a bum deal with Netscape. Their VC appointed leadership, IMHO, was, uh, lacking. But hey, them's was the early days.
- methree 17y ago
  In my judgment, Eric joined long after Google was in startup mode.
  - jhancock 17y ago
    yes, that was my point. He wasn't a founder and has done a great job. My point was simply that I disagree with Andressen in that your job as a founder and to investors is to keep an open mind. If you have what it takes to be CEO, do it. If not, acknowledge it and find someone who can.
    - obecalp 17y ago
      Then your point is moot. The context is startup. Eric does a good job for a post-startup, which is already very profitable with a revenue of $86m in 2001 (http://investor.google.com/fin_data2003.html http://investor.google.com/fin_data2003.html). As a matter of fact, many think that Eric is more "lucky" than "good", given his track record at Novell.
- siong1987 17y ago
  And, Larry and Sergey hired a guy who has a PHD in EECS to be their CEO.
  - jhancock 17y ago
    I'm sure his educational background is useful. His experience in running Novel and fighting Microsoft is most likely what helps most. I've seen tech companies run by very smart PHD's and not run well. I'm not sure there's a correlation.

gruseom 17y ago

He hasn't taken all of them down: http://blog.pmarca.com/2009/07/introducing-our-new-venture-capital-firm-andreessen-horowitz.html http://blog.pmarca.com/2009/07/introducing-our-new-venture-c... Given the inaugural nature of that post and the new design, I'd say the site is being repurposed.