247 Quotes by Marc Andreessen

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.

In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month.

The transformation of Apple is probably the biggest tech story of the last 15 years.

On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries - without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees.

Skype has a great engineering team, which I like to describe as 'all of Estonia.'

Any successful company in the valley gets acquisition offers and has to decide whether or not to take them.

We're being deliberately vague. We're going to come back in early 2000 and have more details.

I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.

We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is anywhere near as good as they are.