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- Inside The Mind Of Marc Andreessen – By Andy Serwer
FORTUNE — Marc Andreessen is never short on opinions and never shy about sharing them either. The co-creator of Mosaic, the first commercially used web-browser that he helped evolve into Netscape, he now runs the upstart and uber venture capital firm...
- Will Programmers Rule? – By Raghuram Rajan
Marc Andreessen made his first fortune writing the code that became Netscape Navigator, the Internet browser. He is now a venture capitalist who evangelizes about the growing importance of software in business today. Indeed, he proclaims that software...
- Chris Anderson On Why He's Leaving Digital For Diy
Found via Simoleon Sense. Wired's long-time editor in chief, Chris Anderson, announced on Friday that he was leaving the magazine to become CEO of his DIY-drone company, 3D Robotics. This move comes a month after the release of his latest book, Makers:...
- Business Insider Interview With Chris Anderson
Prior to joining Wired as its Editor-in-Chief, Chris Anderson swore to himself that he would never become a journalist. Why? Because his parents were also journalists.So he went and got a degree in physics and a job at Los Alamos.In the end, his lineage...
- How About Free? The Price Point That Is Turning Industries On Their Heads
There's an old joke about a businessman who gives away his products. A customer asks: "How do you make money doing that?" He answers: "I make it up on volume."-It's nonsensical, yes. But a funny thing has happened: Giving away the product has...
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The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen
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He’s not a household name like Gates, Jobs, or Zuckerberg. His face isn’t known to millions. But during his remarkable 20-year career, no one has done more than Marc Andreessen to change the way we communicate. At 22, he invented Mosaic, the first graphical web browser—an innovation that is perhaps more responsible than any other for popularizing the Internet and bringing it into hundreds of millions of homes. He cofounded Netscape and took it public in a massive (for that time) stock offering that helped catalyze the dotcom boom. He started Loudcloud, a visionary service to bring cloud computing to business clients. And more recently, as a venture capitalist, he has backed an astonishing array of web 2.0 companies, from Twitter to Skype to Groupon to Instagram to Airbnb.
As Wired prepares for its 20th anniversary issue in January 2013, we are launching a series called Wired Icons: in-depth interviews with our biggest heroes, the tenacious pioneers who built digital culture and evangelized it to the world over the past two decades. There’s not a more fitting choice for our first icon than Andreessen—a man whose career, which almost exactly spans the history of our magazine, is a lesson in how to spot the future. In an interview at Andreessen’s office in Palo Alto, California, Wired editor in chief Chris Anderson talked with him about technological transformation, and about the five big ideas that Andreessen had before everyone else.
- Inside The Mind Of Marc Andreessen – By Andy Serwer
FORTUNE — Marc Andreessen is never short on opinions and never shy about sharing them either. The co-creator of Mosaic, the first commercially used web-browser that he helped evolve into Netscape, he now runs the upstart and uber venture capital firm...
- Will Programmers Rule? – By Raghuram Rajan
Marc Andreessen made his first fortune writing the code that became Netscape Navigator, the Internet browser. He is now a venture capitalist who evangelizes about the growing importance of software in business today. Indeed, he proclaims that software...
- Chris Anderson On Why He's Leaving Digital For Diy
Found via Simoleon Sense. Wired's long-time editor in chief, Chris Anderson, announced on Friday that he was leaving the magazine to become CEO of his DIY-drone company, 3D Robotics. This move comes a month after the release of his latest book, Makers:...
- Business Insider Interview With Chris Anderson
Prior to joining Wired as its Editor-in-Chief, Chris Anderson swore to himself that he would never become a journalist. Why? Because his parents were also journalists.So he went and got a degree in physics and a job at Los Alamos.In the end, his lineage...
- How About Free? The Price Point That Is Turning Industries On Their Heads
There's an old joke about a businessman who gives away his products. A customer asks: "How do you make money doing that?" He answers: "I make it up on volume."-It's nonsensical, yes. But a funny thing has happened: Giving away the product has...