Marc Andreessen > Quotes

“The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think.”
― Marc Andreessen, The pmarca Blog Archives

“It's really rare for people to have a successful start-up in this industry without a breakthrough product. I'll take it a step further. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, 'I don't get it, I don't understand it. I think it's too weird, I think it's too unusual.”
― Marc Andreessen

“Software is eating the world”
― Marc Andreessen

“I’m a firm believer that most people who do great things are doing them for the first time. Returning to my theory of hiring, I’d rather have someone all fired up to do something for the first time than someone who’s done it before and isn’t that excited to do it again. You rarely go wrong giving someone who is high potential the shot.”
― Marc Andreessen, The pmarca Blog Archives

“To do original work, it is not necessary to know something nobody else knows. It is necessary to believe something few other people believe.”
― Marc Andreessen

“Markets that don’t exist don’t care how smart you are.”
― Marc Andreessen

“[Warren is] betting against change. We’re betting for change. When he makes a mistake, it’s because something changes that he didn’t expect. When we make a mistake, it’s because something doesn’t change that we thought would. We could not be more different in that way.”
― Marc Andreessen