Marc Lowell Andreessen was born on 9 July 1971. He is a US-based venture capitalist, industrialist, and software engineer. Marc is a private investor in Raine boutique bank and LinkedIn.
Andreessen is the co-originator of Netscape; co-creator of Mosaic, the oldest extensively utilized browser; and co-originator and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, the Silicon Valley-based venture capital company.
He co-established and subsequently sold Opsware, a software firm, to Hewlett-Packard. Marc is a co-originator of Ning, a firm offering a social media platform podium, and Andreessen is a member of the Meta Platforms board of directors.
In 1994, Marc was one of the six selectees in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame declared on the World-Wide Web at the First International Conference.
Where was Marc Andreessen Born?
Marc’s birthplace is Cedar Falls, Iowa. However, he grew up in New Lisbon, Wisconsin.
What is Marc’s Profession?
Professionally, Andreessen is a venture capitalist, industrialist, and computer engineer.
What Makes Marc Andreessen Famous?
Marc is renowned for the following business ventures:
- Netscape
- Mosaic
- Andreessen Horowitz
- Opsware
Early Days of Andreessen
Andreessen is the son of Lowell and Patricia Andreessen, who were employees in a seed firm. In December 1993, Marc attained his BS degree in computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign campus (UIUC).
When Marc was an undergraduate, he did an internship at IBM in Austin, Texas, on two occasions. He was an employee of the AIX graphics software development team entrusted with the task of the accomplishment of MIT X Window and the 3D language API ports: PHIGS and Graphics Language (GL) of SGI.
Besides, Marc was an employee with the NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) at the University of Illinois. This opening allowed him to get acquainted with the clear benchmarks set by Tim Berners-Lee for the World Wide Web.
By the end of 1992, once he saw the ViolaWWW graphic web browser demonstration, Marc and Eric Bina, a whole-time remunerated co-employee, joined hands to make a browser with built-in graphics with portability to a broad array of computers, such as Windows. The outcome was the launch of the Mosaic web browser in 1993.
Netscape
Once he completed his BS degree in 1993 from UIUC, Marc shifted to California to serve Enterprise Integration Technologies. He subsequently ran across Jim Clark. Clark is the originator of Silicon Graphics and had lately quit the company. Jim assumed that the Mosaic browser featured outstanding money-making prospects and proposed introducing an Internet software firm. Shortly, Mosaic Communications Corporation commenced operations in Mountain View, California. Marc served there as the VP of technology and co-originator. The University of Illinois was dissatisfied with the firm’s usage of the Mosaic name. Hence, Mosaic Communications got its name modified to Netscape Communications. Netscape Navigator was its key Web browser.
Opsware
Following AOL’s acquisition of Netscape by the close of 1998, Marc progressed to establish Opsware with In Sik Rhee, Tim Howes, and Ben Horowitz. Initially, the name of the firm was Loudcloud. Opsware offered cloud hosting, computing, and software services to customers dealing with e-commerce and Internet firms.
Setting up of Andreessen Horowitz
Between 2005 and 2009, Marc and Ben Horowitz, his age-old business collaborator, individually made an overall investment of US $80 million in forty-five start-up ventures comprising Qik and Twitter. The two subsequently and famously turned into super angel investors. On 6 July 2009, Ben and Marc officially declared about Andreessen Horowitz, their Silicon Valley-based angel investor firm.
Launched with a preliminary capitalization of US $300 million, the company expanded within three years to US $2.7 billion with the supervision of around three funds. The portfolio assets of Andreessen Horowitz comprise Foursquare, Facebook, Pinterest, GitHub, Honor, Inc., and Twitter.
Personal life of Marc Andreessen
In 2006, Marc got married to Laura Arrillaga. Laura is the originator of the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund and the daughter of John Arrillaga, a realty tycoon from Silicon Valley. They have one kid.
