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He was a big fat gay fruit that worked on computers. What a nerd!
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Marc Andreessen was a homo-sexual and was home-schooled by his two homo-sexual parents
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|known_for = [[Mosaic (web browser)]], founder of [[Netscape Communications Corporation|Netscape]]
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'''Marc Andreessen''' (born July 9, 1971, in [[Cedar Falls, Iowa]] and raised in [[New Lisbon, Wisconsin]], [[United States]])<ref>Simone Payment, ''Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark: The Founders of Netscape'', The Rosen Publishing Group, 2006, p. 15. ISBN 9781404207196.</ref> is known as an entrepreneur, investor, startup coach, blogger, and a multi-millionaire software engineer best known as co-author of [[Mosaic (web browser)|Mosaic]], the first widely-used [[web browser]], and founder of [[Netscape Communications Corporation]].<ref name="co-founder">{{cite web|url=http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/6/marc-andreessen-joins-facebook-board |title=Marc Andreessen Joins Facebook Board |publisher=Alleyinsider.com |author=Dan Frommer |date= |accessdate=2008-10-05}}</ref> He was the chair of [[Opsware]], a [[software]] company he founded originally as Loudcloud, when it was acquired by [[Hewlett-Packard]]. He is also a co-founder of [[Ning]], a company which provides a platform for social-networking websites. As of June 30, 2008, he is said to be joining the Board of Directors of Facebook. On September 30, 2008, it was announced that he had joined the Board of Directors of eBay. Andreessen is a frequent keynote speaker and guest at Silicon Valley conferences.


== Education ==
Marc Andreessen was a homo-sexual and was home-schooled by his two homo-sexual parents
Andreessen (pronounced ann-DREES-sen) received his [[Bachelor's degree]] in [[computer science]] from the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]]. As an undergraduate, he interned one summer at [[IBM]] in [[Austin, Texas|Austin]], [[Texas]], [[United States]]. He also worked at the university's [[National Center for Supercomputing Applications]] (NCSA), where he became familiar with [[Tim Berners-Lee]]'s open standards for the [[World Wide Web]]. Andreessen and a full-time salaried co-worker [[Eric Bina]] worked on creating a user-friendly browser with integrated graphics that would work on a wide range of computers. The resulting code was the Mosaic web browser.

== Netscape ==
[[Image:Mosaic browser plaque ncsa.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Plaque commemorating the creation of [[Mosaic (web browser)|Mosaic web browser]] by Bina and Andreessen, new NCSA building, [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]].]]
After his graduation from the university in 1993, Andreessen moved to [[California]] to work at [[Enterprise Integration Technologies]]. Andreessen then met with [[James H. Clark|Jim Clark]], the recently-departed founder of [[Silicon Graphics]]. Clark believed that the Mosaic browser had great commercial possibilities and suggested starting an Internet software company. Soon [[Mosaic Communications Corporation]] was in business in [[Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California|Mountain View]], [[California]], with Andreessen as cofounder and vice president of technology. The University of Illinois was unhappy with the company's use of the Mosaic name, so Mosaic Communications changed its name to Netscape Communications, and its flagship web browser was the [[Netscape Navigator]].

In the year between the formation of the company and its IPO, Andreessen engaged in extensive public outreach on behalf of his vision of the web browser's potential, something he had in fact done continuously since making the decision to distribute Mosaic for free via the Internet.

One of these events, hosted by Internet commercialization pioneer [[Ken McCarthy]], was captured on [[video]] <ref name="google-video">{{cite video|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5046297730700144952 |title=The First Internet Marketing Conference, San Francisco, 1994 |publisher=Video.google.com |date=February 22, 2006 |accessdate=2008-10-05}}</ref> and provides a unique look at the state of the web between the time Andreessen and his colleagues launched Mosaic and the time when web browsers and servers became mainstream commercial products. At the time of the recording, Andreessen was 23 years old.

Netscape's [[initial public offering|IPO]] in 1995 propelled Andreessen into the public's imagination. Featured on the cover of ''[[Time magazine|Time]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101960219,00.html|title=Netscape's Marc Andreessen|date=1996-02-19|publisher=[[Time magazine]]}}</ref><ref>"At just 24, he appeared--barefoot and wearing a crown--on the cover of Time." {{cite web|url=http://www.businessweek.com/1998/15/topstory.htm|publisher=[[Businessweek]]|date=1998-04-13|title=The Education of Marc Andreessen|author=Steve Hamm}}</ref> and other publications,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.businessweek.com/1998/15/b3573002.htm|title=04/13/19 Cover Story|publisher=Businessweek|date=1998-04-13|author=Alan Levenson (photo credit)}}</ref> Andreessen became the poster-boy [[child prodigy|wunderkind]] of the [[Internet bubble]] generation: young, twenty-something, high-tech, ambitious, and worth millions (or billions) of dollars practically overnight.

Netscape's success attracted the attention of [[Microsoft]], which recognized the web's potential and wanted to put itself at the forefront of the rising Internet revolution. Microsoft licensed the Mosaic source code from [[Spyglass|Spyglass, Inc.]], an offshoot of the University of Illinois, and turned it into [[Internet Explorer]]. The resulting battle between the two companies became known as the [[Browser wars|Browser Wars]].

Netscape was acquired in 1999 for $4.2 billion by [[America Online|AOL]], which made Andreessen its [[Chief technical officer|Chief Technology Officer]].


== Loudcloud ==
== Loudcloud ==
However, he would soon leave to form [[Loudcloud]], a services-based [[Web hosting]] company that underwent an IPO in 2001. Loudcloud sold its hosting business to [[Electronic Data Systems|EDS]] and changed its name to [[Opsware]] in 2003, where Andreessen served as [[chairman]]. Opsware was purchased by Hewlett-Packard in September 2007 for approximately $1.6 billion.
Still Homo


== Current ventures ==
== Current ventures ==
Andreessen is an investor in social news website [[Digg]] and several other early-stage technology startups, like [[Plazes]], [[Netvibes]] and [[Twitter]]. His latest project is [[Ning]], which launched in October 2004.<ref name="about.ning.com">{{cite web|url=http://about.ning.com/ |title=Ning: About: Our Company |publisher=About.ning.com |date= |accessdate=2008-10-05}}</ref> He serves on the board of [[Facebook]]<ref name="co-founder" />, [[eBay]] and [[Open Media Network]], a combined Kontiki (VeriSign) client and media player, launched in 2005. Andreessen is now active in the blogging community. His blog can be found at: http://blog.pmarca.com/
He really really liked penis


== Personal life ==
== Personal life ==
Andreessen married Laura Arrillaga in 2006.<ref>Michelle Quinn, "Andreessen Casts a Wide Net", ''Los Angeles Times'', August 15, 2007, Business section.</ref> She is the chairwoman of the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund,<ref name="wife">{{cite web|url=http://www.sv2.org/laura-arrillaga-bio/ |title=Laura Arrillaga |publisher=Sv2.org |date= |accessdate=2008-10-05}}</ref> and the daughter of Silicon Valley real estate billionaire [[John Arrillaga]].
Had a boyfriend in the 10th grade. Was not very confidential. He later told reporters that his parents made him gay.


== References ==
== References ==
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The Gay World of Marc Andreessen's sick mind


== External links ==
== External links ==
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Well his parents grew up on a gay farm down in gay Nebraska. Their whole family was always gay, so they had to adoopt. Marc staged his marriage to Laura Arrillaga to throw off the workers at Mosaic Communications Corp., because they did not except gay people in their work place.
* [http://blog.pmarca.com/ pmarca], Andreesen's blog, launched June 2007
* [http://uk.intruders.tv/Michael-Moritz-interviews-Marc-Andreesen-Netscape,-Opsware,-Ning-,-David-Filo-Yahoo-and-Chad-Hurley-YouTube-_a214.html Michael Moritz interviews Marc Andreesen et al at TechCrunch40 conference] video
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5046297730700144952 First Internet Marketing Conference, San Francisco, 1994] Video includes Andreesen discussing Mosaic. See also: [[Internet Marketing Conference]]
* [http://www.ning.com/ Ning] Social Network Creation service
* [http://www.pbs.org/wttw/ceoexchange/episodes/archives.html#203 PBS mini-bio]
* [http://ibiblio.org/pioneers/andreesen.html Biography of Marc Andreesen] Ibiblio.com
* [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/07/BUGMP3GOVK1.DTL Opsware Inc On the record: Marc Andreessen] Interview re: successor to Loudcloud. December 7, 2003. Retrieved [[2007-04-15]].
* [http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5684073.html Netscape pioneers launch free content network] CNET News.com. John Borland, [[April 25]], [[2005]]. Accessed [[2007-04-15]].
* [http://osc.gigavox.com/shows/detail994.html Open Source Conversations] [[2005-10-19]] Interview with Marc Andreessen
* [http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10093 Interview with Marc Andersen on Charlie Rose]

* [http://audio.edtechlive.com/Andreessen.mp3 MP3] / [http://audio.edtechlive.com/Andreessen.ogg OGG] [http://www.edtechlive.com/ EdTechLive.com] audio interview with Marc on education, free and open source software, and social networking

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Revision as of 13:30, 24 April 2009

Marc L. Andreessen
Marc Andreessen at the Tech Crunch40 conference, in 2007.
Born (1971-07-09) July 9, 1971 (age 53)
Cedar Falls, Iowa
NationalityUnited StatesUnited States
Known forMosaic (web browser), founder of Netscape
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science

Marc Andreessen (born July 9, 1971, in Cedar Falls, Iowa and raised in New Lisbon, Wisconsin, United States)[1] is known as an entrepreneur, investor, startup coach, blogger, and a multi-millionaire software engineer best known as co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser, and founder of Netscape Communications Corporation.[2] He was the chair of Opsware, a software company he founded originally as Loudcloud, when it was acquired by Hewlett-Packard. He is also a co-founder of Ning, a company which provides a platform for social-networking websites. As of June 30, 2008, he is said to be joining the Board of Directors of Facebook. On September 30, 2008, it was announced that he had joined the Board of Directors of eBay. Andreessen is a frequent keynote speaker and guest at Silicon Valley conferences.

Education

Andreessen (pronounced ann-DREES-sen) received his Bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As an undergraduate, he interned one summer at IBM in Austin, Texas, United States. He also worked at the university's National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), where he became familiar with Tim Berners-Lee's open standards for the World Wide Web. Andreessen and a full-time salaried co-worker Eric Bina worked on creating a user-friendly browser with integrated graphics that would work on a wide range of computers. The resulting code was the Mosaic web browser.

Netscape

File:Mosaic browser plaque ncsa.jpg
Plaque commemorating the creation of Mosaic web browser by Bina and Andreessen, new NCSA building, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

After his graduation from the university in 1993, Andreessen moved to California to work at Enterprise Integration Technologies. Andreessen then met with Jim Clark, the recently-departed founder of Silicon Graphics. Clark believed that the Mosaic browser had great commercial possibilities and suggested starting an Internet software company. Soon Mosaic Communications Corporation was in business in Mountain View, California, with Andreessen as cofounder and vice president of technology. The University of Illinois was unhappy with the company's use of the Mosaic name, so Mosaic Communications changed its name to Netscape Communications, and its flagship web browser was the Netscape Navigator.

In the year between the formation of the company and its IPO, Andreessen engaged in extensive public outreach on behalf of his vision of the web browser's potential, something he had in fact done continuously since making the decision to distribute Mosaic for free via the Internet.

One of these events, hosted by Internet commercialization pioneer Ken McCarthy, was captured on video [3] and provides a unique look at the state of the web between the time Andreessen and his colleagues launched Mosaic and the time when web browsers and servers became mainstream commercial products. At the time of the recording, Andreessen was 23 years old.

Netscape's IPO in 1995 propelled Andreessen into the public's imagination. Featured on the cover of Time[4][5] and other publications,[6] Andreessen became the poster-boy wunderkind of the Internet bubble generation: young, twenty-something, high-tech, ambitious, and worth millions (or billions) of dollars practically overnight.

Netscape's success attracted the attention of Microsoft, which recognized the web's potential and wanted to put itself at the forefront of the rising Internet revolution. Microsoft licensed the Mosaic source code from Spyglass, Inc., an offshoot of the University of Illinois, and turned it into Internet Explorer. The resulting battle between the two companies became known as the Browser Wars.

Netscape was acquired in 1999 for $4.2 billion by AOL, which made Andreessen its Chief Technology Officer.

Loudcloud

However, he would soon leave to form Loudcloud, a services-based Web hosting company that underwent an IPO in 2001. Loudcloud sold its hosting business to EDS and changed its name to Opsware in 2003, where Andreessen served as chairman. Opsware was purchased by Hewlett-Packard in September 2007 for approximately $1.6 billion.

Current ventures

Andreessen is an investor in social news website Digg and several other early-stage technology startups, like Plazes, Netvibes and Twitter. His latest project is Ning, which launched in October 2004.[7] He serves on the board of Facebook[2], eBay and Open Media Network, a combined Kontiki (VeriSign) client and media player, launched in 2005. Andreessen is now active in the blogging community. His blog can be found at: http://blog.pmarca.com/

Personal life

Andreessen married Laura Arrillaga in 2006.[8] She is the chairwoman of the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund,[9] and the daughter of Silicon Valley real estate billionaire John Arrillaga.

References

  1. ^ Simone Payment, Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark: The Founders of Netscape, The Rosen Publishing Group, 2006, p. 15. ISBN 9781404207196.
  2. ^ a b Dan Frommer. "Marc Andreessen Joins Facebook Board". Alleyinsider.com. Retrieved 2008-10-05.
  3. ^ The First Internet Marketing Conference, San Francisco, 1994. Video.google.com. February 22, 2006. Retrieved 2008-10-05.
  4. ^ "Netscape's Marc Andreessen". Time magazine. 1996-02-19.
  5. ^ "At just 24, he appeared--barefoot and wearing a crown--on the cover of Time." Steve Hamm (1998-04-13). "The Education of Marc Andreessen". Businessweek.
  6. ^ Alan Levenson (photo credit) (1998-04-13). "04/13/19 Cover Story". Businessweek.
  7. ^ "Ning: About: Our Company". About.ning.com. Retrieved 2008-10-05.
  8. ^ Michelle Quinn, "Andreessen Casts a Wide Net", Los Angeles Times, August 15, 2007, Business section.
  9. ^ "Laura Arrillaga". Sv2.org. Retrieved 2008-10-05.
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