Marc Andreessen (Serial Entrepreneur) - A Panorama of Venture Capital and Beyond

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Business, Life Lessons, Creativity, Startups, Strategy, Thought Leadership, Education, Stanford University, Leadership, Challenges, Journey, Culture, Etl, Innovation, Founders, Stanford, Entrepreneurship

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2010

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Serial entrepreneur Marc Andreessen offers the Stanford audience a rare opportunity to pose open questions. Topics addressed include everything from the state of VC and the stock market, to Facebook's market dominance, to the rebirth of consumer electronics. In addition, Andreessen offers ground rules for the start-up, including tips on attracting top talent.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought to you weekly
0:07.0	by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures
0:13.0	online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:17.0	Mark Andreessen is a pioneer of a software category that is in use by more than a billion people.
0:26.6	What is that category?
0:28.6	Browser.
0:29.6	How many of you started with the Netscape browser? Learn to love it.
0:33.6	And those of you who didn't, it was a beautiful, beautiful thing that Mark created.
0:38.3	In addition, he's one of the very rare individuals who've actually created two billion
0:44.3	dollar companies in terms of market cap.
0:47.3	Now, Sarah Lacey has written a book called Once You're Lucky, Twice, You're Good, that goes into
0:52.3	a little bit of the story of Mark and a few other people who've done this. If you're curious about it, you can read about
0:56.4	it there. But another little known fact is that this is Mark's second visit to ETL.
1:02.9	On April 7, 2000, Mark Andreessen was here. Well, actually, it was internment. And he was happy
1:09.3	to be reminded of that. He may or may not go into
1:11.6	why that is important to him in terms of family matters at home. But Mark, we're thrilled
1:15.5	at your back at Stanford and let's give him a warm round of applause.
1:18.8	Oh!
1:23.6	So I just checked online. April 7, 2000, I was the speaker who was closest
1:28.4	to the exact top of the NASDAQ.
1:31.4	And so last time you had me, it was perfect timing
1:34.1	of a market top.
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