Hi everyone, welcome to the A6 and Z podcast. Today we have one of our special guest-hosted episodes

as part of a new series where we share select A6&Z partner appearances elsewhere here.

This one is with A6&Z co-founder Mark Andresen. The episode is cross-posted from the new show

Starting Greatness, hosted by Mike Maples Jr. In the show that follows,

Mark shares some rare behind-the-scenes details on his journey to product market fit, from 0 to 1,

from the University of Illinois and Mosaic to Netscape. So it was a strange time. There's an old

William Gibson quote, the author of Neoreomancer, all the great science

fiction books.

He says, the future's already here.

It's just not evenly distributed.

And so this was a great example of that.

That's Mark Andresen, who's now a famous venture capitalist at Andresen Horowitz.

At age 22, he founded Netscape, the company that kicked off the internet age.

How did Netscape even happen? And what was it like when it was about to blow up?

This is Mike Maples, Jr. of Floodgate, and it's go time with Mark Andreessen.

Welcome to Starting Greatness, a podcast dedicated to ambitious founders who want to go from nothing to awesome, super fast.

When you're a startup founder, you have to channel your inner James Bond, you're McGiver, your Wonder Woman.

I'm going to help you win by curating the lessons of the super performers, but before they were successful so without further ado ignition

sequence start let's get started I decided to do some things a little

differently with this interview because I wanted to capture things about Mark's startup journey that most of likely not heard I decided to do some things a little differently with this interview because I wanted to capture things about Mark's startup journey that most have likely not heard.

I wanted to get a level deeper about how Netscape and the early web grew out of the Mosaic

project.

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