This is a guest post by Marc Andreessen, co-founder and General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz. Today I’m delighted to announce that legendary Internet industry CEO and executive Jeff Jordan has joined Andreessen Horowitz as our fifth General Partner. I say “legendary” for two reasons. First, Jeff has run three of the iconic businesses of the…
More »This is a guest post by Marc Andreessen, co-founder and General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz Today I’m delighted to announce that economist and former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is joining our team as a part-time Special Advisor. A lot of people already know who Larry is, but here are the highlights of a remarkable career to date: Admitted…
More »Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. The Internet was thought to be too arcane, insecure and slow to meet real business needs. Even after the team introduced Mosaic, the world’s first browser,…
More »This post originally appeared as my closing argument in our debate in The Economist. Technology stocks currently trade at an all time low vs. industrial stocks based on forward P/E ratios. Nonetheless, the esteemed and brilliant Mr. Blank argues that we are in a technology bubble. When I pointed this out, Mr. Blank modified his argument…
More »Way —Garth Because I spend a huge portion of my time looking at new technology companies, it’s getting more and more difficult for entrepreneurs to surprise me. Nonetheless, a young entrepreneur named Ren Ng recently walked into the firm and blew my brains to bits. You see my mind has been softened by the past…
More »This post originally appeared as my rebuttal to my friend Steve Blank’s opening statement in our debate in The Economist. In reading my friend Steve Blank’s arguments, I found the bubble definition quite compelling: “A tech bubble is the rapid inflation in the valuation of public and private technology companies that exceeds their fundamental value by…
More »This post originally appeared as my opening statement in my debate with my friend Steve Blank in The Economist. We are not in a technology bubble. We have not even taken a major step towards a technology bubble. Predicting such things is a bit like predicting the end of the world; the prediction will eventually…
More »My friend, Steve Blank, and I debate the bubble: http://www.economist.com/debate/days/view/710
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