This is such a great article! Literally, goes through the highs and lows and gives a lot of context to the tweet storming Marc!<p>Required reading for any founders. You can see the parallels between him & other founders as they metamorphize from boy wunder (mustang car, late to meetings...) to this:<p>====<p>Andreessen's transformation from a smug dreamer to a realistic doer has been closely monitored by others in the industry. Patricia Sueltz, general manager of Java software for IBM, has noticed that Andreessen no longer talks about Netscape going it alone. Instead, he's open to collaboration. ''He's a more pragmatic businessman,'' she says. John Doerr, a venture capitalist with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and an Andreessen mentor, says Andreessen isn't a wild-eyed rebel anymore. ''He has retained his fresh point of view about what's possible,'' says Doerr. ''But now he listens much better. He has grown a lot, and it's not over.''<p>====