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The Education of Marc Andreessen (1998)

58 点作者 johnny99超过 10 年前

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akbar501超过 10 年前
&gt; 3,200 employees.<p>This number tells so much about the improvements in developer productivity over the years.<p>Adjusting for TVM, the same revenue is now supported by far fewer engineers (obviously not all 3,200 employees where engineers). The Netscape engineers were highly skilled, so the change in the number of engineers cannot be explained away by differences in engineering skill&#x2F;capability.
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nrao123超过 10 年前
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 &amp; other founders as they metamorphize from boy wunder (mustang car, late to meetings...) to this:<p>====<p>Andreessen&#x27;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&#x27;s open to collaboration. &#x27;&#x27;He&#x27;s a more pragmatic businessman,&#x27;&#x27; she says. John Doerr, a venture capitalist with Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp; Byers and an Andreessen mentor, says Andreessen isn&#x27;t a wild-eyed rebel anymore. &#x27;&#x27;He has retained his fresh point of view about what&#x27;s possible,&#x27;&#x27; says Doerr. &#x27;&#x27;But now he listens much better. He has grown a lot, and it&#x27;s not over.&#x27;&#x27;<p>====
johnny99超过 10 年前
This is before AOL bought Netscape, before Loudcloud&#x2F;Opsware, before Ning, before A16Z. It&#x27;s interesting, knowing what came later, to see how he&#x27;s described. It&#x27;s a sympathetic profile, but it hints that he might be a one-hit wonder. The last quote is good: &quot;And while it&#x27;s unlikely that Andreessen will change the world again with another Mosaic-like discovery, Mary Meeker, an analyst at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter &amp; Co., says: &#x27;He&#x27;ll be a great CEO--5 to 10 years from now.&#x27;&quot;
presty超过 10 年前
&gt; Andreessen has acquired more grown-up tastes, too. The chubby 6-foot, 4-inch lad who dressed in shorts, T-shirts, and sandals in 1994 has shed about 30 pounds and now fancies Ermenegildo Zegna suits and Robert Talbot shirts. Greasy hamburgers and milkshakes are out, replaced by grilled sturgeon and chardonnay. And he has traded in his red Mustang for a more sober white Mercedes-Benz S600 sedan.<p>yo pmarca, what prompted this change?
leoc超过 10 年前
Does anyone have a citation for and&#x2F;or the full original words of Andreesen&#x27;s famous and important &quot;poorly debugged set of device drivers&quot; remark? The best I can find is <a href="http://ianmurdock.com/cloud/windows-as-a-poorly-debugged-set-of-device-drivers/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ianmurdock.com&#x2F;cloud&#x2F;windows-as-a-poorly-debugged-set...</a> .
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