Marc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, investor, software engineer, and billionaire who is well-known for his venture capital firm. Here are five facts about him to prove why he is the boss of Silicon Valley.
Marc Andreessen is the co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz worth $1.6 billion. He also co-created Mosaic internet browser and co-founded Netscape, which was later sold to AOL for $4.2 billion.
Andreessen co-founded Loudcloud, one of the first companies to offer cloud-computing services to the consumer but was later sold to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion.
He serves on the board of various big companies including Applied Intuition, Carta, Dialpad, Honor, OpenGov, and Samsara. He is also on the board of Facebook.
Andreessen's promising bets include Instagram, Oculus VR, and GitHub. His biggest score was being a seed investor in Facebook.
He has been mentioned in the internet hall of fame for his contributions to Mosaic and his work towards innovation. He was also mentioned in the 2012 Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world.