Marc Andreessen

Marc Lowell Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. He is the coauthor of Mosaic, the first widely used Web browser cofounder of Netscape and cofounder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He founded and later sold the software company Opsware to HewlettPackard. Andreessen is also a cofounder of Ning, a company that provides a platform for social networking websites. He sits on the board of directors of Facebook, eBay, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, among others. A frequent keynote speaker and guest at Silicon Valley conferences, Andreessen is one of only six inductees in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame announced at the First International Conference on the WorldWide Web in 1994.

Andreessen was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and raised in New Lisbon, Wisconsin, the son of Patricia and Lowell Andreessen, who worked for a seed company. In December 1993, he received his bachelors degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. As an undergraduate, he interned one summer at IBM in Austin, Texas. He also worked at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, where he became familiar with Tim BernersLees open standards for the World Wide Web. Andreessen and fulltime salaried coworker Eric Bina worked on creating a userfriendly browser with integrated graphics that would work on a wide range of computers. The resulting code was the Mosaic Web browser.

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