Creator
Marc Andreessen
Co-founded Netscape (1994), Loudcloud / Opsware, and Andreessen Horowitz (2009).
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VideoMarc Andreessen on the 5 personality traits of an innovator
Marc Andreessen
Mar 2026 · 1 min read
The five personality traits that separate true innovators from everyone else.
EssayGuide to Career Planning, Part 3: Where to go and why
Marc Andreessen
Oct 2007 · 9 min read
How to pick the industry, company, and role where your opportunities will compound.
EssayGuide to Career Planning, Part 2: Skills and education
Marc Andreessen
Oct 2007 · 17 min read
Which skills actually compound in a career — and what formal education is and isn't good for.
EssayGuide to Career Planning, Part 1: Opportunity
Marc Andreessen
Sep 2007 · 11 min read
Why planning a career is pointless — and why seizing opportunities beats following a plan.
EssayGuide to Startups, Part 9: How to hire a professional CEO
Marc Andreessen
Aug 2007 · 1 min read
Don't hire a professional CEO if no one on your founding team can do it—sell instead.
EssayGuide to Startups, Part 8: Hiring, managing, promoting, and firing executives
Marc Andreessen
Aug 2007 · 16 min read
How to hire, manage, promote, and fire executives at a startup, with specific guidelines for each stage.
EssayLuck and the Entrepreneur
Marc Andreessen
Aug 2007 · 8 min read
Four distinct kinds of luck shape entrepreneurial success, each requiring different personality traits and behaviors to activate.
EssayAge and the Entrepreneur
Marc Andreessen
Aug 2007 · 11 min read
Andreessen's gloss on Simonton's finding that the 'quality ratio' of hits to misses stays roughly constant throughout a creative career.
EssayGuide to Startups, Part 7: Why a startup's initial business plan matters
Marc Andreessen
Jul 2007 · 6 min read
Andreessen's punchline: the inventor of the phonograph initially filed it under 'speaking telegraph' and missed its true market for months.
EssayGuide to Big Companies: Retaining great people
Marc Andreessen
Jul 2007 · 12 min read
How big companies lose their best people, and what it takes to keep them.
EssayGuide to Startups, Part 6: How much funding is too little? Too much?
Marc Andreessen
Jul 2007 · 9 min read
How much funding a startup should raise: enough to reach product/market fit or full exploitation, with a buffer for setbacks.
EssayGuide to Startups, Part 5: The Moby Dick theory of big companies
Marc Andreessen
Jun 2007 · 10 min read
How to navigate unpredictable dealings with large companies as a startup founder.
EssayGuide to Startups, Part 4: The only thing that matters
Marc Andreessen
Jun 2007 · 10 min read
Rachleff's Corollary of Startup Success, as formulated by Andreessen.
EssayGuide to Startups, Part 3: 'But I don't know any VCs!'
Marc Andreessen
Jun 2007 · 10 min read
Andreessen's prescription for outsiders trying to break into the VC network.
EssayGuide to Startups, Part 2: When the VCs say no
Marc Andreessen
Jun 2007 · 11 min read
How to reduce layers of risk in your startup plan after VCs say no.
EssayGuide to Startups, Part 1: Why not to do a startup
Marc Andreessen
Jun 2007 · 10 min read
The emotional, logistical, and interpersonal reasons why starting a company is much harder than most people realize.
EssayHow to Hire the Best People You've Ever Worked With
Marc Andreessen
Jun 2007 · 12 min read
Drive, curiosity, and ethics matter more than raw intelligence when hiring the best people for a startup.