Marc Andreessen
Marc Lowell Andreessen is an American businessman, venture capitalist, and former software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first web browser to display inline images; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He co-founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard; he also co-founded Ning, a company that provides a platform for social networking websites.
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- Born in
- Cedar Falls
- Educated at
- University of Illinois Urbana–ChampaignNew Lisbon High School
- Awards
- 🏆 ACM Software System Award🏆 W. Wallace McDowell Award🏆 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering🏆 Internet Hall of Fame
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1971
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