Author: Marc Andreessen

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Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.

Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.

- Marc Andreessen

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.

- Marc Andreessen

A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.

A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.

- Marc Andreessen

I don't waste time being depressed.

I don't waste time being depressed.

- Marc Andreessen

Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.

Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.

- Marc Andreessen

If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.

If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.

- Marc Andreessen

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

- Marc Andreessen

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

- Marc Andreessen

And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before.

And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before.

- Marc Andreessen

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