Marc Andreessen – Lessons, Predictions, and Recommendations [audio]
Marc Andreessen <i>is</i> a bubble, or a couple of them.<p>The guy was a programmer (no insult, so was I) who wrote, while young and enthusiastic, a derivative copy of well known software idea... he got rich, good for him (no sour grapes, so did I) but that hardly makes him a genius of business savvy and economics. His name and commentaries started popping up everywhere a few short years ago which to me smells strongly of having a PR agency (insult+sour grapes, I don&#x27;t have one)<p>So, when I say Marc Andreessen <i>is</i> a bubble, I mean his money came from a bubble, and his portfolio has expanded in a bubble, and so has his apparent influence, but I don&#x27;t myself see evidence of extra-technical genius or being able to see the future. I have no problem with his living the dream; and if you&#x27;re living the dream, it wouldn&#x27;t even be surprising if you fell in love with sniffing your own farts (sour, not grapes!) that&#x27;s human nature. What I have a problem with is, why is everybody else always hanging on his every word, what is notable in what he purportedly says?