Celebrity129 booksMarc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen is an American software engineer, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist who played a foundational role in shaping the consumer internet. While at the University of Illinois, he co-created Mosaic, the first widely used graphical web browser. He subsequently co-founded Netscape Communications, whose flagship browser, Netscape Navigator, helped ignite the 1990s dot-com boom. Later, he co-founded Loudcloud, which was rebranded as Opsware and sold to Hewlett-Packard for 1.6 billion dollars. In 2009, he co-founded Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), growing it into one of Silicon Valley's most powerful venture capital firms with massive investments across software, crypto, and artificial intelligence.
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Books Marc Andreessen recommends
A curated library compiled from public recommendations, interviews and posts.
Play Nice But Win
Behave
Economics in One Lesson
The Network State: How To Start a New Country
Who Is Michael Ovitz?
Who We Are and How We Got Here
Free to Choose
Edison
The Mystery of Capital
Lenin
Men, Machines, and Modern Times
More from Less
Homage to Catalonia
Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle With Modernity
Intellectuals
Alexandre Kojève: Wisdom at the End of History
The End of History and the Last Man
Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy
No Offense: Civil Religion and Protestant Taste
The Power of the Powerless
Anti-Fascism
Fascism
A New World Begins
Lenin On The Train
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe
The Romance of American Communism
The God That Failed
Hitler: Downfall: 1939-1945
The New Right
War for Eternity
The Second Coming of the KKK
The Ambassador
Lindbergh
Mine Were Of Trouble
Spain In Our Hearts
The Spanish Civil War
The Machiavellians
The Ancient City
The God of the Machine
The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism
In Defense of Global Capitalism
Intellectuals and Society
The Managerial Revolution
A Conflict of Visions
Capitalism and Freedom
In Defense of Globalization
Kill Decision
The Power of Productivity
Private Truths, Public Lies
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