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Marc Andreessen is an American venture capitalist. He started his career as a software engineer and coauthored Mosaic, the first web browser. He co-founded Netscape Communications, which produced one of the first popular commercial browsers, Ning, a social networking service, and Opsware, which was sold to Hewlett Packard. He is a board member of Facebook, Ebay and Hewlett Packard. In 2009 he co-founded the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz with Ben Horowitz.

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2006

Andreessen, Arrillaga marry

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Andreessen marries Laura Arrillaga, a philanthropy teacher at Stanford University and the daughter of Silicon Valley real estate developer John Arrillaga. The marriage spurs Andreessen to start considering new philanthropic options:

I am completely committed to philanthropy because if I’m not, I’m in a great deal of trouble. I can’t even tell you.