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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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26 Sep, 2014

Warns cash-burning startups

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Andreessen warns startups that if they spend money too fast, they can’t rely on a buyer to solve their problems:

When market turns, M&A mostly stops. Nobody will want to buy your cash-incinerating startup. There will be no Plan B. VAPORIZE.

https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/515221824423346176

29 Jun, 2014

Defends Facebook mood experiment

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In response to the revelation that Facebook attempted to manipulate user moods, Andreessen tweets:

https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/483024580554932224

Andreessen says that this type of testing helps improve websites.