Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen created the Mosaic web browser as a student at Illinois and co-founded Netscape with Jim Clark in 1994 — both pivotal moments in internet history. He co-founded Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with Ben Horowitz in 2009, building a distinctive venture model with aggressive content creation, large support teams, and heavy media presence. a16z has grown to manage over $35 billion and made major investments in Facebook, GitHub, Airbnb, Stripe, Roblox, and crypto. Andreessen is a prolific writer on technology and its societal implications. His 2011 essay "Software Is Eating the World," published in the Wall Street Journal, became one of the most influential statements of the technology investment thesis of its era, articulating why software companies would disrupt traditional industries across every economic sector — a prediction that has proven remarkably accurate across finance, healthcare, transportation, and retail.