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General Information

Websiteblog.pmarca.com
Blogblog.pmarca.com
BirthplaceCedar Falls, Iowa
Birthdate7/9/71

Degrees

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Bachelor's 1993
Computer Science

Current Companies

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Previous Companies

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Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen is a co-founder and chairman of Ning and an investor in several startups including Digg, Plazes, and Twitter. He is an active member of the blogging community.

Previously, Andreessen developed Mosaic and co-founded Netscape. Mosaic, later renamed ‘Netscape Navigator,’ was the first popular web browser and was the the base of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. Andreessen also served as chairman of Opsware and Chief Technology Officer of AOL after AOL acquired Netscape.

Featured on the cover of Time and other publications, Andreessen became a poster-boy of the Web 1.0 bubble generation: young, twenty-something, high-tech, ambitious, and worth millions (or billions) of dollars practically overnight.

Andreessen will serve on the upcoming TechCrunch 50 conference panel of experts.

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Blekko 15/08Series B$3M6
EQAL 24/08Series A$5M5
Social Media 310/07Series B$3.5M3
Twitter 47/07Series B$5.4M7
CastTV 54/07Series A$3.1M3
Outside.in 62/07Series A$900k9
Ning 71/07Series BN/A1
Ning 81/07Series AN/A1
Digg 910/05Series A$2.8M7
CastTV 10N/AAngelN/A2

Funding Sources

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  3. techcrunch.com
  4. Twitter, popular messaging service, gets cash - VentureBeat (venturebeat.com)
  5. sev.prnewswire.com
  6. villageventures.com
  7. techcrunch.com
  8. techcrunch.com
  9. goliath.ecnext.com
  10. Web Video Search Service CastTV Gets Funding (dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com)
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