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Marc Andreessen and Netscape
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- 0:00Microsoft crushed Netscape. This is Marc
- 0:02Andreessen. At 22, he built the first
- 0:03browser most people ever used. 1994,
- 0:06Netscape. A year later, it went public,
- 0:08priced at $28, closed at 58 in one day.
- 0:11He was 24. Time magazine put him on the
- 0:13cover, barefoot on a throne. [music]
- 0:15Then Microsoft moved. It built its own
- 0:18browser and gave it away free inside
- 0:20Windows. Netscape had most of the
- 0:21market. Within 3 years, it had almost
- 0:23none. [music] The government sued
- 0:25Microsoft over it. AOL bought what was
- 0:27left, 4.2 billion. He'd won and lost the
- 0:30internet before most people were on it.
- 0:31He started writing [music] checks. 2009,
- 0:33Andreessen Horowitz, Facebook, Airbnb,
- 0:36Coinbase. Today, over 90 billion dollars
- 0:39under management. [music] Microsoft beat
- 0:40his browser. It never beat him. The kid
- 0:43on the throne is now the one deciding
- 0:45who gets to build
- 0:46>> [music]
- 0:46>> next. Follow Vibe Economies for more.
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