Marc Andreessen
Atherton, California
Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
United States
Andreessen Horowitz
venture capital investing, Self Made
$1,500,000,000
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#55 The Midas List: Top Tech Investors 2019
#1717 Billionaires 2019
Andreessen runs influential Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, whose successful bets include Instagram, Oculus VR and GitHub.His first claim to fame was cofounding web browser firm Netscape, which AOL bought in 1998 for $4.2 billion in stock. Andreessen's biggest score was as a seed investor in Facebook.He also cofounded Loudcloud, which, renamed Opsware, sold to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007.In June 2018, a16z raised raised $300 million for its first crypto-focused fund, led by the firm's first female general partner, Katie Haun.
His wife Laura is daughter of billionaire John Arrillaga, who built his fortune in Silicon Valley real estate.While still at college, Andreessen co-created the highly influential Mosaic Internet browser.
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