I try to avoid writing this in my blog and don’t want to be a showoff but the place where I live is having some pretty exciting history. UIUC and NCSA are both pretty solid institutions and the inventions that took place in them have changed the World. One such invention was MOSAIC (later became Netscape Navigator) – the World’s first high end graphical internet browser. That is correct Netscape got conceived and written in NCSA and is the predecessor of the Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
Marc Andreessen was the brain behind the creation of Netscape. He is a true visionary and one of the leaders of the internet revolution. Marc studied at UIUC and developed MOSAIC at the NCSA along with Eric Bina. Marc’s life is full of ups and downs specially when Microsoft developed Internet Explorer and Netscape was history. Now Marc is one of the primary venture capatilist (VC) in the silicon valley and the owner of the top VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. He sits on the board of Facebook, ebay, HP and his company is one of the primary investors in many promising startups of the silicon valley.
Recently there was this small doc about the life of Marc on Bloomberg and I must say it is pretty informative. Check it out.
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