Introduction

This book is a collection of essays from Marc Andreessen published on his personal Twitter account (@pmarca).

This content is available as an ebook (thanks to GitBook), readable online, or downloadable as ePub, Mobi or PDF

Who is Marc Andreessen?

Marc Lowell Andreessen (born July 9, 1971) is an American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer.

He is best known as coauthor of Mosaic, the first widely used Web browser; as cofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation; and as cofounder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard. Andreessen is also a cofounder of Ning, a company that provides a platform for social networking websites.

An innovator and creator, he is one of the few people who has pioneered a software category (Web browsers) used by more than a billion people and established several billion-dollar companies. He sits on the board of directors of Facebook, eBay, and HP, among others.

A frequent keynote speaker and guest at Silicon Valley conferences, Andreessen is one of only six inductees in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame announced at the first international conference on the World Wide Web in 1994.

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What is a tweetstorm?

A Twitterstorm is a sudden spike in activity surrounding a certain topic on the Twitter social media site.

A Twitterstorm is often started by a single person who sends his or her followers a message often related to breaking news or a controversial debate. Using a certain and often original hashtag, the tweet quickly spreads as people are notified of the message and then reuse the hashtag with subsequent retweets and tweets.

Source: Technopedia