Marc Andreessen


Marc Andreessen
Marc Lowell Andreessen
Birthday
BirthplaceCedar Falls, Iowa
NationalityUnited States
Known for Mosaic, founder of Netscape, Venture capitalist

Marc Andreessen

(person)The man who founded Netscape Communications Corporation in April 1994 with Dr. James H. Clark.Andreessen has been a director since September 1994.

As an undergraduate at the University of Illinois inChampaign, Andreessen created the Mosaic web browserprototype with a team of students and staff at theuniversity's National Center for Supercomputing Applications(NCSA). With a friendly, point-and-click method fornavigating the Internet and free distribution to networkusers, NCSA Mosaic gained an estimated two million usersworldwide in just over one year. Andreessen earned hisbachelor of science degree in computer science at theUniversity of Illinois in 1993.

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