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Andreessen Interview Discusses Post-Crash Innovation

Posted by simoniker on from the the-way-ahead dept.

kevcol writes "The SF Chronicle has an interview with Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, talking about innovation after the dot-bomb crash, how AOL doesn't understand its own customers, his reaction to some comments by Larry Ellison, who believes that 'innovation primarily comes from big companies like Oracle', and Andreessen's post-Netscape experience as head of OpsWare (formerly LoudCloud)."

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  1. You know he is right by Camel+Pilot · · Score: 5, Funny

    innovation primarily comes from big companies like Oracle

    Just the other day I was reading that Microsoft is readying new technology to stop web popup's in their browser - this sort of fast paced innovation is what we can expect from leaders within an industry.

  2. former co-founder? by trentblase · · Score: 5, Funny

    is he no longer a co-founder?

    1. Re:former co-founder? by tuffy · · Score: 5, Funny
      is he no longer a co-founder?

      Perhaps the article was written by revisionist historians.

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  3. Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic by Animats · · Score: 5, Funny
    He's selling a tool to install Microsoft security patches. This is innovation?

    Actually building a secure server - now that would be innovation.

  4. Someone had to point it out.. by k98sven · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is the same guy who gave movie advice
    here??

    Right?

  5. News Buyout? by -Grover · · Score: 5, Funny

    I found this particularly interesting
    When AOL's market cap was at $170 billion, the executives added up the parent companies of the five major newspapers in the country -- the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, L.A. Times, Washington Post and USA Today.

    They could have bought all five for about 10 percent of their outstanding equity at the time. And they almost did it, except for the fact that they didn't think they could get antitrust clearance. But they thought that would be a good thing to do.

    Nothing like unbiased news sources owned by a gigantic conglomorate of everything evil in the world.

    Tv News reporter
    Today in news CEO/CTO of AOLTimeWarnerNetscapeNewYorkLATimes...commerical.. .WSJWashingtionPostUsaToday said that apparently "All your base belong to us".

  6. AOL doesn't understand its own customers by ENOENT · · Score: 4, Funny

    Heh. NOBODY understands AOLers.

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  7. Why is this guy so important? by teetam · · Score: 5, Funny
    He started two companies, both of which are down in the dump. Why are people still concerned about his opinion?

    I guess management is the only place where successive failures enhance your fame. If he were an ordinary "worker", with that record, he would be out on the streets.

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  8. ...waiting for the dot-com coredump. by strredwolf · · Score: 4, Funny

    Come on! It crashed! Where's the core dump so we can run it through GDB and find out what went wrong?!?

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  9. Mr Andreessen by OpCode42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mr Andreessen, welcome back. We missed you.

    (I'm so sorry)