[ilrwbwrkhv]

I gave this criticism to Peter Thiel a long time back that he complains about. We were promised flying cars but all we got is 140 characters and yet the startup that he has is basically a chartjs version of a database with an aggressive sales strategy like Oracle. Not exactly world changing now and that is the problem with most of these critics of society, just like movie critics. They can make a great argument over why movies or in this case society is bad but they cannot actually create a better society.

Same with Marc Andreessen who has never actually had a successful startup. Bizarre isn't it?

[janderson215]

I’m somewhat with you in principle with the first paragraph, but the second paragraph is factually incorrect. Marc Andreessen was a web visionary/pioneer and successful founder and investor. IMO, to say otherwise only hurts your argument.

[ilrwbwrkhv]

I know that story intimately. He and Eric Bina wrote Mosiac for three months.

Let's just say the Dotcom boom is how he and many others made their money.

[janderson215]

Do you think that invalidates their contributions or success for some reason?

[hollerith]

>Marc Andreessen who has never actually had a successful startup.

He was a founder of Netscape. But maybe you meant for your statement to apply only to his career as a VC.

[ilrwbwrkhv]

James Clark was the founder and the actual visionary. A lot of history has been rewritten about Marc Andreessen. Even most of the coding of the original Mosiac was done by Eric Bina.

[hollerith]

Andreeson was also a Netscape founder. Andreeson was interesting in the web and involved in the development of a shipping web browser long before Clark got interested in the web and probably long before Clark even knew what the web was.

Clark however had money, connections and enterpreneurial and executive experience whereas Andreeson was just starting out in his career.