Marc Andreessen
Andreessen at the Tech Crunch40 conference, in 2007.
Born	Marc Lowell Andreessen (1971-07-09) July 9, 1971 (age 40) Cedar Falls, Iowa
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Known for	Mosaic, founder of Netscape Venture capitalist
Net worth	US$600 million (est. 2012)[1]

Marc Lowell Andreessen^[2] ( /ænˈdriːsɨn/ an-DREE-sən; born July 9, 1971) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, software engineer, and multi-millionaire best known as co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser, and co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation.^[3] He founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard. He is also a co-founder of Ning, a company that provides a platform for social-networking websites. He sits on the board of directors of Facebook,^[4] eBay,^[5] and HP,^[6] among others. Andreessen is a frequent keynote speaker and guest at Silicon Valley conferences. He 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.^[7][8]

Early life and education[link]

Andreessen was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and raised in New Lisbon, Wisconsin,^[9] the son of Patricia and Lowell Andreessen, who worked for a seed company.^[10] He received his bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As an undergraduate, he interned one summer at IBM in Austin, Texas, United States. He also worked at the university's National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), where he became familiar with Tim Berners-Lee's open standards for the World Wide Web. Andreessen and a full-time salaried co-worker Eric Bina worked on creating a user-friendly browser with integrated graphics that would work on a wide range of computers. The resulting code was the Mosaic web browser.

"In the Web's first generation, Tim Berners-Lee launched the Uniform Resource Locator (URL), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and HTML standards with prototype Unix-based servers and browsers. A few people noticed that the Web might be better than Gopher.

In the second generation, Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina developed NCSA Mosaic at the University of Illinois. Several million then suddenly noticed that the Web might be better than sex.

In the third generation, Andreessen and Bina left NCSA to found Netscape..."

Bob Metcalfe, InfoWorld, August 21, 1995, Vol. 17, Issue 34. ^[11]

Netscape[link]

Plaque commemorating the creation of Mosaic web browser by Bina and Andreessen, new NCSA building, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

After his graduation from the university in 1993, Andreessen moved to California to work at Enterprise Integration Technologies. Andreessen then met with Jim Clark, the recently departed founder of Silicon Graphics. Clark believed that the Mosaic browser had great commercial possibilities and suggested starting an Internet software company. Soon Mosaic Communications Corporation was in business in Mountain View, California, with Andreessen as cofounder and vice president of technology. The University of Illinois was unhappy with the company's use of the Mosaic name, so Mosaic Communications changed its name to Netscape Communications, and its flagship web browser was the Netscape Navigator.

In the year between the formation of the company and its IPO, Andreessen engaged in extensive public outreach on behalf of his vision of the web browser's potential, something he had in fact done continuously since making the decision to distribute Mosaic for free via the Internet.

One of these events, hosted by Internet commercialization pioneer Ken McCarthy, was captured on video ^[12] and provides a unique look at the state of the web between the time Andreessen and his colleagues launched Mosaic and the time when web browsers and servers became mainstream commercial products. At the time of the recording, Andreessen was 23 years old.

Netscape's IPO in 1995 propelled Andreessen into the public's imagination. Featured on the cover of Time^[13][14] and other publications,^[15] Andreessen became the poster-boy wunderkind of the Internet bubble generation: young, twenty-something, high-tech, ambitious, and worth millions (or billions) of dollars practically overnight.

Netscape's success attracted the attention of Microsoft, which recognized the web's potential and wanted to put itself at the forefront of the rising Internet revolution. Microsoft licensed the Mosaic source code from Spyglass, Inc., an offshoot of the University of Illinois, and turned it into Internet Explorer. The resulting battle between the two companies became known as the Browser Wars.

Netscape was acquired in 1999 for $4.2 billion by AOL, which made Andreessen its Chief Technology Officer. The same year, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.^[16]

Loudcloud[link]

Andreessen left Netscape to form Loudcloud, a services-based Web hosting company that made an IPO in 2001. Loudcloud sold its hosting business to EDS and changed its name to Opsware in 2003, where Andreessen served as chairman. Opsware was purchased by Hewlett-Packard in September 2007 for approximately $1.6 billion.

Net worth[link]

Forbes editors have estimated his net worth at $600 million as of March 2012, and has named him as a potential billionaire candidate in the years to come. As of May 2012, he owns 6,607,131 shares^[17] of Facebook, Inc., worth between $185 and $231.25 million.

Current ventures[link]

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Andreessen co-founded Ning^[18] and is an investor in social news website Digg and several other early-stage technology startups, like Plazes, Netvibes, CastTV and Twitter. His latest project is the RockMelt browser launched in 2010.^[19]

He serves on the board of Facebook,^[3] eBay, Kno^{[citation needed]}, Hewlett-Packard, Bump, TinyCo, and Mixed Media Labs.^[20] Before it went defunct, he was on the board of Open Media Network, a combined Kontiki (VeriSign) client and media player, launched in 2005.

On July 5, 2009, Andreessen announced along with his longtime business partner Ben Horowitz, the formation of their venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, aimed purely at investing in the best new entrepreneurs, products, and companies in the information technology industry.^[21] On September 1, 2009, an investor group including Andreessen Horowitz acquired a majority stake in Skype Limited.^[22] In 2010, an investor group including Andreessen Horowitz invested $46 million into Kno, Inc., a digital education platform company.

Personal life[link]

Andreessen married Laura Arrillaga in 2006.^[23] She is the founder of the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund and the daughter of Silicon Valley real estate billionaire John Arrillaga.

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Marc Andreessen

• pmarca, Andreesen's blog, launched June 2007
• Michael Moritz interviews Marc Andreesen et al. at TechCrunch40 conference video
• First Internet Marketing Conference, San Francisco, 1994 Video includes Andreesen discussing Mosaic. See also: Internet Marketing Conference
• Ning Social Network Creation service
• PBS mini-bio
• Biography of Marc Andreesen Ibiblio.com
• Opsware Inc On the record: Marc Andreessen Interview re: successor to Loudcloud. December 7, 2003. Retrieved 2007-04-15.
• Netscape pioneers launch free content network CNET News.com. John Borland, April 25, 2005. Accessed 2007-04-15.
• Open Source Conversations 2005-10-19 Interview with Marc Andreessen
• Interview with Marc Andersen on Charlie Rose
• MP3 / OGG EdTechLive.com audio interview with Marc on education, free and open source software, and social networking
• Under construction Website for Andreessen Horowitz

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John Doerr
Born	(1951-06-29) June 29, 1951 (age 60) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Alma mater	Rice Harvard
Occupation	Venture capitalist
Employer	Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Net worth	US$2.2 billion (2011) [1]
Spouse	Ann Howland Doerr; 2 children

L. John Doerr (born June 29, 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in Menlo Park, California, in Silicon Valley. In February 2009, Doerr was appointed as a member of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board to provide the president and his administration with advice and counsel in fixing America's economic downturn.^[2] Forbes ranks Doerr as the 540th richest person in the world, with a net worth of US $2.2 billion.^[1]

Early life[link]

One of five siblings, Doerr graduated from Chaminade College Preparatory in St. Louis. He obtained a Bachelor of Science and master's degree in electrical engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard University in 1976.^{[citation needed]}

Career[link]

Doerr joined Intel Corporation in 1974 just as the firm was developing the 8080 8-bit microprocessor. He eventually became one of Intel's most successful salespeople. He also holds several patents for memory devices.^{[citation needed]}

He joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1980, and since then, has directed venture capital funding to some of the most successful technology companies in the world including Compaq, Netscape, Symantec, Sun Microsystems, drugstore.com, Amazon.com, Intuit, and Google, as well as Friendster, GO Corp.,^[3] and others.

Venture funding[link]

Doerr funded Netscape, Google, Amazon, and Bloom Energy.^[4]

He currently serves on the board of Google and on the boards of private ventures Amyris Biotech, Bloom Energy, iControl Networks, EGHC, Flo-Design, Miasole, M2Z Networks, V Vehicle and Spatial Photonics. He seeded Twitter nearly $150 million. His investment philosophy is "no conflict, no interest."^[5]

Doerr co-founded and serves on the board of the New Schools Venture Fund, an education reform and charter public schools fund. And on TechNet, a policy network of high tech CEOs advocating education and litigation reform, and policies for the innovation economy. Doerr co-chaired California's Proposition 39 which lowered the threshold to approved school bonds, and Proposition 71 which created $3 billion funding for California research into stem cell therapies. He serves on the board of Bono's ONE campaign to fight global poverty, particularly disease in Africa. His success in venture capital has garnered national attention; he has been and is currently listed on Forbes magazine's exclusive "Midas List" and is widely regarded as one of the top technology venture capitalists in the world.^{[citation needed]}

Forbes magazine estimates his net worth to be well over $1 billion. Doerr is a high profile supporter of the Democratic Party in Silicon Valley. Through the TechNet (lobbying organization) he helped found, he has devoted much time and money towards impacting legislation beneficial to the technology industry.^{[citation needed]}

Doerr advocates innovation in clean energy technologies to combat climate change, and has written and testified on the topic. In a 2007 TED conference he cited his daughter's remark: "your generation created this problem, you better fix it" as a call to fight global warming.^[6]

In 2008 he announced with Steve Jobs the Kleiner Perkins $100 million iFund, declaring the iPhone "more important than the personal computer" because " it knows who you are" and "where you are." In April 2010, he along with another iFund members announced an increase in iFund's value by another $100 million dollars making iFund the worlds biggest investment pool in cell phone application industry.^[7]

He had also funded the initial investments in Bloom Energy Inc.

Economic Recovery Advisory Board[link]

In February, 2009, Doerr was appointed as a member to the USA Economic Recovery Advisory Board by President Barack Obama to provide the President and his administration with advice and counsel in fixing America's economic downturn.^[8]

Personal life[link]

Doerr is married to Ann Howland Doerr. They live in Woodside, California with their children.

Recognition[link]

Awards[link]

In 1997, Doerr was named a Distinguished Alumnus of Rice University for his accomplishments in business.^[9]

In 2009, Doerr was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.^[10][11][12]

In 2010, Doerr was inducted into the California Hall of Fame.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Profile at KPCB
• John Doerr at TED Conferences
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• John Doerr on Charlie Rose
• Works by or about John Doerr in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• John Doerr collected news and commentary at The New York Times
• John Doerr collected news and commentary at The Wall Street Journal
• John Doerr's opening speech in KPCB China 3 Years' Anniversary
• Profile at CrunchBase
• Doerr on The Past, Present and Future of Google
• Video - John Doerr interview with John Battelle
• KPCB Greentech Innovation Network 2007 – “Conversation with Al Gore and John Doerr”
• Google, negotiations and the merits of Mandarin Chinese, John Doerr speaking at Stanford University on February 2, 2005

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John Donahoe
John Donahoe in 2007
Born	1960
Alma mater	Dartmouth College, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Occupation	CEO, eBay

John Donahoe (born 1960^{[citation needed]}) is an American businessman and the President and CEO of eBay Inc. since March 31, 2008, succeeding Meg Whitman, who stepped down from the role after 10 years, and who continues to serve on the company's Board of Directors.

As President and CEO, Donahoe has global responsibility for growing each of the company's business units, which include eBay Marketplaces, and PayPal.

Donahoe came to eBay in February 2005 as President of eBay Marketplaces, responsible for all elements of eBay's global ecommerce businesses. In this role, he focused on expanding eBay's core business, which accounts for a large percentage of the company's revenues. Donahoe also oversaw a number of strategic acquisitions, including Shopping.com and StubHub, and classifieds sites, such as Gumtree and LoQUo.

During the three years he served as President of Marketplaces, revenues and profits for this division doubled.^{[citation needed]}

Prior to eBay, Donahoe spent more than 20 years at Bain & Company, a worldwide consulting firm based in Boston. Starting as an associate consultant, he rose to become the firm's Worldwide Managing Director ^[1] (January 2000 to February 2005).

In addition to serving on eBay's Inc.'s Board of Directors, he is also on the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College.^[2]

Donahoe received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity, and an MBA from the Stanford Business School.

Compensation[link]

While CEO of eBay in 2009, John J. Donahoe earned a total compensation of $10,132,749, which included a base salary of $934,615, a cash bonus of $2,091,669, stocks granted of $4,450,389, options granted of $2,483,682, and other compensation totaling $172,394.^[3]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Biography at eBay's corporate site
• An excerpt from 'True North,' by Bill George: America's Most Admired Companies
• John J. Donahoe Forbes Profile
• Bain & Company search John Donahoe
• Boards will be frozen by caution's icy hand, 2003, by Robin Buchanan and John Donahoe
• Corporate Venturing: Management Fad or Lasting Trend, 2001, by John Donahoe, Phil Schefter and David Harding
• Viewpoint: Look - at Amex and Schwab Models - Before Leaping into Corporate Ventures, 2001, by John Donahoe, Joe Spinelli and Phil Schefter
• The Last Legacy of the Dotcom Era, 2002,by John Donahoe, Phil Schefter and David Harding

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Charlie Rose
Rose in May 2010
Born	Charles Peete Rose, Jr. (1942-01-05) January 5, 1942 (age 70) Henderson, North Carolina, U.S.
Education	Duke University B.A. (1964) Duke University J.D. (1968)
Occupation	Talk show host Journalist
Years active	1972–present
Notable credit(s)	Charlie Rose, 60 Minutes II, 60 Minutes, CBS News Nightwatch, CBS This Morning
Website
http://www.charlierose.com/

Charles Peete "Charlie" Rose, Jr. (born January 5, 1942)^[1] is an American television talk show host and journalist. Since 1991 he has hosted Charlie Rose, an interview show distributed nationally by PBS since 1993. He has also co-anchored CBS This Morning since January 2012. Rose, along with Lara Logan, has hosted the revived CBS classic Person to Person, a news program during which celebrities are interviewed in their homes, originally hosted from 1953 to 1961 by Edward R. Murrow.^[2]

Early life[link]

Rose was born in Henderson, North Carolina, the only child^[3] of Margaret Frazier and Charles Peete Rose, Sr., tobacco farmers who owned a country store.^[4][5] As a child, Rose lived above his parents' store in Henderson and helped out with the family business from age seven.^[6] Rose admitted in a Fresh Dialogues interview that as a child his insatiable curiosity was constantly getting him in trouble.^[7] A high school basketball star, Rose entered Duke University intending to pursue a degree with a pre-med track, but an internship in the office of Democratic North Carolina Senator B. Everett Jordan got him interested in politics.^[8] Rose graduated in 1964 with a bachelor's degree in history. At Duke, he was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity. He earned a Juris Doctor from the Duke University School of Law in 1968.^[6] He met his wife, Mary (née King), while attending Duke.^[3][4]

Career[link]

After his wife was hired by the BBC (in New York), Rose handled some assignments for the BBC on a freelance basis. In 1972, while continuing to work at Bankers Trust, he landed a job as a weekend reporter for WPIX-TV. His break came in 1974, after Bill Moyers hired Rose as managing editor for the PBS series Bill Moyers' International Report. In 1975, Moyers named Rose executive producer of Bill Moyers Journal. Rose soon began appearing on camera. "A Conversation with Jimmy Carter," one installment of Moyers's series U.S.A.: People and Politics, won a 1976 Peabody Award. Rose worked at several networks honing his interview skills until KXAS-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth hired him as program manager and gave him the late-night time slot that would become the Charlie Rose show.

Rose worked for CBS News (1984–1990) as the anchor of CBS News Nightwatch, the network's first late-night news broadcast. The Nightwatch broadcast of Rose's interview with Charles Manson won an Emmy Award in 1987.^[4] In 1990, Rose left CBS to serve as anchor of Personalities, a syndicated program produced by Fox Broadcasting Company, but he got out of his contract after six weeks because of the tabloid-style content of the show. Charlie Rose premiered on PBS station Thirteen/WNET on September 30, 1991, and has been nationally syndicated since January 1993. In 1994, Rose moved the show to a studio owned by Bloomberg Television, which allowed for improved satellite interviewing.^[9]

Rose was a correspondent for 60 Minutes II^[10] from its inception in January 1999 until its cancellation in September 2005, and was later named a correspondent on 60 Minutes.^[11]

Rose was a member of the board of directors of Citadel Broadcasting Corporation from 2003 to 2009.^[3] In May 2010, Charlie Rose delivered the commencement address at North Carolina State University.

On November 15, 2011, it was announced that Rose would return to CBS to help anchor CBS This Morning, replacing The Early Show, commencing January 9, 2012, along with co-anchors Erica Hill and Gayle King.

Cameo appearances[link]

Rose has appeared as himself in the 1998 film Primary Colors,^[12] in a 2000 episode of The Simpsons^[13] and in the 2008 movie Elegy.^[14] He and his show were also used in the Wes Anderson film The Royal Tenenbaums. He also appears as himself in the 2011 George Clooney directed film, The Ides of March.

[edit] Accusations of conflict of interest

While hosting the 2002 Coca-Cola Company shareholders' meeting, Rose said "few companies are able to connect as completely with consumers in the way that Coca-Cola is. It is a privilege to be associated with [The Coca-Cola family] ... This is the business of Coca-Cola: being part of a family, being worldwide, doing well and doing good at the same time."^[15] Afterward, Coca-Cola agreed to become what Rose called "a leading underwriter" of The Charlie Rose Show, paying "six or possibly seven figures."^[16] Even the Charlie Rose mugs used on his PBS show feature a Coca-Cola logo on one side.^[17][18] Although CBS News policy bars correspondents from doing commercials and product endorsements, the Washington Post reported CBS was "comfortable" with Rose's actions. Rose insists he "would never do a story on 60 Minutes II about anybody who underwrites my PBS show."^[16]