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Marc Andreessen

1971 - Today

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Marc Lowell Andreessen (born July 9, 1971) is an American businessman and former software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser with a graphical user interface; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He co-founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard; he also co-founded Ning, a company that provides a platform for social networking websites. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marc Andreessen has received more than 3,930,338 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Marc Andreessen is the 414th most popular inventor (down from 376th in 2019), the 12,921st most popular biography from United States (down from 11,722nd in 2019) and the 124th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 47.83

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  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Marc Andreessen ranks 414 out of 426. Before him are Clarence Birdseye, Charles Ammi Cutter, Lawrence Hargrave, John F. Seitz, Sarah E. Goode, and Frank Hornby. After him are Valerie Thomas, Harold Stephen Black, Jarkko Oikarinen, Boyan Slat, Tony Fadell, and David Hahn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1971, Marc Andreessen ranks 464. Before him are Arnon Grunberg, Sophie Hannah, Tomasz Wałdoch, Dorian Gregory, José Francisco Cevallos, and Tom Green. After him are Agata Kulesza, Håkan Mild, Erik Mykland, Kate Dickie, Francisco Lima, and Amanda Peterson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Marc Andreessen ranks 12,921 out of 20,380. Before him are Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. (1951), James Buchli (1945), Mo'Nique (1967), Jonathan Majors (1989), Suzanne Farrell (1945), and Carmit Bachar (1974). After him are Jill Eikenberry (1947), John Eaton (1790), David Giuntoli (1980), Cheri Oteri (1962), Paul Stookey (1937), and Shantel VanSanten (1985).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Marc Andreessen ranks 124. Before him are Charles F. Kettering (1958), Stanford R. Ovshinsky (1922), Clarence Birdseye (1886), Charles Ammi Cutter (1837), John F. Seitz (1892), and Sarah E. Goode (1855). After him are Valerie Thomas (1943), Harold Stephen Black (1898), Tony Fadell (1969), David Hahn (1976), Wendell Brown (1961), and George Hotz (1989).

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