Marc Andreessen is a well-known and influential figure in the world of electronic business. In E-Commerce Times, Mitchell Levy, chair of ECM-sym.com, described Andreessen as "Probably the most significant person I can think of" in terms of e-commerce. Andreessen made his mark by developing breakthrough Internet browser software, first with Mosaic and then with Netscape Navigator, and co-founded Netscape Communications Corp. with Jim Clark. After Netscape was acquired by America Online and Sun Microsystems, Andreessen served as AOL's chief technology officer for about six months. He left AOL in September 1999, and the following month announced the formation of Loudcloud Inc., a new e-commerce services company that builds complicated Web sites and infrastructure and provides a range of support services.
Andreessen was born in Iowa in 1972 and grew up with his parents in the small town of New Lisbon, Wisconsin. He took an early interest in computers and wrote his first computer program on a computer at school when he was in the sixth grade. The next year his parents bought him his own computer, a TRS-80 from Radio Shack. Marc taught himself BASIC, a programming language known for its simplicity, so he could create video games for his new computer.
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