Marc Andreessen

The NYT follows his latest move.

Businesweek

Marc and the Clowns:

``Andreessen is the tireless, trash-talking grand marshal of Silicon Valley's change parade, who once kept a New York Times "deathwatch" on his blog and instructed Old Media moguls at a 2008 Sun Valley conference to sell all their nondigital properties immediately. He sits on the boards of eBay, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Skype, and Stanford Hospital—and has been at or near the center of just about every major Silicon Valley hiring, firing, coupling, and corporate divorce in recent memory. That includes the resignation of HP Chief Executive Mark Hurd earlier this year for shenanigans involving an expense account and a female contractor. (Andreessen was on the board committee that picked Hurd's successor, Léo Apotheker.)''

``Since he first burst into the public consciousness in the mid-1990s, proselytizing for the browser and a new medium called the World Wide Web, Andreessen has always been at the forefront of those who believe in technology's promise to reshape and improve our economy and lives. Now that 2 billion people around the world have broadband—and 5 billion own mobile phones—reality is finally catching up to him. "This is Marc's time," says Quincy Smith of Code Advisors, an advisory firm. "All the things he has been thinking about for the past 15 years are possible."''