Marc Andreessen

Cofounder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

$1.83B

as of 09/27/24

About Marc Andreessen

Andreessen runs influential Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, whose successful bets include Instagram, Oculus VR and GitHub.

His first claim to fame was cofounding web browser firm Netscape, which AOL bought in 1998 for $4.2 billion in stock.

Andreessen's biggest score was as a seed investor in Facebook.

He also cofounded Loudcloud, which, renamed Opsware, sold to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007.

In June 2018, a16z raised $300 million for its first crypto-focused fund, co-led then by fellow Midas Lister Chris Dixon and the firm's first female general partner, Katie Haun.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Venture capital investing

Residence

Atherton, California

Marital status

Married

Birth date

07/09/71 (age 53)

Number of children

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Self-made

self-made

Marc Andreessen’s fortune is worth

30K

troy ounces of gold

28K

median U.S. household

18K

median U.S. income

0.037%

U.S. credit card volume

0.007%

GDP of the United States

0.005%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

His wife Laura is daughter of billionaire John Arrillaga, who built his fortune in Silicon Valley real estate.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

NASDAQ | COIN-US

Coinbase Global

NASDAQ | EBAY-US

eBay

NASDAQ | GRPN-US

Groupon

NYSE | HPQ-US

HP Inc.

NYSE | LNKD-US

LinkedIn Corp

NASDAQ | META-US

Meta Platforms

NYSE | WORK-US

Slack Technologies

NYSE | TWTR-US

Twitter, Inc.

NASDAQ | ZNGA-US

Zynga