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...appearing, brought forth by the stock market's magic. Last Aug. 9, Netscape, a Mountain View, California, software company, sold stock to the public for the first time. By the end of the day, the shares owned by chairman James Clark were worth $566 million. Netscape's technical whiz, Marc Andreessen, who is 24 years old, was suddenly worth $58 million. In November the net worth of Pixar chairman Steve Jobs increased more than $1.1 billion in a single day when the company, responsible for the computer-animated hit movie Toy Story, sold new stock on the open market. Dozens...
...Marc Andreessen greets a visitor at his office in Mountain View, California, by saying, "Got my Armani suit on today." He's actually wearing a sport shirt, jeans and clunky boots. When he's off duty, he may lose the boots. Andreessen is 6-ft. 4-in. tall and has a baby face and lopsided smile. Talking about the day he made his first $50 million, he says, "I was at home in bed. I had been up until, like, 3 in the morning, working, so I woke up at 11, logged in from home, looked at Quote.Com. My eyes...
...office around 10 a.m. and rushes home at 5 p.m. to walk their bulldog. Until about 3 each morning, Andreessen answers E-mail, reviews the status of products and, as corporate vice president of technology, helps plan Netscape's next moves (he doesn't write code anymore). "Marc hasn't changed," says Horn. "He still buys 20 or more CDs of classical music at a time when we go to Tower Records. We live in a modest house with books and records and computers and bulldog toys, not art and sculpture and glittery things." Andreessen and Horn have just moved...
...told my course was chosen because Marc Hauser and I are 'cool profs' with a big class," DeVore said. "So clearly what I have to do is become less cool and more punitive in the future...
...Throughout the term, Marc and I always accommodated requests by legitimate groups. What made me angry was that this was a group who could not sing...that it was merely part of initiation," said DeVore...