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Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen co-created the Mosaic browser, cofounded Netscape, and is cofounder and general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

1,009 claims collected, 216 researched, 105 resolved. Report of 4 November 2026, method 0.1.0+c876030c.

Scores by kind of claim

Each kind of claim is scored on its own, out of 100: the share that held up, with the range it likely falls in. Fewer resolved claims give a wider range.

  • Factual claims

    Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

    67 61 73

    High confidence, 94 factual claims resolved. From 11 documents, 1995 to 2026; 19 documents sampled from 30 candidates found.

    Not scored: 44 unresolvable, 17 checkable only against their own records.

    See the factual claims

  • Predictions

    Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

    60 44 76

    Low confidence, 11 predictions resolved. From 6 documents, 1995 to 2025; 19 documents sampled from 30 candidates found.

    Not scored: 41 unresolvable, 1 checkable only against their own records. 4 more fall due later.

    Does not yet allow for how likely each prediction was when made.

    See the predictions

  • Promises

    Commitments to the person's or organisation's own future action, with something to deliver: was it delivered?

    Insufficient record: 0 promises resolved, 5 needed for a score.

    Not scored: 3 unresolvable.

    See the promises

All types combined: 66 (likely 61 to 72, high confidence), from 105 claims: 94 factual claims, 11 predictions. It mixes kinds of claim in different proportions for different people, so compare people kind by kind.

Marc Andreessen's claims

1,009 claims · page 10 of 11

1,009 claims, sorted by newest said. Choose a claim to read it in full.
VerdictKindSaidClaimTopic
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 I haven't checked my GPA since I've left. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 35 Megabits is a trickle compared to what a single strand of fiber can do over time. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 We tried to just blow this out the door. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Mostly false Prediction Jun 1995 George Gilder predicts that within five to ten years the Internet will essentially be free. Prediction · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 Get it out there and into people's hands. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Unresolvable Factual Jun 1995 Netscape builds cryptography into most of its products. Factual · Jun 1995 Technology
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 I might be bagging groceries in Safeway. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 I think government should do exactly what industry does, which is be as aggressive as possible. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Unresolvable Prediction Jun 1995 Andreessen said he thought a lot of companies were going to start taking advantage of "that"; the material does not say what "that" refers to. Prediction · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Factual Jun 1995 Mosaic was basically written without bandwidth considerations in mind, designed for a really fast network at a time when its developers had the NSF T3 backbone (45 Mbps). Factual · Jun 1995 Technology
Unresolvable Factual Jun 1995 The idle supercomputers sit unused because scientists prefer a DEC Alpha workstation, which is as fast or faster than a supercomputer at a fraction of the cost. Factual · Jun 1995 AI compute, hardware and data
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 The culture is all wrong. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not researched Factual Jun 1995 The value of a network expands in proportion to the square of the number of nodes (Metcalfe's law). Factual · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 I basically never studied. I attended classes, but that's about it. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not researched Factual Jun 1995 Government, if anything, has been more aggressive than the private sector in adopting Internet technology. Factual · Jun 1995 AI policy and governance
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 Not many people can write books, or publish magazine articles. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 We also needed to build in security. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Own records only Factual Jun 1995 Supercomputing centers cannot afford to remove their idle supercomputers from buildings; removal from the third floor costs $500,000. Factual · Jun 1995 AI compute, hardware and data
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 Expansion and growth is a lot more comfortable than going out and raising capital. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 Had we started a year earlier, there's the chance that the commercial market just wouldn't have been there. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 I was considerably more interested in applied programming--in actually doing things that people found useful--as opposed to just studying… Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 No use in government setting standards. It would be one of the worst things that could happen because the pace of the technology and its… Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 You're going to get megabits of data while you're eating and you are not even going to think twice about it. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Mostly true Factual Jun 1995 Netscape did not have a major sales force in Europe as of June 1995. Factual · Jun 1995 Their own work or organisation
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 If we had started a company and then done the free distribution thing--which is to seed the market and invest resources in development to… Not checkable · Jun 1995
Mostly true Factual Jun 1995 The government set the OSI networking standard, which nobody uses. Factual · Jun 1995 AI policy and governance
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 It's just natural to be communicating with people in other cultures and other countries. It just happens. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 If you took two years to get it out the product would be far more technically advanced. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 For a lot of small companies it should be considerably cheaper and easier to bring up a small business than it ever has been before. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Unresolvable Factual Jun 1995 Research funding in general, and for efforts like Mosaic in particular, dropped off in the early 1990s. Factual · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Own records only Factual Jun 1995 Netscape has archived and sorted all incoming user feedback messages. Factual · Jun 1995 Their own work or organisation
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 It not only keeps our energies up by working towards that goal but it also helps the software to be better by just getting it out in front… Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 The technology itself: no negatives. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Unresolvable Prediction Jun 1995 Among other things, commercialization will guarantee that the Net will be there. Prediction · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Unresolvable Factual Jun 1995 Andreessen said the project he and Eric worked on never really had a manager. Factual · Jun 1995 Technology
Own records only Factual Jun 1995 Andreessen said that "we" basically declined to take a license fee because, at that point, they did not see any potential property issues. Factual · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Not researched Factual Jun 1995 As of 1995, most of the real networking power is at companies rather than homes. Factual · Jun 1995 Technology
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 If the mechanisms and the technology are compelling enough, consumer behaviour will change over time. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not researched Factual Jun 1995 In 1995 a T1 line to the Internet cost about $500 to $1,000 a month. Factual · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 The new part was simply combining this idea with the ability to link together resources across the globe. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 everybody just assumes that its 'global everybody'. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Mostly true Factual Jun 1995 Cryptography is export-controlled by the US government as a munition, and Netscape makes exportable versions of its software, which are the ones predominantly used on the Internet. Factual · Jun 1995 AI policy and governance
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 It's an open platform that anybody can develop and create applications for. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 And again, the new concept we're really trying to apply here--and a lot of other companies are really trying to apply--is that you can't… Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 None of these crowd out the others because nobody is saying that you have to tune into them, that you have to take part in it. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Mostly true Factual Jun 1995 The Internet already existed when Andreessen began working at the university lab, and everybody there used it. Factual · Jun 1995 Technology
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 It would draw out that information, make it possible for people to focus on that information, and get rid of all the crap that usually… Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not researched Factual Jun 1995 Andreessen said that "we" spent most of 1994 creating the product and making it commercial. Factual · Jun 1995 Their own work or organisation
Unresolvable Factual Jun 1995 In the 3 to 4 years before 1995, PCs went from a hobbyist toy to use by roughly 40 to 50 million people. Factual · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 What we realized today is that the PC is essentially a platform for data on the Internet. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Mostly true Factual Jun 1995 The networks in question all use TCP/IP, which was not a government standard. Factual · Jun 1995 Technology
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 We wanted it to be useable over average modems and ordinary phone lines. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Mostly true Prediction Jun 1995 Catalogs of Internet resources will be supported by advertising in the future. Prediction · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 The government should be continuing to fund access for educational research. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 At the time the Internet worked fine as infrastructural device, but wasn't friendly enough for people who wanted to do interesting things. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 Free software is usually more expensive in the long run for companies to use. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 Networking was always the big thing. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 the change is going to be so huge that I don't feel comfortable speculating about any of the results because it's just going to be a fact… Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 In a sense we're all in favor of it from an abstract point of view. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not researched Factual Jun 1995 Mainstream software companies such as Oracle now distribute software, including its database for Windows, free over the Internet. Factual · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 Sun almost singlehandedly made the Internet happen in the '80's Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 It really doesn't make sense for there to be management. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 It isn't a perfect system, but it works beautifully. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 Everybody has something to say. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Own records only Factual Jun 1995 Netscape's global sales force consisted of six people in June 1995. Factual · Jun 1995 Their own work or organisation
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 It's going to mean wrenching changes, I think. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 Images are a fundamental part of that information, as is a user interface that's very easy to use. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 The surprising thing was that every time you expected it to calm down and level off it just kept increasing. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Mostly true Factual Jun 1995 In June 1995, Andreessen said he thought Netscape had about six million Navigator users on the public network, not counting users behind firewalls. Factual · Jun 1995 Technology
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 MCI is the first major American communications company that really understands networking and the idea that they can offer data services… Not checkable · Jun 1995
Unresolvable Factual Jun 1995 One of the things Netscape tried to do was keep the concepts of client and server very separate. Factual · Jun 1995 Technology
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 I think that the market is just taking off on its own. I think too much government involvement at this point would be very bad. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 I figured out that this was something that we should do and it was the right time and place to do it Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 I think we were a bit surprised again; we were certainly hoping something like this would happen again. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not researched Factual Jun 1995 Andreessen said his development group took a minimalist approach, as it had with Mosaic, trying to keep the interface to a minimal amount of material other than the Net-based information itself. Factual · Jun 1995 Technology
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 The future's on both sides because the client needs to have the capability to display information and to make it useful. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 As far as bandwidth, it is mostly the local loop to the home that is really the blockage point. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 Imagine if the government tried to make standards in software. The computer industry would have been stalled. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 The web browser was going to be one of these, so in a sense we gave away one so that people could see the others. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 No idea. Pretty sure I wasn't going to be a farmer. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 The downside is that it could vanish overnight. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 I always wanted to produce software people would use and get it out there. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 Had we been at Stanford, of course we would have started a company; in the Midwest, no way. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Mixed Factual Jun 1995 Early in his time at the University of Illinois, Andreessen started working in a research lab at the university's physics research facility. Factual · Jun 1995 Their own work or organisation
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 Conversely, being in an academic environment was also highly political. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Unresolvable Prediction Jun 1995 Some day it should be possible for everyone to publish on the Net as easily as using word processing. Prediction · Jun 1995 Technology
Own records only Factual Jun 1995 Andreessen spends half an hour every morning reading news online, in addition to newspapers. Factual · Jun 1995 Other
Mostly true Factual Jun 1995 The Mosaic team designed Mosaic with end users as its target. Factual · Jun 1995 Technology
Mostly true Factual Jun 1995 Internet access was never free; it always cost money. Factual · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 Essentially what we're trying to do is present information in as simple a form as possible for the user to read and deal with. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 It is ironic that the only way to develop an application like this in C--which is only one step up from some other languages but with… Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not researched Factual Jun 1995 The NSF backbone cost only $11 million a year until it ceased to exist a couple of years before 1995. Factual · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 Every new node, every new server, every new user expands the possibilities for everyone else who's already there. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 I knew that we had to completely re-write it. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Unresolvable Prediction Jun 1995 Five or ten years is about the right timeframe to think about consumers shifting their commerce online, because that is about how long it takes for consumer habits to change on a broad scale. Prediction · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 It actually happened much faster than we expected. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Resolved true Factual Jun 1995 After the company shipped product in December, its revenues went from zero to a level where it was pretty much able to fund the bulk of its work and development. Factual · Jun 1995 Economics and markets
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 Somebody once said that the best type of strategic partnership is a purchase order. Not checkable · Jun 1995
Resolved true Factual Jun 1995 Yahoo was started by Ph.D. students at Stanford. Factual · Jun 1995 Technology
Not checkable Not checkable Jun 1995 The environment was falling to pieces compared to what it had been, simply because there was this influx of money. Not checkable · Jun 1995
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Marc Andreessen

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“I haven't checked my GPA since I've left.”

Marc Andreessen June 1995 Smithsonian Oral and Video Histories: Marc Andreessen (Smithsonian)

I haven't checked my GPA since I've left.

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Marc Andreessen, “I haven't checked my GPA since I've left.” (said June 1995). Verdict: not checkable. Reliability API, claim c_00e32c0ddb03, method 0.1.0+c876030c. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_00e32c0ddb03

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