Marc Andreessen: Building Startups Is Like Baking A Cake In 3 Minutes

At age 22, Marc Andreessen cofounded Netscape, the browser company that turned the Internet into a mainstream phenomenon.

But what happens when your company takes off that fast? Andreessen talked about his early Netscape days at Y Combinator’s Startup School event at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. Saturday. Netscape at its peak was hiring perhaps 100 people per week or more. "The problem with with true hyper-growth… It’s the problem like baking a cake in three minutes. You’re in the kitchen and you have sugar, flour, egg on the ceiling. What the hell are you doing?"

Tomio Geron, Forbes Staff

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