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Marc Andreessen Flexes His Muscles in Silicon Valley

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Marc Andreessen at Opsware headquarters in Sunnyvale, 2003. Paul Sakuma, Associated Press

San Jose Mercury News

September 7, 2010

He spoke for Hewlett-Packard's board when it showed ex-CEO Mark Hurd the door—and is now part of the team searching for Hurd's successor. He played a role in eBay's spinoff of Skype—buying a $50 million chunk in the process. And he has the ear of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as that company marches toward battle with Google.

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