marc andreessen invented the world's first popular web browser and co-founded netscape, bringing the internet into our lives and changing our world forever. two decades later, he sits on the boards of facebook, hp, and, until recently, ebay. his venture capital firm andreessen-horowitz backs some of the hottest companies, like twitter, airbnb, and pinterest. i sit down with marc andreessen at salesforce's dreamforce conference in this special edition of "studio 1.0." >> i wanted to start with a word of congratulations, because 20 years ago, netscape, which you co-founded, launched. can we get some applause for that? [applause] ushering in the web as we know it. how does that feel? >> it is fantastic. it is so extraordinary. we had a little bit of a glimmer that something might happen, that it might matter, that this internet thing might work out ok. and it turned out it has. >> you have been incredibly productive since. you started a little venture capital firm, andreessen-horowitz. you have also tweeted 33,000 times. >> in? >> in one year. >> thank you. >> which is more than all thr

why does marc andreessen and other investors -- marc was an early investor in facebook, and whatsapp the other names, oculus, buzzfeed, skype, twitter, pinterest. how does he see a payoff down the line if what you do is free? >> the way our system works, we take the disconnected systems related to hr, payroll, medical insurance, other benefits, time and attendance software, we connect it all up and give companies a single fleece do everything and the deal is we give the central hub system away for free and make money on all of the folks. the biggest one is on the health insurance side. acting as someone's health insurance broker. liz: i believe you guys are licensed as health insurers which makes it easier, that is one of the toughest things for hr, anybody that started with a new company knows they have to sit with hr and ask about the health care benefits and payroll benefits and all kinds of things like that. you at zenefits simplify it for small businesses. when you are a start-up, and people are giving you money, i won't say throwing money ought, giving money, it's tempting to b

marc andreessen invented the world's first popular web browser and co-founded netscape, bringing theinto our lives and changing our world forever. two decades later, he sits on the boards of facebook, hp, and, until recently, ebay. his venture capital firm andreessen-horowitz backs some of the hottest companies, like twitter, airbnb, and pinterest. i sit down with marc andreessen at salesforce's dreamforce conference in this special edition of "studio 1.0." i wanted to start with a word of

emily: it is interesting to see him get into bed with marc andreessen. eric: it'll be interesting to see how those two coexist. even though marc is not actually on the board of lyft, one of his partners is. same for carl icahn. he will not actually be on the board, it will be one of his managing partners, i believe. emily: leslie, what do they say about this investment? leslie: it could be a way for him to build his own empire. how will this strategic health ebay or other investments to build the icahn empire? another thing people are looking at is what does this mean for management? carl is known to come in and shake up management, find out what does not work and replace them with people who may be better suited for the job. those are two things to look out for that investors are keeping an eye on. emily: all right, leslie picker in new york, eric newcomer and cory johnson with me in san francisco. we are interested to see how this icahn investment plays out. in today's edition of drive google's self driving cars are about to hit the open road. check ou

emily: so you are way behind marc andreessen. you are not at 100 tweets a day.on: i am sort of between peter thiel and marc andreessen in my tweet volume. no, it's my one outlet that a pr team does not control for me to be able to just share my thoughts on the technology industry. emily: i guess i wonder, like, why aren't you more scared? aaron: that might be partly generational. i mean, i grew up on chat rooms. i'm sure i will say something stupid someday that i wake up to in the morning and pull a donald trump or something, and then regret tweeting for the rest of my life. emily: how much of it is strategy? aaron: it is probably less, actually, strategic than you might think. because my brain is sort of all over the place. so it is actually very representative of the random notions that i have. emily: i've had the benefit of seeing you do magic. aaron: i am less active now as a magician. emily: that's a very hard thing to learn -- aaron: yeah, some would say it's impossible. emily: what have you learned from that? or how has it affected your career? aaron: so

emily: marc andreessen and peter fans.are here in -- huge you might poke fun at him in season one with a guy named peter gregory. i know that some of these people you talk to on a regular basis. who did you talk to make sure you were getting it right? that you had geek cred? mike: lots of people. before this went to series i did not have the resources so one of my best friends from high school is a top programmer at google. a lawyer who has a connection to startups. once we got going we went all over the place. google and facebook and yelp. sergi, and mark zuckerberg, were they having to talk that happy to talk to you? mike: we have not met them yet. alec: we saw that larry and serge were wearing our shirts when they did the ice bucket challenge. emily: what is your take on the sexism issue in silicon valley? mike: it is kind of surprising to me that it took this long for anything like this to happen. ♪ emily: i wonder, is it strange critiquing silicon valley from hollywood? which is its own epicenter of anxiety and ego. alec: i think there are actually a huge number of similarities. w

valley with no job, no money, no real network except that maybe you went to the same school as marc andreessene point. why did you come here? max: so i started four companies on campus while i was at u of i. and every time we would fail, which we consistently did, the co-founding team, or parts of the co-founding team, would drop out, typically, and up and go to palo alto. it was this magical place where even though we just failed, you could go and succeed. emily: the promised land. max: it was the promised land. emily: now, this is something i didn't realize, but paypal is actually your fifth company. max: mm-hmm. emily: what happened to the first four? max: varying degrees of hope-crushing failure. the one before paypal was almost, not quite dead, but it was still kind of dead. emily: so how did paypal get started? max: it was really hot in palo alto. it gets really hot. san francisco is moderate, but palo alto gets pretty brutal. i would go to stanford and sneak into summer lectures, because they were air-conditioned. i snuck into one because i recognized the name of the guy giving the gues

a profile of marc andreessen.ook at the social media shell game, challenging, to say the least, for twitter. one of the joys of "bloomberg surveillance." one dollar shopping and the international lower of luxury. howard devitt of its -- howard, are our closets full? howard: you see almost everyone miss numbers. tom: which you predicted. full disclosure. howard: retail business is tough. we have no gdp growth. tom: are our closets full? howard: we are over retail. we are overdone. tom: are they like the airlines? they go out of business? howard: we are going to close a record number of malls. vacancies will go up. more chains are going bankrupt. more stores are closing. it happens that we have a chart that explains the dynamic. brendan: we buy stuff, we fill up our closets. the financial condition of most of americans are left out of this whole thing. howard: half of america does not have money. tom: i want to look at home depot and walmart. walmart does not get it up. they breakout. that is fine. now what for walm