thiel andtween peter mark andreessen regarding my tweet volume.is one outlet that my pr team does not control for me to be able to share my thoughts on the technology industry. >> why aren't you more scared? is that might be generational. i grew up in chat rooms. i'm sure i will say some things that i wake up to in the morning and pull a donald trump or something. regret treating for the rest of my life. >> how much of it is strategy? >> it is less strategic than you might think. my brain is all over the place. it is actually very representative of the random notions that i have. >> i've had the benefit of seeing you do magic. >> i am less active now is a magician. >> what have you learned from that? how is it affected your career? >> magic is weird. have you been to magic conference? >> no. that sounds like an interesting experience. industrych entergy -- as up diversions the problem. as it wast may not do a fun experience in my teenage years. become a public company? that is the path we are on. -- >> that is the path we are on. let's would you e

not 100 tweets a day. >> i am between peter thiel and mark andreessen regarding my tweet volume.is one outlet that my pr team does not control for me to be able to just share my thoughts on the technology industry. >> i guess i just wonder, why aren't you more scared? >> that might be generational. i grew up in chat rooms. i'm sure i will say some things stupid someday that i wake up to in the morning and pull a donald trump or something, regret tweeting for the rest of my life. >> how much of it is strategy? >> it is less strategic than you might think. because my brain is all over the place. it is actually very representative of the random notions that i have. >> i've had the benefit of seeing you do magic. >> i am less active now is a -- as a magician. >> that is a very hard thing to learn. >> some say it is impossible. >> what have you learned from that? how has it affected your career? >> magic is weird. have you been to magic conference? >> no. that sounds like an interesting experience. >> you think the tech industry has a diversity program? there is something called the i

. ♪ >> mark andreessen invented the world's most popular web browser .nging the internet into our lives and changing our world forever. two decades later he sits on the boards of hp, and ebay. anderson horowitz backs some of the biggest companies. i sit down with mark andreessen in this special edition of "studio 1.0."

i sit down with mark andreessen in this special edition of "studio 1.0." >> 20 years ago this week, netscape, which you founded, launched. can we get 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. it turned out it has. >> you have been incredibly productive since. you started a capital venture firm, andreessen horowitz. you have also tweeted 33,000 times in one year. >> thank you. >> which is more than all three founders of twitter combined. >> yes. that is true. i really think the stock and the company should be rebalanced. >>we are going to reference some of your tweets, and i want to start with this one. when i came to silicon valley in 1994, i thought i had missed all the opportunity, fun, and excitement. when did you realize you were wrong? >> it really took the internet taking off. silicon valley had been on fire in the late 1970's and 1980's with pc, and then with software, with

mark andreessen thanks every older bigger technology company at some point breaks up. w do you avoid that fate western mark >> mark and i have crossed swords on numerous occasions. we have had some good points of disagreement in the past, but in this regard, we see that there are changes in the industry and we have seen some split. with these companies, we are better together and are quite committed to cs through a changing time and high-tech. lex why is it better for customers? >> customers can choose to work with one of us while not working with the other two, but they also get the benefit of us coming together. customers have said we want you guys to work closer together and these are the largest i.t. companies in the world working there strategies to transition. investorse activist banging on your door sayings lit up. how much attention do you pay these guys? >> it's largely not an issue for us. it's a question to the emc board. and ourur team customers to focus and execute all stop emc has to decide the best route and respond to shareholder coerns and setting a mul

mark andreessen says they may vaporize. you worry? >> i do. my dad was a real estate developer.d from high school in 1991. into that recession i was in this industry in the first dotcom crash. we are in a solid position. bill and mark, and fred were talking about the high burn rates. over $1 million in recurring revenue each month and spending $300,000. we are in a good position. >> how do you weigh how high you want the valuation to go, how much money you need to take on from investors, without taking too much? >> there is no magic formula. it is a gas, a hedge of what might happen the next couple of years. fars impossible, but we are from the bottom. i am one of those people who think the other shoe is yet to drop from 2008. if we have $120 million on the usance sheet that puts in a good position. >> you have a rainy day fund. thank you. we will keep our eye on you. it is time now for the bwest byte where we focus on one number that tells a whole lot. 1,100,000. the company that monitors illegal peer-to-peer activity, taylor swift's "shake it off has been illegally downloaded

. >> mark andreessen told me that apple pay is innovative within the status quo, so not that innovative kind of what we have for the short term. when will it be something else, something new? >> i think the thing with apple pay is what i was just saying, as it is a time to see some breakthrough. it is not about the technology. it is about the experience, and if we can make this -- we are finally solving something for customers, versus just a fun thing of tapping your phone. there is so much of the market to tap into here. >> you have been a chief advocate for women and women's initiatives at citigroup, and we were talking about your diversification numbers, which are better than the technology companies. we are seeing google, apple, facebook, 30% women. >> half of our community is women. what we are focused on is having more women represented in our seniormost ranks. >> it is far less than 50%? >> yes, yes, and we started a program a few years ago about a different way to help women achieve their potential i really giving them advocate to work alongside them and bring their capabilities

. >> what about someone like mark andreessen? two bigs invested in bitcoin companies. one of them is: base. the other one is a bitcoin miner. this is the most pointless thing you can possibly do. it might make money, but it is not going to change the world. list.ike this falling gas prices are a bad thing. >> yeah. we really believe that stock markets will fall sometimes when oil inventories are high or prices drop when, in reality, half the country lives check to check. 47% of the country makes less than $50,000 a year and 20% goes to energy costs. how we can interpret a falling gasoline price as negative is beyond any stretch of the imagination to me. but yet we do. >> layoffs are great news. the more, the better. go up when they announced layoffs and when they announce a huge amount of layoffs, stocks will really go up because people will point to that and say they are getting really serious about meeting their expenses. >> we have reached the point when labor and capital are opposed. they used to be, for many decades, linked to each other. the better the employees

mark andreessen, preaching is at so many other company's, he is also on the board -- great genius ate and he other countries come he is also on the board of hewlett-packard. >> cory, we like you so much today we had you want twice. "market makers" will be that just a moment. when corey does not make fun of my hair and clothes and skin he has to come on our show. >> ♪ i want more oh, i was singing. >> she was literally singing "little mermaid." changes on capitol hill, and the changes in energy policy. >> know something about home repairs? this place is a world-class renovation project. >> live from bloomberg headquarters in new york, this is "market makers," with erik schatzker and stephanie ruhle. >> welcome back to "market makers" i am stephanie ruhle. >> i am matt miller -- >> i can't believe you had to ask the question, do i like nicki minaj? >> she does. there could be big changes in 2015. yesterday we spoke with keep it and here is what he said. s and here isen what he said. >> you have to address the keystone pipeline, which the president has ignored. you have this strategic p

i saw that mark andreessen was still up so i e-mailed him. he e-mailed back. here's what he said.n governments' stance on tech increasingly a primal scream. unlikely to lead to good outcomes for european consumers. that's what you might expect. he is the cofounder of netscape and now at andreessen horowitz. this is what you would expect to hear from technology giants here. just the situation itself, i know we're writing it off at this point. the stock market is writing it off. although the eu when it decides to can get very involved in things. they've already taken google to task for their privacy stance. if google is forced to comply with those privacy issues, that in itself is going to be a huge technological challenge. >> you know, historically the european union lawmakers and back before the european union when it was just french lawmakers. the reaction is always no, no, no to stop -- try to stop technology at the doorsteps of the country. it's one of the reasons why they don't grow. and why they're still mired in all this. something so fundamentally different in the united st