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Over the past six years, Marc Andreessen has enjoyed success as a co-founder and executive vice-president at Netscape Communications Corporation. While enrolled at University of Illinois, Andreessen worked at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and led the team that developed Mosaic, the first graphical browser for the World Wide Web. In January of 1993, an early version of Mosaic was released and it quickly became the dominant browser on the web. After graduation in December of 1993, Andreessen joined forces with Jim Clark and founded Netscape. Netscape set out to create a "Mosaic-Killer," a commercial browser which would absorb Mosaic's market share and allow anyone with a PC to access the Web. Having accomplished this goal, Andreessen remained on Netscape's staff as Chief Technology Officer. Andreessen made the transition to AOL when the Virginia-based company acquired Netscape last year, and he stepped down last week in order to return to the Valley and focus on start-up opportunities.
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