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I always reckon when you are presented with the opportunity to listen to a billionaire talk, you should take it.

I can’t have been the only one to think this - as there were about 5,000 other people sitting beside me during the keynote at Web 2.0 with Marc Andreessen.

Marc has been instrumental in driving the internet and came to fame with the sale of Netscape (the company he co-founded) to AOL for the princely sum of $4.2 billion dollars back in 1999. That was when the US dollar actually meant something.

Many observers of the net were puzzled that someone of Andreessen’s intelligence, insight and ruthless conviction didn’t jump into the blogosphere sooner than he did. His blog launched in July 2007, not even a year ago.

But already it is one of the most read blogs in the industry and has a huge following. As it should.

Marc is an exceptional writer. I wish I could write with that level of clarity and consistency. And amazing attention to detail. Some of his posts are more like a thesis. You should just read what he thinks of the US financial sector.

Marc is one of those guys you just pray would be sitting beside you on a flight from Australia to London. Except for the fact that mortals like you and me probably don’t travel too often in a Gulfstream. Anyway.

John Battelle did a cool job of the interview (as usual). It would be good to be that well connected.

You should watch this session from start to finish. And be ready for “the nuclear winter…” You’ll understand after you’ve seen the video.

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