Financial Times (Jan. 18) -- Marc Andreessen, the Netscape founder, tech investor and U. of I. alumnus, talks about the trouble with stock markets, what he looks for in entrepreneurs and why illegal immigration is good for America.
Related story: Wired (Jan. 27) -- Illinois alumnus Marc Andreessen seemed an unlikely character to be identified as “the über-super-wunder whiz kid of cyberspace,” as Newsweek called him at the end of 1995. After growing up in New Lisbon, a town in rural Wisconsin, he enrolled at Illinois and studied computer science. Andreessen found part-time work at the university’s National Center for Supercomputing Applications. There, he and a few fellow programmers developed Mosaic, the predecessor-browser to Netscape Navigator.