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Netscape's Marc Andreessen; Stay Focused: If others don't see his vision, he works to convince them.(LEADERS & SUCCESS)
Byline: DAVID ISAAC
As an undergraduate student, Marc Andreessen found part-time work paying $6.85 an hour. Not exactly a dream job.
It was at the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications and sparked Andreessen's idea for a new Web browser that would turn him into one of the richest men in America.
OK, maybe it was a dream job.
The browser was called Mosaic. It led to the founding of Netscape Communications, which on its first day of trading popped like a champagne cork from $28 to an intraday high of $75 before closing at $58. It was the birth of the Internet age.
"In August of 1995, scarcely 16 months after its formation, it debuted . . . attaining a market value of over $2 billion during its first day of trading," writes Robert Reid in his book "Architects of the Web."
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