Netscape co-founder joins Facebook board

Courtesy guardian.co.uk Technology  Tue, 07/01/2008 - 06:32

Veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur Marc Andreessen has been appointed to Facebook's board of directors, the social networking site confirmed last night.

Andreessen, who co-founded the early web company Netscape and the software firm Loudcloud, has invested in several web start-ups and is said to be a personal mentor to Facebook's 24-year-old founder, Mark Zuckerberg.

He takes the fourth seat on the Facebook board alongside Zuckerberg and investors Peter Thiel, of Clarion Capital, and Jim Breyer, from Accel Partners....


 

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