Marc Andreessen discusses why Netscape made its browser free in the late 90s and eventually released it as Firefox, then shifted focus to business software and web services.
The question was, as Netscape started to come under pressure and started to have issues, particularly with browser market share in the late 90s, we executed two shifts. Now, one of the things about a story like Netscape is you don't often actually read the whole story because there's a set of popular perceptions. When companies actually become too popular in consumer consciousness, it's hard to actually track what they do as businesses because narratives get set. But we did two things. One is we took the browser to free and then we ultimately released it as Firefox. And so everybody who loads up Firefox today, and it's huge numbers today, is basically using the Netscape browser, essentially version 10 or something like that, version 12, if you look at the lineage. And then the other thing we did was we made a massive. We put a massive investment, did a massive turn, focusing on actually two things. Software for businesses and then our website. And so actually, interestingly, Netscape grew revenue all the way through its existence as a public company, was profitable for virtually the entire existence, and then of course, ultimately sold for a lot of money to basically a combination of AOL and Sun.
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