Marc Andreessen knows the taste of success; and he also knows very well that the taste can quickly sour. In the 90s he led the team that developed Mosaic and then co-founded a company to market it, eventually releasing it under the name Netscape Navigator. The browser took the world by storm, gaining more than a 90 percent marketshare at its peak. However, Microsoft licensed the original Mosaic browser and used it to create the first Internet Explorer, which would eventually go on to crush Netscape.

Now a bit older and wiser, Mr. Andreessen has come full circle and after years working as a premier tech investor in Silicon Valley, has returned to the browser market. Mr. Andreessen criticizes current browsers like Firefox and Internet Explorer for being stacked changes, rather than a complete redesign to take into account the latest industry trends.

He's backing a new company that is looking to design an entirely new browser completely from the ground up, including designing a new rendering engine -- the first in over a decade. Mr. Andreessen describes, "There are all kinds of things that you would do differently if you are building a browser from scratch."

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