Interviewing Marc Andreessen: Chrome, iPhone, Ballmer, etc.

Kevin Maney writes: Last night, I interviewed tech investor/blogger/entrepreneur Marc Andreessen in front of a Churchill Club audience. Marc talked a mile a minute, hitting on everything from Google's Chrome browser -- which brought back memories of Marc's time fighting Microsoft at Netscape -- to the presidential election. He's an Obama supporter.

On Chrome, he focused almost entirely on the speed of the JavaScript update that Google's team wrote. That's going to be what pulls more Web-based applications into the browser, vs. having them reside on your computer.

Anyway, because I was on stage doing the questioning, I wasn't taking notes. Thankfully a few bloggers were in the audience and did. Om Malik focused more on Marc's tech comments. Valleywag, of course, pulled out the juicier personal comments. UberPulse wrote up a post, too.

More to come. I have to get on a plane.

Speaking of which -- I just encountered one of my more extraordinary airport moments. A guy just tried to go through security with a chainsaw. It was new and still in the box, but still --