Christian Wiklund dropped an e-mail to Marc Andreessen this past February, asking to meet with the Internet legend-turned-venture capitalist and pick his brain. The pair had met briefly in 2009, as Wiklund was still in the early stages of launching Skout, a mobile app for flirting and chatting, and he wanted to know what Andreessen…

He’s not a household name like Gates, Jobs, or Zuckerberg. His face isn’t known to millions. But during his remarkable 20-year career, no one has done more than Marc Andreessen to change the way we communicate. At 22, he invented Mosaic, the first graphical web browser—an innovation that is perhaps more responsible than any other for…

In an effort to kickstart more charitable giving around Silicon Valley, the six general partners at venture firm Andreessen Horowitz are pledging to give half of their lifetime income from venture capital activities to charity.

Jumping on the philanthropic bandwagon that counts people like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffett, and others as members, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz says its leaders will give to charity at least half of their lifetime VC earnings.

Following the example set by philanthropists like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, the venture capitalists at Andreessen Horowitz have made a joint pledge to donate at least half of their substantial incomes to charity. The firm’s six general partners all made the commitment, announced today in a blog post by founding partner Marc Andreessen. It’s…

If some venture capitalists have issues with the brazen style of the 34-month-old, Sand Hill Road firm Andreessen Horowitz, just wait. The firm’s six GPs have just committed to dedicate half their venture income to charity, and they’re very intentionally going public with the decision. It’s a move that no one other venture firm or…

Andreessen Horowitz is announcing that the firm’s six general partners will donate at least half of all income from their venture capital careers to philanthropic causes. That’s at least half of everything they make from venture capital — for life. It includes all fees, carry, salaries – everything. The lucky recipient charities will be at…

The six general partners of Andreessen Horowitz are taking on a modified version of Warren Buffett’s “Giving Pledge” for billionaires. Today they’ve pledged to give at least half the income made from their venture capital careers to philanthropic causes, during their lifetimes.

In a big philanthropic statement, venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz said its six general partners intend to donate at least half of all their lifetime venture-capital earnings to charity. To kick off that move, Marc Andreessen, a founder of the firm, said he and the five other general partners at Andreessen Horowitz—Ben Horowitz, Jeff Jordan, John…

In the grand tradition of industry barons — but not so much venture capitalists — the six general partners at Andreessen Horowitz are donating at least half of the income from their investing activities to philanthropy. The firm has already been turning heads up and down Sand Hill Road, but this move might cause some…

The partners of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz are not quite billionaires. But they are following the lead of Warren E. Buffett. The firm’s six partners, led by co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, have promised to donate at least half of their venture capital income to charity. To kick off the pledge, the partners…

The general partners of Andreessen Horowitz have pledged to donate at least half of their future venture capital earnings to philanthropic causes. And, to begin, they have sprinkled $1 million on Silicon Valley nonprofits that focus on everything from urban forestry to homeless families.

A number of big Silicon Valley names, like John Doerr, have signed on to Warren Buffett and Bill Gates promise to give over half their fortunes to charity. But never before has an entire VC firm made the pledge—until today. All six partners at Andreessen Horowitz are committing to donate at least half of their…

Andreessen Horowitz, a three-year-old venture capital firm, has made a big mark in Silicon Valley partly through the sheer scale of its endeavors, with big funds totaling some $2.7 billion and big investments in high-profile companies including Facebook, Twitter, Zynga and Groupon.

It took only a matter of weeks for relative venture capital newcomer Andreessen Horowitz to raise the $1.5 billion third fund it announced late last month. The same limited partners who had already sunk $1.2 billion into the Menlo Park firm just since its founding in June 2009 by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen and Opsware…