Andreesen had the opportunity to go to an excellent public university - a global leader in computer science. He worked at NCSA at University of Illinois, which was funded by the NSF. He was funded by the NSF to create Mosaic. He then founded his own company to build a competitor to Mosaic.

If Andreesen couldn't study computer science at a leading public university and get NSF funding to do research on the WWW at the exact right moment of time, does Marc Andreesen become a billionaire?

He's the post child for the success of American public universities and government-funded research. Now he wants to destroy that for everyone else.