Apparently, as a major underdog at the time, Obama contacted Marc Andreesson in early 2007 to discuss the potential for social networking to influence politics.
“It was like a guy in a garage who was thinking of taking on the biggest names in the business,” Mr. Andreessen recalled. “What he was doing shouldn’t have been possible, but we see a lot of that out here and then something clicks. He was clearly supersmart and very entrepreneurial, a person who saw the world and the status quo as malleable.”
