The Andreessens and the Cohens rank among the world’s most prolific art collectors; however, a penchant for the arts is where their similarities end. Marc Andreessen and Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen are quintessential Silicon Valley, with Marc co-creating Mosaic, the first widely used web browser, before leading one of the valley’s premier venture-capital firms. Steve and Alexandra Cohen are about as East Coast as you can get: Steve is the famed, yet controversial, hedge-fund manager. How, then, do the couples’ disparate lives and collections compare?
The Andreessens |
The Cohens |
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MEET CUTE The two met at a New Year’s Eve dinner thrown by a leading investor in eHarmony. They talked for six hours. The next day, Marc sent Laura 17 e-mails. |
MEET CUTE Steve met Alexandra through People Resources, a now-defunct dating service. He e-mailed 20 women through the program—and got just one response. |
| MARRIED SINCE
2006 |
MARRIED SINCE
1992 |
| NET WORTH
$1.2 billion |
NET WORTH
$14 billion |
| PRIZED PIECES
Anything by Robert Rauschenberg or 
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PRIZED PIECES
L’Homme au doigt by Alberto Giacometti, 
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| COLLECTING AREA(S)
Postwar America |
COLLECTING AREA(S) Contemporary and Impressionist |
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LARGESSE $27.5 million to Stanford University |
LARGESSE $50 million to MoMA for the museum’s |
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WORKS ARE HOUSED IN The couple’s digs in Atherton, Calif., |
WORKS ARE HOUSED IN Their home in Greenwich. Steve has also been known to keep works in his offices. |
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WHO’S THEIR DEALER? Marc Glimcher 
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WHO’S THEIR DEALER? Larry Gagosian 
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SCANDAL He got dunked on for a tweet he |
SCANDAL The SEC banned Steve from trading |
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COLLECTION VALUE It got Silicon Valley to care about art, |
COLLECTION VALUE All up, |
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COLLECTING PHILOSOPHY “For true art collectors, |
COLLECTING PHILOSOPHY “I am purely from the gut. |
