The Andreessens vs. The Cohens: Which Power Couple Has the Best Art Collection?
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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?
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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  | PRIZED PIECES L’Homme au doigt by Alberto Giacometti,  |
COLLECTING AREA(S) Postwar America | COLLECTING AREA(S) Contemporary and Impressionist |
LARGESSE $27.5 million to Stanford University | LARGESSE $50 million to MoMA for the museum’s |
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. |
WHO’S THEIR DEALER? Marc Glimcher  | WHO’S THEIR DEALER? Larry Gagosian  |
SCANDAL He got dunked on for a tweet he | SCANDAL The SEC banned Steve from trading |
COLLECTION VALUE It got Silicon Valley to care about art, | COLLECTION VALUE All up, |
COLLECTING PHILOSOPHY “For true art collectors, | COLLECTING PHILOSOPHY “I am purely from the gut. |
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