You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt. Marc Andreessen More Quotes by Marc Andreessen More Quotes From Marc Andreessen Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not. Marc Andreessen valleys world years Start-ups should be based on radical ideas. There should be a high failure rate for start-ups, because if there isn't their ideas aren't bold enough. Marc Andreessen enough should ideas More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense. Marc Andreessen agriculture defense running Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded. Marc Andreessen use two people The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet. Marc Andreessen phones running people No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult. Marc Andreessen building growth easy I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys. Marc Andreessen someday valleys world TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using. Marc Andreessen writing people years Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players. Marc Andreessen networking selling player Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon Marc Andreessen borders example suicide Skype has a great engineering team, which I like to describe as 'all of Estonia.' Marc Andreessen estonia engineering team The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision. Marc Andreessen vision differences people When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me. Marc Andreessen balance college people Smart tech investor thinks about: a) future product roadmap, b) bottoms-up market size & growth, c) talent and skill of team. Essentially you are valuing things that have not yet happened, and the likelihood of the CEO and team being able to make them happen. Finance people find this appalling, but investors who do this well can make a lot of money. Marc Andreessen smart team thinking On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries - without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees. Marc Andreessen internet tools needs If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant. Marc Andreessen operating-systems guarantees-that machines Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming. Marc Andreessen assuming revolution needs The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient. Marc Andreessen news succeed strong Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle. Marc Andreessen adoption technology years Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today. Marc Andreessen car people years
