Marc Andreessen Quotes

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• Tech stocks are trading at a 30-year-low when compared to the multiples of industrials (companies). Its the weirdest bubble when everyone hates everything.
• People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.
• There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.
• Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.
• Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national…
• 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
• In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day
• I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones
• 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…
• My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised…
• More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense
• Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition
• In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access…
• Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies
• With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be…
• There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them
• 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…
• No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult
• In short, software is eating the world
• Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle

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