Awful Quote by Marc Andreessen

Technology ventures can succeed with very little investment, unlike many other industries. A lot of the big Internet players like Google or Yahoo were…

— Jonathan Raymond

History is littered with great firms that got killed by disruption. Of course, the personal computer, a technology that first took root as a…

— Clayton Christensen

Proprietary software grew up, starting really in the 1980s, as an alternative and that became the dominant model with the rise of companies like…

— Tim O'Reilly

Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.

— Safra A. Catz

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

— Marc Andreessen

Microsoft wasn't born as an enterprise company. We have always been growing with end users in mind.

— Jean-Philippe Courtois

AOL, I think, represented an opportunity for a few things. One is I'm a big believer in the AOL brand, and I think AOL…

— Tim Armstrong

I know Microsoft, I know they were only doing things because they thought they were long-reaching and long-thinking. But the world we live in…

— Peter Molyneux

It became clear to me by 1984 that Microsoft was likely going to be the big winner in the PC software apps and operating…

— Mitch Kapor

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

— Bill Gates

One of AOL's biggest assets is its brand. For people over 30 and, due to AOL Instant Messenger, even a lot of people under…

— Tim Armstrong

If Microsoft had never existed... The industry would probably be very fragmented.

— Paul Allen