Acquired Quote by Reed Hastings

I started a software company with a couple other folks. It went public. We made plenty of money. And I thought it was this…

— Glenn Kelman

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

If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.

— Aaron Levie

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

I had a great career selling software.

— Nick Viall

Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.

— Brian Behlendorf

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

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it…

— Bill Gates

[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.

— Bill Gates

We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.

— Larry Ellison

Look at the computer industry. I've watched a lot of companies come and go, some that were right at the pinnacle of their success.

— Edwin Catmull

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