Creativity Quote by Stephen O’Grady

“With the cost of development down by an order of magnitude or more, the throttle on developer creativity has been removed, setting the stage for a Cambrian explosion of projects. Four major disruptions drove this shift: open source, the cloud, the Internet, and seed-stage financing.” quote by Stephen O’Grady — Download Open image

““With the cost of development down by an order of magnitude or more, the throttle on developer creativity has been removed, setting the stage for a Cambrian explosion of projects. Four major disruptions drove this shift: open source, the cloud, the Internet, and seed-stage financing.””

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