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Marc Andreessen
American
Businessman
Born:
Jul 9
,
1971
Companies
People
Technology
Think
Time
You
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Adaptability is key.
Marc Andreessen
Key
Adaptability
The joke about SAP has always been, it's making '50s German manufacturing methodology, implemented in 1960s software technology, delivered to 1970-style manufacturing organizations, like, it's really - yeah, the incumbency - they are still the lingering hangover from the dot-com crash.
Marc Andreessen
Technology
Joke
Software
About
Delivered
Implemented
Like
Always
Making
Still
Yeah
Been
Methodology
Lingering
German
Hangover
Crash
Dot-Com
Really
Organizations
Sap
Manufacturing
In short, software is eating the world.
Marc Andreessen
World
Software
Eating
Computers
Short
Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.
Marc Andreessen
Revolution
Every
Assume
Software
Industry
Coming
Companies
Need
There is a constant need for new systems and new software.
Marc Andreessen
Software
Systems
Constant
Constant Need
New
Need
If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'
Marc Andreessen
Education
God
Saying
You
Technology
Innovation
Will
Down
Everybody
Out
Jobs
More
Prices
Answer
Healthcare
Effect
Going
Oh
Oh My God
Want
Which
Then
Bring
An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.
Marc Andreessen
Technology
CIA
Programming
Tools
Market
Slightly
System
Out
Online
Network
Operating
Operating System
Doing
Came
Lot
Up
Contracts
Than
Oracle
Ended
Microsoft
Being
Different
Video
Successful
Gaming
Companies
Awful
Awful Lot
Started
Technology Companies
I don't waste time being depressed.
Marc Andreessen
Time
Waste Time
Being
Being Depressed
Depressed
Waste
Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.
Marc Andreessen
Today
Technology
Market
Hates
All-Time
Major
Stock
Stock Market
Public
Low
Companies
Shown
Actually
Technology Companies
If we're in a bubble, it's the weirdest bubble I've ever seen, where everybody hates everything.
Marc Andreessen
Seen
Everybody
Everything
Hates
Bubble
Weirdest
Where
Ever
These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.
Marc Andreessen
Home
You
Words
Think
Staying
Direction
Having
Headed
Days
Like
Underwear
Blogging
Option
Your
Things
Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.
Marc Andreessen
Technology
Adoption
Through
Tends
New
Go
New Technology
Any
Cycle
There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them.
Marc Andreessen
Time
Balance
Matter
Meet
Constantly
More
Demands
Always
Than
Trying
Them
There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
Marc Andreessen
Business
Late
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Point
Part
Most
Qualified
Were
Graduating
Where
Wanted
Companies
Actually
Start
I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones.
Marc Andreessen
Saying
Phones
World
Year
Think
All-Around
Feature
Consumers
Around
Yes
Start
A very large percentage of economic activity is shifting online and it makes sense that there are more services that are going to charge. It also means there are going to be more people willing to pay.
Marc Andreessen
People
Shifting
Sense
Pay
Willing
Charge
Percentage
Online
More
More People
Economic
Economic Activity
Also
Makes
Very
Going
Means
Large
Large Percentage
Activity
Services
Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.
Marc Andreessen
Great
Hair
Born
Tie
Shiny
Just
CEOs
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
National
Defense
Software
Run
Online
More
More And More
Delivered
Major
Industries
National Defense
Being
Movies
Businesses
Services
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 to take over large swathes of the economy.
Marc Andreessen
Own
Software
Dramatic
Broad
My Own
Economic
Take
Poised
Over
Economy
Shift
Middle
Which
Theory
Companies
Large
Technological
We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies.
Marc Andreessen
Work
Great
Incredibly
Entrepreneurs
Supporting
Lot
Just
Personally
Worked
Hard
Companies
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
Software
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Cases
More
Over
New
Industries
Doing
Years
Expect
Than
Next
Companies
Many
Disrupted
Disruption
First of all, every new company today is being built in the face of massive economic headwinds, making the challenge far greater than it was in the relatively benign '90s.
Marc Andreessen
Today
Challenge
Face
First
Every
Relatively
Benign
Economic
New
Massive
First Of All
Greater
Built
Making
Than
Being
Far
Company
The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.
Marc Andreessen
Car
Long
Past
Own
Software
High
Could
Primarily
Days
Content
Repair
Due
His
Aficionado
Her
We are single-mindedly focused on partnering with the best innovators pursuing the biggest markets.
Marc Andreessen
Best
Innovators
Markets
Focused
Pursuing
Biggest
I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanthropy.
Marc Andreessen
Work
Focus
Long
Philanthropy
Relevant
Someday
About
Had
Retire
Learn
Always
Model
Going
Activities
Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.
Marc Andreessen
Today
People
Smoking
Car
Will
Other
Cigarettes
Out
Immoral
Ten
Driving
Around
Years
Viewed
Your
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