American - Businessman | July 9, 1971 -
The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box.
Marc Andreessen
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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.
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Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.
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One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.
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Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.
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China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.
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Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.
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There is a constant need for new systems and new software.
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Adaptability is key.
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Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say - shift happens.
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Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.
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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.
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