American - Businessman | July 9, 1971 -
Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.
Marc Andreessen
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When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.
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Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.
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More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.
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In short, software is eating the world.
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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.
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We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies.
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Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high.
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No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.
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Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.
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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.
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Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.
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