Zitat des Tages von Marc Andreessen:
Any successful company in the valley gets acquisition offers and has to decide whether or not to take them.
TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using.
I'm really excited about anything that is able to address the really big markets, so anything that's universally appealing.
Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded.
It's much harder these days as a start-up to do physical devices.
Consumers are freeing up an enormous amount of time that they were spending with stereotypical old media, and clearly, that time is going primarily two places: videogames and online.
Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.
Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks.
If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant.
There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them.
The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.
At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.
If we're in a bubble, it's the weirdest bubble I've ever seen, where everybody hates everything.
I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.
I think the American system is incredibly well developed. I think the founding fathers were geniuses.
Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.
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.
PCs don't suck. They're inadequate.
I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.
You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.
China is very entrepreneurial but has no rule of law. Europe has rule of law but isn't entrepreneurial. Combine rule of law, entrepreneurialism and a generally pro-business policy, and you have Apple.
We are single-mindedly focused on partnering with the best innovators pursuing the biggest markets.
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.
Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.
I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.
Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.
We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies.
Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.
With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired-the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later.
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.
Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce.
I think the tech stock, the public market is still completely traumatized by the dotcom crash. I think the investors and reporters and analysts and everybody is determined to not get taken advantage of again, and that is what everybody who lived through 2000, what they kind of remember.
In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.
Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.
There is an enormous market demand for information. It just has to be fulfilled in a way that fits with the technology of our times.
Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.
