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 AndreessenMy 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 AndreessenIt was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!
Marc AndreessenThe advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.
Marc AndreessenToday's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies
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