In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month.

We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.

The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early.

There is a constant need for new systems and new software.

So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.

I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.

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