The 2 hardest things you'll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving.
Marc AndreessenOnce 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.
Marc AndreessenI think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones.
Marc AndreessenHealth care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.
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