I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.

In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.

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.

On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries - without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees.

There is the opportunity to do more and better if you're smaller and more nimble.

Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.

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