Back in August, Marc Andreessen (founder of Netscape and currently partner in Andreessen Horowitz investment firm) wrote an essay in the WSJ entitled, “Why Software Is Eating The World.” If you missed it, the essay described how software is, quite seriously, taking over every single industry. And if your industry hasn’t been transformed by software, it will be soon.
An excerpt:
…Today, the world’s largest bookseller, Amazon, is a software company…
…Today’s largest video service by number of subscribers is a software company: Netflix…
…Today’s dominant music companies are software companies, too: Apple’s iTunes, Spotify and Pandora…
…Today’s fastest growing entertainment companies are videogame makers
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Becky is the Senior Content Marketing Manager at TUNE. Before TUNE, she led a variety of marketing and communications projects at San Francisco startups. Becky received her bachelor's degree in English from Wake Forest University. After living nearly a decade in San Francisco and Seattle, she has returned to her home of Charleston, SC, where you can find her enjoying the sun and salt water with her family.
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