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I have really become a huge believer in the power of open source.
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When I was a developer, I couldn't buy a pencil. I had no budget, nothing.
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Budget
Developer
Pencil
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A self-driving car will have 200-plus CPUs. That's a data center on wheels.
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Data
Wheels
Center
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There's going to be a symbiotic relationship between the edge and the cloud.
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Relationship
Cloud
Edge
Symbiotic
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There has been an ebb and flow in enterprise IT of centralized versus distributed.
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Enterprise
Flow
Versus
Centralized
Distributed
Ebb
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It's easier to coach a technical founder how to be CEO and manage a business than it is to teach a professional CEO the nuances of that particular business.
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Ceo
Manage
Founder
Nuances
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When you are only one vendor, there is a very low rate of innovation. You think the old architecture is just fine, and it can just happily exist for many years.
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Architecture
Innovation
Rate
Happily
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Technical co-founders are great at envisioning where the company's going from a strategic standpoint. They have what I call the 'gut-feel' of building out their business.
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Standpoint
Strategic
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It doesn't matter what's written on a coffee mug or on a 'culture' slide; what you do as a CEO, day in and day out, and how you behave will define your company's culture.
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Behave
Ceo
Coffee
Mug
Define
Slide
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I look at Boston-based companies all the time... There's certainly great companies in Boston. If the deal makes sense on the merit of the deal itself, we'll go and do the deal.
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Boston
Merit
Time Great Look
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As a former CEO and senior executive, there was a time when I did not quite understand the profound impact a CEO has on the culture of a company, even though I always knew culture was important.
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Ceo
Former
Impact
Profound
Senior
Time Always Culture
Executive
Profound Impact
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I can certainly imagine a day where task workers, enterprise workers no longer communicate via email but instead use some social vehicle that looks a lot like consumer social networks we see today.
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Communicate
Enterprise
Vehicle
Workers
Consumer
Networks
Social Networks
Task
Via
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The organization reflects the behavior and characteristics of the CEO, and that establishes the culture. Foster an environment of open communication, and the organization inherits a culture of open communication.
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Communication
Ceo
Characteristics
Foster
Reflects
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I think with the proliferation of mobile devices and then, eventually, the Internet of Things, we literally have supercomputers in our pockets and supercomputers that will hang on telephone poles and in light bulbs.
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Devices
Light
Mobile
Pockets
Proliferation
Hang
Telephone
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When you and I go to work, and we use a computer to work and find that our work apps are completely onerous and the apps we use at home are quite easy, we wonder, why can't it be simpler, easier, quicker, and less expensive?
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Apps
Expensive
Quicker
Simpler
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Despite the best intentions, companies often become culturally dysfunctional. This occurs when leadership has a perception about the culture that conflicts with reality, or leadership behaves differently than what might be written down.
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Best Intentions
Perception
Behaves
Conflicts
Dysfunctional
Intentions
Occurs
Written Down
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Old companies that had nothing to do with software in the past all have software development activities to unlock the invention that's occurring inside of these organizations. And so the developer is a very important part of that overall ecosystem.
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Invention
Software
Activities
Developer
Ecosystem
Important Part
Overall
Unlock
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In the old days, I'd have to go as a company, buy computer resources, buy servers, buy storage, and lash it all together. It took a long time to stand up. Now, if I need, I can go to Amazon or Rackspace and buy some computer power nearly instantaneously.
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Old Days
Storage
Instantaneously
Lash
Stand Up
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With the premise that we look for technical co-founders to run a company, I view myself as being a coach to that technical co-founder. I can help them with their business issues, with the growth issues of taking a company from a very early stage to something much larger.
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Probably, if I created a venture fund, I would create a firm with virtual services not too different from the a16z model, but without employing people. So I would get CPOs, engineering talent, marketing people who wanted to be involved with the venture fund and provide services.
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Employing
Engineering
Firm
Fund
Marketing
Venture
Services
Virtual
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Doing processing locally has its advantages. For instance, the cost of an endpoint CPU and memory is a 1000x cheaper than the cost of CPU and memory in the server. And in many places around the world, connectivity and transmission costs are sometimes far more expensive than the device.
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Cheaper
Cost
Expensive
Instance
Processing
Server
Transmission
Advantages
Around
Device
Far
Locally
Memory
Places
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If you believe that the mobile phone is the next supercomputer, which I do, you can imagine a datacenter that is modeled after, literally, hundreds or thousands or millions of mobile phones. They won't have screens on them, but there'll be millions of lightweight mobile-phone processors in the datacenter.
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Millions
Mobile Phones
Phones
Screens
Phone
Hundreds
Lightweight
Thousands
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If you look back over the history of computing, it started as mainframes or terminals. As PCs or work stations became prevalent, computing moved to the edge, and we had applications that took advantage of edge computing and the CPU and processing power at the edge. Cloud computing brought things back to the center.
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Processing
Applications
Cloud
Edge
Pcs
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