Ben Horowitz interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011
summary
Argues that cloud and mobile create a platform shift that forces wholesale rewrites: the AWS burstable model lets apps assume unlimited machines so networking, storage and databases get redesigned; relational databases don't scale so new horizontally distributed datastores appear. Names Arista and Nicira as infrastructure plays, contrasts iOS/Android touch UIs with Windows Phone/Nokia traction, and cites consumer-scale outcomes — Groupon and Zynga >$1B revenue, Airbnb and Uber creating new income streams (drivers earning up to $150,000).
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chapters (5)
- 0:00The cloud computing shift
- 3:10Mobile and platform shifts
- 4:29Microsoft in the mobile age
- 5:20Market evolution and growth
- 7:43Technology and job creation
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