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Andreessen Interview Discusses Post-Crash Innovation

Posted by simoniker on from the the-way-ahead dept.

kevcol writes "The SF Chronicle has an interview with Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, talking about innovation after the dot-bomb crash, how AOL doesn't understand its own customers, his reaction to some comments by Larry Ellison, who believes that 'innovation primarily comes from big companies like Oracle', and Andreessen's post-Netscape experience as head of OpsWare (formerly LoudCloud)."

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  1. Re:And the example of such innovations would be... by Ophidian+P.+Jones · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    no, I'm a nineteen year old geek girl who wishes to god she'd started sooner

    Sorry, you are not a "geek girl". If you were, you wouldn't be whining about how you're poor and drive 90 minutes to your job (here's a clue: nobody cares) on your lamo LiveJournal site. Instead, you would have coded your own CMS, shared the source with everyone, and talked about how you designed it.

  2. tangent by BigBir3d · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    One thing he mentions that I had not heard about; p2p telephony over at Skype.com. Seems like a pretty cool idea. Hopefully the "stigma" in the general press asscoiated with KaZaa will not harm Skype.

    As to "innovation" other than being a highly overused word (especially in the Mac community), I thing it is truly achieved more often by small groups. Bouncing lots of ideas around, quickly, and little thought about what can be done. Your average newcomer doesn't know what s/he can't do, only what s/he wants to do.