Anderson five leading ideas: cloud computing and socialization

April 23 News, the Science and technology industry well-known journalist Anthony Vig Cosna (Anthony Wing kosner) in the U.S. "Forbes" magazine website published comments, analysis of venture capitalists Anderson (Marc Andreessen) five leading ideas. Cosna points out that although the company that Anderson founded was general, his five leading ideas had revolutionized the internet world.

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A student of computer science at the University of Illinois in 1992 produced a novel idea that the internet is not just for use by computer experts, and that if ordinary people know what the Internet is for, they will want to use it. The idea was extremely advanced and radical at the time.

The student is Anderson (Marc Andreessen). In 1993, Anderson and Eric Bina (Eric Bina) launched the first Internet Graphics Explorer mosaic. As Wired magazine points out, Anderson has a total of five ideas that are equally advanced and ultimately change the world, and this is just one of them.

Anderson's career was very successful, but the company he founded was Mingtu. Mosaic Company later renamed Netscape (Netscape) and was eventually acquired by AOL. Loud cloud company into the Opsware company, has been bought by HP. Ning is still operating, but has stopped taking Facebook's social route. Anderson has always been able to discover opportunities ahead of time, laying the groundwork for his success in the Silicon Valley venture company Andreessen Horowitz. Anderson is head of Andreessen Horowitz, which previously invested in companies including Skype, Groupon, Zynga, Instagram, Foursquare and Pinterest.

Anderson's five leading ideas are as follows:

Everyone can use the internet

Anderson grew up in a small, information-blocking town until he entered college in 1992, when he first contacted the Internet. The magic of the Internet has made Anderson realize that people's lives will change. After the introduction of Mosaic graphics browser, the Internet became more easy to use, which also opened a door for the later information society.

Browsers are becoming more and more important

In the "Browser wars", Anderson's mosaic eventually lost to Microsoft, but his second thought proved to be the most correct. For PCs and mobile devices, Anderson says, browsers are becoming more and more visible. This view has been recognized by many big companies, especially Google, which has put it into its own product line and launched its Chrome OS operating system. Even Microsoft has to reposition its browser business.

Cloud

As browsers become more and more valued, Anderson realizes that cloud computing based on software and Web Services has a broad market outlook and will affect all businesses. But the idea was too advanced, and because of the first dotcom bubble, Anderson's Loudcloud had not been successful. But Anderson's view, too, has affected many companies, especially Amazon, which has launched its own cloud computing services in the direction of Anderson's forecast.

Social

Anderson also predicts that a hierarchical system of identity-based social networks will replace the anonymity of early networks. He argues that one cannot only focus on Moore's law, which predicts the growth of computer speed, nor on the Metcalfe laws that explain the increasing development of network values. While focusing on the first two laws, Anderson noted that it was important to focus on the law of Reed, which created the growth of the network value Index. Although the Ning company, created by Anderson, has not been much successful, the idea has spawned Facebook and Groupon. Anderson invested in all two companies and held board positions on his board.

Software will be the future

As a well-known venture capitalist, Anderson has been looking for startups that change different industries through software technology. He was involved in the "creative destruction" process by investing in "innovation-new" software companies. But, like all his investment activities, Anderson was very optimistic about the company's ability to innovate quickly. "What we should do next is the goal of our next investment," he said in an interview with Wired magazine. ”

There is nothing to be proud of in thinking about the right one or two things, but in those 20 years, Anderson's ideas have been very correct, which is admirable. What will he consider next? Maybe it's the mobile field. If you're looking for a company that can create the future, focus on what Andreessen Horowitz is going to invest in. (Liron)

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)