Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In short, software is eating the world.
My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.
No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.
Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.
Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.
Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.
Governments are scared of software.
There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer.
I want to see us remain convinced that software matters in the future.
When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.
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