Mobile is eating the world

Back in August, Marc Andreessen (founder of Netscape and currently partner in Andreessen Horowitz investment firm) wrote an essay in the WSJ entitled, “Why Software Is Eating The World.” If you missed it, the essay described how software is, quite seriously, taking over every single industry. And if your industry hasn’t been transformed by software, it will be soon.

An excerpt:

…Today, the world’s largest bookseller, Amazon, is a software company…
…Today’s largest video service by number of subscribers is a software company: Netflix…
…Today’s dominant music companies are software companies, too: Apple’s iTunes, Spotify and Pandora…
…Today’s fastest growing entertainment companies are videogame makers

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Becky is the Senior Content Marketing Manager at TUNE. Before TUNE, she handled content strategy and marketing communications at several tech startups in the Bay Area. Becky received her bachelor's degree in English from Wake Forest University. After a decade in San Francisco and Seattle, she has returned home to Charleston, SC, where you can find her strolling through Hampton Park with her pup and enjoying the simple things between adventures with friends and family.