Marc Andreessen’s (~Andreessen Horowitz) famous article, “How software is eating the
world,” published in 2011 (Wall Street Journal) is a perfect backdrop for what is transpiring in
the financial markets. “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.” “FinTech is eating the financial markets.” That statement may be an exaggeration compared to the level of disruption in other industries including music (EMI/Pandora), videogames (Nintendo/Zynga), books (Borders/Amazon), entertainment (Blockbuster/Netflix), photography (Kodak/Shutterfly), and recruiting (Korn Ferry/Linkedin), however, technology’s impact on the financial markets is accelerating. “More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon Valleystyle
entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established
industry structures. Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by
software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing
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