Cloud and mobile are the two biggest paradigm shifts of our lifetime
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Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner at GGV Capital, reflects on the major technological shifts of the past two decades.
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“These two shifts, the mobile computing and cloud computing shifts, Have been massive. They're interrelated. They're probably the two biggest paradigm shifts I'll see in my life, and they're giving birth to some of the most important network effect businesses and protocols we've really ever seen.”
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