software company

4 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Marc Andreessen · across every show →

Everything said about software company, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: The winning company in every industry will be a software company
“This version of the thesis is, in any industry as a result of this dynamic, in the long run, the winning company in the industry will be the best software company, right?”
Marc Andreessen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:55 a16z Podcast | Beyond Zero-Sum Thinking in the Game of Tech... and Life
Jun 2, 2025 negative
Opinion
Andreessen: Vibe coding cannot build a top-end software company today
“Vibe coding is, like, super exciting for casual development, but, like, you know, at least right now, all of the really sharp, like, you know, technologists I know don't think that you could, like, vibe code a top-end, like, software company. Today.”
Marc Andreessen Jun 2, 2025 ▶ 18:31 Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
Oct 3, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rampell: The $2.2T software industry was built on digitizing filing cabinets
“So my thesis is that almost every software company has basically taken a filing cabinet and turned it into a database, and this is where the 2.2 trillion dollars of market cap has come from, this is where the three hundred billion dollars in annual software re…”
Alex Rampell Oct 3, 2025 ▶ 3:36 Software is Eating Labor
Jul 29, 2026 bullish
Insight
Rampell: AI startups targeting manual labor categories face no software incumbents
“There are a lot of categories where there never was an incumbent software company because the only job to be done was, like, actual human labor. And that's really exciting because now you don't have to worry about, like, oh, shoot, these guys are gonna come in…”
Alex Rampell Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 26:21 “Every small business should run itself” | Lassie with a16z
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