Juan Orbea

"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

Whatever it is, things that simply won’t happen if you don’t do them are your biggest opportunity to work on something that matters, and it’s a category that will get both narrower and deeper the further you get into your career.

The second? In 2006, they had the idea that there would be advantages to hosting other people's applications and AWS was born. A few years later in 2008, the entire market for cloud computing was a little north of $5B. Today? AWS alone is generating over $80B in revenue.

Network states, in Balaji's view, are a "de-centralized center" that could create a better alternative.