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Eugene Kleiner, moreover, a founding partner at the premier venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, was originally hired by Bill Shockley at his ill-fated semiconductor company. But the Silicon Valley process that Kleiner helped develop was a different innovation model from Bell Labs. It was not a factory of ideas; it was a geography of ideas. It was

In 2011, famed Internet-entrepreneur-turned-venture-capitalist Marc Andreessen described how technology companies are disrupting entire industries. He called this phenomenon “Software eating the world.”

In my chats with Steve, he often likens Reddit to a city, and to his team’s role as city planners. The goal isn’t to run all the activity in the city, but to set up spaces where communities big and small can flourish.

Microsoft was another concern. But they also were very, very slow. They finally today have a product called SharePoint, which is somewhat similar to the ArsDigita Community System. One thing that we did which enabled us to be much, much faster than our competitors was that we developed on and released our software from running real-world systems. F

They save time, money, and frustration.

Founders tend to have these “Why now?” insights without recognizing how profound they are. When I started my blogging company, Weblogs, Inc., in 2004, I had a very simple thesis: I believed that great new writers publishing five short, unfiltered posts a day would get more readers than established journalists writing one story, edited by a half doz