Marc Andreessen Cofounder, Andreessen Horowitz; inventor of Mosaic, the first popular web browser
FAST COMPANY: HOW LONG DO YOU THINK IT TAKES FOR A TRULY SIGNIFICANT TECHNOLOGY TO TAKE HOLD?
Andreessen: The really big ones are generational. People are strange. On a micro level, everybody likes a new product, a new TV show, new software, a new smartphone. At that micro level, people love change. At the macro level, we hate change. Big, new ideas that challenge preconceptions make people really angry. So it's young people growing up in the developing world who are going to be the vanguard of something like bitcoin (Andreessen Horowitz has invested some $50 million in bitcoin-related startups). A young person who's 16 in a country like Argentina or Mexico, with a shambles of a government and a shambles of a financial system and a terrible currency, who finds out on their smartphone that they can have a currency like bitcoin that lets them transfer money freely and not have it be stolen or inflated away? They're going to love it, adopt it, and use it. There's an inevitability to these changes, a generational shift
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