Software is Eating the World, And You’re For Lunch

Something happened in Silicon Valley. Tech firms stopped just making software for industry to buy, and decided instead to use software to enter new markets. Companies such as Amazon, Uber, and Netflix have marched into mainstream industries, backed by data-driven learning machines. As Marc Andreessen famously said, software is eating the world. How do you keep on the winning side of this change? The secret is in how you view and exploit data.