And here's Marc Andreessen, co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, evoking the same harsh truth of Glengarry Glen Ross: “I’ve been totally

And here's Marc Andreessen, co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, evoking the same harsh truth of Glengarry Glen Ross: “I’ve been totally determined to be on the other side of that [highly competitive, market-driven] dynamic by being here, because success in software follows a power-law distribution. It’s not Coke and Pepsi and a bunch of others; it’s winner take all. Second prize is a set of steak knives, and third prize is you’re fired.” http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/tomorrows-advance-man http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/tomorrows-advan...