Haseeb Qureshi
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Everything is changing all the time.
And somebody who joins has just as much ability to keep up with the latest and greatest as somebody who's been doing it for 10 years.
Now, there's no gap.
Of course, there's stuff you had to learn.
But is it really true that it's like, oh, you're late?
No.
No, that's ridiculous.
There's a story from Marc Andreessen when he arrived in Silicon Valley and I think it was like 1997, young kid from Ohio.
And what he says is that by the time that I had showed up in Silicon Valley, there was already Cisco and Silicon Graphics and all these great companies were already huge.
I was reading about it on the cover of magazines.
And I, this little kid, come all the way here to Silicon Valley, and I was worried that the whole thing was already over, that I was too late.
He thought he was too late in 1997 about the internet.
The internet had barely even started at the time that he showed up.
So no, if you're showing up today, you are in the first chapter, in the first book of what's going to happen in the future of this technology.
It's not the next thing.
It's another thing.
And there will always be another thing.
But the reality, look, so in the very early internet, right?
We had very different form factors that we had once the internet matured.
So if you think about Web 2, what do we call Web 2?