Marc Andreessen
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So I should start by saying, so I lived through the.com crash.
Um, and I can tell you stories for hours about the.com crash and it was,
Horrible.
No, it was awful.
It was apocalyptic.
By the way, a lot of the dot-com crash was actually, at the time, it was actually a telecom crash.
It was a bandwidth crash.
The thing that actually crashed that wiped out all the money was the telecom companies.
Global crossing?
Yes.
I'm from Singapore, and they laid so much cable over our oceans.
Actually, there was a scaling law in the dot-com era.
The US Commerce Department put out a report in 1996, and they said internet traffic was doubling every quarter.
And actually, in 1995 and 1996, internet traffic actually did double every quarter.
And so, that became the scaling law.
So, what all these telecom entrepreneurs did was they went out and they raised money to build fiber, anticipating that the demand for bandwidth was going to keep doubling every quarter.
Doubling every quarter, though, is like grains of chess on the chessboard.
At some point, the numbers become extremely large.
And really, what happened was the internet, by the way, continuously kept growing, basically, since inception.
It's continuously grown.
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