Marc Randolph Quotes

There will be hundreds of new companies that will be created to develop these very simple data devices.

I'm an engineer turned entrepreneur who's passionate about connection.

There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data.

My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.

My mission is to bring the power of big data insights and analytics to every company.

I came to Silicon Valley in 1997 and joined WebEx. At that time, WebEx was small, only 10 engineers and two co-founders.

You need to use data science and machine learning to get the ground truth of what's happening inside of a company.

The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it.

The people who are thinking most about big data right now are corporations and governments.

Our ability to do great things with data will make a real difference in every aspect of our lives.

When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.

The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.

Business analytics or predictive modelling is a $100 billion industry, and $41 billion is spent on outsourced business analytics every year. I think that's about twice the size of the movie industry - it's really big.

Data is the kind of ubiquitous resource that we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights, and it's all around us, and it can be mined very easily.

My drive into high tech doesn't involve a lot of people - just me and a very small team.

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.

If people want to code, and they want to be entrepreneurs, there's opportunities for them to do that.

I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'

When my co-founder and I first had the idea for IronPort, an email security company, we triangulated a list of the 20 most relevant people in email - former CEOs, open source technologists, investors and thought leaders.

We have entered an era where the kinds of data and analyses that people run have gotten incredibly complicated. So you have researchers using sophisticated software programs that they probably don't understand but are generally accepted and everyone [in the field] uses.

If you have a lot of data and you want to create value from that data, one of the things you might consider is building up an AI team.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.