What's up everyone? Welcome back to another episode of Founders Journal. I'm Alex Lieberman co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew.

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Just under 13 years ago, Mark Andresen called his

shot on the future of technology. Like a business version of Babe Ruth, he proclaimed that software

would transform every single industry, disrupting incumbents, and changing the way that consumers

and employees experience the economy.

Well, he couldn't have been more right.

Software did in fact eat the world.

Seven of the ten largest companies in the world today are

technology or software businesses and And Andreessen Horowitz, the investment firm

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