Someday you’re going to back a 20-year-old kid who writes some software that will change the world.
Predictor: Joy, Bill
Prediction, in context:In a 1998 article for Fortune magazine, Melanie Warner talks to John Doerr about a conversation he had in 1994 with Sun Microsystems’ Bill Joy. Warner writes: ”Joy really did predict the future. Recalls Doerr: ‘Bill looked me in the eye and said, “John, someday you’re going to back a 20-year-old kid who writes some software that will change the world,” and I said, “Right.” We thought it would be some kind of consumer game software. Well, in fact, the kid was 23, his name was [Marc] Andreessen, and the product was a Web browser [Mosaic].”
Biography:Bill Joy served as chief of technical strategy at Sun Microsystems, a position he held in the 1990s, from the founding of days of the company in 1982. (Technology Developer/Administrator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: General, Overarching Remarks
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Fortune
Title, headline, chapter name: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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