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Cloud Wars and Company Wars: Play Nice But Win

10.02.2021 - By Andreessen HorowitzPlay

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with @michaeldell @martin_casado @pmarca @smc90

It's rare to see a company go public then private then back to public again, as Dell Technologies did -- and which also pulled off one of the most epic mergers of all time with Dell + EMC + VMWare. How does one not just start, but keep -- and transform -- a company and business, especially as it adapts to broader, underlying tech platform shifts like demise of PC, end of cloud, cloud wars, and much more? This is really a story about innovation: who decides, who judges, who does it, and where.

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