The kingmaker in the past decade and likely the next for breakout growth in the tech sector is Andreessen Horowitz (aka “a16z”), a venture capital investment firm on Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto with nearly $18 billion under management. It is named after founding partners, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, two legendary technology investors who have almost singlehandedly reshaped the world over the past decade by pouring capital into a stream of disruptive innovators. It all started – as a revolution – with Marc Andreessen’s epic WSJ editorial “Why Software is Eating the World”, published in August 2011. The prescience of the piece is striking given the world we now inhabit nearly ten years later. In the article, Andreessen made the case that the Great Recession sparked by the banking sector crash in 2008 was at an end and that the coming age would be defined for shrewd investors by a shift to technology-driven growth.