In the old days, I’d have to go as a company, buy computer resources, buy servers, buy storage, and lash it all together. It took a long time to stand up. Now, if I need, I can go to Amazon or Rackspace and buy some computer power nearly instantaneously. Peter Levine Read Quote
Doing processing locally has its advantages. For instance, the cost of an endpoint CPU and memory is a 1000x cheaper than the cost of CPU and memory in the server. And in many places around the world, connectivity and transmission costs are sometimes far more expensive than the device. Peter Levine Read Quote
When you and I go to work, and we use a computer to work and find that our work apps are completely onerous and the apps we use at home are quite easy, we wonder, why can’t it be simpler, easier, quicker, and less expensive? Peter Levine Read Quote
Despite the best intentions, companies often become culturally dysfunctional. This occurs when leadership has a perception about the culture that conflicts with reality, or leadership behaves differently than what might be written down. Peter Levine Read Quote
It doesn’t matter what’s written on a coffee mug or on a ‘culture’ slide; what you do as a CEO, day in and day out, and how you behave will define your company’s culture. Peter Levine Read Quote
It’s easier to coach a technical founder how to be CEO and manage a business than it is to teach a professional CEO the nuances of that particular business. Peter Levine Read Quote
Technical co-founders are great at envisioning where the company’s going from a strategic standpoint. They have what I call the ‘gut-feel’ of building out their business. Peter Levine Read Quote
If you believe that the mobile phone is the next supercomputer, which I do, you can imagine a datacenter that is modeled after, literally, hundreds or thousands or millions of mobile phones. They won’t have screens on them, but there’ll be millions of lightweight mobile-phone processors in the datacenter. Peter Levine Read Quote
If you look back over the history of computing, it started as mainframes or terminals. As PCs or work stations became prevalent, computing moved to the edge, and we had applications that took advantage of edge computing and the CPU and processing power at the edge. Cloud computing brought things back to the center. Peter Levine Read Quote
