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RailsGirls Linz Lightning Talk

Martin Schürrer
June 14, 2014
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RailsGirls Linz Lightning Talk

Why software engineering is a great career choice.

Martin Schürrer

June 14, 2014
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  1. Startups & Big Tech Companies Can’t Hire Enough Engineers Street

    View From Silicon Valley Five High-Tech Companies Alone – IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle And Qualcomm – Have Combined 10,000 Current Openings In The United States. Image: View outside of Quixey’s office on Castro St. in Mountain View, CA. Picture by Joshua Stanton- Savitz. Data source: Technology CEO letter to the president and lawmakers, 3/13. http://www.scribd.com/doc/130388692/Tech-CEO-letter 90
  2. The best way to predict the future is to invent

    it. Alan Kay at a 1971 meeting of PARC
  3. 6 Global Smartphone Quarterly Unit Shipments & Smartphone Users as

    % of Mobile Phone Users, 2009 – 2013 35 42 43 54 55 64 83 102 104 113 134 170 159 172 203 244 233 266 291 315 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 0 100 200 300 400 Global Smartphone Users as % of Mobile Phone Users Global Smartphone Quarterly Units Shipped (MM) Smartphone Units Shipped Smartphone Users as % of Mobile Phone Users Source: Smartphone shipments per Morgan Stanley Research. User base per KPCB estimates based on Morgan Stanley Research and ITU data. Smartphone users & mobile phone users represent unique individuals owning mobile devices, as noted on slide 8; Mobile Subscribers based on number of connections & may therefore overstate number of mobile users. Smartphone Users = Still Lots of Upside… @ 30% of 5.2B Mobile Phone User Base
  4. 11 Each New Computing Cycle = 10x > Installed Base

    than Previous Cycle Source: Morgan Stanley Mobile Internet Report (12/09)
  5. Long Ago, People Danced @ Concerts, Now They Video /

    Click / Share / Tweet… 1990s 9 2010s Source: Left image – 123RF.com. Right image – amadarose.co.uk.
  6. 47 ~70K Bars / Nightclubs, USA Tinder 800MM Swipes per

    day, +21x Y/Y 11MM Matches per day, +21x Y/Y Re-Imagining How People Meet Source: IBIS World, 5/14. Company data.
  7. It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a Mini-Drone… Use

    Cases of Low-Cost Drones 60 Agriculture GPS-Enabled Photos Help Pinpoint Potential Crop Damage Early On Sports / Entertainment Unique Angle of View Provides Insights for Training + Broadcast Audience Public Safety / Disaster Relief* Providing Aerial Video Coverage / First-Aid / Other Supplies in Challenging Conditions Source: Left image – Shutterstock; Middle image – Dronereport.net; *Right image – Drone carrying cameras + other sensors being deployed during search & rescue mission of 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Lushan, China (4/13).
  8. 49 >47% of Online Transactions Use ‘Free-Shipping,’ vs. 35% Five

    Years Ago… Same-Day Local Delivery = Next Big Thing… Instacart Amazon Fresh Re-Imagining Grocery Shopping Source: Comscore. Images: Indiana Public Media, Film North Florida; Kearny Hub, Wall Street Journal.
  9. If you fail, at least you did something interesting, rather

    than doing something boring and also failing. Barbara Liskov