Barry Ritholtz, Columnist

All Companies Are in the Tech Business Now

The distinction between those that make technology and those that use it is vanishing.

May 8, 2018 at 5:08 PM UTC

Barry Ritholtz is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and was previously chief market strategist at Maxim Group. He is the author of “Bailout Nation.”

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Stop thinking about technology as something separate and apart from other companies or industries. Today, every company is in the tech business, thanks in part to the huge processing power and ubiquity of the everyone’s always-connected mobile phone. Because of what all that computing power can do, the distinction between companies that make tech and those that use it is becoming irrelevant, says Benedict Evans of Andreessen Horowitz, this week's guest on Masters in Business.