If you want to measure how fast the clouds are moving in tech industry – yes despite all the scary stories about economy – then check this interview of Ron Conway. Ron is a uber angel investor in Silicon Valley and has perfected the art of riding a new trend.

What makes cloud computing really explosive is old cliche – it’s an idea whose time has come! Many trends are converging – Cheap bandwidth, low power consumption requirement, emerging market needs, rapidly maturing computing stack, telecoms hungry for data based revenue streams, emergence of advertisement-based business model, list goes on and on.

Ron Conway will end up investing in handful of startups. He has been amazingly efficient in detecting right signals, very early on.