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Reading list: Platforms, ecosystems, and partnerships

Intercom, Inc.

This fascinating essay by Machine Learning Engineer Cathal Horan draws on the work of theoretical physicist Geoffrey West, network economics expert Geoffrey Parker and renowned urbanist Jane Jacobs to make the case that the growth of cities has a lot to teach us about how to develop a platform. Jeetu Patel, Box.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

Machine learning can get the right message or recommendation out in a responsive way – not just from the customer’s next best action, but from the sales perspective, too. We incubated a cohort early on in the genesis of Einstein, and where we thought AI and machine learning was going to be used has changed.

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Strategy as a Series of Beliefs

Kellblog

We believe the Internet will require a wholesale rewrite of business intelligence (BI) tools and enable both existing internal and new external use-cases for BI. Era 4 (2003-2005). These beliefs were largely heretical at the time. Era 3 (1999-2002). 500/seat for a Q&R tool? Era 2 (data governance).

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The Future of AI Is Amazing

Andreessen Horowitz

in 2003, Sebastian Thrun had just won the DARPA Grand Challenge, right? ” Like, autonomous vehicle is a solved problem back in 2003. This isn’t limited to images, this is also the truth for, like, any sort of language understanding. And so again, to use an LLM is four to five orders of magnitude cheaper and faster.

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Top Themes in Data Transcript

Tom Tunguz

Content: Early 2000s: The Era of Centralized BI Companies like MicroStrategy, Cognos, BusinessObjects, and Hyperion Powerful but slow and IT-dependent reporting solutions High accuracy, low agility 2003: The Rise of Self-Service Analytics Tableau revolutionized the industry Empowered business users to directly access and analyze data The Cloud Data (..)

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How to Choose the Best Hosting Provider for Your Ecommerce Site

FastSpring

Since it’s humble beginnings in 2003 as a spinoff of the CafePress blogging platform, WordPress has grown into a powerful content management system (CMS) that directly supports a significant portion of the internet. That’s not an exaggeration.

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Evernote vs Onenote? Or High Time to Move to New-Age Playbooks?

SmartKarrot

Microsoft launched OneNote in 2003, and it became a part of its Microsoft Office suite in 2007. Making the most of technological advancements such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to take care of your tasks and organize your workflows.