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The Innovations Free Compute and Storage Unleash

Tom Tunguz

AWS has decreased prices for EC2, elastic compute cloud, and S3, simple storage service, 42 times in eight years. The first manifestation of large scale, near-free compute I’ve seen is in machine learning. When I worked at Google in 2005, we would test individual machine learning models one or two at a time.

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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. So in 2005 when we announced the AppExchange, we actually had at that point 70 applications that would then be ready for launch in January.

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