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Kellblog Predictions for 2022

Kellblog

It sure does feel like 2005. In the past ~25 years, there’s a particular feeling I’ve had only on rare occasion: When Bernard Liautaud explained the semantic layer during my interviews at Business Objects. There are a bunch of new ideas in circulation. Everyone is talking about them.

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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. And I remember Marc [Benioff] interviewing me, like he did every employee, and painting the vision for what the platform would be. Marc is always wanting more.

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A Look Back: Everything Breaks When You Go Into Hypergrowth Mode, with UiPath’s CMO (Europa Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

2005: Started as a tech outsourcing company. Any one employee, and you’re required to have at least three interviews, can say no and there’s no exceptions asked. You apply your machine learning and voila, you’ve turned a process from rules-based to experience-based, right? UIPath History. seed round.