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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Steve Jobs’s claim that “ People want to own their music ” rather than rent it might have been right when he said it around the time of the iPhone launch in 2007, but the very fabric of our culture has shifted entirely since then. From movies and TV to music, we now live in a cloud-enabled, subscription-based streaming wonderland.

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5 Business Books I Wish I’d Read Sooner

OpenView Labs

The idea that the latest is also correct holds in technical genres like software engineering, artificial intelligence, and the likes. However, it’s hard to argue that something is genuinely new in human endeavors like leadership, politics, and business. A year later, in 2007, Steve Jobs made the phone your browser.

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Unlearning the Growth vs. Costs Myth

OPEXEngine

It’s a pattern that can be seen across the 2007–09 recession, the recovery that followed, the slow-growth years of 2011–19, and even during the pandemic period of 2020–21. Although TSR growth varies by industry, we see the same link between productivity leadership and high TSR across industries. Automation and digitization.

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Sales Hacker Recommends: 97 Best Sales Books for Peak Performance (2020 Update)

Sales Hacker

The Selling Revolution: Prospering in the New World of Artificial Intelligence. Wooden on Leadership. I’ve followed Jill Konrath since 2007, when I subscribed to her “Selling to Big Companies” blog. Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization. From Impossible to Inevitable. Hire Right, Higher Profits. Radical Candor.

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Disrupting the Desk Phone: How and Why We Made a $50M Acquisition with Dialpad (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

With one startup acquired by Yahoo in 2005, another acquired by Google in 2007 and a background as an M&A lawyer, Craig’s perspective on M&A is insightful for any startup founder looking to acquire another company. You then started another voice company, which was acquired by Google in 2007. Is this serious?

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

SmartKarrot

Today’s super dynamic B2B environment mandates everyone in the leadership to be more innovative to get things done! Microsoft launched OneNote in 2003, and it became a part of its Microsoft Office suite in 2007. That’s where note-taking and task-management apps enter. Currently, OneNote is offered as a bundle with Windows 10 and 11.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

What we’ve built is this core AI machine learning engine that takes literally millions and millions of unique sources so that we can deliver 95% accuracy to our clients. Leadership can really turn around really any area of the company.” You just don’t have the right leadership or structure to get there often.