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NVIDIA Hits $4 Trillion: What Founders Can Learn from the Greatest Growth Story Ever Told

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over 26 years Historic Achievement: First company EVER to hit $4 trillion To put this in perspective: if you invested $1,000 in NVIDIA at IPO, you’d have nearly $7 million today. The AI Bet (2016-2020): Riding the Massive Wave Market Cap Journey: $50B → $323B Here’s where timing met preparation.

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Clouded Judgement 10.11.24 - Budget Flush

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This behavior can create a surge in purchasing activity, as organizations look to make strategic investments without losing their allocated funds. We all know 2020 and 2021 was the year of excessive software buying fueled by ZIRP. This is for information purposes and should not be construed as an investment recommendation.

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RAG Explained: What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation?

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Notably, the term RAG was coined in a 2020 research paper by Facebook AI (Meta) that described retrieval-augmented generation as a general-purpose fine-tuning recipe for enhancing knowledge-intensive tasks. In fact, Gartners 2024 AI report advises organizations that want to use generative AI on private data to prioritize RAG investments.

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The Bar Has Gone Up: The New Era of HyperFunctional SaaS with Jason Lemkin

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To set the stage, if you talk to any VC out there today, they will tell you that half of their investments which were growing at epic rates in 2021 are barely growing today. Google Cloud , Azure, and GitLab, all tied directly or indirectly to AI, are seeing massive acceleration. Sorry, But There’s No Downturn. Is there a bubble?

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ProProfs Knowledge Base Review: A Comprehensive Knowledge Management Solution

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ProProfs has clearly invested in the infrastructure and features needed to give users peace of mind that their knowledge base (often a critical piece of support infrastructure) is protected and reliable. Single Sign-On & Authentication Integrations : SSO integration (Okta, Azure AD, etc.) 5 rating based on 350+ reviews.

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GTM 139: AI Agents Are Changing Everything — Microsoft’s VP of AI Agents on the New Era of Work and Software | Ray Smith

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cloud infrastructure and you know, many thousands, hundreds of thousands of startups, you know, built on top of Azure. cloud infrastructure and you know, many thousands, hundreds of thousands of startups, you know, built on top of Azure. Scott Barker: Is it a fair comparison to, you know, we had the explosion of, you know.

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Cloud Stocks May Be Down. But the Cloud Remains on Fire. That Matters More.

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So follow AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. And it is stressful, especially if you invested at those peaks or as founders raised money at relatively high valuations and multiples. Let’s look a whole level up to the real canaries-in-the-coalmine: AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. If they stumble, we’re in for a rough patch.