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Solving Hard(ware) Problems

Point Nine Land

Especially in the age of the cloud and AI copilots, you’re only ever a few clicks, prompts, and copy-pastes away from a functional skeleton of a product. We use software that runs in the cloud on top of data from other software that runs in the cloud…easy! More importantly, DALL-E’s cloud picture above is clearly wrong.

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Norman Crowley on uncovering the business opportunities in tackling climate change

Intercom, Inc.

The Cool Planet Group CEO has had a fascinating career to date, having started and sold three businesses for over three-quarters of a billion dollars before he was forty – including Inspired Gaming and The Cloud. We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. Norman: Yeah.

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Intercom on Product: The dawn of a new decade

Intercom, Inc.

Despite huge growth and development over the last ten years, there’s also been some disappointments. Emmet: So my job here is to run the Product Design team here in Dublin and London, and Figma clearly had the biggest impact on our team this year. If you enjoy our conversation, check out more episodes of our podcast.

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Seed Investing Today: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t with Aileen Lee and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

When shelter in place started, the conversation we’ve had internally on our team is we have to think of ourselves as Navy SEALs, where we’re at base camp right now, and we’re going to train and we’re going to work on our playbooks and do our research. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

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Starting Up In A Downturn with Cloudflare COO and Co-Founder Michelle Zatelyn (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So we’re really proud of that and our whole team is really proud of that. And one thing that’s been really cool starting the company 10 years ago in an economic downturn to today, about six months ago Matthew and I and our team took the company public on the New York Stock Exchange. ” And we knew that was a big idea.