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Rebuilding the California DreamĀ 

Andreessen Horowitz

California has long been ground zero for the new: new technologies, new frontiers, new arts and culture. Jan: California Forever is an attempt to make sure that the Bay Area remains the center of innovation and prosperity that it’s been for the last 50 years. What exactly is California Forever in your words?

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What the evolution of cities can teach us about building platforms

Intercom, Inc.

But what do we know about building technological platforms? We may have just such a genetic cousin in a “technology” that has been around for several thousand years and is continuing to evolve and grow ā€“ the city. At first glance a city might seem very different from a technological platform.

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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And you can see by 2050, this industry will be 10 times bigger. There is, you know, tons of innovation, tons of new categories being created every year. And what’s also interesting, most businesses that we surveyed and most of the buyers on G2, they’re saying they’re going to keep this technology.

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SaaS in Africa: 10 Things We Learned From Scaling to 1M Users (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Between now and 2050, half of the world’s population growth will occur in Africa. Between now and 2050, another 2.4 On the other hand, it’s booming population wise, economically, and technologically. So you can see how technology’s starting to play a very important role in development of Africa.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Jennifer Tejada, Ben Chestnut, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Join PagerDutyā€™s CEO, Jennifer Tejada, as she discusses the need for agility and innovation and how automation is aiding adaptability and allowing enterprises to surge ahead. So looking forward, we also need to innovate and automate policies around flexible working, childcare and lead to address some of these challenges.

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