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Is My Second Product Failing?

Casey Accidental

Bigger swings generally mean a longer amount of time building toward something that could work in the future. Google on GCP? Acquisition is very hard, retention is even harder, and the market seems incredibly small and difficult compared to growing the core business. #3 How much time and money has Meta spent on VR?

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AI Food Fights in the Enterprise

Andreessen Horowitz

Ali: This is why we did the acquisition of Mosaic. It will be like AWS, GCP, and Azure. Can they build a better model themselves for that with their data? Or if they took their data and put it in 1 of the large models, would that always beat what they’re doing? It’s hard and requires a lot of GPUs.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

It’s less expensive than it’s ever been in terms of actually getting a product to market, whether it’s leveraging platforms like Salesforce or GCP or AWS or Heroku. There are plenty of companies that actually have that initial success. It’s very easy to get something out there and get some initial validation.

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