Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

McKinsey is producing some strong content on the future of work as is my friend Dan Turchin on his AI and the Future of Work podcast. My point was that this is normal and healthy: you can long Miami and Austin without shorting Palo Alto which, by the way, would have been a bad idea in 2020. Tech bubble relents. Miss, until recently.

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Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The rise of foundation models and generative AI only furthers this trend. Data Lakehouses provide the crucial piece of infrastructure for foundation models to securely and efficiently access both structured and unstructured data with governance intelligently wrapped around it. However, the two are intertwined together. Let's dive in.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. SPIN Selling is essential reading for anyone involved in selling or managing a sales team.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

On March 27th, so about a month later, the US government passed the CARES Act, which probably you know, stands for the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act, which is now at three trillion dollars. I thought it’s also worth giving you some sense of scale for how much the US government takes in in revenue every year.

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Technical Review Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 207

User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

After regenerating the image 18 times -and getting pretty much the same result every time – I gave up… According to AI, the ‘tech CEO’ is young, white, and male. My official title was the ‘COO’ but on Fridays, I made pancakes for the developers. Because he is. That took me to the FinTech and then SaaS industry.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2020

Today She discusses how everything is changing in the current climate, the rise of war-time founders, having teams work remote, and the supply-chain reimagined. We are a seed-stage fund that focuses on AI and automation. I wrote an article earlier on the different type of models for distributed teams. debt ventures.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 24, 2023

They invest to develop the right routines and capabilities by focusing on five themes: simplicity; automation and digitization; new ways of working; visibility; and resilience and sustainability. Automation and AI shape every aspect of Amazon’s way of doing business. At the same time, Microsoft deprioritized lower-value areas.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. How do you help your team make that link to value? We’ve got a lot of training to do with our sales teams to get them to start to speak in these types of terms versus feature function.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 223

Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 17, 2024

Flock Safety trusts its customers to handle local data governance issues, and instead focuses on providing them the tools they need to manage data appropriately. AI, drones, and robots are already having an impact. But the only time the sheriff gets a phone call is when something really, really bad has happened.

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OPEXEngine

MARCH 9, 2021

“I’ve talked to countless entrepreneurs who are anxious about the next step—first seed round, hiring a team, landing a board member, etc.,” That’s exactly what got the former Zenefits leadership team into trouble. As you start to develop a go-to-market strategy, “make sure to think through the process holistically,” says Jay.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Stacks can be developed at the project, team, or functional level and are regularly used to improve internal collaboration, measure the impact of marketing activities and reach customers in new ways. Without this foundation, your marketing stack can become a set of siloed tools that will bog your team down in complexity.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 10, 2023

TL;DR Product analytics studies user interactions with a product or service, allowing product teams to monitor, evaluate, and assess data related to customer engagement and behavior. This information is used by teams to optimize their product or service to improve user experience.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. You have to continually take a pulse of your team and how they’re feeling. Aaron Levie: Everybody had their digital team. Justin Bedecarre: So, it truly has to be employee-led and it emphasizes choice.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. It enables product teams to create, implement, and test personalized in-app onboarding experiences. Advanced customization requires working with CSS code, which can be challenging for non-technical teams.

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Software Review Technical Review Mobile Underperforming Technical Team 52

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

An existing SaaS customer spends more, on average, than a new customer, and are more than seven times more likely to churn (leave your business) to go to a competitor because of poor customer service than they are for a better product. Chorus is a leading conversation intelligence platform for sales teams. Consistent updates.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. They’re facilitating virtual schooling, they’re helping governments organize.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Their solutions span a wide range of verticals: from E-commerce, HR and Health to collaboration, infrastructure and AI. was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. It provides visual search and image recognition solutions based on AI.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

Hull

JULY 9, 2020

So, think predictive analytics, the ability to use a AI to derive customer value, those kind of tasks. I see infrastructure-centric CDPs and typically, we're focused on helping brands protect data quality to instantiate a layer of data governance and then integrate that data across their different systems. Romain (17:00): Yep.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2024

This is where Matt believes AI is useful and will start to help. WordPress is its own ecosystem, a vibrant community of hundreds of thousands of people who create add-ons, plugins, and develop sites. Across all of their products, Day One, Pocket Cast, and Text are the most exciting solutions for Matt and team.

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Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This leads to a constant backlog of requests for data teams. Since its debut in the 1980s, no-code has changed the game when it comes to developing applications—and launching them at speed. And Fintech teams are reaping the rewards: The rapid speed-to-market that embedded analytics empowers is every VP of Product’s dream.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

In this fireside chat from the American Dynamism Summit , a16z Cofounder and General Partner Marc Andreessen sits down with economist, podcaster, and polymath Tyler Cowen to discuss the state of innovation in America, from recent AI advances to growing support for nuclear power. AI, I think, so far is living up to that framework.

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