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Gas Gas Revolution

Tom Tunguz

This drop in prices has grown AWS into a $90b revenue business in 17 years. The same cost-reduction phenomenon is occurring with blockchains, though it’s not nearly as well publicized. The same cost-reduction phenomenon is occurring with blockchains, though it’s not nearly as well publicized. for Arbitrum.

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5 Predictions for 2020

Tom Tunguz

High costs of living plus modern collaboration tools, changing preferences, and startup success in other geographies push this trend into the mainstream. Blockchain technology finds its second killer application. Most startups will be distributed (have several offices) before they reach 50 employees. The IPO market was open.

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The Innovations Free Compute and Storage Unleash

Tom Tunguz

AWS has decreased prices for EC2, elastic compute cloud, and S3, simple storage service, 42 times in eight years. Presuming the trend continues, and computational power becomes free, or near free, what new technologies are enabled by it? Cloud computing prices are hurtling to zero. Storage is following a similar path.

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Simple Frameworks For Success (Full Video + Success)

OnStartups

What you should do, since now you're out of Twitch, you should do a professional network that's powered by the blockchain that, and I'm going to say this as kindly. A lot of people say LinkedIn sucks, and you're suggesting building a different one on the blockchain. So Bitcloud ended up doing Twitter with the blockchain.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

SaaStr

366: The buzz that accompanies digital transformation trends is infinite. Five people in the digital team were looking at blockchain projects and three people on that digital team were looking for long term AI transformation. You don’t hear about the blockchain initiatives anymore. Is AWS in the lead?

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Simple Frameworks For Success (Full Video + Success)

OnStartups

What you should do, since now you're out of Twitch, you should do a professional network that's powered by the blockchain that, and I'm going to say this as kindly. A lot of people say LinkedIn sucks, and you're suggesting building a different one on the blockchain. So Bitcloud ended up doing Twitter with the blockchain.