Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 18, 2019

British comedy has matured a lot in the last few decades, so people now don’t have to resort to a film that’s over 40 years old for entertainment. This is already at play — services like AWS, Stripe, and others have brought down the cost of starting and running a business to a fraction of what they used to be just a decade ago.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

We had signed marquee and really distinctive deals with both AWS and Google in the last few years I was at the company. I’ll just give you one real-world example, which fills me with a lot of pride because it’s actually kind of counter… It’s like the exception that proves the rule.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 11, 2023

If you buy a cinema ticket, you want to be entertained. The pie tastes awful. The next time you’re entertaining family or friends and you need a pie; you will probably buy one from the bakery. Whenever there is a commercial transaction of any type, there’s an outcome. For example, if you buy a hamburger, you want to be full.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The wave of SaaS companies that built themselves on the likes of AWS and Azure have reinforced the pre-eminence of cloud computing. Perhaps Game of Thrones will be remembered less for its shock twists or disappointing finale than for being the last show of its kind, the final exercise in collective televisual entertainment.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

John Mellor: The flip side, the con of it, is you really sacrifice a lot of intimacy, and events give you an opportunity to hang out with people, to go to the bar and have a drink, to have breakfast, to enjoy the entertainment, a concert, or whatever. Our CEO, of course, was there. Our CFO went through the recession at his company.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Dani Buckley is an experienced leader, passionate about helping teams sell smarter and faster, and an educational and entertaining speaker and livecast host. I moved from that role into a sales and development role with a startup in the tech and entertainment sector. Dani Buckley. Buyers don’t care about your product or service.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 4, 2019

Video streaming took the entertainment industry completely by surprise, quickly rising from the bottom of the market as a low-cost way for people to watch shows and movies to eventually disrupting the cable industry and driving video rental stores into the ground. They were cheap, small, and portable … but the sound quality was awful.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

So doing that deal and bringing these guys in, are there any interesting observations or any entertaining little stories about either pre-acquisition or post that had to do with Sam and The Hustle? Shaan: But I will say, I do put entertainment first sometimes. It's like, okay, you've got an AWS instance somewhere that's costing you.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

So doing that deal and bringing these guys in, are there any interesting observations or any entertaining little stories about either pre-acquisition or post that had to do with Sam and The Hustle? Shaan: But I will say, I do put entertainment first sometimes. It's like, okay, you've got an AWS instance somewhere that's costing you.

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