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In the Vault: Turning Developers Into Clients With Marco Argenti From Goldman Sachs

Andreessen Horowitz

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. But then mobile was the next obvious thing. So, then I went into apps.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

Innovative startups. The first army are innovative startups. Our engineers build and evolve our customer-facing web and mobile applications’ UI and workflow engine and our end-user facing messenger. Young startups go out of business regularly and their security and reliability is often worse than more mature companies.

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ISVs vs SaaS: What’s the Difference?

Stax

For example, Stax APIs and mobile development kits enable secure in-person, online, ACH, and mobile payments on any platform. Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Salesforce AppExchange). Innovate and provide tailored solutions that meet these needs, including flexible payment processing.

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Rise of mobile. Inspired by Andreessen’s maxim, in 2014 Benedict Evans coined the phrase “ Mobile is eating the world ,” which in retrospect feels like it downplayed just how much our daily lives have become consumed by our smartphones. Big tech takes over.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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Taming SaaS Security Challenges with the Zero Trust Security Model

BetterCloud

With an increasingly mobile workforce and the spread of shadow IT, plus the rapid rise of cybercrime, companies must find new ways to effectively manage their sprawling SaaS portfolio. This is the first part of our blog series on achieving effective SaaS management using a Zero Trust security model. Stay tuned for parts two and three.

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Facebook Workplace’s Julien Codorniou on turning companies into communities

Intercom, Inc.

One innovation behind Workplace is its News Feed-based algorithm , which has been fine-tuned to respond to work use cases. I saw we had the opportunity to do that in London and to do something that will be new for Facebook, in the same way that AWS was a new business model and product line for Amazon and a bet that paid off very well.

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