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

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Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Now, I’m a venture capital investor. Many of these are names that you know, and this is actually the largest we’ve seen in history.

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The Case Against Budgets, Forecasts, and Performance Targets

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Let’s start with probably the most familiar scenario - I was working at a tech company, with top tier venture capital investors. The tech companies that I cited in my examples above all practiced agile software development, for example. Where do we want to end up come year’s end?