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Cloud Data Lakes - The Keystone to the Decade of Data

Tom Tunguz

Cloud Data Lakes are the future of large scale data analysis , and the more than 5000 registrants to the first conference substantiate this massive wave. Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, Global Vice President for AWS Storage will deliver one of the keynotes. Data engines query the data rapidly, inexpensively.

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Unlearning the Growth vs. Costs Myth

OPEXEngine

What the best of them have learned is that they don’t need to sacrifice either. How some companies use this timeless tension as a catalyst for outperformance. At a Glance Caught in the bind of running vs. changing the business, many companies feel they need to “choose” between either margins or growth. Top-quartile companies can achieve both.

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What Builders Talk About When They Talk About AI

Andreessen Horowitz

The foundation models we use today aren’t just beating humans at Jeopardy, or playing Go at a supernatural level, or powering better recommendation engines—they’re changing and creating new user behavior across art, design, games, medicine, coding, and even human relationships. Here are the top 16 things we learned. AI today 1.

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Is Your Sales Organization Ready for a Recession?

OPEXEngine

Data and analytics alone won’t get you there, but by following basic best practices, research shows you have a high chance of succeeding. The three principles to follow are: Aligning resources with market opportunity. Ensure sales leaders are sweating the details of daily execution. Getting the back of the house in order.

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Kellblog's 10 Predictions for 2020

Kellblog

Fred Wilson is right, Trump will not be president at the end of 2019. As I’ve been doing every year since 2014, I thought I’d take some time to write some predictions for 2020, but not without first doing a review of my predictions for 2019. Lest you take any of these too seriously, I suggest you look at my batting average and disclaimers.

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SaaStr Podcast #213: Tom Tunguz, GP @ Redpoint Ventures On Why Scoring Leads May Actually Be Dangerous

SaaStr

Tom Tunguz is General Partner @ Redpoint Ventures, the venture fund with a portfolio including the likes of Stripe, Netflix, Zuora, Hashicorp and Juniper Networks just to name a few. As for Tom, he joined Redpoint in 2008 and has since led investments in Kustomer, Looker, Expensify, and Gremlin all prior guests on the show, I hasten to add.

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SaaStr Podcast for the Week with Redpoint Ventures and Cloudflare — January 3, 2020

SaaStr

295: Tom Tunguz is General Partner @ Redpoint Ventures, the venture fund with a portfolio including the likes of Stripe, Netflix, Zuora, Hashicorp and Juniper Networks just to name a few. As for Tom, he joined Redpoint in 2008 and has since led investments in Kustomer, Looker, Expensify and Gremlin all prior guests on the show I hasten to add.

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