SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Stewart Butterfield threw out an interesting statistic in a recent interview with Fast Company … over 20% of Slack employees have been hired since Covid-19 hit and the shelter order in SF went into place. 20%+ of Slack's employees have been hired since Covid-19 hit. How many by the time we "go back to the office"? 50%? 80%? @stewart.

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Interviewing Company Culture Leadership 323

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 10, 2020

“It’s CRISPR!” This week, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna (also an a16z co-founder, of Scribe Therapeutics ), for the development of the CRISPR/Cas9 method for genome editing — a technology that’s … The post 16 Minutes on the News #43: A Nobel for CRISPR!

Technology 142

Technology Development Engineering 142

SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight, and I caught up ahead of their Pulse Product conference. It was an A+ conversation on, in particular, how to do product extensions and sell a second product, and where product development overall is today: A few take aways: Why extend a top brand in customer success into product? If nothing else, Customer Success professionals wanted it.

SaaS 160

SaaS Customer Success Cloud Retention 160

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Each quarter, a group of analysts, including me, publish analysis on the trends in the venture capital market. There’s a risk to those assessments: the data is incomplete since not all rounds founders close within a quarter are reported in that quarter. I was curious about how much variance exists in the data. This retrospective analysis compares Crunchbase data from April 1, 2020 to data from October 10, 2020 across three dimensions: round counts, investment total, and median round size.

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Venture Capital Trends Investment Data 303

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

Innovation