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Before You Hire That Awesome SaaS Veteran — Just Make Sure They Are Willing To Do The Work

SaaStr

One of the biggest changes since we started SaaStr is the massive number of SaaS veterans out there. The decade-long run of next-generation SaaS start-ups, and the explosion since 2015 of SaaS unicorns and decacorns has led to a lot of experienced execs on the market. This is great. I wish there had been even a fraction of this many SaaS execs when I was getting going.

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How to Transform Your Board Meeting with Written Narratives

Tom Tunguz

Written materials transform board meetings. With most of us working remotely, many startups have thrown out Google slides and replaced them with Google sheets. It’s a fundamental change, and one I hope persists after work returns to the new normal. Amazon is famous for its narrative process and contempt of slides. The email in which Bezos banishes decks reads: “The reason writing a good 4 page memo is harder than ‘writing’ a 20 page PowerPoint is because the narrative str

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a16z Podcast: World’s Largest Supercomputer v. Biology’s Toughest Problems

Andreessen Horowitz

Proteins are molecular machines that must first assemble themselves to function. But how does a protein, which is produced as a linear string of amino acids, assume the complex three-dimensional structure needed to carry out its job? That’s where Folding … The post a16z Podcast: World’s Largest Supercomputer v. Biology’s Toughest Problems appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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