Tom Tunguz

MARCH 24, 2019

In the past few years, Zoom has become a verb: the act of video conferencing someone. Eight years ago, Eric Yuan, former VP Engineering at WebEx left to create a business with a better video conferencing product. He and his team authored a new codec, which is far more resilient than others. The innovation results in higher quality calls. Focused on capital efficiency from the earliest days of the business, Eric has built a monster software business, with few comparisons in both absolute scale an

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Metrics Benchmarks Scale Acquisition 268

SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2019

Goodness : We forget about the OS in the Cloud, but we all need to still deal with things like Windows 7 IRL: One perspective on the Top 25 VCs in SaaS now: Pretty Funny. Clippy was AI before AI: China is a whole different world for SaaS. Alibaba is their AWS (or becoming it): The Cloud is better. It is even cheaper. That doesn’t mean it is cheap, tough.

Cloud 138

Cloud AWS AI Acquisition 138

Divestopedia

MARCH 24, 2019

Executing a management buyout requires a willing seller and a prepared management team. Find out the key factors that are required to execute a management buyout successfully.

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Management 76

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 24, 2019

A “moonshot” is a destination ( like going to the moon, quite literally) — but nurturing “loonshots” (which often involves a number of stumbles along the way) is how we get there.

Innovation 72

Innovation 72

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

Kellblog

MARCH 24, 2019

One day back at MarkLogic, we invited our local congresswoman, Jackie Speier , to visit our offices. Regardless of what you may think of her politics, she’s an impressive person with an fascinating background including, for those with long memories, that she was the congressional aide shot five times and left for dead on the runway in Guyana when Congressman Leo Ryan went to investigate Jonestown.

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Communication Education Management Startup 62