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Microsoft's Billion Dollar AI Business

Tom Tunguz

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early trends in the software market to inform startups’ plans for 2023. Yesterday, Microsoft & Google announced earnings. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) & Microsoft Azure had strong quarters with about 28% annual revenue growth each.

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Is My Second Product Failing?

Casey Accidental

Bigger swings generally mean a longer amount of time building toward something that could work in the future. Google on GCP? In this example, there are many more waypoints the team needs to travel to to reach the destination. How much time and money has Meta spent on VR? Amazon on Alexa?

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Tabular: Turning Your Data Swamp into a Data Lakehouse with Apache Iceberg

Clouded Judgement

If you want features in your lakehouse (on top of open source Iceberg) for ingestion, CDC, streaming (file loading, Kafka connect, etc), schema evolution, compaction, optimization, time travel, snapshots, auto-scaling, maintenance (no more writing spark jobs to delete snapshots!),

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