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Stax Payments Appoints Mark Sundt as Chief Technology Officer

Stax

Stax Payments , a leading payment technology provider, has appointed Mark Sundt as Chief Technology Officer. Sundt brings more than 30 years of expertise as a technology leader to his new role, with a deep background in payments and transforming businesses with groundbreaking technology solutions.

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In the Vault: Placing Multiple Bets on a ‘Mosaic of Solutions’ With Former Global Payments CEO Jeff Sloan

Andreessen Horowitz

In this conversation, a16z General Partner Angela Strange talks with J eff Sloan, former CEO of Global Payments, about how he was early to spot significant industry trends, how to make bets that move an organization, and the sea change that AI represents for the financial services industry. Angela: Why Global Payments?

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14 User Behavior Trends For SaaS in 2024

User Pilot

Product analytics can help you track changing user behavior for your app but here are some industry-wide changes that are influencing purchasing decisions in 2024. The former tracks trends for software users , while a consumer behavior trend mainly refers to online shopping, such as buy-now-pay-later payment methods.

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Commercializing AI in Healthcare: The Jobs to be Done

Andreessen Horowitz

This piece, Part A, uses Clay Christensen’s Jobs to be Done lens, along with an assessment of viable product wedges and business models, to share what we see as the most promising applications of AI in enterprise healthcare. The tasks are labor-intensive, with low historical adoption of traditional software products to facilitate them.

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Commercializing AI in Healthcare: The Enterprise Buyer Perspective

Andreessen Horowitz

In Part A , we outlined the paths to generating unique value for the healthcare system and patients. Now, in Part B, we cover capturing and defending some portion of the value you generate. We’ve designed this to mirror the thought process of an entrepreneur building an AI product with an enterprise use case.

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State of the Cloud 2023 with Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Podcast)

SaaStr

SVB collapsed, market multiples are down, yet the IPO window is re-opening, and we have a platform shift to AI that’s exciting everybody. The Macro Impact On Public Cloud Software Over The Past Year Cloud stocks dropped in 2022 in a severe market pullback event that Bessemer Venture Partners call The SaaSacre. Let’s find out.

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Forecasting Fintech’s Future and Keeping Culture Alive: A Q&A with the CEOs of BILL and Mercury

Andreessen Horowitz

They discussed the wide-ranging implications that generative AI will have across fintech and how it will boost jobs, rather than replace them. Alex Immerman: If 2023 was the year of efficiency, 2024 is the year of generative AI. One of the holy grails of SMB software is, how are you going to acquire customers?