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Solving the Innovator’s Dilemma: How successful companies are embracing innovation units

Intercom, Inc.

Few books have chronicled how innovation takes place – and how market leaders fail to seize it – as well as Clayton Christensen ’s seminal book The Innovator’s Dilemma. So why not take a page from the startup book and set up new avenues and opportunities so people can innovate in their job? And it’s a sound strategy.

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Why America Must Lead in AI Investment

Andreessen Horowitz

Senator Todd Young (R-IN) spoke with a16z General Partner Martin Casado at the American Dynamism Summit about the importance of open innovation and American leadership in AI, and why we need to support AI research at all levels — from the classroom to the war room. We need to make some key investments in people and platforms.

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The End of Web3

Tom Tunguz

Pop any venture firm’s website into the wayback machine , peruse the bios from the late 90s, and you’ll see statements like “I invest in Internet companies.” Then the infrastructure innovations disappear beneath the delightful application and we move onto the next wave with its own buzzwords. ” Or Web2.0

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Code for America’s Amanda Renteria on defining the citizen experience

Intercom, Inc.

Government services shouldn’t be renowned for their endless queues, confusing forms, and excessive bureaucracy. And finally, last year, she joined Code For America as their CEO to do exactly what she does best – to make government work for all. It’s not uncommon for governments to try something new and end up dropping it.

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Why India Leads in Digital Payments

Andreessen Horowitz

Because Indian citizens’ digital IDs are linked to their bank accounts, for example, the government was able to electronically transfer relief funds to around 200 million beneficiaries over the course of the pandemic. By 2019, the government had issued a unique ID to nearly every adult resident in India; today, the system is used by 1.3

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Every Year You Should Double Your “TTAM”. Your True TAM.

SaaStr

Let me take a few example of the unicorns and decacorns I’ve been lucky enough to invest in. Talkdesk, last valued at $10B, started off as an SMB Zendesk and Salesforce plug in at a $25m valuation when I first invested. You have to continue to provide innovation to your customers. Often, several competitors do this.

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

Clouded Judgement

You can find the original post here Today we’re very excited to announce our partnership and Series B investment in Tabular , the company behind Apache Iceberg. The warehouse is then optimized for efficient access (typically through SQL) to that data, with a number of other properties layered in (like governance, access, security, etc).

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