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The Keys to Getting to $500M ARR In Just 7 Years with Attentive’s CEO

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Everyone knew mobile commerce was exploding (from 15% in 2014 to 75% in 2024), but reaching customers on mobile was broken. Their patented TwAP technology that lets customers opt-in with a single click, automatically opening their messages app with a pre-composed text. The result?

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Approaching Half a Million Customers: How to Win in SMB with BILL CEO and Founder René Lacerte

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A mobile phone is their dominant source of managing business activities. The mobile phone user has the highest NPS as a BILL user because it’s super simple and easy, and the clerk does all the data entry, pulling everything in and managing it. AI Learnings “Fundamental technologies become fundamental, not because of hype,” René says.

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Palantir’s +79% vs Bill’s -43%: The AI Divide That Defined SaaS Performance in 1H’25

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Palantir Technologies (PLTR): +78.69% YTD 👑 Hit all-time high of $148.22 👑 Larry’s Long-Term Vision : CEO Larry Ellison’s early AI investments and partnerships (particularly around autonomous database technology) positioned Oracle perfectly for the AI infrastructure boom.

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How AI Infrastructure Will Power the Future with Oracle and Bain Capital Ventures

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Additionally, if you look at the mobile shift, the iPhone was released in 2007 but we didn’t get our first mobile apps like Uber and Snapchat until 2009 and 2010. Infrastructure Buildout Isn’t Trivial People are building novel and interesting applications, essentially playing with the technology and getting used to it.

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An Omnichannel Payment Solution––Without the Complexity

By integrating front-end systems like online, mobile, and in-store payments with robust back-end infrastructure, you can deliver a seamless payments experience without the need for heavy engineering. Omnitoken technology enhances security by tokenizing card transactions for reuse, enabling merchants to drive cross-selling opportunities.

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The VP of AI Trap: Why Hiring One Exec Won’t Transform Your Company. In Fact, It May Make It Worse.

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A “VP of Mobile” in 2015? These technologies became transformative precisely because they weren’t relegated to a single department. .” You’re creating a silo in an organization that desperately needs the opposite – pervasive, integrated AI thinking across every function. Think about it.

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The ChatGPT Moment: When 8 Years of Growth Happens in 8 Months

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Quality Beats Quantity – The leaders fight fiercely for technological supremacy. We’re witnessing the fastest technology adoption in human history. OpenAI projects ChatGPT is running about 8 years ahead of Google’s original trajectory. But – they might be underselling it. Their latest $900M funding round at a $9.9B

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Reaching Unreachable Candidates

Speaker: Patrick Dempsey and Andrew Erpelding of ZoomInfo

We have added 10's of millions of personal emails and mobile records. Advanced search: Narrow the search to find candidates using specialized filters like education, and current company technologies. Find and connect with the right talent to fill roles fast with these tools: More data!