What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #105
Lots on AI this week - China, enterprise, and Walmart; Github acquisition is code complete; Aaron Levie from Box with startup advice and Gmail creator Paul Bucheit on becoming a great engineer, markets gave back all gains for year and Microsoft crushed numbers
Scaling Startups
Starting up is the act of doing as many jobs as possible so your company can survive. Scaling is the act of shedding as many jobs as possible so your company can survive.
10:09 PM - 26 Oct 2018
must read on what it takes to become a great engineer - Paul Buchheit is an engineer and partner at Y Combinator. He was the 23rd employee at Google, where he built Gmail and the first prototype for Adsense. After leaving Google he co-founded Friendfeed, which was acquired by Facebook.
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Enterprise Tech
@pivotal expanding its footprint in #Fortune500 for agile dev, there is no digital transformation without infrastructure spend and here is a great example
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Appleās Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the ādata industrial complexā ā TechCrunch
Apple has always put consumer privacy first and makes attack at Google and Facebook, suggests a national law to protect consumers - this is a battleground which will be big in 2019
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Walmart weaves AI into back office |CIO Dive
former P&G shared services exec Yazdi outlines plans for automation at Walmart
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Containers, kubernetes, serverless - all super interesting bits of tech, but zero value on their own. Itās the app that matters - not the plumbing. Focus on what matters despite the noise and choose what you need to do the job, donāt choose the hype.
11:54 AM - 21 Oct 2018
The Next Tech Talent Shortage: Quantum Computing Researchers - The New York Times
By some estimates, only 1,000 or so researchers can claim to understand the technology. Finding more could become a national security issue.
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Chinaās Surveillance State: AI startups, Tech Giants Are At The Center Of The Government's Plan
great read on China and AI - they are a dominant global player and starts with government spending and interaction - In part 1 of our China in AI series, we dig into patents, earnings transcripts, startup data, and government documents to detail the growth of surveillance tech in China.
Cognitive and AI survey | Deloitte Insights
state of the AI industry - great read on where itās getting traction and future opportunties - In our survey, early adopters are bullish on cognitive technologiesā value and are ramping up AI investments. But questions linger about risk management.
25 Ways A.I. Is Changing Business | Fortune
all about AI and how itās getting weaved into a number of indsustries from finance to fashion
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Markets
Pull request successfully merged. Starting buildā¦ | The GitHub Blog
Reliability, security, and performance will allow for more enterprise ready deployments, acquisition of GitHub complete, 31 million devs and growing
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Facebook reportedly aims to buy a 'major' cybersecurity company
donāt think this will solve problem but interesting in sense that Facebook is not an enterprise tech co but buying for their own use and differentiation - Facebook is still reeling from the hack that exposed 29 million users, but it may have a solution: go shopping. Sources talking to The Information claim that Fā¦
Web performance software company Cloudflare readies IPO -sources | Reuters
Cloudflare Inc, a U.S. startup whose software makes websites load faster and with greater security, is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) that could value it at more than $3.5 billion, people familiar with the matter said.
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Microsoft continues to crush numbers, closing gap on AWS market share as well - Microsoft today reported fiscal Q1 2019 earnings, including revenue of $29.1 billion, net income of $8.8 billion, and earnings per share of $1.14.
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By Ed Sim
Ed Sim's weekly readings and notes on VC, software, and scaling startups - #enterprise #seed #DeveloperFirst #IntelligentAutomation #DataInfra #CloudNative #Cybersecurity
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