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Microsoft’s Build keynote was impressive in its clarity; it also emphasized that the thin client model one, mostly.

New Relic (NEWR) may be worth $60-$80 share in a potential sale after a Reuters report that the company is set to explore alternatives after interest from private equity, according to...

I’ve been using the iOS 16 public beta for the past couple of weeks. It’s nice in that it’s pretty stable. But it’s also honestly not that…

If you find something that is true in more than one field, you’ve probably uncovered something particularly important.

Over 200 Cloud Native Development Companies Representing $100B in Market Capitalization

$49B in annualized recurring revenue, up 22% from 2020, from over 1000 companies whose products were sold or influenced by developers!

All the Cloud's A Staging Env, and All the Laptops Merely Clients

Plus! Crypto as Equity Comp; Internal Prediction Markets; Space Tourism Competition; Influencer Crackdown

Every so often, I come across a promising new project only to find out it's written in an esoteric language or framework. You only get a few innovation tokens when you're building something new. Sometimes, an off-the-beaten-path is warranted – e.g., WhatsApp using Erlang to scale chat. Or it becomes a selection mechanism for a particular type of developer (e.g., Jane Street and functional programming)1. However, for the most part, it will make hiring more difficult and expensive. For open sour

ARM chipsets like AWS Gravitron and Google Cloud/Azure Ampere have quickly gained adoption. There are many enterprise tailwinds: supply chain, licensing, performance, cost, etc. But I've been most surprised with how quickly developers have adopted ARM in production. Even with superior cost and performance, there's gravity to running a specific architecture. Ten years ago, switching off Intel would have been a long, painful transition. So why are more application developers running ARM? * Eph

The general partner of a venture fund raises and allocates investor capital and supports the founders of the companies they invest in.

More on moderation, including why Cloudflare is important systematically, a reminder that there are no more gatekeepers, which means moderation is always reactive, and why Facebook and YouTube stil…

Uber raises philosophical questions about ends versus means; Elon Musk’s actions with Twitter raise similar questions.

Airbnb’s Summer 2022 Summer Release is compelling both in terms of product and also strategy.

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Microsoft’s Build was good for what it had — and what it didn’t, even accidentally. Microsoft’s future is about meeting real business needs, not wowing customers. Plus, an intervi…

Basecamp is banning politics at work, which is very much in-line with Basecamp’s bigger critique of Silicon Valley. Then, Stripe stops acting like a startup.

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What everyone tends to get wrong about bundling

Rising valuations. Falling exits. Rich founders. Poor VCs. Like opposing atomic nuclei that should not normally combine, but when they do, we have startup thermonuclear fusion

Seven months ago RBI changed the rules to process recurring payments. 30%-70% of card transactions are still failing. Who is to blame?

To say that 2021 has been eventful would be an understatement. The same is true for The Ken. We launched our first audio journalism product this year, and by the time the first ten episodes of “Unofficial sources” were aired, it had reached a milestone of 100,000 downloads. In October, as we turned five, we took another leap. We launched seven newsletters, including in sectors where we had never ventured before, like sports or cryptocurrency. Around the same time, we also took our first step towards pushing the…

From Bukalapak to Binar Academy, companies and educational institutes are increasingly offering training for product management. Do the courses cut it?

Amazon is entering a congested AVOD market with its miniTV. It hopes to boost both engagement and advertising muscle with the offering.

For every 1000 engineering graduates, India produces 1 designer. India’s startup ecosystem is desperately in want of trained UI/UX designers

After years of debate, FSSAI has chosen to go with a 5-star system to rate the nutrition in packaged foods. Now it must defend controversy.

As design becomes critical to the success of businesses, design career paths ought to reflect that too. Product management is a natural