Every few years we have to be reminded that open source isn’t a business model. Let’s talk about the business dynamics that everyone seems to keep forgetting. SHOW: 816 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #816 SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" ... Show More
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Neha Narkhede is a co-founder at Confluent, a data streaming software that raised at a $9.1b valuation in 2021. Neha later co-founded Oscilar, a no-code platform that helps companies detect and manage fraud. Before building these two companies, Neha was a Principal Software Engin ... Show More
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May 2023
How do you know when it’s time to shut down?
This week, Natasha spoke to Kristen Anderson, the co-founder and CEO of Catch, an app to provide payroll benefits for people who are self employed, that recently announced it would be shutting down. We're talking about vulnerability, shut downs, building in public and on ramps an ... Show More
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20VC: What Metrics LPs Really Use To Measure Manager Success, Why 10 Year Fund Structures Really Do Not Work & Why Venture Is So Similar To The Movie Business with Will Porteous, General Partner @ RRE Ventures
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href= "https://twitter.com/porteous">Will Porteous</a> is the General Partner & COO @ <a href="http://www.rre.com/">RRE Ventures</a>, one of New York's leading venture funds with investments in the likes of Buzzfeed, The Huffington Post, Giphy and ... Show More
26m 22s
May 2023
Equity Monday: Hey look, OpenAI is even richer now
Alex is back on the mic for your Monday rundown and digging into OpenAI, earnings, First Republic Bank, and ARM. Oh, and startups as well!
It's another big earnings week, and we're excited to see how Uber, Coinbase, Apple and Hubspot have performed!
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20VC: Index's Ilya Fushman on The Key Lessons From Scaling Dropbox To 400m Users, Is Excessive Amounts Of Capital Driving Valuations Too High In The Valley & Why Venture Is Like Being On A Swim Team Not A Soccer Team
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/ilyaf">Ilya Fushman</a> is a Partner at <a href="https://www.indexventures.com/">Index Ventures</a> where he has made investments in the likes of Slack, Intercom, Dropbox and Optimizely. Prior to joining Index, Ilya was the head of product at Dropb ... Show More
26m 22s