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At #OffsetSymposium2024, and couldn’t agree more with Corey Jaskolski that wide-spread #cloud adoption across #DOD allows startups to scale more broadly, lowers their costs, allows them to move faster, and ultimately delivers more, saving the limited taxpayer dollars we have for #nationaldefense.

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Founderville believes one of the most significant opportunities is emerging in legacy system applications. We look for manual tasks to leverage AI for efficient automation. Rather than chasing massive TAM, which will be addressed by larger VCs, we focus on smaller market domains that won't be chased as hard. Think of "boring" processes that require human intervention or manualized tasks. Those are opportunities. Keep your eyes open if you have deep domain expertise in a non-automated and fragmented industry. #entrepreneurs #venturecapital #startups #saas

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ISP Strategic Leadership, Engineering, and Operations As an organization scales, there is often a need to separate strategic technology leadership under the CTO from internal execution under engineering and operations management. This allows the CTO to focus on outward-facing duties while enabling streamlined operational efficiency. However, it's crucial to recognize the differing motivations and needs of these distinct technical roles. On one hand, engineers thrive on tackling interesting, challenging projects that push their abilities and knowledge. They value working alongside capable peers, genuine recognition of technical accomplishments, and contributing to products/services that reach the market. In contrast, operations teams should strive for repeatable processes, continual improvement, and driving efficiency at scale. Their priorities revolve around standardizing workflows, minimizing disruptions, and incrementally optimizing existing systems and procedures to maintain consistent service delivery as the company grows. An effective organizational structure acknowledges this dichotomy, fostering an environment that fuels engineering innovation while providing operations with the stability and process-orientation they require. Striking this balance enables the company to stay agile and innovative through its engineering efforts, while simultaneously scaling operational execution in a reliable and repeatable manner. Competitive compensation remains an important motivator across both domains. By properly aligning structural elements, motivational factors, and leadership priorities, a rapidly growing ISP can position itself to attract and retain top talent across engineering and operations, driving sustainable growth and success in the dynamic technology landscape.

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➰ APIContext's latest insights on cloud-based API performance have been featured on Nordic APIs! In the 2024 report, we delve into crucial aspects affecting API efficiency: 🔐 Authentication is key. Ensuring robust authentication mechanisms in APIs is crucial, yet offloading this function can introduce complex challenges. 📖 DNS configurations matter. How you handle DNS settings can significantly impact API performance, particularly when tied to authentication processes. 🌐 The role of third parties. Critical third-party services play a significant role in 🔗 API transactions, underscoring the need for careful integration and monitoring. ⛅ Not all clouds are created equal. Differences in cloud services can drastically affect API performance, an essential consideration as APIs account for over 80% of all internet traffic. #APIs #CloudComputing #TechInsights #APIContext

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THIS ONE is a must watch !!! Kudos to Sarah Guo and Elad Gil for a fascinating discussion with Matt Garman about the past, present, and future of Amazon Web Services (AWS). #AIDecade #InvestorDecade

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Some additional charts on the aggregate hyperscaler data from Q1. The charts below show 1) The aggregate net new ARR added on q quarterly basis. Q1 is always a seasonal low 2) The YoY growth in net new ARR in Q1. Q1 '23 was the "bottom" with AWS actually adding negative net new ARR (ie they shrunk), so the YoY comp is the "easiest" for the aggregate bucket.

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Excited to announce our investment in Alta Resource Technologies alongside Leonardo Banchik (Voyager Ventures) with participation from Orion Resource Partners, Overture Ventures, and WovenEarth Ventures. Rare earths are critical in products from magnets to ceramics and it's important for the US to develop its own supply chain. While the US has some of the best rare earth resources, separating them has historically proven expensive and environmentally unfriendly. Alta through it's computationally designed and optimized proteins allows the US to bring back rare earth production with a cleaner, lower capex, and lower opex solution - and that's just the beginning. Congrats to Nathan Ratledge and the entire Alta team. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gbGnAJn3

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During yesterday's LibreQoS APNIC webinar, I posed the question: won't more bandwidth solve these problems? As Herbert Wolverson said, yes, more bandwidth is good, but, still these problems remain if queueing is done incorrectly. Here's my take on why bandwidth alone is not as good as bandwidth + good queueing policies: Generally it was believed that 'data is important, so don't throw it away; hang on to it and send it later'. In practice, this has proven to be suboptimal as two issues may emerge: 1) latency increases for some flows due to heavy demand from other flows using the same bottleneck link, 2) even a single flow can have excessive latency due to aspects of typical TCP behavior (referred to bufferbloat) when the buffers grew large enough that the data being buffered was retransmitted anyway. It turns out that not all data is equally important. Active Queue Management is the art of deciding priorities, both in deciding what data to throw away, but also in allowing some later arriving data to be transmitted ahead of data in another connection that arrived before it. These problems have been studied, and good solutions have been found by using certain queueing policies in routers and switches, referred to as “fq_codel’ and “cake”. These track the different flows not by classifying the data, but by watching the behavior. Flows that send relatively little data (DNS lookups), or at a measured pace (video chat) have priority over flows that send a lot of data as quickly as possible (App and System updates, Video and ISO downloads).

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Why IBM's Acquisition of HashiCorp is a Game-Changer for Investors IBM's $6.4 billion acquisition of HashiCorp significantly bolsters its hybrid and multi-cloud capabilities, positioning it as a leader in the AI era. HashiCorp’s expertise in cloud infrastructure, lifecycle management, and security automation complements IBM’s strengths, creating an end-to-end cloud platform. This strategic move enables IBM to offer enhanced solutions for managing complex cloud environments and generative AI workloads, providing investors with robust growth potential and a competitive edge in the evolving tech landscape. #IBM #HashiCorp #CloudComputing #AI #InvestmentOpportunity #PINCommunityAdvocate #IBMPartner

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ex Google CEO Eric Schmidt spoke at Stanford this week. Lots of nuggets here, but most interesting for the near term, Schmidt believes in the next year AI is set to make a big leap forward. He predicts AI will combine three important features: 1. Vast knowledge retention (1 million token models) 2. Text-to-action capability 3. Personal AI agent fleets While the full impact is unknown, everyone may soon command their own AI teams. Here's an example: Imagine you're developing new quantum computing algorithms. Your AI assistants could: - Continuously scan and synthesize global quantum research papers - Generate novel algorithm ideas based on this knowledge - Simulate and test these algorithms across various quantum architectures - Automatically document findings and prepare draft papers - Identify potential collaborators and draft outreach emails All initiated by a command like "Advance our quantum algorithm research." This could dramatically accelerate R&D cycles and scientific breakthroughs.. https://lnkd.in/eJbg6cnD #frontiertech #AI #futurefrontier

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A wonderful nonprofit super advanced, highly secure AI based platform not driven by ads, or special interest, but majority of the informed society. A first real step to allow people to build up trust, by their deeds and actions. The platform will use AI to eliminate misinformation, AI bots, information overload, and enforce transparency & truth. Each person on this platform is real, has a unique global ID and alive on the network and they can express their political views under either a unique anonymous avatars without fear, or choose their real information. The ultimate goal is to percolate up Trusted leaders, as they buildup their trust worthiness credentials that can advance their society or their cause to make their society and eventually planet earth a better place for all, regardless of gender , race or religion, etc. Please support this nonprofit platform to build a better future for your children and future genertations.

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This is just incredible. Neal Ghosh's demonstration of how #VentureIQ takes deeply technical and complicated content across a range of industrial use cases and ages/stages through an AI-generated conversational podcast (a la #notebookLM) is really mind-blowing. Check out his post, below, and if you haven't seen VentureIQ, yet, let's get you set up to learn more. You can visit VentureIQ.ai or DM any of us over here to book a demo!

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In overconnected environments dominant suppliers rapidly emerge and many become monopolies — think Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple. When that happens, it is hard to wrestle free of a situation. http://ow.ly/YR5f30prqAF #CloudComputing #data #internet

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Multi cloud GenAI needs, with all the building blocks for modern applications, from MongoDB...

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JFrog Ltd., the Liquid Software company and creators of the JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform, today announced a new product integration with NVIDIA NIM microservices, a component of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform. Their platform has been expanded to include a unified MLOps platform as a result of the acquisition of Qwak AI. It is anticipated that the JFrog Platform will be integrated with the JFrog Artifactory model registry and NVIDIA NIM to create an end-to-end software supply chain workflow that combines GPU-optimized, pre-approved AI models with centralized DevSecOps processes. Read more - https://lnkd.in/gpy_sCJZ For Startup funding reach out us at: https://lnkd.in/gra5x2Xi To share your startup information write us on - [email protected] Join Our Whatsapp Channel To Get The Latest Updates & News: https://lnkd.in/esJEFzan #tech #AI #automation #nvidia #JFrog #AIEnterprise #microservices

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Anthropic Partners with Palantir and AWS to Target Defense Sector with AI Solutions - Anthropic has teamed up with Palantir and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer its advanced AI technology to defense customers, focusing on secure and strategic applications. - This collaboration seeks to leverage Palantir's data integration capabilities and AWS's cloud infrastructure to enhance AI deployment within defense environments. - By aligning with these industry leaders, Anthropic aims to extend its reach into the defense sector, providing sophisticated AI tools designed to support complex, mission-critical operations. - The partnership underscores the increasing intersection of AI technology and defense, highlighting the demand for cutting-edge solutions in national security contexts. #DefenseTech #AIInnovation #AnthropicAI Read more: [https://buff.ly/3NUTxVD]

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The experimental "computer use" capability of Anthropic's latest Sonnet model is really something else; if you want to give it a try using simple API calls, managed Model as a Service platform elements like evals, pay as you go, integrated agent building, enterprise grade security and much more, head over to cloud.google.com. At Google Cloud we remain committed to a multi-model strategy and platforms like Vertex that take away some of the pain, time and toil to get you building quickly and responsibly. https://lnkd.in/gCi22ZPy

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Having a Cars and Capital event tomorrow in Southern California with Oren Klaff. If you want to join message me. https://lnkd.in/gDQ4D39u Oren Klaff Bridger Pennington #InvestorEvent #FamilyOffice #InvestmentOpportunity #CarlsbadEvent #PrivateEquity #WealthManagement #InvestmentConference #CapitalRaising #NetworkingEvent #IndustryLeaders #FinancialGrowth #InvestorsMeetup #WealthBuilding #BusinessGrowth #InvestmentForum

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This is such an instructive interview. Servicetitan and lessons for vertical SaaS cos. https://lnkd.in/ghBXGrk7

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