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How Software Companies Win: Rethinking Org Structure, Product Teams, and Priorities with Airtable’s VP Product Ilan Frank
The software business has changed dramatically—a transformation accelerated by the shift to remote work and hybrid offices many of us experience today.
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Economic downturns force us to get back to basics: The cost of new capital and low valuation multiples—even for top-performing public companies—force startups to make substantial progress per dollar to get a term sheet, much less an up round.
Cancer remains one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. and worldwide.
Supply chain is having a moment.
Software developers spend their days chasing the elusive “flow state:” headphones on, Slack notifications paused, dev environment humming along, context switching to a minimum, and delivering a significant amount of valuable code and/or solving a hard problem.
History may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
Selling software got a lot harder in the past year and SaaS companies should plan for a similar environment over the next couple of years.
There’s been a seismic shift in the environment for learning and training on the job.
In the face of a national emergency in child and adolescent mental health, urgent measures are needed to help those in need.
Attention Digital Health Founders: We are now accepting applications to attend the Digital Health Founder’s Fellowship
Great products are built by great teams.
The long chain of code, library, and package dependencies and third-party tooling employed during the software development lifecycle comprise the modern software supply chain.
Everyone wants the best of both worlds: low CAC with product-led (PLG) and high ACVs with sales-led (SLG) growth models.
The software business has changed dramatically—a transformation accelerated by the shift to remote work and hybrid offices many of us experience today.
In March, we announced our lead investment in the Series A for Pinecone, a semantic search database powered by vector embedding search.