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Amazon Web Services vs. Google Cloud

Trung T. Phan
Updated 2/5/21
Databricks raises $1B (at a $28B valuation!) to build ‘data lakehouses’

Jacob Cohen
Updated 2/3/21
As in-store sales lose gas, makeup goes SaaS

Jacob Cohen
Updated 1/11/21
The end of Adobe Flash, one of the internet’s most iconic technologies

Trung T. Phan
Updated 1/5/21
The newest tech unicorn is… salon software?

Ethan Brooks
Updated 12/16/20
Salesforce and Slack want to combine forces to take on the Death Star known as Microsoft

Trung T. Phan
Updated 11/30/20
Discord: The messaging powerhouse you should know about

Rob Litterst
Updated 11/9/20
Made a spreadsheet typo? Call an Excel fixer

Michael Waters
Updated 10/16/20
Twilio’s $3.2B acquisition of Segment makes a lot of sense

Trung T. Phan
Updated 10/13/20
Look Ma, no code! Low-code platform Quick Base sells majority stake for $1B

Wes Schlagenhauf
Updated 10/3/20
Salon software startup sees value in niche market

Conor Grant
Updated 10/1/20
Twilio acquired SendGrid for $2B to expand its automated communications platform

Conor Grant
Updated 9/23/20
The great debate: Is Cloudflare a free-speech hero, or a hate speech villain?

Wes Schlagenhauf
Updated 9/22/20
HotSchedules, Slack’s clunky older cousin, is having a moment

Michael Waters
Updated 9/22/20
Welcome to the #MeanGirls Slack channel

Bobby Durben
Updated 9/19/20
Why gaming giant Unity dropped billions on an acquisition

Samir Javer
Updated 7/21/22
Emoji growth is slowing. Why?

Jacob Cohen
Updated 7/21/22
Exam software is booming, but is it ethical?

Rob Litterst
Updated 2/21/22
Sure, out-of-office messages are fine. But what if they were carols?

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 12/24/21
Autodesk’s platform play, explained

Rob Litterst
Updated 12/17/21
By the numbers: 50m pounds of syrup, child care’s 1% profit margins, and more

Jacob Cohen
Updated 12/6/21
Adobe’s next act: Web-based, AI, and NFT products

Trung T. Phan
Updated 11/3/21
Loom and the rise of asynchronous video

Trung T. Phan
Updated 11/2/21
Waze and Headspace partner on a peaceful commute

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 10/13/21
Canva’s recent round valued the design startup at $40B. Here’s how they got there.

Rob Litterst
Updated 9/17/21
Why Intuit just acquired Mailchimp for $12B

Trung T. Phan
Updated 9/16/21
Ramp is using a freemium strategy to disrupt the corporate card game

Rob Litterst
Updated 8/26/21
Automattic, the parent to WordPress, is a private company you should know about

Rob Litterst
Updated 8/20/21
Figma: The $10B startup transforming design

Rob Litterst
Updated 8/16/21
The latest player in the streaming wars is a B2B software company

Rob Litterst
Updated 8/13/21
Can Cisco beat Amazon’s cloud business?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 8/10/21
Walmart takes a page out of Amazon’s book

Rob Litterst
Updated 7/30/21
Teamflow wants to make virtual collaboration feel more like the office

Rob Litterst
Updated 7/29/21
Corporations want to shake Microsoft Excel. It’s not so easy.

Rob Litterst
Updated 7/26/21
ZoomInfo wants to become every sales rep’s best friend

Rob Litterst
Updated 7/16/21
Autodesk is the most important software company you’ve never heard of

Rob Litterst
Updated 7/14/21
LinkedIn love child Confluent files to go public

Kolby Hatch
Updated 6/9/21
Can Dropbox survive an active hedge fund?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 6/4/21
AI transcription service gets $14m boost

Trung T. Phan
Updated 5/26/21
Indonesian farm-to-consumer app harvests $65.5m

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 5/25/21
Microsoft is saying goodbye to Internet Explorer, hello to Edge

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 5/24/21
Squarespace just went public. It all started in a dorm in 2003

Jacob Cohen
Updated 5/21/21
How 1 memo lead to an exodus at software firm Basecamp

Trung T. Phan
Updated 5/3/21
The Washington Post is quietly building a SaaS powerhouse, with Papa Bezos’ help

Kolby Hatch
Updated 4/28/21
Panasonic acquires Blue Yonder in a $7B+ supply-chain software deal

Trung T. Phan
Updated 4/27/21
Food is having a moment right now

Jacob Cohen
Updated 4/27/21
Meet the $40B+ ‘software robot’ maker poised to automate pencil pushing

Kolby Hatch
Updated 4/23/21
Google vs. Oracle, explained

Trung T. Phan
Updated 4/8/21
OpenAI is open for business

Jacob Cohen
Updated 4/1/21
Popular ‘link-in-bio’ company now has $45m ash-in-bank

Kolby Hatch
Updated 4/1/21
Ghost: The open-source startup helping creators turn audiences into a business

Steph Smith
Updated 3/31/21
No-code leader Zapier acquires Makerpad, a no-code community

Trung T. Phan
Updated 3/11/21
Meet #Hugops, the hashtag destined to trend when your favorite website goes down

Kolby Hatch
Updated 3/3/21
Former Stripe employees are attacking climate change… with help from Stripe

Trung T. Phan
Updated 3/2/21
Meet Pex: the internet’s content guardian

Shelley Tang
Updated 2/19/21
Amazon Web Services vs. Google Cloud

Trung T. Phan
Updated 2/5/21
Databricks raises $1B (at a $28B valuation!) to build ‘data lakehouses’

Jacob Cohen
Updated 2/3/21
As in-store sales lose gas, makeup goes SaaS

Jacob Cohen
Updated 1/11/21
The end of Adobe Flash, one of the internet’s most iconic technologies

Trung T. Phan
Updated 1/5/21
The newest tech unicorn is… salon software?

Ethan Brooks
Updated 12/16/20
Salesforce and Slack want to combine forces to take on the Death Star known as Microsoft

Trung T. Phan
Updated 11/30/20
Discord: The messaging powerhouse you should know about

Rob Litterst
Updated 11/9/20
Made a spreadsheet typo? Call an Excel fixer

Michael Waters
Updated 10/16/20
Twilio’s $3.2B acquisition of Segment makes a lot of sense

Trung T. Phan
Updated 10/13/20
Look Ma, no code! Low-code platform Quick Base sells majority stake for $1B

Wes Schlagenhauf
Updated 10/3/20
Salon software startup sees value in niche market

Conor Grant
Updated 10/1/20
Twilio acquired SendGrid for $2B to expand its automated communications platform

Conor Grant
Updated 9/23/20
The great debate: Is Cloudflare a free-speech hero, or a hate speech villain?

Wes Schlagenhauf
Updated 9/22/20
HotSchedules, Slack’s clunky older cousin, is having a moment

Michael Waters
Updated 9/22/20
Welcome to the #MeanGirls Slack channel

Bobby Durben
Updated 9/19/20

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