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Operational Efficiency Isn't Enough: AI Products Should Help You Close Deals

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17 Jun 2025|4 mins

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How Founders Can Land Their First Few Customers by Building a Roster of Advisors

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28 May 2025|5 mins

Talent Tools are Leveling Up: Six Areas to Watch

The next phase of people operations involves going agentic

  • M. Kageleiry
07 May 2025|3 mins

Selling to Skeptics: What Enterprise Buyers Want Today

How enterprise buyers are adapting – and what AI vendors need to do about it.

  • Saanya Ojha
30 Jan 2025|4 mins

What’s Old Is New: AI Apps Go Back to the Future

AI apps startups can learn a lot from the golden age of enterprise sales (1994-2000).

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Industrial Renaissance: Software Transforming the Physical World

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The Four Chief of Staff Archetypes—and Which One Your Startup Actually Needs

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Operational Efficiency Isn't Enough: AI Products Should Help You Close Deals

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  • Ron Miasnik
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How Founders Can Land Their First Few Customers by Building a Roster of Advisors

  • J. DiMento
03 Jun 2025|5 mins

Signals of Change: Obvio is Giving a Green Light to Safer Streets by Automating Enforcement

Co-founders Ali Rehan and Dhruv Maheshwari believe in the power of advanced technology to save lives while improving how governments manage traffic.

  • Ajay Agarwal
28 May 2025|5 mins

Talent Tools are Leveling Up: Six Areas to Watch

The next phase of people operations involves going agentic

  • M. Kageleiry
22 May 2025|3 mins

RevenueCat Lowers Barriers to Monetizing Mobile Apps Amid AI Boom

Announcing our $50M Series C in RevenueCat and partner Mark Fiorentino re-joining the board to help guide the next phase of mobile app monetization.

  • Mark Fiorentino
07 May 2025|3 mins

Selling to Skeptics: What Enterprise Buyers Want Today

How enterprise buyers are adapting – and what AI vendors need to do about it.

  • Saanya Ojha
01 May 2025

From Airflow to DataOps: Astronomer is Building the Data Control Plane for the Enterprise

  • Enrique Salem
  • Saanya Ojha
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30 Apr 2025|4 mins

Structify Makes Building Custom Datasets Easy with AI

Recognizing that AI agents could act as autonomous data gathers, co-founders built Structify to make custom dataset creation painless.

  • Slater Stich
  • Amanda Huang
28 Apr 2025|4 mins

AI Agents are Armed for Battle – Adapting Security Infrastructure and Shipping New Solutions Relies on Embracing the Three ‘I’s

Lessons from the past won’t fully prepare CISOs for a future where AI agents are on both sides of the cybersecurity battlefield, but adhering to battle-tested principles will.

  • Enrique Salem
22 Apr 2025|4 mins

Sexy Tech, Boring Problems

AI is sexy. Change management isn’t. But in the enterprise, they’re the same problem.

  • Saanya Ojha
14 Apr 2025|2 mins

Diffusion Without Tears: A Primer

Background context and a primer for our “History of Diffusion” interviews with Jascha Sohl-Dickstein, Yang Song and Sander Dieleman.

  • Slater Stich