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We Don’t Have Nearly Enough Startups

Where did the explosive growth in venture activity come from?

9 min readJan 26, 2023

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We Don’t Have Nearly Enough Startups

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Select Star + Lightspeed: Data Democracy for All

Lightspeed is proud to lead Select Star’s $15M Series A

3 min readJan 31, 2023

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Select Star + Lightspeed: Data Democracy for All

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Funding Simply Shifts the Bottleneck

A frothy funding environment means more competition for talent. Funding gets easier; hiring gets harder.

7 min readMay 3, 2022

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Funding Simply Shifts the Bottleneck

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WebAssembly-ing the Pieces: Vectorized’s Data Policy Engine

Rather than ship data to code, which is expensive and latency-prone, why not ship code to the data?

6 min readOct 4, 2021

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WebAssembly-ing the Pieces: Vectorized’s Data Policy Engine

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The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 3 — Leaving Software on the Table

Quantifying the billion dollar impact of developer inefficiency

6 min readMay 4, 2021

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The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 3 — Leaving Software on the Table

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The Developer Productivity Manifesto — More (Developers) Isn’t Always More

Adding more cooks to the kitchen rarely helps

8 min readApr 15, 2021

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The Developer Productivity Manifesto — The Flywheel

Developer productivity is falling. But it doesn’t have to. The solution? The Developer Productivity Flywheel

9 min readMar 30, 2021

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Why Developers Love Redpanda

Why Vectorized’s focus on developer experience will unlock real-time streaming for the great majority of developers

9 min readFeb 10, 2021

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Why Developers Love Redpanda

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Why We Will Never Have Enough Software Developers

Developers are dropping out of the profession in large numbers

11 min readOct 27, 2020

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Why We Will Never Have Enough Software Developers

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Towards Data Science

How Age, Race, and Gender Affect Software Engineering Pay

Progress on narrowing pay gaps among software developers

9 min readFeb 24, 2020

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How Age, Race, and Gender Affect Software Engineering Pay

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Nnamdi Iregbulem

Nnamdi Iregbulem

Partner @lightspeedvp Dev tools, infrastructure, and ML nerd. Soft spot for devs ❤️ I write every few weeks @ http://whoisnnamdi.com

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