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A big movement over the past few years is the rise of design and front-end engineering. These groups have adopted component-driven design…

This week Netlify hosted the JAMstack conference in San Francisco. The conference grew to over 550 attendees and two days! Its theme was…

The number of podcast listeners in the U.S. increased sharply in 2019, with nearly one out of three people listening to at least one…

Unicorn companies, those valued at over $1B, have experienced significant change over the last few months. Many have IPOed like Cloudflare…

Last week I was honored to be on The Software Engineering Daily discussing economic moats for enterprise companies. We also dug into to…

Competition can be stiff. It can be brutal. Alternatively, sometimes it seems like your product is selling into a greenfield with no…

Datadog’s S-1 highlights four publicly traded standalone observability companies as competitors: Dynatrace, New Relic, Elastic, and Splunk…

Monitoring and analytics platform Datadog recently filed its S-1 with $100M as a placeholder for the offering. Datadog offers a hybrid…

This week marks the twentieth anniversary of the announcement of Redpoint Ventures. On August 18, 1999, the Wall Street Journal broke the…

CDN provider Cloudflare recently filed its S-1 with $100M as a placeholder for the offering. Similar to recently IPO-ed Fastly, Cloudfare…

During my time on Cisco’s Corporate Development team I supported the UCS server division and had a firsthand view of the massive shift in…