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Reading list: Platforms, ecosystems, and partnerships

Intercom, Inc.

This fascinating essay by Machine Learning Engineer Cathal Horan draws on the work of theoretical physicist Geoffrey West, network economics expert Geoffrey Parker and renowned urbanist Jane Jacobs to make the case that the growth of cities has a lot to teach us about how to develop a platform. Jeetu Patel, Box.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

Machine learning can get the right message or recommendation out in a responsive way – not just from the customer’s next best action, but from the sales perspective, too. We incubated a cohort early on in the genesis of Einstein, and where we thought AI and machine learning was going to be used has changed.

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Strategy as a Series of Beliefs

Kellblog

Era 4 (2003-2005). We believe that companies will need a centralized data catalog to help people find the data they need, and that machine-learning can help with that finding. Era 3 (1999-2002). These beliefs were largely heretical at the time. 500/seat for a Q&R tool? Era 2 (data governance).

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The Economic Case for Generative AI (presentation)

Andreessen Horowitz

If you think about the competition for most AI use cases, not traditional machine learning, but AI, it tends to be the human. I don’t think we know what they’re going to look like, but the economics are just too compelling What has the narrative been for AI over the last 50 years? I remember when I joined Ph.D.

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How to Choose the Best Hosting Provider for Your Ecommerce Site

FastSpring

Since it’s humble beginnings in 2003 as a spinoff of the CafePress blogging platform, WordPress has grown into a powerful content management system (CMS) that directly supports a significant portion of the internet. That’s not an exaggeration.

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Evernote vs Onenote? Or High Time to Move to New-Age Playbooks?

SmartKarrot

Microsoft launched OneNote in 2003, and it became a part of its Microsoft Office suite in 2007. Making the most of technological advancements such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to take care of your tasks and organize your workflows. Currently, OneNote is offered as a bundle with Windows 10 and 11.

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Top Themes in Data Transcript

Tom Tunguz

Content: Early 2000s: The Era of Centralized BI Companies like MicroStrategy, Cognos, BusinessObjects, and Hyperion Powerful but slow and IT-dependent reporting solutions High accuracy, low agility 2003: The Rise of Self-Service Analytics Tableau revolutionized the industry Empowered business users to directly access and analyze data The Cloud Data (..)

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