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What the evolution of cities can teach us about building platforms

Intercom, Inc.

It is not an exaggeration to say that they are one of the most important innovations in human history. Well over half of the world’s populations currently live in cities and this percentage is expected to rise to over 66% by 2050. Cities are really transformative for the way they enable one thing: connections between people.

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SaaS in Africa: 10 Things We Learned From Scaling to 1M Users (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Between now and 2050, half of the world’s population growth will occur in Africa. Between now and 2050, another 2.4 Here in the US and again other developed markets, people are interested in novelty and innovation. But it’s not the full story. Think about that. billion humans will enter the Earth, and 1.2

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Rebuilding the California Dream 

Andreessen Horowitz

Jan: California Forever is an attempt to make sure that the Bay Area remains the center of innovation and prosperity that it’s been for the last 50 years. And so, we think that Solano County can become the foundry of American defense innovation for the next 50 years. We couldn’t innovate as quickly as we could otherwise.

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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And you can see by 2050, this industry will be 10 times bigger. There is, you know, tons of innovation, tons of new categories being created every year. And this is data from Battery Ventures, but you can see that in the next eight years, we’re expecting industry to double, to be a trillion dollar global industry.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Jennifer Tejada, Ben Chestnut, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Join PagerDuty’s CEO, Jennifer Tejada, as she discusses the need for agility and innovation and how automation is aiding adaptability and allowing enterprises to surge ahead. So looking forward, we also need to innovate and automate policies around flexible working, childcare and lead to address some of these challenges.

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Starting the Zero-Waste Knowledge Revolution with GrowthTalk

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

to create, innovate, collaborate, and solve problems?—?aren’t Those who embrace a growth-mindset are more innovative, collaborative, and committed to learning and growing. These activities define the “knowledge-sharing” individual, whose sole mission is continuous improvement and innovation. The consequence?