🚀 The next $100B companies won’t be SaaS. They’ll be SaS – Service-as-Software. Why? Because it’s way easier for enterprises to switch BPO vendors than to adopt a brand-new software product that requires training and an internal team to run it. And, large enterprises already

Startup culture has always demanded intensity, but recent conversations suggest it’s escalated into something more extreme: ◽ 996 is the old standard: Startups are moving beyond 9 am to 9pm, 6 days a week. True commitment is now 24/7 with founders showing me their office

Life insurance has a demographic problem! Three of the top triggers for buying life insurance have been steadily declining over the past 15 years. So why are life insurance premiums at all time highs? Thank your parents and tax efficent wealth transfers.

🚀🚀🚀 What a night! Last Thursday, we teamed up with our friends at @NexusVP to host 75+ incredible founders from the #IIT alumni community at @pruvencapital . The energy and ambition in the room were off the charts. We were thrilled to welcome two powerhouse speakers for a

This was fun -- @chakrabartis is great at this! Lots of discussion on the future of data management and AI writ large. Shout-outs to @RunLLM @AcrylData / @datahubproject and ways that @Trifacta /@alteryx presaged AI-assisted human-centric experiences. #GuideDecide loops!

🎙️Wrapping up our #DataEngineering season on the #EngineersofScale podcast with none other than @joe_hellerstein! As a professor at @Berkeley_EECS and founder of @Trifacta and @RunLLM, Joe has been a true pioneer, educator, and entrepreneur in the field of Data Engineering. In

🚀 Stream Processing in #BigData = @ApacheFlink What started off as an academic project at @TUBerlin became the breakthrough in unifying batch and streaming data processing with a single engine. In the latest #EngineersofScale episode, I sit down with @StephanEwen, Flink's

🦉It's hard to step outside these days without bumping into a VC (vest and all) raving about how AI will flip the script from Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to Service-as-Software (SaS). Guilty as charged—@pruvencapital included! Seriously though, as we meet more founders diving

🎓 Lesson learnt: When selling to a large enterprise, even one that's notoriously slow-moving, prioritize delivering immediate value—even if it means drastically narrowing your POC's scope. Yes, we all would like to land that million-dollar contract right away, but the reality of

🎓 Lesson learnt: No matter how successful your open source project might be, if your first commercial product isn’t laser-focused on making life easier for your open-source community, you’re already off track. Adding extra features can wait—your community won’t! #opensource

🤔 Are we on the brink of a CTO takeover? With IT infrastructure shifting to the cloud and ops/SRE teams embedding within developer orgs, are we seeing CIO functions being absorbed by CTOs in large enterprises? The lines are blurring—what’s next for the CIO? #TechLeadership

🚀 What is the one project driving the explosive adoption of Data Lake Houses today? The answer is @ApacheIceberg - a project so significant that @databricks just acquired @tabulario, the company founded by the creators of Iceberg. In our latest episode of the Engineers of Scale

🚀 Join @pruvencapital's Enterprise IT team! If you're excited about collaborating with founders in IT infrastructure, AI/ML, and cybersecurity, and eager to be part of a driven, entrepreneurial team with a new fund supported by major investors, we want to hear from you! Apply

⁉️ Data gravity stopped multi-cloud solutions from reaching their full potential—moving and storing data across multiple clouds was tough and costly. But could it be different for AI workloads - with more uniform computing needs and increasingly smaller (i.e., portable) models,

🚀🚀🚀 Super excited to join the @pruvencapital team to lead our investments in #EnterpriseIT Software! We focus on driving initial customer and partner successes for our portfolio founders, accelerating their market entry. Backed by ten of the world's largest corporations, we

Curious about what's in the cooking of Penpot 2.0 release? In this demo, @diacritica CEO at Penpot, walks you through this unique Penpot feature - CSS Grid Layout But there's more! New update on components Shiny and redesigned UI https://t.co/ziO1kIXFm1

📢 What did the @netflix prize have to do with the origin of #Spark and how did a grad student at @UCBerkeley came within 20 minutes of winning a million dollars? In the latest episode of my Engineers of Scale podcast, @rxin, co-creator of #Spark and co-founder of @databricks,