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The potential gap
There's a difference between what tools can do and what tools do do.
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So you want to sell to the enterprise?
They'll be here tomorrow.
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The end of our purple era
We love to talk about the future of our tools. What about the future of our jobs?
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Category collapse
There's no signal in ten million dollars anymore.
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Take the down round
The greatest trick that VCs ever pulled is convincing startups that down rounds are a disaster. Plus, pricing, again.
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August 2023
How much for that DAG in the window?
There's a theoretical price and a real price.
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The smol analyst
Maybe there’s a way to make these chatbots useful after all.
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The hunt for the Holy Grail
We always talk about single points of failure. But what is our single point of success?
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The emotionally informed company
The heart has reason—and conviction—that reason does not know.
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July 2023
Will we ever have clean data?
Probably not, but maybe we can work with messy data.
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How an acquisition fails
And the simple story for how it doesn’t.
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We don’t need another SQL chatbot
We want one, to do the tedious parts of our job. But it might be better suited to take the fun parts.
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