Sramana Mitra: What about engagement? What are your thoughts? Why is the program so popular? Every time we run an edition of the program, there is tremendous engagement and lots of applications. There is a preparation time of six to eight weeks when we want people from Oracle to come attend the public roundtables. There
Sramana Mitra: People are scrambling. There are a lot of people in the industry who are also scrambling to put in little bits of money. By the time you get to raising Series A, you’ve raised six rounds of financing already. Jon Staenberg: I love to refer to the millennial problem. Pivoting, sometimes, is a
Sramana Mitra: What are you learning? What are people interested in answering? Yossi Peretz: It depends on the crowd. There’s no definite answer. Each country has its own trend. India is more about cricket. In general, sports is very popular. Since the core of our users are from the crypto community, definitely crypto-economics and crypto
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Sramana Mitra: Let’s double-click down on how we have evolved the program a bit. When we started, the application process involved people presenting their ideas. At that point, we were asking for people to submit ideas. As we went through the evolution over the years, we have completely morphed the program. In the application stage,
Sramana Mitra: You said earlier that you’re interested in Bitcoin. Can you talk a bit more about how you’re analyzing the Bitcoin situation? Bitcoin is not a capital-efficient area to invest in. It’s going to be expensive more often than not. How are you parsing the Bitcoin opportunity? Jon Staenberg: Let me step back for
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Oracle has been a partner of 1Mby1M since 2013 and has built its internal innovation program on the 1Mby1M Incubator-in-a-Box platform. In this interview, Sramana Mitra and Paolo Juvara, Group Vice President of Oracle Application Lab, discuss the secrets of the success of the program. A unique window into corporate innovation thought leadership from some of the