Building an AI Platform Company for Real-Time Applications: Vantiq CEO Marty Sprinzen (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Can you talk to me a bit about your go-to-market strategy? I understand the system integrator part is straightforward. You do partnerships with system integrators who build on top of your platform.

When you’re choosing to work with startups or product companies who are building their products on your platform, how do you find these people? How do they find you? What’s the go-to-market strategy for that?

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I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – Drama in Light III

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694th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Alex Benik, Encoded Ventures

Alex Benik, Partner / Founder at Encoded Ventures, discusses the fund’s investment thesis. Great discussion on how we each view the disruptions AI is causing on multiple fronts.

VCs investing today have to think about the next 5-7 year window and what changes are likely to come.

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Roundtable Recap: July 17 – AI Investment Thesis with Alex Benik, Encoded Ventures

During this week’s roundtable, we had Alex Benik, Partner / Founder at Encoded Ventures, discussing the fund’s investment thesis. Great discussion on how we each view the disruptions AI is causing on multiple fronts.

VCs investing today have to think about the next 5-7 year window and what changes are likely to come.

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Building an AI Platform Company for Real-Time Applications: Vantiq CEO Marty Sprinzen (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: “Operating system” isn’t the right term. Here’s my two cents—during the cloud era, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) became a well-understood concept.