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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Brian Kibby, CEO of Modern Campus (Part 1)

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 17th 2021

Brian discusses a gigantic white space in continuing education that colleges and universities have left open. Modern Campus is trying to address this gap, among other things. Very interesting conversation.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Modern Campus.

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Sridhar Iyengar, CEO of Elemental Machines (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, Aug 12th 2021

We observed the movement of system administrators becoming DevOps engineers.

Sridhar is leading an effort of moving lab administrators becoming LabOps engineers with the help of cutting edge technology like IoT.

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Cloud Stocks: Analysis of Amazon’s MGM Acquisition

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 10th 2021

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) recently reported its second-quarter results that failed to impress the market. The company reported a slowdown within its e-tail segment and attributed the same to tough comparisons from the previous year when Covid had spiked eCommerce sales. As businesses and economies slowly re-open Amazon’s eCommerce segment will face a crunch, but it is looking to address the situation by expanding services such as same-day shipping and by focusing on other segments such as media streaming.

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Cloud Stocks: Twilio Focuses on Customer Engagement

Posted on Friday, Aug 6th 2021
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According to IDC, the global communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) market is expected to grow from $4.26 billion in 2019 to $17.71 billion by 2024. Communications PaaS leader Twilio (NYSE: TWLO) has been expanding its focus beyond communication to customer engagement with its recent acquisitions.

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Jim Xiao, CEO of Mason (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, Aug 5th 2021

Jim is building an AWS or Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service company for rapid deployment of IOT products and use cases.

Startups can also leverage the platform to quickly build IoT products. Fascinating discussion. 

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Mason.

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Bootstrapping Using Services to $10M: Zimit CEO James Cramer (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Aug 2nd 2021

Among the biases of the Venture Capital industry that need to be categorically ignored, Bootstrapping Using Services happens to be on the top of the list. Read on for yet another fantastic textbook case study.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background did you have?

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Pandio Founders Gideon Rubin, CEO and Josh Odmark, CTO (Part 1)

Posted on Friday, Jul 30th 2021
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We explore AI Connectivity in this discussion.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by having the two of you introduce yourselves as well as Pandio.

Gideon Rubin: I’m the CEO and Co-Founder along with Josh Odmark. I’m a serial entrepreneur. I focus primarily on using big data and data science to gain an advantage. Pandio came from the fact that Josh and I both came from different startups. We were talking about what to do next. We realized that IoT and a lot of the data sources were getting really good.

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Building a Unicorn and Establishing the Customer Success Category: Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, Jul 29th 2021

I spoke with Nick back when Gainsight was very young. Much has happened since. This conversation catches us up on the interim years since 2013.

Gainsight recently raised money from Vista Equity at a $1.1 billion valuation.

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