Cloud Stocks: Palantir Delivers through Government Contracts

Yesterday Palantir (NYSE: PLTR) announced its first quarter earnings that outpaced market expectations. Driven by strong government contracts, the company raised its outlook for the year as well. 

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Bootstrapping to Exit from Saudi Arabia: Emad Daghreri, Co-Founder CEO of Autobia (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. This particular project that really gave you this breakthrough situation, was it paid or was it just a complimentary thing that you were doing for Mr. Ahmed?

Emad Daghreri: It was a complimentary thing.

Sramana Mitra: So, once this worked, you took it to other people to replicate this kind of situation.

Colors: North II

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 – North II

North II | Sramana Mitra, 2022 | Watercolor, Pastel, Ink | 8  x 8, On Paper

AI Unicorns: Canva Expands to Website Builder Market

According to a recent report, the global computer graphics market is projected to grow at 9% CAGR to reach $35.1 billion by 2030. Australia-based Canva is a big player in the industry that has seen strong growth in the past few years.

Catching Up On Readings: IPOs 2024 H1

This report from Nasdaq looks at the highlights of IPO listings in the first half of 2024. There were 66 IPOs in the first half of the year that together raised $8.7 billion. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: Global Supply Chain Top 25

This annual ranking feature from Gartner ranks the leading supply chain organizations and identifies the underlying trends that drove their performance. Schneider Electric was at the top, followed by Cisco Systems, Colgate-Palmolive, Microsoft, and Johnson & Johnson. New to this year’s list was NVIDIA. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.