Catching Up On Readings: VC Outcomes

This feature from Medium analyzes the exits of venture funded companies over the past decade and concludes that only 4% of them gave a return of over 10X. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: Trustworthy AI Systems

This feature from The New York Times looks at how trustworthy AI systems can be built using the concepts of time, space, and casuality. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: Emerging Tech 2019

This feature from Gartner five distinct emerging technology trends with transformational impact. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: UK Tech Investments 2019

This report from Tech Nation analyses the investment trends in the UK tech sector in 2019. Investments of $6.7 billion have been recorded for the first seven months of 2019, exceeding the investments in 2018. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: Black Hat USA

This feature from SecurityIntelligence covers the key security takeaways from the 2019 edition of Black Hat USA held in Las Vegas recently. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: IaaS Public Cloud

This report from Gartner says that the worldwide IaaS public cloud market grew 31.3% in 2018 to total $32.4 billion. Amazon was once again led the market followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and IBM. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: Softbank Vision Fund 2

This feature from TechCrunch covers the new Softbank Vision Fund that will focus on AI-based technology. Worth about $108 billion, the LPs
include Apple, Foxconn, and Microsoft. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Feyzi Fatehi, CEO of Corent Technologies (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What are the open problems where you would encourage new entrepreneurs to start companies?

Feyzi Fatehi: One question I ask people is, in your opinion, how many open source applications are legitimate and are legitimately accepted by the Fortune 1,000? How many open source solutions are now used in the Fortune 1,000 that are out there?