Tag: CEO
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What Is Important for Any CEO?
How many sales presentations have you attended? For me, it’s 4,695. But who’s counting? Going back to 1995 when I joined Oracle, that’s the number I’ve logged, like a fatigued Delta Diamond Medallion flyer. And like a Medallion flyer, after thousands of journeys under my seatbelt, I’ve identified and lived by the patterns that lead…
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How Much Does it Cost to Make Money?
Way back in 2014, Meta/Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion, and just recently, they decided to monetize their 2 billion WhatsApp user community with ads. They also just plunked down $14b on Scale AI. Even bigger, perhaps, is Apple thinking about buying Perplexity, which, to me, makes a lot of sense, especially because of their…
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Quantum, Classic, Still Stupid Data
The need for a new type system. The age of quantum is about to begin, like Sauron in The Lord of the Rings, who seeks to dominate Middle-earth and all its inhabitants. Its ascendance is around the corner, starting to establish a new world order, still in the depths of Mordor, yet ever-so magically manifesting…