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The Race to $100B: The Palo Alto Networks Story
I had a lot of fun writing this one.
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Rak Garg
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Francis Odum
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Security's Fifth Estate: Predictions for 2023
Application security, automation, and AI-driven anti-phishing could spawn the next big security platform.
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Rak Garg
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Five Predictions for AI in 2023
Tl;dr: unstructured streaming ETL, new hardware architectures, middleware to power LLM-based app developers, workflow execution, and generative content
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Rak Garg
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Raising a Series A for your DevTools Startup
Five metrics early-stage investors will focus on during your pitch.
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Rak Garg
The Next Heroku
...Might be Fly.io. Ditching free plans has made many consider alternatives to Heroku. We dive deep into which companies are best positioned to benefit.
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Rak Garg
Five metrics Series A investors look for in dev tools startups
Raising a Series A has gotten a lot harder. Here's how to tell your story and raise a stellar round of funding.
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Rak Garg
The middle class of open source software
Assessing the viability of building a business selling to open source project maintainers
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Rak Garg
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