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What's 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #259

GitLab 😲 and the importance of doing things your own way

Oct 16

Once upon a time, the word was that you could not make money in venture selling to developers. Well, it’s been an insane past couple of years with IPOs of Datadog, now at a $48B market cap and Gitlab which ended the week after an IPO at a $16.5B market cap 😲. It’s amazing how we went from a world of investors who did not know what DevOps was to one where companies are decacorns many times over.

There are so many amazing angles to write about, but this one from Aaron Levie best sums it up for founders…

Aaron Levie @levie

The GitLab story shows the multiple paths to winning in software that 10 years ago few believed. You can build massive value around open source. Your biggest competitor can get acquired by a major player, and the market still grows massively. You can be 100% remote. And so on.

There is so much chatter and news and “how tos” on twitter and blog posts but in the end, there is no “one way” to start and build a company. If anyone tells you that, believe otherwise. Be an original, take the best from others and find your own path. The biggest outcomes also come from choosing your own path which in the beginning often feels like this.

My own personal experiences include folks telling Rahul at Superhuman he couldn’t scale a business by doing bespoke onboarding…a few years later there was a period of time when everyone was the “Superhuman of X”.

toddgoldberg.eth @toddg777

New blog post: The "@Superhuman of X"! It covers: ⚡️ The core product elements of Superhuman 🔍 What "Superhuman of X" startups will look like 💡 Things to consider if you're building one toddgoldberg.com/posts/superhum…

The Superhuman of X | Todd GoldbergExploring the Superhuman experience and how it can be used to build new productivity products.toddgoldberg.com

In fact, looking at our portfolio and the 🦄, I can tell you that almost all of them at some point in time had a hard time raising capital with excess of dozens of Nos because folks didn’t believe in the market size, the business model, or what have you but in the end despite what anyone tells you, remember…

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During the cold war, foes pointed missiles at industrial centers. Today if you want to aim missiles at the industrial center of the United States, you would aim them at China. We are interconnected enough that harming another becomes, effectively, self-harm.
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[In 1914 there was mild commerce and NO supply chain integration... no consequences of the analog of a chip shortage. The equivalent in 2022 would be disastrous.]
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☁️ security continues to be on 🔥 as Wiz raised $250M at $6 Billion valuation and Orca raised $550M at $1.8B valuation - both 4-6 months after their last rounds 🤯
k8s on bare metal - upsides and downsides from Saad Malik (Spectro Cloud, a portfolio co) - The New Stack
“One of them comes in the shape of running apps and the Kubernetes (K8s) platform directly on bare metal servers. The upside? Better performance and of course less cost (say goodbye to hypervisor licenses) and effort (one layer less to manage). Indeed, K8s has everything we need to run our apps directly on top of bare metal machines.
The downside? Until now it has been generally quite challenging to install, run and manage bare metal K8s clusters, viewed often as a “disconnected” experience between the underlying server and the K8s nodes, let alone treating them as just another “location” of a multi-environment K8s management strategy. But what if there was a way to unify the experience and treat a bare metal server like any other cluster?”
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🎙️👂 @KyleHParrish built @figmadesign's sales team from the ground up. On this BUILD, he shares: ✔️ How to build a strong #sales team and sales #culture ✔️ What you should keep in mind when your team or company scale ✔️ Why team culture matters 🎧👇 openview.vc/3BycAgx
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