Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Microsoft went from MS-DOS to Windows to Office to many new reinventions, including Azure. For example, if you’re an early-stage SaaS provider that is shifting from a horizontal solution to a vertical focus, your mission, culture, and competencies can stay the same and the pivot transition will probably go smoothly.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The development of Azure and the shift to the cloud has propelled the company to new heights. We’ll also see the emergence of more low code / no code platforms that address specific vertical needs. In 2014, when Satya Nadella succeeded Steve Ballmer and became CEO, Microsoft was worth $330B.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure) for both training machine learning models and deploying inferences. AI is exploding not only in research and infrastructure (which go wide) but also in the application of AI to vertical problems (which go deep and depend more than ever on expertise). We’re Just Getting Started.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

It’s like arguing against vertical software. How can we spin up our SharePoint enabled Web Parts which are Windows Phone Capable to be deployed on Azure? I’m involved in one startup.NET/Azure is the best fit. March 26, 2011 at 9:02 am. The reasoning behind this post is questionable. So let me get this straight.

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