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  • Aday Mara and the OKC Woodchipper, An Emergency Celtics Panic Watch, Silver Appreciation(???) and Laker Dreams

    Greatest Of All Talk | Oct 21
    Aday Mara and the OKC Woodchipper, An Emergency Celtics Panic Watch, Silver Appreciation(???) and Laker Dreams
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  • Cloudera and Pivotal, Box and Zuora

    Thursday, June 6, 2019

    Four companies that are getting hammered in the stock market after releasing growth projections that missed expectations; it’s not clear that all of them will come back.


  • Google Cloud Changes CEOs, Layers of Surprise (or Not), The VMWare Analogy

    Monday, November 19, 2018

    Google Cloud has a new CEO: the news is a surprise at first glance, but may make more sense than it seems. To understand why, look at VMWare, outgoing Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene’s most famous startup.


  • Amazon Switches?, AWS Versus Azure, Photoshop on iPad

    Monday, July 16, 2018

    Amazon’s rumored move into Switches is being framed as being about Cisco, but I suspect it’s about Microsoft. Then, Adobe is making Photoshop for iPad, which benefits from subscriptions.


  • Okta’s Developer Conference, An Interview with Okta CEO Todd McKinnon

    Thursday, May 24, 2018

    An interview with Okta CEO Todd McKinnon on the occasion of the company’s developer conference.


  • Nobody Wants Twitter, VMware Cloud on AWS, Amazon Convenience Stores and Amazon Music Unlimited

    Monday, October 17, 2016

    Unsurprisingly, no one wants to buy Twitter, which will likely muddle long. Then, Amazon’s deal with VMWare makes a ton of sense for Amazon in particular; the company is also experimenting with convenience stores and music subscriptions.


  • Spotify Follow-up, Nutanix and Hyper-Convergence, The Conservation of Attractive Data-Center Profits

    Monday, October 3, 2016

    A correction and follow-up on Spotify, and why the streaming service and the labels need each other. Then, the theory behind Nutanix and hyper-convergence in the data center.


  • Google Hires Diane Greene, Google the Cloud Company?

    Monday, November 23, 2015

    Google is signaling that it is getting serious about the cloud, so success is certain. Or is it? What actually matters in building an adjacent business for a different kind of market?


  • AWS Re:invent, Pure Storage IPOs, Dell to Buy EMC; Enterprise Disruption; Dell’s Logic

    Monday, October 12, 2015

    Three news events from last week — Amazon’s AWS conference, the Pure Storage IPO, and Dell’s plan to buy EMC — make for a text case of disruption in all its forms.


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  • Aday Mara and the OKC Woodchipper, An Emergency Celtics Panic Watch, Silver Appreciation(???) and Laker Dreams

    Greatest Of All Talk | Oct 21
    Aday Mara and the OKC Woodchipper, An Emergency Celtics Panic Watch, Silver Appreciation(???) and Laker Dreams
  • (Preview) New Export Controls in Multiple Sectors; Q3 GDP and the Fifth Plenum; Europe Presses Forward; OpenAI and Nvidia Chips

    Sharp China | Oct 21
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    Dithering | Oct 20
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    Thursday, October 22, 2026
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    Friday, October 16, 2026
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  • Aday Mara and the OKC Woodchipper, An Emergency Celtics Panic Watch, Silver Appreciation(???) and Laker Dreams

    Greatest Of All Talk | Oct 21
    Aday Mara and the OKC Woodchipper, An Emergency Celtics Panic Watch, Silver Appreciation(???) and Laker Dreams
  • (Preview) New Export Controls in Multiple Sectors; Q3 GDP and the Fifth Plenum; Europe Presses Forward; OpenAI and Nvidia Chips

    Sharpchina | Oct 21
    (Preview) New Export Controls in Multiple Sectors; Q3 GDP and the Fifth Plenum; Europe Presses Forward; OpenAI and Nvidia Chips
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    Dithering | Oct 20
    Apple + Meta AI

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  • An Interview with Craig Moffett About SpaceX and Bubbles

    Thursday, October 22, 2026
  • A Conversation With Ari Emanuel About Entertainment and AI

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  • An Interview with Katie Harbath About Disrupting Politics at Facebook

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