Enterprise hits and misses - gen AI spending meets ROI pressure, AI readiness is a thing, and AR/VR has a vision problem - “Enterprise hypothesis: AI can’t fix what ails you (e.g. legacy landscape and ‘messy’ data bottlenecks), but applied properly, it can accelerate what you do well."
How Much Revenue Must a Company Generate to IPO? - “Before 2018, only one company IPOed with more than $200m in revenue. In fact, the median revenue at IPO at $90m. Today, the median revenue at IPO is $189m (corrected for inflation), more than double."
YouTube dominates streaming, forces media companies to adapt - ’YouTube made up 9.7% of all viewership on connected and traditional TVs in the U.S. in May — the largest share of TV for a streaming platform ever reported by Nielsen’s monthly “The Gauge” report. Netflix ranked second, claiming 7.6% of viewership. Among streamers only, YouTube’s total viewership was close to 25% market share.'
Tactics for having a good executive dinner
I’ve hosted a lot of executive dinners for work - maybe 50 or 60 over the past several years…? These are commercial oriented. At my work, we’re trying to meet new people to sell our software to, or people who know people, etc. Getting to know “executives” is directly related to the sales process. The secondary goal is more brand and thought-leadership marketing: just making the attendee aware of us and what we do, and, hopefully, our “vibe.
I setup a page with most all of my Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam pictures: “most all” that I could find at the moment.
There’s just over 200 of them. Here’s a sample:
During New Year’s:
There’s a lot of chairs!
"Consistency" - the less platforms, the better
Have you tried having less?Standardized. Centralized. Consistent. Those words I use over and over when talking about platforms. In large organizations, you’ve got hundreds, even thousands, of applications. There are likely tens of “platforms”: the stacks of runtime and middleware goo that all those apps run on. Maybe even hundreds if the company is large enough, old enough, and has gone through enough acquisitions (most all global banks). The more of those platforms your have, the more time you’ll spend managing them, governing them, securing them, and figuring out how to trouble-shoot problems.
AnythingLLM - Could this really be an easy to use, desktop ChatAI thing? Will check.
Delivering Great Developer Experiences with Platform Engineering - A whole lot of first hand accounts of building and running developer platforms. (1) the platform should include CI/CD tooling, and I presume how to package and configure apps for production, (2) use developer surveys to track usage and needs, (3) product manage the platform, with a variation being to run it like an open source project to get the benefits of transparency (and inherent product management), (4) lots of training and workshops, (5) use chat instead of tickets.
Developer productivity metrics, 1970s sausage fonts, only the “grown and sexy” are welcome
Once again, I am bringing you only links and funny pieces of text.
Relative to your interestsMeasuring Engineering Productivity, at Google, circa 2020 - “If the decider doesn’t believe the form of the result in principle, there is again no point in measuring the process.” // Some great advice in here about improvement programs. Come up with metrics and needs from the (economic/strategic) stakeholder who has the power to make changes.
Docker Launches 2024 State of Application Development Report - Survey for future newsletter analysis.