Who is Nnamdi?

Investors

Introducing a New and Improved SaaS Metric: Weighted ACV

ACV isn't as useful a concept as people think. We need a different SaaS monetization metric.

Investors

Companies Rarely Grow Into Their Valuations

Companies don't catch up to their valuations; their valuations catch up to them.

Developers

WebAssembly-ing the Pieces: Vectorized’s Data Policy Engine

Rather than ship data to code, which is expensive and latency-prone, why not ship code to the data?

Founders

You Can't Eat Relative Growth

In startup land, we talk way too much about relative growth. We'd do better to ground our thinking in absolute growth.

Investors

Do Wealthy Investors Have an Edge?

The super-rich earn more on their investments than the rest of us. Something nefarious, or something else?

Founders

PhDs Aren't Starting Companies Like They Used To

The burden of scientific knowledge and managerial complexity is crushing our best and brightest.

Founders

Open Your Eyes. Awesome Developer Advocates Are Hiding in Plain Sight

Why you shouldn’t filter for social media following or prior experience

Founders

The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 3 — Leaving Software on the Table

Quantifying the billion dollar impact of developer inefficiency

Founders

The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 2 — More (Developers) Isn’t Always More

Adding more cooks to the kitchen rarely helps

Founders

The Developer Productivity Manifesto Part 1 — The Flywheel

Developer productivity is falling. But it doesn't have to. The solution? The Developer Productivity Flywheel

Founders

Four Challenges Facing Developer Productivity Startups

The biggest challenges facing developer productivity startups today

Investors

Robinhood Traders are Last to the Party

Robinhood traders get fleeced not by HFTs front-running milliseconds before their order hits but by other retail investors, days earlier.

Developers

Why Developers Love Redpanda

Why Vectorized's focus on developer experience will unlock real-time streaming for the great majority of developers

Founders

There's Nothing Magical About the SaaS Magic Number

Magic number is a bad metric. Sales and marketing drives much less revenue than this not-so-magical number implies

Founders

Product-Market Fit is Lindy

The longer you search for product-market fit, the less likely you will find it.

Developers

Why We Will Never Have Enough Software Developers

Developers are dropping out of the profession in large numbers

Investors

Enterprise Software Monetization is Fat-Tailed

In enterprise software, the "average" customer is a meaningless concept. Instead, focus on the tails.

Research

An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition (Paper Explained)

Large Transformer trained on large datasets outperform CNN-based architectures and achieve state of the art results on image recognition tasks

Research

Pre-training via Paraphrasing (Paper Explained)

Transformer model pre-trained on document retrieval and reconstruction performs well on both fine-tuned and zero-shot downstream tasks

Founders

Top Three Strategic Priorities of Developer Productivity Startups

What's top of mind for developer productivity leaders

Founders

Six Trends Shaping Developer Productivity

We interviewed developer productivity leaders. Here's what they said.

Investors

Why Don't VCs Index Invest?

VCs are picky, not because they have so many options but because they have so few.

The Value of College May Be Negative for the COVID Generation

You might think the value of a college degree has been increasing. You would be wrong.

Developers

Do College Degrees Matter for Software Engineers? Maybe

Do college-educated developers earn more? Yes, but less than you might think

Investors

Pandemiconomics: Viral Volatility

How the virus rocked stocks