The Blockchain Revolution

Last week, Carl Eschenbach (Sequoia, ex-VMware) and Jeff Welser (IBM) talked about the upcoming blockchain technology and how it is slowly changing business and economy. According to Harvard Business Review, “Blockchain will do for the financial system what internet did for media” (https://hbr.org/2017/03/the-blockchain-will-do-to-banks-and-law-firms-what-the-internet-did-to-media) and so I decided to go deeper into the topic and explore… Read more The Blockchain Revolution

PlanGrid, a Sequoia backed company, Finds Success by Throwing Paper Up Into the Cloud

Tracy Young, CEO of PlanGrid, once walked into a Sequoia Capital conference room, her arms full of bundles of construction plans seeking venture capital funding. Each bundle consisted of dozens of 30″x42″ paper sheets, had the diameter of a small tree, and weighed more than a gallon of milk. Her vision was to throw these… Read more PlanGrid, a Sequoia backed company, Finds Success by Throwing Paper Up Into the Cloud

The Era of AI 2.0

AI 2.0 [1] Until now we have mostly been collecting data into large datasets, and less than 10% of all datasets created over the last 10 years has never been even analysed. We are in a paradigm shift, going from collecting data, to actually use the datasets to make behaviour predictions or outcome of the… Read more The Era of AI 2.0

Silicon Valley? Silicon Allee? or Silicon Wadi?

There is no question that Silicon Valley is the place of its kind and the most successful tech hub in the world. The region 30 miles long and 15 miles wide has been the world leader in high-tech startups giving rise to cutting-edge companies from Apple and Intel to Google and Facebook. Although there is a… Read more Silicon Valley? Silicon Allee? or Silicon Wadi?

AI: where it's at and where it's headed

Over the past few years, artificial intelligence has been a hot topic surrounded by excitement and uncertainty regarding how the rise of intelligent machines could change our lives. When most people think about AI, they tend to picture a supercomputer capable of performing any given task considerably better and faster than any human could. Having… Read more AI: where it's at and where it's headed

Outsourcing Cloud: Colocation or Cloud hosting?

Eleven years ago Amazon launched Amazon Web Services (AWS) and kicked off perhaps the most transformative shift in the history of the $300B data center industry. The idea stemmed from something simple: Amazon had built such a massive and highly efficient data center that it could sell off capacity with pay-as-you-go pricing. But Amazon started… Read more Outsourcing Cloud: Colocation or Cloud hosting?

Cloud Computing in the Developing World

Carl Eschenbach, a Partner at Sequoia Capital and former President of VMware, discussed the evolution of cloud computing during last Friday’s lecture. One particular aspect of cloud computing that Eschenbach touched on, that I’d like to expand upon in this blog post, was the effect of cloud computing in the developing world. For countries that… Read more Cloud Computing in the Developing World

Cloud computing and SAAS in Real Estate Construction Industry

SAAS companies are increasingly providing tailored software solutions for different verticals, i.e. the industry cloud. Real estate and construction, for example, is one of the industries that have seen the most number of SaaS solutions addressing industry-specific needs in this business. Here, I will introduce a few key trends in real estate software that have… Read more Cloud computing and SAAS in Real Estate Construction Industry

Apple WWDC

Apple’s WWDC began with an inspirational message to its audience that the world is counting on individuals to create apps and Apple’s new products will be there to aid the effort along the way. This WWDC was based on the developments in Apple’s four platforms: iOS, tvOS, watchOS, macOS.  What I found most interesting was… Read more Apple WWDC

Venture Capital Firms: A short passage through Sequoia

Last class, we had Carl Eschenbach from Sequoia Capital as a guest speaker. Although, we got to hear from one of the members of Sequoia, I would like to explore a bit of the history and the way they work, which was a subject not really discussed during the speech. Starting from the beginning: How… Read more Venture Capital Firms: A short passage through Sequoia