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Agrawal: Parallel has the only APIs reaching superhuman performance on research benchmarks
“In fact, like the products we've shipped recently are the only APIs that hit human and even higher than human level performance on a variety of deep research benchmarks.”
Busque: Guideline was first in US to charge SaaS-based 401(k) fees
“We're the first one charging a SaaS-based fee for a four one K benefit in the country.”
Narkhede: Kafka was used by 50% of Fortune 500 when Confluent launched
“Confluent kind of started with a proven technology that was used at, you know, roughly 50% of Fortune 500 companies at that point in time.”
Asthana: Tech startup salaries in India have grown 5x to 6x
“Pay packages ballooned, like average salaries probably have grown five X, six X, and that's like the state of the market.”
Busque: Legacy providers like ADP and Paychex weren't selling 10,000 plans yearly
“And you look at ADP and paychecks and like, they weren't selling 10,000 plans in a year.”
An open core model is a purchasing requirement for many government agencies
“Outside of some, you know, I visit with a lot of customers in PubSec, and that is actually for a lot of the agencies, a requirement.”
Varanasi: Apple Silicon switched to two shared software-defined radios
“When they did that, usually hardware had three separate radios for like, 2.4 gigahertz, five gigahertz and Bluetooth. When they moved, they were using what this thing called software defined radio, which is using two radios for all three of those things.”
Varanasi: Networking revenue comprises nearly 50% of IT channel sales
“Almost 50% of the channel is networking revenue.”
Busque: Under 2% of US taxpayers contribute annually to an IRA
“Most people, less than two percent actually contribute to an IRA annually from all the taxpayers in the United States.”
Acxiom Paid One-Third of Its Market Cap for Unprofitable Startup LiveRamp
“Axiom paid a third of its market cap for a live ramp, a thirty million ARR company when Axiom probably had like, I don't remember, like probably eight hundred million in revenue at the time and high cash flow for this company that was like not profitable and h…”
Muthukumar: About 10,000 developers completed Stripe's capture the flag challenge
“We launched a capture the flag tournament at Stripe and that's typically for, you know, InfoSec researchers and black hat type of areas of security research. And we did that at the payments domain, and we had no expectations of how many developers would partic…”