The burgeoning low-code and no-code movement shows little sign of abating, and numerous startups continue to raise significant amounts of money to help the less tech-savvy workforce easily develop and deploy software. Arguably one of the most notable examples of this trend is Airtable, a decade-old company that recently achieved a whopping $11 billion valuation for a no-code platform used by companies like Netflix and Shopify to create relational databases.
Louis Rossman recently released a video on how to be investable. Not in terms of cash versus equity; that’s a different conversation. But the investment of time, effort and energy in you by people who do not see a return on investment by sharing these resources. His video is worth watching, but me yelling at him is a drop of water in the ocean. The man has a following of about 1.8 million, mostly from running a New York real estate channel on YouTube and a little, I assume, from his work as a right-to-repair advocate.
If it’s not about copying something “in the truest sense of the word,” then it’s more about following a trend than plagiarism, passing off someone else’s work as your own. Following a trend is universal, not only online, but also in the analog world, for example in business. As soon as a new product or category comes onto the market that is very successful, other companies come in with their own variants that may be quite close to the original. If they offer something more than the original – additional features, a new twist – they might even be more successful. As unfair as this may seem to the person or company that originally came up with the idea, in reality it’s all about survival of the fittest, with fit being popular.
The push for cloud modernization across Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other public clouds continues to grow. However, the relatively low demand for talent and cloud platform knowledge required to build, scale and optimize AWS environments has made it challenging for many companies to achieve their cloud goals – or at least achieve them as quickly and cost-effectively as they would like. According to a new report from 451 Research (part of S&P Market Intelligence) on behalf of Mission Cloud Services, 68% of organizations using AWS plan to increase their reliance on cloud managed or professional services in the next 12 months alone to fill the required gaps in AWS expertise. The report surveyed 950 North American organizations using AWS.
The energy difference between movies in theaters and watching at home appears to be greater than ever since COVID disrupted normal viewing habits. We know the revenue from very active theaters, led by “Minions: The Rise of Gru” (Universal) with an astounding $129 million for the four-day holiday.
