(1/6) - Excited to (finally) move to Substack and introduce Software Negociant, a collection of long-form pieces on (mostly) B2B Software. My first piece, however, is a collection of my favorite non-software content I came across 2022. casber.substack.com/p/excerpts-fro…

🧠 Must read piece from cathy gao 🙋🏻‍♀️ on Rise of the Digital Health Enablement Stack: super impressed with this breakdown 🧠

#Health #healthtech Sapphire Ventures

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Had a blast working with Ryan Buick 📊 on a piece exploring how the latest evolution of spreadsheet technology — the Connected Spreadsheet — has the potential to become the next “killer” app for the modern data stack 📊🔥

Horrible take… the *championship* warriors teams of the past few years have not had the league’s highest payrolls. These players stuck together. Warriors organization doesn’t get enough credit for how they select and grow talent..

Do we have any good examples of firearms being used for self defense and actually working out for the gun holder? Think too many ppl overestimating their ability to actually wield a gun to defend themselves in action…

“Every day it was like, ‘I’m guarding Steph. Gimme Steph. 30, please.’ Every damn day. That was my thing. Not even a question. It was: 1) Walk into the gym. 2) Guard Steph.” — GPII on Warriors practice. Dude is TOUGH 😤. Golden State Warriors please keep this man 🙏

Awesome post by Alex Danco on Packy McCormick’s newsletter re- real world apps for crypto/NFTs in eComm! As marketers look for alternatives to traditional 3rd-party data on shop visitors in a post-cookie world, being “wallet-aware” could also provide another source for audience insights

Today’s CFOs are experiencing a radical shift in their roles to support key decision-making activities. In this blog Rajeev Dham, Jane Lee & Aditya Reddy look at the challenges finance leaders face & the growing tech stack addressing key gaps. bit.ly/3MaDvUo

Happy Thursday! My colleague Aditya Reddy and I wrote down some thoughts on how today’s modular MLOps companies are bringing the promises of AI to life. THREAD casberw.medium.com/the-future-of-…

1/ At Sapphire we’ve had the opportunity to work with companies like monday, Auth0, Segment, JFrog, and Sumo Logic that all scaled into multibillion-dollar companies through product-led growth (PLG)

📣 Excited to officially share some BIG news from Sapphire Ventures today … announcing ~$2 Billion in new capital commitments - our largest to date - bringing our total AUM to $8.8 billion.

More on our news here and the thread below 👇:
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Excited to join the team! Sapphire Ventures

Congratulations to BetterUp CEO/Fo-Founder Alexi Robichaux and the entire team on the $300M #SeriesE and $4.7B valuation!🎉 We’re proud to be on this journey together and support the company’s vision to bring whole person transformation to people everywhere. hubs.li/H0Z2BvW0

I’d like to see Twitter solve the newsletter aggregation problem.. Facilitating relationships between authors / readers directly on the Twitter platform is an exciting place to start. Also an interesting way to bridge into long-form content. Cool deal!

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Uhh... Spotify can you like not pls?

Episode #1 has just been released! Check it out below! Sparklink is currently available on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Breaker, and will be released on Apple Podcasts very soon! open.spotify.com/show/6OUisS4N6…

The brains behind this chart is the very special Michelle Rial, whose hilarious book is available for pre-order and currently happens to be discounted on Amazon by 30% (only $10!)

If you have a sense of humor, and/or a coffee table, buy this book 🤩

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Instead of making fun of older people trying to “do technology,” while I fix their printer/WiFi/phone/cloud storage etc., I’m just terrified about whether that’ll be me in 40 years

Intern Aditya Reddy & Dave Wright talk #NGDC dropping out of Stanford and more: ow.ly/LlsR307W6ge

What advice does Dave Wright have for today's youth? Find out in this 1-on-1 interview w/ Aditya Reddy. nt-ap.com/2k8sgTz